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In a move designed to keep it competitive with rival Intel, chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices announced four new desktop processors based on a new 939-pin package that the company said will bolster memory support and boost performance. AMD said its four new Athlon 64 processors, which now have memory...
At its latest conference for developers, Microsoft announced a technical preview of Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework, and the release of Web Services Enhancements 2.0. The company also previewed Visual Studio 2005 Team System, a collection of tools designed to help software development....
In conjunction with the introduction of its new Performance-Power Rating, AMD today announced a line of low-power, high-performance AMD Geode processors, the AMD Geode NX 1500@6W processor and the AMD Geode NX 1750@14W processor. In addition to introducing the AMD Geode NX processors, AMD is renamin...
Napster UK, a subsidiary of Roxio, has announced that the Napster 2.0 online music service went live to music fans across the United Kingdom today with what the company is calling "the UK's largest online music catalog." UK residents can download the new Napster 2.0 music service for free at www.nap...
Internet giant Yahoo has released an e-mail encryption scheme to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) aimed at wide adoption and avoidance of the unwanted and increasing volume of commercial and gimmicky e-mail known as spam. However, the submission of Yahoo's DomainKeys antispam proposal come...
Taiwanese chipmaker VIA has released details of its next-generation C5J Esther processor core, which is intended to bring security in addition to low heat and power consumption to small, low-priced embedded devices. VIA, which unveiled the new power-efficient processor core at the Embedded Processor...
This week's congressional hearing on the loosening of DVD and other copying restrictions based on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998 might signal a change in attitude toward laws that have been the basis of infringement suits against companies and consumers. Some, including lawmaker...
Following its official announcement of three new mobile semiconductors manufactured with a more efficient, 90-nanometer process, Intel's plans for more mobile chips were unofficially forecast through a mistaken posting of information by Dell. The Dell Web site indicated that, in addition to the thre...
AMD is pushing its Athlon 64 processor further into the mobile-computing world with new models designed to provide low-power performance in the thin and light notebook market. The Sunnyvale, California-based chipmaker announced its Athlon 64 2800+ and 2700+, immediately available worldwide, offering...
The entertainment industry -- Hollywood, for short -- has done an amazing job of using mainstream print and electronic media to snow the public at large into believing anyone who shares digital music files online is a hard-core villain, out to steal bread from the mouths of starving artists. Using t...
PayPal yesterday introduced PayPal Web Services, a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that the company hopes developers will use to build code that will integrate the PayPal platform into other e-commerce systems. PayPal Web Services, based on open standards and currently in beta, cons...
With Web services bringing together an array of different users, applications and services, their interactions must be choreographed, so the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published the first in a series of drafts for the Web Services Choreography Description Language, Version 1.0 (WS-CDL). The...
Mountain View, California-based Stretch, a fabless semiconductor developer, this week debuted a new family of processors that can be configured by software, making this the first design to embed powerful programmable logic in an off-the-shelf processor. The chip family -- the S5000 -- also includes ...
Apple is building on its forays into servers with the Xserve and Xserve RAID hardware, introducing a new storage area network (SAN) system that it claims is destined for wider enterprise use beyond its traditional audience of video and media professionals. The company said the Xsan -- priced at less...
Earlier today, at a developer's forum in Taipei, Taiwan, chipmaker Intel disclosed that it has developed two new, low-priced Itanium processors targeted toward the server market. Servers employing the new processors will be about 28 percent lower in price and up to 25 percent faster than earlier dua...
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