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Unisys and NEC are expected to provide the first public demonstrations of "Madison," Intel's third-generation Itanium processor, at Intel's Developer Forum on Monday.

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Intel is reducing the price of its Pentium 4 desktop processors, its mobile Pentium 4-M processors, its desktop and mobile Celeron processors, and its Xeon processors for workstations and low-end servers. At the same time, financial analyst firms warned of slower-than-expected sales, and revised their guidance downward for Intel's third quarter numbers. 

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China appears to have blocked the leading search engine, sparking speculation of a crackdown on Net content viewed as subversive ahead of a Communist Party congress in November.

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Accelenation has posted their ECTS (Electronic Computer Trade Show) coverage

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Now that AOL has abandoned a protocol body's effort to standardize IM technology, the group may be on the verge of adopting an open-source alternative as a standards candidate.

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Once a mild annoyance, unsolicited bulk e-mail--also known as spam--could make up the majority of message traffic on the Internet by the end of 2002, according to data from three e-mail service providers.

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NEW DATA ON worldwide usage of Web browser software shows Netscape is once again being clobbered by rival browser Internet Explorer and now has an estimated market share of 3.4 percent, according to Internet researcher WebSideStory. 

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Dell Computer Corp. on Monday introduced two new low-cost servers, the single-processor PowerEdge 600SC designed to handle simple tasks such as file-and-print sharing tasks, and a more robust two-way PowerEdge 2600, powered by dual Intel Xeon chips, that's capable of running small-scale database applications.

Prices for the PowerEdge 600SC start at $599 for a system equipped with a single 1.7GHz Intel Celeron chip, and $799 for configurations featuring 1.8GHz processors. The entry-level server can be configured with up to 4GB of double-date-rate (DDR) SDRAM, integrated Gigabit Ethernet, a RAID controller, and as many as four 120GB hard drives.

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