Unisys shares up on Deutsche Telekom rumours
Unisys saw its share price surge almost 30 per cent yesterday, apparently on rumours that the company is in talks to merge with German carrier Deutsche Telekom AG.
Unisys saw its share price surge almost 30 per cent yesterday, apparently on rumours that the company is in talks to merge with German carrier Deutsche Telekom AG.
The Silicon Valley firm that designed the Palm V has developed a wireless Internet appliance based on Transmeta's Crusoe microprocessor, Transmeta's chief executive officer has revealed.
Intel will launch a 1GHz Pentium III processor tomorrow, a source close to the company said today, two days after arch-rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) released an Athlon processor running at the same speed.
A Trojan horse dubbed "South Park'' that made its first appearance on the internet last June is on the loose again, antivirus software vendors warned on Friday.
Taiwan's Via Technologies emerged as a new player in the PC processor business last week with the launch of a new chip called the Cyrix III, formerly code named Joshua.
Compaq has discovered a potential floppy disk drive problem with certain models in its Presario desktop PC family that could cause systems to malfunction under certain "extreme circumstances", a company spokesman confirmed yesterday.
Gateway announced an aggressive five-year growth plan yesterday which calls for the company to more than triple its sales to $US30 billion by 2004.
Australian software startup SpotOn has launched a free browser add-on that aims to make surfing the Web faster and more efficient. In addition to the existing Back and Forward buttons, the program adds a new concept: a `Next' button
Intel has agreed to acquire Ambient Technologies, which makes semiconductor chips for use in DSL (digital subscriber line) and analog modems, for approximately $US150 million in cash, Intel said on Thursday.
At least two PC vendors have already started shipping computer systems installed with Windows 2000, weeks before Microsoft's new operating system is due to be officially launched.
Intel will enter the home-appliance market later this year when it plans to release a simplified computer that allows consumers to make telephone calls over the Internet, the company announced recently.
Sun Microsystems yesterday reported record revenue for the second quarter of fiscal 2000, in part due to strong demand for the company's workgroup and high-end servers, according to company officials.
Intel quietly axed prices last week on its mobile Pentium III and mobile Celeron processors, a move one analyst said could result in cheaper notebooks for users.
Hewlett-Packard Co. launched a new software product yesterday designed to automatically eliminate known security holes in Web server environments based on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT operating system.
Scott McNealy heaved another log on the bonfire of personal privacy tonight in a typically colorful speech at the Consumer Electronics Show here.