Sun Microsystems and Intel will hold a joint press conference at 10 a.m. today to announce a ``landmark alliance,'' Sun said this morning. It's likely the news will be that Sun, the Santa Clara-based maker...
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Although the papers have not yet been signed, Internet auctioneer eBay Inc. is expecting to seal the deal on purchasing StubHub Inc. for about $300 million in cash on either Wednesday or Thursday. San Francisco-based...
China is closing in on the USA at the top of a league of spam relaying countries. According to statistics from security firm Sophos, compiled in the first three months of 2006, China (including Hong...
The rumor mills have gone into hyperdrive about Amazon.com facing off with Apple's iPod in the digital music market, now the domain of Apple Inc., Yahoo! and RealNetworks. The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that...
Video gaming's most felonious franchise is back, and it's threatening to hijack the holidays. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the latest in a line that has sold 32 million games and sparked protests among anti-violence...
There have been the desktop wars, browser wars, and now the streaming media war. Right now Apple and Microsoft are as one analysis described "equally posed". As both companies start bring out their...
Congress has reached an agreement on antispam legislation and could vote on it as early as Friday afternoon, a move that would end more than six years of failed attempts to enact a federal law...
Taiwan-based Ritek, CMC Magnetics (CMC) and Prodisc Technology could begin volume production of 8x-speed DVD+R/-R discs as early as next month, according to sources. The global DVD+R and DVD-R market is currently dominated by 4x...
CHIPSET FIRM SIS said that is showing off the latest vesion of its R659 chipset at the Rambus Developer Forum in Tokyo, today. The 659 which uses HyperStreaming, a marchitecture term, will work...
Despite a recent surge in interest in Linux, it will fail to make much of an impression on the desktop, claims a Gartner analyst. Linux will be deployed on no more than...
Thanks andrewfee for posting this on our forums. Microsoft is to bring a brand new, green version of its Xbox hardware to market. The unit will be a retail version of the translucent...
Support for a faster version of USB in Linux is imminent and will become a permanent part of the Linux landscape when the next version of the operating system is introduced. The upcoming 2.4.19 version...
Thanks nexty The OQO features full Web browsing with Internet Explorer and has a four-inch "super bright" VGA color LCD -- about the same size as a Palm screen. ...