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  • 18 November 2005

  • News: Intel previews dual-core Centrino processor

    Intel has announced that it is working on releasing Napa, its latest Centrino mobile platform, early next year. The platform will have Yonah, Intel’s first dual-core Centrino mobile processor.

  • News: Sony, NEC to combine optical drive businesses

    Sony and NEC have concluded a basic agreement to merge their optical-disc drive businesses into one company, they announced yesterday.

  • 17 November 2005

  • News: WSIS: £59 laptop unveiled in Tunis

    Kofi Annan may have broken the prototype, but the hand-cranked notebook - running open-source software - could revolutionise third-world education

  • 16 November 2005

  • News: Microsoft updates 64bit plans

    Microsoft fleshed out its road map for switching customers to 64bit computing and unveiled updates to several of its management and server products at its IT Forum 2005 conference in Barcelona on Tuesday.

  • 11 November 2005

  • News: Dell confirms disappointing Q3 results

    After last weeks warning, Dell's third-quarter revenue and earnings have indeed come in short of the company's original expectations.

  • News: Microsoft in Daum antitrust settlement

    Microsoft has moved a step closer to clearing up its legal problems in South Korea. Local internet portal operator Daum Communications has agreed to accept a package worth $30m (about £17m) from Microsoft in settlement of its antitrust complaints, the two companies announced today.

  • 10 November 2005

  • News: Gartner: IT departments shrinking

    The demand for IT specialists is decreasing and the size of IT departments is shrinking significantly, according to new research presented by Gartner at the Gartner ITxpo conference in Cannes on Wednesday.

  • 09 November 2005

  • News: Study: AMD edges past Intel in retail PC sales

    Chip-making underdog AMD edged past Intel last month in supplying processors for the US retail PC market, according to a study by research firm Current Analysis Inc.

  • 07 November 2005

  • News: Easing chipset shortage should relieve PC market

    A shortage of computer chipsets, which has taken the blame for everything from slowing the brisk momentum of global PC sales to delaying the adoption of new memory chip technologies, should be nearly over, component makers and analysts say.

  • 04 November 2005

  • News: Opinion: the future for Apple

    From the day the iPod debuted, there was little doubt the diminutive music player would become a significant product for Apple. But is it set to become the company's main focus?

  • News: Samsung unveils its future wish-list

    Manufacturer tells financial analysts that one of its five major objectives is to have 20 world-leading products by 2010. Which is nice

  • News: AMD gains ground on Intel

    AMD picked up a couple of market share points on Intel in the third quarter, as the firm secured its strongest competitive position in years, according to Mercury Research.

  • 03 November 2005

  • News: Intel ramping production at advanced microchip plant

    Intel is ramping up production of microprocessors at a reopened chip factory in Arizona using the world's most advanced mass production technology.

  • 02 November 2005

  • News: 2005 a bad memory for DDR2

    This was supposed to be the year that a speedier new DRAM (dynamic RAM) technology moved into the mainstream — a technology that could lower power consumption while increasing data speeds. But DDR2 (double data rate) failed to make the grade, largely due to a lack of acceptance among desktop PC users.

  • News: Sony in DRM software dispute

    Mark Russinovich couldn't understand how the rootkit had sneaked onto his system. An expert on the internals of the Windows operating system, he was careful when it came to computer security and generally had a pretty good idea of what was running on his PC at any given time. And yet the security tool he was using to check his PC was pretty clear: it had found the 'rootkit' cloaking software typically used by virus and spyware writers.

  • 01 November 2005

  • News: AMD, IBM extend partnership

    Advanced Micro Devices said today that it had expanded the scope of a chip-technology partnership with IBM to include exploratory research into a range of advanced chip-related technologies through 2011.

  • 31 October 2005

  • News: Microsoft could pull Windows from South Korea

    Microsoft has warned that if South Korean regulators order it to remove code or redesign Windows as part of an ongoing unfair competition investigation, it could pull the operating system from the market or delay the introduction of new versions.

  • News: Study: e-waste dumping victimises developing nations

    A major study suggests that powerful western countries need to be much more careful when disposing of electronic waste

  • 27 October 2005

  • News: Microsoft releases Works Suite 2006

    Microsoft has released an updated version of Works Suite, its package of productivity applications aimed at home computer users.

  • News: FPF: MS says multicore chips are changing software design

    Multicore processors are solidly mainstream these days, with five upcoming multicore designs showcased by their creators on the first day of the FPF (Fall Processor Forum). But many software developers are ill-prepared for this era, according to a Microsoft executive.

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