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Making a strategic investment designed to ensure its access to a steady supply of basic memory chips at stable prices, Intel has agreed to buy a 5 percent stake in Micron Technology for $450 million. The investment marks the second time Intel has made a major equity investment in Micron, although it...

In the past, the quest for seamless software installations often created an endless cycle of high-paying work for integrators and consulting firms, which spent most of their time trying to make massive enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions work with legacy applications. Now, however, times ar...

Hewlett-Packard has announced it will indemnify users of its Linux-based solutions from legal action being pursued by The SCO Group. The move seeks to reassure potential Linux customers while possibly making HP hardware more attractive to lawsuit-wary enterprises. However, SCO said the move "reaffir...

Maybe it's a sign that e-commerce is getting up there in years. After all, before you've seen it all once and then start to see it again, you have to be around for a while. Whatever the reason, the fall of 2003, though just hours old, is shaping up to be back-to-the-future time. Much of what seems t...

Unanticipated Web site traffic can be tough for any IT administrator to handle, and sometimes a major surge can highlight a company's online weak points in sharp relief. Fortunately, many spikes can be predicted and, even more importantly, faced with a sound strategy. However, in doing so, businesse...

In a bid to beef up its online shopping offerings, Yahoo has announced it will roll out an integrated search and comparison-shopping product that combines algorithmic and paid-search techniques. The initiative, which is the first salvo in the all-important e-commerce holiday ramp-up, builds on the c...

Amid all the publicity WiFi has received in the last year, another high-speed mobile networking technology, known as 3G, appears to have been left in the dust. Yet 3G was once an industry darling -- and the center of a bandwidth feeding frenzy that saw giant corporations shelling out billions of dol...

Hoping to train customers to view one of the most-used office productivity suites as more than just word processing and presentation software, Microsoft has unveiled a program to accelerate development of new software that can help enterprises get more out of Office. For instance, one set of new too...

IBM and GE Interlogix, a division of General Electric that designs, develops and manufactures physical security devices, such as digital video systems and access control boxes, have announced they are teaming up to provide integrated security solutions to their customers. Forrester senior analyst La...

Two and a half years after America Online scored a coup emblematic of the rise of the Internet by acquiring media giant Time Warner, the board of directors has voted to drop AOL from its name and stock-trading ticker symbol. While the move is a largely symbolic gesture, which the company and observe...

At first glance, the consumer PC market can seem quite polarized. At one end of the spectrum are big players like Dell and HP, and at the other are small companies that assemble standard components into generic "white boxes." However, it is the middle ground that may be most worth watching. The com...

Setting aside bitter competitive rivalries, executives at Microsoft and IBM have joined forces to showcase advances in standards that will allow widespread use of Web services to help companies interact with each other. The event marks a departure for the two tech giants, which have had a chilly rel...

In recent weeks, high-profile arrests of hackers and malware authors have trained a spotlight on the sometimes-shadowy underworld of computer crime. The Internet may seem like a more dangerous place than ever before, but by taking some basic steps beyond the obvious ones of installing firewalls and ...

In the technology world, the motto for the current zeitgeist should be: "Why innovate when you can buy?" After all, a recent spate of intellectual property case settlements sends some very scary messages: that the technology some of the biggest names in the tech world have built their businesses and...

Intel has previewed its next wave of computer chip advancements, promising to bring server virtualization technology to the desktop and professing its readiness for the convergence of wireless and multimedia technologies. Much of the company's preview focused on home computer use, with the company s...