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Article | 11/10/2001 Fujitsu announces first SCSI 2.5G GigaMO drive
Fujitsu has begun sample production of its first SCSI-2 interface-equipped drive to support the 2.3G-byte version of the GigaMO format.
Article | 11/10/2001 Sony to take $124M stake in game maker Square
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI), the company behind the PlayStation family of game consoles, plans to take a stake in one of Japan's largest c...
Article | 11/10/2001 FullAudio nabs Universal Music license
Pushing closer to the launch of its online music subscription service, FullAudio Corp. announced Wednesday that it reached a licensing deal with Unive...
Article | 11/10/2001 Experts: Cybersecurity needs funding, organization
Members of the security industry and academia told a U.S. House of Representatives committee Wednesday that significant funding for research and the c...
Article | 11/10/2001 Sony plans new PC/entertainment system combo
Sony Electronics Inc., a division of Sony Corp., plans to announce Thursday a new all-in-one computing device that combines aspects of a desktop PC an...
Article | 10/10/2001 CSR unveils second generation Bluetooth gear
Cambridge Silicon Radio Ltd. (CSR) on Monday launched a second generation of Bluetooth hardware/software bundled products targeted at specific end mar...
Article | 10/10/2001 Sharp develops a 'chatting' interface
"How is the weather in Tokyo?" A demonstrator is questioning "Maico," a cute, three-dimensional, 26-year-old female on a display screen. "Yes? the wea...
Article | 10/10/2001 Wearable computing: rendezvous of the cyborgs
"You have to play around a lot to get usable wearable computer solutions," said Ansgar Schmidt of the Center for Computing Technologies at the Univers...
Article | 10/10/2001 Music industry seals major online licensing deal
In an effort to sidestep cumbersome licensing negotiations, U.S. record labels and music publishers reached an agreement Tuesday that will allow recor...
Article | 10/10/2001 AOL amends policy to allow user tracking
Recent changes to America Online's (AOL) privacy policy allow the Internet service provider the right to use Internet tracking tools such as cookies a...
Article | 10/10/2001 AMD launches Athlon XP processor family
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has been claiming for some time that there is more to performance than clock speed in its battle with chip giant Int...
Article | 10/10/2001 Network system to support visually impaired people
Visually impaired people often find that they go shopping and cannot choose appropriate colors for the products they are buying, or do laundry and can...
Article | 10/10/2001 Transmeta Crusoe chip delayed until November
Semiconductor maker Transmeta has missed a deadline to ship a new chip to manufacturers for a line of fast, low-powered laptop computers, the company ...
Article | 10/10/2001 IBM rolls out new PCs, laptops
IBM on Tuesday took another step in helping IT administrators to better integrate Big Blue's corporate PC and laptop products into the management fabr...
Article | 10/10/2001 Transmeta's Q3 revenue to fall far below estimates
Transmeta Corp. has warned that third-quarter revenue could be up to 50 percent lower than it had originally projected, blaming the shortfall on signi...
Article | 9/10/2001 Intel develops chip package to boost speed
Intel researchers have developed a new technology that the company hopes will let chips reach speeds of 20GHz in the second half of this decade, the c...
Article | 9/10/2001 Surf the Web and save the Earth
You've heard of environment-friendly paper towels, so why not a "green" Internet service provider? Paul Gerstenberger wants to give it a try.
Article | 9/10/2001 Telstra commits to 10 gigabits
Telstra has announced plans to increase network capacity on its intercapital optical fibre network to 10Gigabits per second.
Article | 9/10/2001 Unions see IT industry in their sights
Perceiving a need for a "hub of information" for IT professionals, the Labor Council is set to launch its virtual trade union - IT Workers Alliance (I...
Article | 9/10/2001 Sun touts iPlanet as more secure than Microsoft's IIS
Sun Microsystems began a campaign on Monday to persuade users of Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) software to switch to iPlanet Web Ser...

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