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Article | 18/10/2001 ATI readies integrated chip for consumer devices
Multimedia chip manufacturer ATI Technologies Inc. Wednesday announced its first system-on-chip (SoC) for digital devices including TV receivers and D...
Article | 17/10/2001 Intel's Q3 profit plunges 77 percent
Intel on Tuesday said its third-quarter net income plunged 77 percent before acquisition-related costs, but said it is confident it will see high grow...
Article | 17/10/2001 Toshiba, Matsushita in talks to merge LCD units
Toshiba and Matsushita Electric Industrial , better known by its Panasonic brand name, have reached a basic agreement to merge their LCD (liquid cryst...
Article | 17/10/2001 Campaign spams .au users
Many Australian businesses operating in the Internet space are being spammed with 'misleading' .au licence renewals.
Article | 17/10/2001 Residential broadband take up "crucial" says cable chief
The slow take-up of broadband services by residential customers is proving to be frustrating for the director of the Southern Cross Cable Network, Ros...
Article | 17/10/2001 Gates upbeat on PC industry future
Slowing world economies and the knock-on effects of the September terrorist attacks in the U.S. could impact the PC business in the short-term, but lo...
Article | 17/10/2001 Asia catches instant messaging fever
English-speaking countries in the Asia-Pacific region have been quicker in taking up instant messaging than non-English speaking countries, according ...
Article | 17/10/2001 Apple speeds up PowerBook, iBook
Apple Computer Inc. Tuesday made weeks of rumors official when it announced upgraded versions of its mobile computers, the high-end PowerBook G4 and t...
Article | 17/10/2001 AOL 7.0 ships with broadband-friendly features
The world's leading Internet service company, AOL Time Warner Inc., is unleashing a new version of its America Online front-end to its 31 million memb...
Article | 16/10/2001 AMD takes aim at Itanium with Hammer
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Monday unveiled the blueprint of its highly anticipated 64-bit processor architecture, known as Hammer, here at the Micro...
Article | 16/10/2001 Microsoft creates security ratings
Microsoft Corp. said it is adding a rating system to its security warnings to help customers take the appropriate steps when faced with a security thr...
Article | 16/10/2001 German parliament considers Linux switch
The Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament, is exploring whether to ditch Microsoft Corp.'s Windows in favor of the open-source Linux operatin...
Article | 16/10/2001 AMD rolls out re-branded Athlon MP
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Monday extended its new True Performance Initiative branding strategy to a set of Athlon MP (multiprocessor) chips for ...
Article | 16/10/2001 MSN 7.0 signs on to .Net, broadband
To deliver Web services as part of its .Net initiative, Microsoft Corp. released version 7.0 of its MSN Web portal Monday and said it will launch a br...
Article | 16/10/2001 Intel all about hype, Centaur president says
Intel Corp. is fooling the industry with a challenge to developers to create applications for its multi-gigahertz processors and is merely creating de...
Article | 16/10/2001 Jupiter: News sites flourish after attacks
Reflecting the public's insatiable hunger for news following the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S., the most-visited sites on the Web last month were news ...
Article | 16/10/2001 Via sells own motherboards to boost P4X266 chip set
Via Technologies Inc. will begin volume shipments of its own line of motherboards -- to be sold under the Via brand -- this month, according to Wenchi...
Article | 16/10/2001 Panasonic develops a 50GB optical disc
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. has developed a rewritable optical disc with a capacity of 50G bytes, the company announced Monday.
Article | 16/10/2001 Intel introduces 12 mobile chips
Undeterred by a sluggish economy and slumping PC sales, Intel Corp. is unveiled 12 new mobile processors Monday--including its fastest, which hits 1.2...
Article | 16/10/2001 Dell unveils Inspiron with changeable covers
Dell Computer Corp. on Monday launched its first notebook with snap-on covers, allowing users to change the look of both the cover of the notebook and...

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