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Hardware and software makers lined up in droves to support Intel's Itanium 2 processor launch Monday. While the servers and workstations will be important for the chip's success, equally vital will be the software programs being written to take advantage of the new design.


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Like many of its customers, auction giant eBay has decided to use PayPal as its electronic payment system.
On Monday, eBay said it is acquiring online payments company PayPal in a deal valued at $1.5 billion. eBay will also phase out its own competing service, eBay Payments by Billpoint.


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The telecom company, which faces a federal investigation into its accounting practices, names Oren Shaffer as its new chief financial officer.

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nV News has posted a few benchmarks results from two very popular games that are out on the market.

Warcraft III
Morrowind

Warcraft III was tested using the games replay capability while Morrowind was based on my own home grown test. Performance was measured using a GeForce4 Ti 4600 using the latest version of FRAPS.

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OPERA SOFTWARE SANG forth a series of announcements this week, including the release of new versions of the Opera browser for both Windows and Linux, as well as deals indicating it hopes to reach a crescendo in the Asian market. 

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