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Article | 12/09/2001 US ATTACK: Slammed CNN.com strips graphics, boosts bandwidth
Hit with heavy traffic following the U.S. terrorism attacks, popular news site CNN.com was scrambling to boost its server capacity and lighten up its ...
Article | 12/09/2001 Microsoft sticks with Flash in Windows XP
Digital graphics software maker Macromedia Inc. said Tuesday it will ship its ubiquitous Flash player with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP operating syst...
Article | 12/09/2001 E-mail campaign targets Amazon.com over Intifada site
An Internet entrepreneur is spearheading an e-mail campaign against Amazon.com Inc., accusing the online retailer of helping to fund violence in the M...
Article | 12/09/2001 Fujitsu introduces humanoid robot
Fujitsu Ltd. began selling Monday a two-legged humanoid robot designed to serve as a test bed for research into more advanced robotic technologies.
Article | 11/09/2001 GoTo changes name to Overture
GoTo.com Inc. is going away -- at least under that name. The pay-for-placement Internet search engine plans to change its name to Overture Services In...
Article | 11/09/2001 Telcos hail commission's slap on Telstra's ADSL hand
A move by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to generate more competition in the broadband ADSL space has hit the spot with industry p...
Article | 11/09/2001 Rambus set to unveil Yellowstone, roadmaps
On the tail of Intel Corp.'s release of its first chip set allowing the Pentium 4 to use memory designed by companies other than Rambus Inc., Rambus t...
Article | 11/09/2001 HP introduces new lineup of business PCs
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) announced its new PC products for the fourth quarter on Monday, saying it will launch three desktops and two monitors next mo...
Article | 11/09/2001 eBay Cleared in copyright and trademark suit
A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit against online auctioneer eBay Inc., a ruling the company said would immunize it against other copyright and ...
Article | 11/09/2001 Sony to cut PlayStation price, introduce LCD monitor
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) said Monday it plans to slash the price of its PSone game console on Wednesday -- just two days before Nintend...
Article | 11/09/2001 Via hits back with countersuit against Intel
After finding itself on the receiving end of legal action Friday, Taiwan's Via Technologies Inc. blasted back at rival Intel Corp. Monday, filing laws...
Article | 11/09/2001 Users reject notion of 'parasitic grid'
A groundswell of dissent has emerged from the wireless community over the use of the term "parasitic grid," that otherwise refers to a movement involv...
Article | 11/09/2001 Gateway closes all UK, Ireland stores
Gateway Inc. has closed its 14 stores in the U.K. and Ireland and laid off 1,085 employees, it announced on Monday.
Article | 11/09/2001 IDC: PC sales to keep falling
Worldwide shipments of PCs will fall this year by 1.6 percent to 129.6 million units from last year's figure of 131.7 million units, largely because o...
Article | 11/09/2001 Sharp to unveil smallest flash memory for cell phones
Sharp Corp. has unveiled what the company claims is the world's smallest 32M-bit flash memory for cellular telephone handsets.
Article | 11/09/2001 Intel introduces new chip set for Pentium 4
Intel Corp. Monday announced the launch of its Intel 845 chip set for Pentium 4 processor-based PCs.
Article | 10/09/2001 Intel sues Via over P4 chip sets
In a move that has been anticipated for months, Intel Corp. Friday filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Via Technologies Inc. in U.S. District ...
Article | 10/09/2001 Code Blue deemed bigger threat than Code Red
Chinese antivirus researchers have uncovered a modified variant of the Code Red worm, dubbed Code Blue, that has the potential to cause more damage to...
Article | 10/09/2001 New.net eyes corporate market for new domain names
New.net, an alternative domain name registry, has announced its first major foray into the corporate market by signing up wholesaler Bulkregister.com ...
Article | 10/09/2001 California, New York go hard on Microsoft
Two state attorneys general who are plaintiffs in the U.S. government's antitrust suit against Microsoft Corp. Friday said they may press for more har...

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