Mark Hachman

Dealers have begun to release pricing for the Intel’s new Pentium 4 and “Prescott” chips expected next week, and have also tipped AMD’s expected price cuts later in February. As expected, the prices for a Prescott and a Pentium 4 running at the same clock speed are virtually identical, with a gap of just a […]

Has stability returned to the disk-drive market? For the most part, according to analysts, but they warn that companies like Seagate and other storage manufacturers still show tendencies to stuff the reseller channel when times get tight. Seagate Technology LLC , Maxtor Corp. and Western Digital Corp. all reported earnings this week, and all three […]

Foxconn Inc., also known as Hon Hai Precision Co. Ltd., said this week that it will enter the motherboard market with its own branded products, competing to some extent with its own customers. Hon Hai, a $10 billion firm and Taiwan’s largest private manufacturer, shopped approximately 26 million motherboards last year to its customers, which […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. recently discovered and patched a potential vulnerability in its Tru64 Unix operating system that could have resulted in unauthorized access or a denial-of-service attack. The patch, released Jan. 7, surfaced in the following week though a security bulletin published by HP. The bulletin, referenced as “SSRT3629A/B,” concerns HP Tru64 Unix Version 5.1B PK2 […]

InterVideo Inc. hopes to bring its “Instant On” PC to U.S. shores this year, company executives said Friday. Equipped with InterVideo’s technology, an Instant On PC can be booted in about ten seconds, far faster than a Windows-based computer. InterVideo’s InstantON technology allows a Windows PC to be transformed into an optimized media player that […]

In a bit of understatement, storage enclosure manufacturer LaCie announced the “Bigger Disk” this week, a device that houses a full terabyte of storage. The $1,199 enclosure isn’t cheap, but the device serves as a direct-attachable bit bucket that can house up to a month of MPEG-2 video. Four cables are included to allow data […]

Intel Corp. reported record revenue for its fourth fiscal quarter on Wednesday, an indication that its sector of the tech economy is back on the growth curve. However, officials said the company has delayed its code-named “Dothan” version of the mobile Pentium processor until the second quarter to make “circuit modifications.” “2003 began with a […]

In the coming weeks, a New Hampshire congressman plans to introduce legislation that will attempt to define and regulate voice over IP (VOIP) while preventing the Federal Communications Commission from tacking on additional regulations. In an interview with eWEEK.com, Sen. John E. Sununu (R-N.H.) said he plans to introduce legislation in the first few weeks […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—According to wireless industry executives here for the Bluetooth Americas 2003 expo, Bluetooth is now boring. And to some that is both a good and a bad thing. In a keynote address, Mike McCamon, executive director of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group of Overland Park, Kan., said that while the short-range wireless technology […]

Symantec Corp. has acknowledged a problem with the activation feature included in many of its latest product releases, and has posted a fix to solve the issue. In Symantec products which require activation, a bug in the activation procedure forced users to enter and reenter the activation codes required for the software to work each […]

Edward Park, chief executive of startup Ximeta Inc. told Extreme Tech last week that he expected Iomega would announce today that it will license the Ximeta NDAS (Network Direct Attached Storage) technology. The Ximeta technology allows network-attached storage to also directly connect to a PC through a USB 2.0 or other connection. Park also said […]