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HP fires Blackmore, other sales executives
Aug. 12, 2004
HP fired three major sales executives Thursday, including former server group head Peter Blackmore, in a management shakeup following a disappointing quarter for HP's server division.

Microsoft, Google reach settlement over Lee dispute
Dec. 23, 2005
Microsoft and Google have resolved their legal differences over Google's hiring of former Microsoft executive Kai-Fu Lee, Microsoft announced late Thursday.

Santa Claus worm strikes IM clients
Dec. 21, 2005
The Santa Claus worm doesn't care whether you've been naughty or nice, but it's making a list of PCs to infect this holiday season, according to a threat alert released by security firm IMlogic on Tuesday.

Google pays $1 billion for 5% of AOL
Dec. 21, 2005
After flirting for months with Google competitors, AOL Tuesday reached a deal with the Mountain View, Calif., search-engine giant that expands their years-long technology and advertising partnership and ends advances ...

RIM goes on offensive in patent dispute with NTP
Dec. 20, 2005
Despite expectations by industry and legal analysts that Research in Motion would settle its ongoing patent dispute with NTP, the BlackBerry maker came out swinging Monday, bolstered by recent decisions by the U.S. ...

Dell recalls 35,000 batteries worldwide
Dec. 16, 2005
Dell and the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission have announced a recall of about 35,000 notebook batteries that could potentially pose a fire risk.

Visto signs license for disputed NTP patents
Dec. 15, 2005
Visto, a challenger to Research In Motion in the push e-mail market, has signed a license for the wireless e-mail patents held by NTP, the companies announced Wednesday.

Report: NTP offers RIM a deal at 5.7% of revenue
Dec. 09, 2005
NTP has offered Research in Motion (RIM) a new settlement deal that asks for 5.7% of RIM's future revenue from U.S. BlackBerry sales, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing an unnamed source.

Intel working on rootkit detection techniques
Dec. 07, 2005
Intel is working on a research project that would immediately notify PC users if they inadvertently download a rootkit like the XCP (extended copy protection) software found on certain music CDs shipped by Sony, ...

AMD and IBM increase the strain on 65nm chips
Dec. 06, 2005
Advanced Micro Devices and IBM have added two new forms of strained silicon to their jointly developed 65-nanometer chip-making technology, which should improve the performance and reduce the power consumption of future ...

HP bolsters utility services
Dec. 05, 2005
HP last week introduced several utility computing services that will cater to companies looking for a way to handle rapidly changing demands for computing resources.

Microsoft modifying IE to get around Eolas patent
Dec. 03, 2005
Microsoft plans to change the way its Internet Explorer browser handles Web pages with interactive content, in part to sidestep patents held by Eolas Technologies, a company spokesman confirmed late Friday.

Intel's CFO forsees more capacity constraints in '06
Dec. 01, 2005
Intel's manufacturing plants will still operate at nearly full capacity next year as new technologies are rolled out, but the tide could shift in 2007, the company's CFO said Wednesday.

HP unveils utility services for flexible computing
Nov. 29, 2005
HP Tuesday introduced several utility computing services that will cater to IT managers looking for a way to handle internal fluctuations in demand for computing resources.

Security still top IT spending priority
Nov. 28, 2005
A recent survey of 100 IT executives predicts that IT spending will decrease slightly in 2006 as more businesses worry about global economic conditions, but security software and enterprise IT upgrades remain top ...

FCC commissioner Abernathy resigns
Nov. 18, 2005
Kathleen Abernathy will resign from the FCC effective Dec. 9, leaving the telecommunications regulatory body with two openings to fill and missing one of its consistent champions of deregulation.

HP Q4 revenue up, profits fall on layoff charges
Nov. 17, 2005
HP's fourth-quarter revenue rose on strong growth in PC and server shipments, but restructuring charges and a decline in revenue from consumer printers hurt its profitability for the quarter

AMD aims for four-core Opterons by 2007
Nov. 15, 2005
Advanced Micro Devices put a quad-core server processor on its road map and promised to upgrade its software investments, as it outlined on Tuesday its general technology direction for the next couple of years.

Q&A: AMD's legal chief lays out anti-trust strategy
Nov. 03, 2005
Papers are flying in legal offices around the world as a result of Advanced Micro Devices's anti-trust lawsuit against Intel, filed earlier this year. The case is not expected to come to trial until next year - assuming ...

Lenovo signs U.S. retail deal with Office Depot
Nov. 03, 2005
Lenovo Group will bring the ThinkPad notebook to U.S. retail stores as part of an agreement with Office Depot, hoping to raise the Chinese company's profile among U.S. consumers and small business PC buyers.

Intel's new dual-core Xeon targets four-chip servers
Nov. 01, 2005
Intel has now brought dual-core technology into all of its Xeon processors for low-end servers with the launch of four new Xeon 7000 series chips, the company announced Monday.

HP brings Unix to blades with Itanium
Nov. 01, 2005
HP Tuesday is expected to unveil its first blade server based on Intel's Itanium 2 processor, allowing customers to run HP-UX on one of the company's blade servers for the first time.

HP user group grabs spotlight at show
Oct. 24, 2005
On the first day of the inaugural HP Technology Forum last week, Kristi Browder's real job evaluating servers took a back seat to speech-making, press interviews and receptions honoring her fellow users of HP's ...

Intel alters server processor roadmap
Oct. 24, 2005
Intel announced several changes Monday to its road map for server processors, delaying its first dual-core Itanium 2 processor and replacing a future multicore Xeon processor with a new design that eliminates the ...

Ballmer eyes Linux, Google users for growth
Oct. 19, 2005
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer believes the company has ironed out all of the security problems in its forthcoming Windows Vista operating system so that users can consider adopting it the first day it is released. For the ...