Cisco to acquire network processor company
Cisco Systems has agreed to buy SpansLogic, a privately held designer of network processing chips based in Mountain View, California, for an undisclosed sum.
Cisco Systems has agreed to buy SpansLogic, a privately held designer of network processing chips based in Mountain View, California, for an undisclosed sum.
Novell hopes to cut out some of the complexity small and medium-size businesses face in managing Windows desktops with new software it is demonstrating at Cebit in Hanover, Germany, this week.
Siemens Enterprise Communications is working with Nokia to polish the hand-over of voice calls between corporate wireless LANs and public mobile phone networks, a Siemens executive said Wednesday.
AMD has pumped up the performance of its Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor and cooled down two single-core Athlon 64 processors.
Canon will buy Toshiba's stake in a SED, a joint venture they formed to develop large-screen, low-power flat panel televisions. The companies hope the move will put an end to a patent lawsuit brought against Canon in the US.
Despite a fall in demand for flat-panel televisions in Europe, liquid-crystal display (LCD) models outsold old-fashioned "tube" televisions for the first time there during the third quarter.
Alcatel has accused Microsoft of infringing seven of its U.S. patents. The patents describe how to implement fast-forward and rewind functions in digital video streams, among other things.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has asked a U.S. court to compel Intel to disclose documents relating to its activities outside the U.S., as part of an ongoing antitrust lawsuit.
Advanced Micro Devices plans to make chips integrating its x86 with a graphics processor on a single piece of silicon by early 2009. The announcement came as AMD completed its US$5.4 billion merger with graphics chip manufacturer ATI Technologies on Wednesday.
U.K. supermarket chain Tesco will launch six PC software applications under its own brand, including a word processor and antivirus software, later this month. The software packages will sell for under £20 (AUD$50), and will include free online support via e-mail.
Skype is working to make its Internet telephony service more enterprise friendly, and expects to introduce a beta version of its software with support for enterprise management functions within weeks.
PARIS: AMD has released further details of its Torrenza project, which will one day allow server manufacturers to optimise servers for specific tasks by placing accelerator chips right on the motherboard.
EMC and Symantec missed out on a boom in storage software sales in the second quarter, according to research by IDC.
AMD sees its planned acquisition of ATI Technologies as a way to expand its ability to compete in the microprocessor industry. Intel sees it as a way to expand its defence in a microprocessor antitrust case it is fighting against AMD.
Palm's plans for future products could be affected by delays in development of a new version of the Palm OS software, the company warned in a regulatory filing.