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Article | 20/08/2001 Microsoft plugs hole in Outlook
Five weeks after first warning of a hole in its Outlook e-mail program, Microsoft Corp. on Thursday released a patch to fix a flaw in an ActiveX contr...
Article | 20/08/2001 Samsung to begin DDR333 production
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has begun sample production of a new type of DDR (double data rate) SDRAM (synchronous dynamic random access memory) chip...
Article | 20/08/2001 Web currency firm joins dot-com has-beenz
Incentive-based rewards company Beenz.com Inc. will suspend its Web site operations beginning Aug. 26, the company announced on its site on Friday.
Article | 20/08/2001 GM does US$98 billion in transactions via Covisint
While Covisint LLC is still in the midst of deploying all of its online business-to-business marketplace functionality, online procurement via its quo...
Article | 20/08/2001 MIT, HP to build quantum computer
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have announced a joint US$2.5 million quantum computing project to advanc...
Article | 20/08/2001 Report: Fujitsu to restructure, cut 15,000 jobs
Fujitsu will announce later Monday its plans for a wide restructuring of its business after it previously said expects to a report group net loss of 2...
Article | 20/08/2001 Divine to buy Open Market
Chicago-based Internet consulting firm Divine Inc. has continued its acquisition of financially troubled, announcing that it will buy Burlington, Mass...
Article | 20/08/2001 Compaq rethinks Java support in PCs
Compaq Computer Corp. stepped up its support for Java Friday, rethinking an earlier plan not to bundle support for the technology with desktop and lap...
Article | 20/08/2001 No area code crisis looms, expert says
A U.S. House subcommittee intends to look at the issue of "area code exhaustion" at a hearing next month. While telephone numbers longer than 10 digit...
Article | 17/08/2001 Microsoft denies Xbox manufacturing glitch
Microsoft Corp. this week insisted that it would ship its Xbox video game console on schedule, despite a report from a financial analyst firm stating ...
Article | 17/08/2001 Broadband the bright spot for Pacific Internet
Regional Asian ISP Pacific Internet (PI) has more than doubled its broadband subscriber base in the last three months, keeping it on track to achieve ...
Article | 17/08/2001 Palm buys assets of multimedia OS developer
Handheld computer maker Palm Inc. Thursday said it plans to acquire the intellectual property and technology assets of multimedia operating system dev...
Article | 17/08/2001 U.S. government gives IBM's ASCI White a public debut
Touted as the fastest supercomputer in the world, IBM Corp.'s ASCI White was given a public dedication at California's Lawrence Livermore National Lab...
Article | 17/08/2001 Passport 2.0 ready for a stamp
Amid ongoing criticism and challenges from privacy groups, Microsoft Corp. is close to printing up a new Passport, the authentication system that is a...
Article | 17/08/2001 Nokia signs up for Samsung's new cell phone DRAM
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., the world's largest memory maker, has developed a new type of DRAM (dynamic random access memory) for cellular telephone...
Article | 16/08/2001 No Intel patents for P4 bus, Via says
Facing a possible legal battle with Intel over the release of its latest chip set, Via Technologies said it has been unable to find evidence that Inte...
Article | 16/08/2001 UK man charged with creating W32-Leave.worm
A British man was arrested on July 23 on charges that he created and released the W32-Leave.worm, Scotland Yard confirmed on Wednesday.
Article | 16/08/2001 Cryptographer claims break in Intel video encryption
A Dutch cryptographer claims he has found a way to crack technology developed by Intel that protects digital video from pirates. However, he said he w...
Article | 16/08/2001 Gartner warns against Windows XP upgrade
Gartner has hit out at Microsoft saying there is no good reason to update to Windows XP, Microsoft's new operating system scheduled for release on 25 ...
Article | 16/08/2001 Microsoft looks to paid messaging in Asia
With the number of instant messaging users exploding in Asia, Microsoft will focus on making the now free-of-charge MSN Messenger service profitable b...

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