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  • News: AMD reports sixth consecutive quarterly loss

    A weak first quarter has yielded a sixth consecutive quarterly loss at AMD, with the struggling chipmaker posting revenue of $1.51bn for its first fiscal quarter of 2008, ended March 29, and a net loss of $358m.

  • News: Dell launches five quad-core Opteron servers

    Five Dell servers running AMD's Quad-Core Opteron processors are available on the company's US website, bringing the number of server models that use the chip to 13, AMD said.

  • News: Census measures use of open-source software

    A new effort attempting to pin down hard statistics regarding the implementation of open-source software around the world gets underway today.

  • News: Businesses add YouTube to Google Maps listings

    Local business owners in the US can now add YouTube videos to their listings, after Google added the feature to Google Maps.

  • News: Windows XP SP3 set for release on Monday

    Microsoft looks set to release Windows XP Service Pack 3 to IT professionals next week, although most users will have to wait until the end of the month.

  • News: 31 Windows Vista SP1 language packs released

    Microsoft has released the remaining 31 language editions of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) to Windows Update.

  • News: £100 iPhone price cut suggests imminent 3G model

    O2 and The Carphone Warehouse have cut the price of Apple's 8GB iPhone in the UK by £100, a move seen as the latest sign that Apple will launch a new 3G iPhone in June.

  • News: IBM boosts chip performance and cuts power

    IBM demonstrated new technology on Monday that boosts performance and reduces power consumption on chips used in devices from mobile phones to high-performance servers.

  • News: Cisco to kill Linksys brand sooner than expected

    Cisco's Linksys brand may disappear sooner than expected, according to a top executive for small business at the company.

  • News: Microsoft fixes Windows bug in XP SP3 first

    The appearance and disappearance of a Windows XP installation snafu indicates that Microsoft patched a critical vulnerability in XP's still-unfinished Service Pack 3 (SP3) weeks before it fixed any other version of Windows. The glitch, which sent some PCs into an endless round of reboots, was strangely similar to one faced by Vista users in February.

  • News: Gartner: Microsoft Windows faces oblivion

    A pair of Gartner analysts said Microsoft must make radical changes to Windows or risk the operating system becoming a has-been.

  • News: IT managers unaware of USB flash drive risk

    SanDisk says IT managers are unaware of the extent to which unsecured flash drives are being brought into their businesses.

  • News: Sandisk updates USB security tool for businesses

    SanDisk hopes to help IT managers control the use of flash drives in their business by launching a new version of its Central Management & Control (CMC) software used to manage its Cruzer Enterprise USB flash drives.

  • News: In pictures: inside Microsoft's robot factory

    Members of Microsoft's Robotics Group are confident robotics is going to be the big story of the next five years

  • News: Interview: EMI's Douglas Merrill on Google's future

    Douglas Merrill, formerly the CIO of Google and now president of EMI's digital business division talks to us about how internet search pioneer Google's IT organisation is configured (not structured), how CIOs need to evolve, and the most exasperating question that people ask him at cocktail parties.

  • News: Know your consumer rights

    Many of us struggle to comprehend the complexities of the UK’s consumer-protection legislation but, worryingly, it’s not just consumers to whom that statement applies. According to a recent report from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), many online retailers are ignorant of the laws that apply to their businesses.

  • News: Analysis: OOXML approval is just the beginning

    The International Organisation for Standardisation's approval of Microsoft's OOXML as an international standard is just the beginning of what could be a lengthy process before the file format can be widely and successfully implemented for exchanging documents, according to critics and supporters of OOXML.

  • News: RM inks exclusive deal to sell HP 2133 Mini-Note

    RM today announced that it is the sole UK distributor for the HP 2133 Mini-Note laptop.

  • News: Infineon chip could enable 3G iPhone

    Apple has released a third beta version of its iPhone software developers kit (SDK) that suggests a change in chips that may confirm a 3G iPhone will be with us this summer.

  • News: AMD finally starts shipping quad-core Barcelona

    AMD has started volume shipments of its long-awaited Barcelona chip. The company announced that the quad-core Opteron processor, which had been shipping in limited numbers to key vendors, became generally available on Wednesday.