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VR-Zone has visited Shuttle HQ at Taiwan and managed to caught up with the man behind the popular Shuttle's XPC series, Mr Ken.

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Get ready for Intel's 3GHz Pentium 4. PC makers will show off systems containing the high-performance chip just days before the Comdex trade show.

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The company is backing one of its fault-tolerant servers with a $100,000 guarantee that the system will not crash when running Microsoft's Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Stratus announced Monday. Under the terms of the "Perfect Performance" program, Stratus will shell out the cash to any customer who experiences unplanned downtime from an operating system or hardware failure on its ftServer 6500 product, said James Gargan, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Stratus.

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SPRINT PCS JOINED Verizon this week in announcing a nationwide flat fee pricing model for unlimited access to data on its 3G PCS Vision network. Verizon launched an unlimited data plan on its Express Network (3G) this summer. 

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ExtremeTech has the news that AMD seems to be moving away from the desktop-centric Clawhammer project towards the server-destined Opteron (formerly Sledgehammer) project.

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Symantec Corp., a leader in computer security products and services, on Wednesday posted a second-quarter profit versus a loss a year ago, handily beating estimates.

Symantec reported a net profit of $52 million, or 33 cents a share, compared with a net loss of $12 million, or 8 cents a share, a year earlier.
 

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Within hours of its release, AOL 8.0 was downloaded 1.7 million times, America Online Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jon Miller said during AOL's raucous launch celebration at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. He also announced a new policy: AOL will no longer accept third-party pop-up ads. The change comes in response to user feedback, and is intended as a mark of AOL's "back to basics" return to focusing on its customers, he said. 

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When Intel and Advanced Micro Devices report third-quarter results this week, the focus will be on what they say about the last quarter of the year--usually the strongest for the industry.

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