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Article | 8/02/2002 Microsoft, Anoto team on pen-based .Net computing
Swedish pen-based technology developer Anoto AB is to incorporate Microsoft Corp.'s .Net platform in its electronic pen-and-paper platform, the compan...
Article | 8/02/2002 Fujitsu develops new font display technology
Fujitsu Ltd.'s research and development (R&D) center has developed software to display small letters legibly on compact devices such as cell phones an...
Article | 7/02/2002 US authorities nab alleged Russian hacker
In mid-January, Russian law enforcement, with help from the U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), arrested a computer ha...
Article | 7/02/2002 Microsoft fights Bundestag Linux switch
Microsoft Corp. is striking back at a growing movement seeking to switch computers in the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of Parliament, over to the ...
Article | 7/02/2002 IBM experimenting with mobile PC core
IBM Corp. is experimenting with a mobile PC core that a user can carry around and plug into different holders, creating a handheld computer, desktop P...
Article | 7/02/2002 Nvidia launches next-generation graphics chips
The PC graphics game entered a new level Wednesday as Nvidia Corp. launched two new graphics processors. The pricier GeForce4 Titanium chip boasts spe...
Article | 7/02/2002 Cahners: PDA sales still growing, but more slowly
Hype may be building over wireless services, but a report from Cahners In-Stat Group Wednesday said sales of PDAs (personal digital assistants), popul...
Article | 7/02/2002 AMD buys Alchemy for PDA processors
Moving into the handheld computing space, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) on Wednesday announced the acquisition of Alchemy Semiconductor.
Article | 7/02/2002 Mitsubishi Electric unveils a display to be ignored
Try on a wearable display -- those in-front-of-the-eyes video displays that some futurists believe we will all be using in a few years -- and you'll s...
Article | 7/02/2002 OS 5, ARM offer users more choices
One of the most visible benefits to Palm Inc.'s move to a new operating system and a new processor family is that it will bring consumers a wider vari...
Article | 7/02/2002 MSN portal, Hotmail for European mobile users
Microsoft Corp. has launched a version of its MSN Internet portal for European mobile device users, and is offering access to its Hotmail Web-based e-...
Article | 6/02/2002 Palm OS 5
Palm's next generation operating system (OS), version 5.0, will likely ship by early summer and will include support for more powerful processors, enh...
Article | 6/02/2002 Nvidia ships 100 million GPUs
Graphics chip maker Nvidia Corp. announced Tuesday that it's shipped more than 100 million graphics processors -- a milestone which was achieved in le...
Article | 6/02/2002 Australian PC market healthier: report
The Australian PC market may have turned the corner according to new figures from research firm Dataquest.
Article | 6/02/2002 Fujitsu Siemens to launch XScale-based PDA
Fujitsu Siemens Computers BV is expected to be the first vendor to launch a personal digital assistant (PDA) based on Intel Corp.'s next-generation XS...
Article | 6/02/2002 Software lets IT managers monitor instant messaging
Software from FaceTime Communications Inc. allows IT managers to log what employees are saying over Internet instant messaging services, and to contro...
Article | 6/02/2002 HP/COMPAQ: Mid-March date set for merger vote
Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday announced that a shareholder meeting to vote on the company's proposed merger with Compaq will take place in mid-March.
Article | 5/02/2002 Hitachi eyes investing in more biotech startups
Japan's Hitachi Ltd. is plans to increase the amount of money it invests in start-up companies involved in bioinformatics and biotechnology as it atte...
Article | 5/02/2002 Microsoft takes a break to clean its code
After nearly 25 years of writing software code, Microsoft is taking a break to do a little housecleaning.
Article | 5/02/2002 Linux users to toast Wine
Users wishing to run Word, Internet Explorer or other Windows applications on non-Microsoft Corp. platforms can finally do so with software that a con...

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