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AMD Says Intel Crosses the Line
(By Tom Krazit)
AMDs antitrust lawsuit alleging that Intel coerced hardware vendors and retailers into using Intels chips has cast a giant spotlight on the worlds largest chipmaker and the way it promotes its products in the PC industry.
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EC Raids Intel, PC Makers in Competition Inquiry
(By Peter Sayer)
Officials from the European Commission, the executive arm and antitrust watchdog of the E.U., raided the European offices of Intel Corp. and a number of PC manufacturers.
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HP Prints Out High-Speed Inkjet Technology
(By China Martens)
Five years of development and US$1.4 billion of investment later, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) unveiled scalable inkjet technology it claims will substantially improve the speed and performance of home and small and midsize office printers. The company also plans to take the technology to the commercial market, HP said.
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P@SHA Concerned Over Internet Outage
Members of the Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA) discussed the impact of the Internet outage caused by a fault in the under sea cable due to the damage to the SEAMEWE-3 cable link, that took place on June 27 and was restored on July 8, 2005, The members also considered the measures to implement and to recommend to the government of Pakistan to ensure that alternate arrangements are made so that data and voice circuits are not effected in case of similar accident.
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Management |
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Redefining Disaster
Many CIOs have changed the way they think about disaster recovery. How about you?
(By Mary K. Pratt)
Beth Everetts a consultant at Network Inference Inc. in Carlsbad, Calif., she wonders how a potential hazardous materials situation a chemical spill or attack might affect IT. Worries like these would have been unimaginable even five years ago. But world events have changed the way many CIOs think about their disaster recovery plans.
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Information Form Start to Finish
New, more intelligent storage tools promise better
(By Leon Erlanger)
Theres a stage in the life of a new technology in which half the world thinks its a whole new paradigm and the other half thinks its all hype. Half says it will never happen whereas the other half says, Were doing it now. And even the most improbable vendor claims to have strategies and products to support it. So it is with ILM (information life cycle management).
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Anticipation Game
Text mining and real-time applications have improved the accuracy and time liness of predictive analytics, making it a better bet for businesses
(By Robert L. Mitchell)
In the movie Minority Report, Tom Cruises character relies on visions from precogs, people who can predict crimes, to catch criminals before they can act. While the film takes place in the future, the predictive analytics tool sets available to businesses today are bringing similar scenarios to life.
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Security |
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Bluetooth Group Offers Security Tips to Avoid Attacks
(By John Blau)
After two Israeli researchers published a paper earlier this month explaining how security mechanisms in short-range wireless Bluetooth technology could be quickly undermined, members of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) are now urging users to take several precautions.
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VeriSign Looks to Diversinet for Mobile Authentication
(By Cara Garretson)
Diversinet announced its MobiSecure suite of mobile tokens and authentication systems will be integrated with VeriSigns Unified Authentication service.
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Pakistans Internet Fully Restored
(By John Ribeiro)
Pakistans Internet connectivity, which had been disrupted by a fault in a submarine cable, was fully restored Friday, according to an executive of Pakistan Telecommunication Co. Ltd. (PTCL) in Islamabad.
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India Plans Free Software For All
India is expanding a government-led program to provide free, local language software to all of its citizens, as it tries to broaden computer use in the country.
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Indian Outsourcer Infosys Posts 47 Percent Profit Jump
(By John Ribeiro)
Infosys Technologies Ltd., Indias second largest software and services outsourcer, reported big gains in both revenue and profit for the quarter ended June 30, reflecting continued strength in the Indian IT services industry, the company announced.
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Microsoft Unveils All-in-one Keyboard
(By Agam Shah)
In an effort to clean up room clutter, Microsoft Corp. announced a wireless keyboard that combines a remote control, keyboard and mouse pointer all in one device, according to the company.
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UK News Sites Hit by Heavy Web Traffic After Bombings
(By Linda Rosencrance)
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Norway Throws Weight Behind Open Source
(By John Blau)
Norwegian Minister for Modernization Morton Andreas Meyer is asking all government institutions in the sparsely populated Nordic country to have a plan in place for the use of open-source software by the end of 2006.
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EU Warns 11 More Members on Telecom Competition
(By Simon Taylor)
The European Commission, the European Unions overall telecom regulator, launched its latest bid on Thursday to get its member states to ensure fair competition in the telecom sector.
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Chinas Lenovo to be a Top 10 Chip Buyer in 2005
(By Dan Nystedt)
Chinese personal computer maker Lenovo Group Ltd. will leap to ninth place in the global chip purchasing ranks this year, thanks to its acquisition of IBM Corp.s PC division, according to a market research group.
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EDITORS LETTER
Inside AMDs Lawsuit Against Intel
Intels actions, legal or not, have put a chill on innovation
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E-mail Users Losing Money to Online Scams
(By Johan Bostrom)
Nine percent of U.S. Internet users have lost money on e-mail scams, according to a survey of 791 users conducted by market research firm The Radicati Group Inc.
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Vendors Team Up on Systems Management Road Map
HP, IBM, CA see simplified process built around Web services, new tools
(By Matt Hamblen)
At a grid computing conference in Chicago last week, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM and Computer Associates International Inc.presented a jointly written road map for delivering IT resource management features based on Web services.
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Congressional Reports now Available Online
(By Lesley K. McCullough)
Some of the most coveted research on Capitol Hill has long been available only to members of Congress. But now, thanks to a project led by the Center for Democracy and Technology, reports on anything from Internet identity theft to spyware, and more, are now accessible to all with a click of a mouse.
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One Fifth of Japanese Businesses Using
The use of open-source operating systems in enterprise servers is growing in Japan, with companies citing low introduction costs as the main factor for adoption, according to a recent report by the Japanese government.
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TwinMOS launches USB Drives in Pakistan
TwinMOS Technologies, founded in 1998, has based its entire work philosophy around professionalism, developing a deep understanding of the markets they operate in, raising competitiveness, and creating win-win situations for both its customers and itself. At present the company is focusing on creating a presence in all of Pakistans mainstream markets with a varied range of products to choose from.
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Mozilla patches bugs in Firefox, Thunderbird
(By Robert McMillan)
The Mozilla Foundation fixed a number of security bugs in its Firefox Web browser, many of which will also be patched in upcoming releases of Mozillas Thunderbird e-mail client and Mozilla Internet software suite.
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Lucent Handed $500 Million Wireless Pact
(By Jim Duffy)
Lucent has been awarded a three-year, US$500 million contract by MetroPCS to provide 3G CDMA2000 equipment to the wireless operator for U.S. markets.
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