Intel announced recently that it would combine the company's Network Communications Group and its Communications Products Group into a single business unit in an effort to focus on development of products for Internet infrastructure and networking equipment.
The worldwide server market remained strong in the fourth quarter of 2000, as factory revenue approached US$16.7 billion and server shipments surpassed 1.2 million units, according to a new study released Wednesday.
Another security flaw has emerged with communications based on transmission control protocol (TCP) that could be used to "hijack" a user's session on the Internet or a corporate network, a computer security services company announced Monday.
Oracle's stock took a beating in the first hour of US trading on Friday morning, dropping 21 per cent after the business software company warned on Thursday that third-quarter earnings will fall short of expectations.
US federal and Navy law enforcement officials confirmed Friday that they are looking into a computer hacking incident at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC, in which an unidentified intruder downloaded some aerospace software that can be used to control satellites.
Buy.com chief executive officer Gregory Hawkins and Mitch Hill, the company's chief financial officer, resigned from the online retail company, which has seen its stock price plummet in the past year.
Novell on Friday announced the formation of a new subsidiary that will target the content networking market.
Advanced Micro Devices reported fourth-quarter financial results Wednesday that were in line with its lowered forecast, although its earnings fell short of analysts' expectations. The chip maker also said it expects its first-quarter 2001 results to be dampened by "normal seasonal weakness" and weak PC demand.
Microsoft's enterprise portal product, once code-named "Tahoe", will now be known as SharePoint Portal Server.
Less than a week after competitor Intel sped up its Celeron chip to 800MHz, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) this week will unveil the 850MHz version of its Duron microprocessor for the cost-conscious consumer PC market.
Microsoft shares closed down 11.37 per cent Friday and shed $US6.31 a day after the company announced that its second-quarter earnings and revenue would not meet initial expectations.
A group of information technology heavyweights were scheduled last week to announce the formation of the Business Internet Consortium, a neutral, nonprofit organisation that will serve as a think tank for generating technologies and practices to address the challenges of implementing online business.
Verisign, Microsoft and webMethods this week introduced a specification that works to simplify the integration of PKI (public key infrastructure) and digital certificates with XML (extensible markup language) applications.
Nvidia, a leader in the desktop graphics chip market, unveiled its first graphics processing unit (GPU) for laptops at Comdex last week.
A week after competitor AT&T announced a realignment plan, WorldCom on Wednesday detailed its intention to reorganise in order to fine-tune its operations.
