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Action by a committee probing a controversial Internet redirection service operated by VeriSign could be taken as soon as two weeks from now, according to the chairman of the panel. "There's a major ICANN meeting the week after next in Tunisia, and I hope we can get our stuff done before that," said...

Graphics technology leaders ATI and Nvidia have been rolling out new innovations at a steady pace in the past several years, competing for desktop partnerships and mind share. The two companies have often been compared to Intel and AMD in the way they've battled furiously, but ATI and Nvidia don't h...

Fueled by continued demand for notebook computers as well as consumer and corporate spending, worldwide PC sales in the third quarter of 2003 grew nearly 16 percent from last year, about 5 percent above projections, research firm IDC said. The IDC report, reinforced by similar Gartner findings of 14...

Recent high-end performance tests show AMD's 64-bit Athlon and dual Opteron processors beating Apple's G5 and Intel's Pentium 4, but analysts have downplayed the results, citing lack of available 64-bit applications in addition to market timing. While Apple has claimed its Power Mac G5 is the world'...

Dell has expanded its handheld product offerings by introducing the three-member Axim X3 family, consisting of slim and compact PDAs that include the Axim X3i, a $379 PDA with integrated wireless capability. At 5 ounces, the Axim X3 is 28 percent lighter than its predecessor and, at a half inch thic...

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Microsoft Debuts Visual Studio Tools for Office

Microsoft Office is one of the most far-reaching client applications in the world, used or customized by nearly 3 million developers and more than 400 million users. With today's launch of Visual Studio Tools for Office, Microsoft is hoping to provide developers with the tools they need to take adva...

Furthering its unique technology that uses on-chip software to economize processor energy, Transmeta has introduced the Efficeon TM8000 family of chips, which the company hopes will broaden its markets. The new Efficeon TM8000, announced at the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, California, builds on...

Mobile computing and wireless networking received a boost this week as Microsoft and HP announced new products at ITU Telcom World in Geneva, Switzerland. While HP unleashed a tsunami of product announcements on Sunday, it was Microsoft that had analysts buzzing on Monday with the unveiling of its W...

A new file storage system designed to be backward compatible with today's Windows machines but also to move data-storage technology forward has been a long time coming from Microsoft. According to recent reports, the new file system will arrive with Microsoft's next operating system, code-named Long...

It might surprise you to know that, by survey, Microsoft has about 120 million happy customers. I'm guessing that, if you are reading this column, you probably aren't one of them. You might also be surprised to know that Microsoft surveys as one of the most-trusted vendors in the industry, and you l...

Promising quality improvements and furthering the competition for media players and broadband subscribers, Microsoft's MSN is offering free streaming video in a beta version that will be available to all MSN subscribers in the United States this winter. The move comes as Microsoft seeks to broaden i...

ClearSpeed Technology, a provider of low-power chip-based systems, has unveiled the CS301 processor, a multithreaded chip designed to improve performance and reduce power consumption for floating-point applications. According to ClearSpeed, the new chip can provide more than twice the processing spe...

The WiFi hot-spot concept has been gaining acceptance, and analysts expect the number of U.S. locations to grow from the current 10,000 to more than 40,000 in five years. As hot-spot services become more popular, corporations are experimenting with various business models to justify their deployment...

In a bid to keep up with rivals Intel and IBM, Sun has revealed more of its "Throughput Computing" strategy by unveiling the new UltraSPARC IV processor that uses multithreading to speed performance twofold compared with the UltraSPARC III. Sun said the UltraSPARC IV will begin shipping in systems d...

BEA Systems, an application infrastructure software provider, has announced it is addressing a major IT challenge with the introduction of BEA WebLogic Enterprise Security, an application-security infrastructure system. By incorporating its application-infrastructure expertise into the new software,...


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