The epic bankruptcy saga of KPNQwest takes another twist as the data-services company begins to shut down its Ebone Internet network.
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OC Workbench has posted some pictures of the new ASUS Dual DDR P4 mainboard
A software development project aimed at getting the Linux operating system to run on Microsoft's Xbox is offering a big incentive for would-be developers.
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Its code name is "Freon," reflecting the notion that it is the coolest secret project at Microsoft Corp. these days, at least in the eyes of the Xbox video-game division, Monday's Wall Street Journal reported. What Freon stands for is a souped-up successor to the Xbox console -- capable of playing games but also offering television capabilities, such as pausing live TV and recording shows onto a computer hard drive, say people familiar with the effort. Though it is unclear whether such a product will ever be built, its core concept appears to have the backing of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, who wrote in an internal memorandum in January that he was a "big fan" of a machine that would combine video services with gaming.
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SYMANTEC ON TUESDAY announced its acquisition of Mountain Wave, a provider of enterprise security management software and services.
The acquisition for $20 million in cash brings to Symantec the patent-pending CyberWolf technology, which is designed to automate the detection of security incidents by intelligent analysis of security events and alerts in real-time, according to Symantec. CyberWolf is to become a component of Cupertino, Calif.-based Symantec's enterprise security solutions.
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The acquisition for $20 million in cash brings to Symantec the patent-pending CyberWolf technology, which is designed to automate the detection of security incidents by intelligent analysis of security events and alerts in real-time, according to Symantec. CyberWolf is to become a component of Cupertino, Calif.-based Symantec's enterprise security solutions.
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XML (Extensible Markup Language) will provide the technology standard necessary for Web services and Microsoft's .Net platform will be the premier platform for development, general manager of developer platform and evangelism Vic Gundotra said in a keynote speech at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Barcelona Monday.
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The PC and server powerhouse takes a "wait-and-see" attitude on Intel's high-end server chip--a move that could embarrass the chip giant.
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The Internet service temporarily stops e-mail coming through servers from Microsoft's bCentral, a Web service focused on small businesses.
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OC Workbench has posted pictures of the ASUS P4S8X, the first SiS648 + 963 mainboard supporting AGP 8x and using MUTIOL 1G
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USB Man has posted their PCXPO TECHXNY coverage
RatedPC has posted a 20 page article on Linux for the desktop
OC Workbench has posted some pictures from the Intel 2Ghz Mobile launch
SOFTWARE BUGS COST the U.S. economy an estimated $59.5 billion per year, or 0.6 percent of the gross domestic product, according to a newly released study by the U.S. Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
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Approximately 1 billion PCs have been shipped worldwide since the mid-'70s, according to a study. Expect the next billion by 2008. Would you like some broadband with that?
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The list of proposals for Web-services standards continues to grow. The latest, called Web Service Choreography Interface, is from BEA Systems Inc., Intalio Inc., SAP AG, and Sun Microsystems Inc. WSCI is XML based and would help developers program the sequence of multiple transactions defined as Web services within a business process. WSCI, which has been published on the companies' Web sites, will eventually be submitted to an industry standards body.
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BitBender has put together an article on digital photography composition
Industry sources have confirmed that Microsoft's DirectX 9 is likely to arrive in October, quite a while later than ATI's R300 Nvidia-buster. A few months ago we thought that Microsoft might manage to get DirectX 9 out of the door in September but the schedule has slipped a full month. This echoes the nasty situation with DirectX 8.1 last year, when ATI shipped beta versions of this version with its first Radeon 8500. The problem last time round was that if you didn't have the guts to get your virtual registry screwdriver out, the only other way to install the newer application program interface (API) was to reinstall Windows.
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The company won't find it easy to snare a deal, but low development costs might help it get a major server manufacturer to use its chips.
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Reports on the 2CPU forums and elsewhere suggest that SCSI systems only give very slender performance gains over IDE with Windows XP, leading some corporate users to complain that the problem lies in the operating system rather than the drives.
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