In an action-packed keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show, Intel president and chief executive officer Craig Barrett last week insisted that the PC era is still alive and well, and called on some star-studded help to usher in what he called the "extended PC era".
New subsidiary will continue to concentrate on developing products for IP services
A damaging virus that has been in the wild since 1999, called Kriz, has been patiently lurking in networks for more than a year, waiting for its big day, say antivirus software vendors. Like Santa Claus himself, Kriz made preparations throughout the year -- changing its name and forms of transmission -- in order to make a grand run on December 25, when the malicious code is programmed to attack.
Industry pundits have long predicted heavy consolidation in many IT sectors
Likely retreat from untethered free-ISP model marks a continuing trend
Transition underway from "good old early adopters" to mass audience
Steve Ballmer kicked off the Streaming Media West event here Tuesday, outlining Microsoft Corp.'s next generation of media software applications. Ballmer, Microsoft president and chief executive officer, touched on the important role he believes media will play in keeping the PC central to consumer and corporate computing.
Love Bug was "a shooting star"
Chip vendor expects fourth-quarter sales to be flat or "nominally higher"
Love Bug virus not as damaging as you might think
The warnings are in. Intel, Gateway and Apple Computer led the list of companies issuing disheartening notes about the PC's apparent decline.
While turmoil in the financial markets has investors running scared, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Scott McNealy prefers to ignore the ups and downs of the financial markets. Instead, he focuses on his company's performance.
Despite their ongoing legal disputes with the government, Microsoft Corp. executives have at least one reason to sleep well tonight. International Data Corp. (IDC) released a new study Monday showing that shipments of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 2000 operating system are steadily picking up.
The three-month-old MTX virus appears to be gaining speed, with several anti-virus vendors escalating the pesky bug to a medium-level threat in recent weeks.
Estimates could be conservative