Year: 2006

  • Study: Smart Phone, PDA Shipment Up 57 Percent

    Study: Smart Phone, PDA Shipment Up 57 Percent

    Scott Ferguson

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    A new study found that worldwide shipments of smart phones and PDAs were up 57 percent in the first six months of 2006 compared to the same time period last year. The Gartner study, released Oct. 5, found that global shipments of smart phones grew by more than 75 percent in the first six months… Read more

  • Chip Makers to Outline Road Maps

    Chip Makers to Outline Road Maps

    Jeffrey Burt

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    The industry is getting a glimpse of the not-so-distant future for microprocessors. At the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, Calif., Oct. 10, engineers from Advanced Micro Devices, IBM, Fujitsu and Sun Microsystems will give presentations about their new generation of processors that will be released in 2007. Key to all the work being done is… Read more

  • Dell’s First AMD System: Good Performance at a Good Price

    Dell’s First AMD System: Good Performance at a Good Price

    Joel Santo Domingo

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    Apple made news earlier this year by switching entirely to an Intel-based platform. Now Dell is making news by (finally) adding AMD processors to its stable of multimedia-oriented PCs. The Round Rock, Texas, company’s first AMD effort, the Dell Dimension C521 ($1,024 direct; $1,214 with a 17-inch LCD monitor), carries an AMD Athlon 64 X2… Read more

  • Microsoft Patches 10 Vulnerabilities, 6 Critical

    Microsoft Patches 10 Vulnerabilities, 6 Critical

    Matt Hines

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    Microsoft released 10 individual security patches on Oct. 10, addressing a handful of critical problems in Office programs along with several equally serious issues in its Windows operating system. In all, the software maker issued patches for six critical flaws, one important problem, two moderate glitches and one low-priority issue. The “critical” designation represents the… Read more

  • The SCO-Microsoft Connection Grows Darker

    The SCO-Microsoft Connection Grows Darker

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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    The cat is out of the bag. According to BayStar Capital’s managing partner Larry Goldfarb, Microsoft allegedly assured BayStar that it would somehow “guarantee” BayStar’s $50 million investment in SCO. Specifically, Goldfarb has testified to the U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City that Microsoft senior VP of corporate development and strategy, Richard Emerson, “discussed… Read more

  • Qualys Adds Risk Management Tools Via RedSeal

    Qualys Adds Risk Management Tools Via RedSeal

    Matt Hines

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    Hosted security applications provider Qualys and RedSeal Systems announced a new product integration pact Oct. 10 through which they will offer RedSeal’s risk management analysis capabilities on top of Qualys’ vulnerability protection and policy compliance tools. According to company executives, enterprises are seeking new methods for determining what security tasks they must address next, as… Read more