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Intel will spend next week drumming up enthusiasm for its dual-core processing systems at its Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco. The company, hot on the heels of AMD, announced it would release a 64-bit Pentium 4 processor for PCs by midyear, ending AMD's sole proprietorship of the 64-bit world, and promised to unveil more details of its dual-core strategy at the forum...

French Linux distributor Mandrakesoft will acquire its Brazilian counterpart, Conectiva, the two companies announced yesterday ...

In another attempt to slow the spread of computer viruses, the British government has set up a Web site that offers to alert citizens when serious Internet security problems are making the rounds ...

A characteristic that HIV shares with spam has led Microsoft and AIDS researchers to team up on developing a vaccine to kill the deadly disease ...

A Georgia woman has filed a lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard over the company's use of chips to disable printer ink cartridges after a certain date ...

HP announced a line of new routers it says will aid security at thenetwork's edge and sell for half the price of offerings from Ciscoand other networking rivals ...

The advent of a new technology often requires building a whole new set of rules to govern its use. Occasionally, the technology's use easily falls under a set of rules already in place ...

A partnership between publisher Random House and Vocel, amobile application start-up based in San Diego, is designed to deliver language lessons and videogame guides to mobile phone subscribers ...

Samsung Electronics stayed a bit ahead of the curve with its announcementyesterday that it has developed the first working DDR3 DRAM (dynamic randomaccess memory) device ...

Microsoft announced today an offer to replace the power cords on 14.1million Xboxes worldwide because they can overheat, causing smoke and firedamage, the company said ...

Using an old-fashioned con, thieves posing as legitimate businesses were able to extract the personal information of thousands of consumers from ChoicePoint, which stores Social Security numbers, credit reports, addresses, and other data for the vast majority of Americans ...

Red Hat unveiled its updated enterprise Linux distribution today and used the occasion to take a shot at rival Sun ...

The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that operates the Wikipedia project among others, said Google has offered to host part of the free encyclopedia's content ...

In spite of his denial of IBM's request for a partial summary judgment, U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball bolstered Big Blue's defense when he questioned whether SCO had any evidence to support the claim that IBM's Linux business infringed upon SCO's Unix patents ...

In IBM's Global Business Security Index Report for 2004, the company warnsthat malware and spam attacks on mobile devices such as smartphones andwireless-enabled PDAs are on the rise ...

Intel, playing catch up with AMD, has announced that it has plans for the release of its much delayed 64-bit processors for desktop computers. Systems containing the 600 series Pentium 4 chips will be in stores next month, the company said ...

Although a study released today found that 8 of 10 respondents had received unsolicited mobile phone messages and warned that the intrusions will only worsen, one analyst questioned whether the problem was as significant as thestudy made it seem ...

Linux has so far barely made a blip in the mobile phone market, accounting for less than 1 percent of units shipped in 2004, according to IDC. Yesterday MontaVista announced an effort to change that ...

Google today offered up a new way to search the information superhighway forthe best routes on terra firma's highways with a beta release of Google Maps. ...

Harvard President Larry Summer's comments that "innate differences" account for some of the reason women don't succeed as often as men in science careers shines a light on a problem that most in the world of science and technology are keenly aware of ...