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Intel took a substantial amount of market share from rival Advanced Micro Devices during the third quarter, but analysts say AMD will likely bounce back.

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Dell Computer CEO Michael Dell says the company would launch a personal digital assistant in the United States soon but saw limited near-term growth opportunities in that market.

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CRM APPLICATION LEADER Siebel is looking to stay neutral in the heated Java vs. Microsoft .Net applications battle. The company embraced both camps in separate announcements this week.

The moves by Siebel demonstrate the company's intentions to embrace both platforms while continuing to promote its own server software, according to analyst Jeff Comport, vice president and research fellow at Gartner, in Stamford, Conn. 

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The graphics chip leader is expected to unveil the fastest PC graphics processor yet at the Comdex trade show next month, but analysts say the new chip may be too little, too late.

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Just as we've all invested in hardware and labeled all our CD-Rs and CD-RWs, ExtremeTech's Mark Hachman raises the spectre of obsolescence.

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THE DISTRIBUTED denial-of-service (DDOS) attack launched Monday against all 13 of the Internet domain name system (DNS) root servers failed to bring down the Internet, but that doesn't mean that more attacks won't follow and succeed where this week's attack failed, according to experts, some of whom feel that the federal government needs to step in to secure the Net infrastructure.

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The company is releasing a new version of its set of business applications next month, repositioning some programs to tap a trend and adding features that move Oracle into a new market.

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SHIFTING FROM DAILY nuisance to serious IT and business concern, uncontrolled spam is prompting customers to arm themselves with tools to fight back against productivity loss, potential liability, and bandwidth-clogging consequences that unsolicited commercial e-mail can bring to an enterprise.

Targeting a growing concern on the anti-spam battlefront, IronPort Systems on Wednesday introduced technology designed to prevent legitimate e-mail messages from being weeded out by anti-spam filters.

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Just a few days after trumpeting its alliance with Microsoft Corp. and announcing plans to incorporate .Net technology into its own products, Siebel Systems Inc. is offering reassurances about its commitment to .Net rival Java by reaffirming its partnership with Java creator Sun Microsystems Inc.

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Visible announced Visible Developer 3.0, which works within Microsoft's Visual Studio .Net platform to automatically generate 90 percent or more of the business logic and database access code directly from an application model, the company said. Version 3.0 adds support for Visual Basic .Net, the latest version of the programming language, and eases the transition to it, according to the company.

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