Intel Announces Intent To Acquire Oplus Technologies
Intel Corporation today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Oplus Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of video processing products and technologies for digital television and digital displays. The acquisition would provide Intel with access to valuable technology, expertise and products that complement the company’s offerings of [...]

Second Beta of the Opera Browser Available
Opera Software ASA today released the second Beta version of its next browser, which includes an answer to the recent security debate over Web site spoofing. In this Beta, the browser displays security information inside the address bar, located next to the padlock icon that indicates the level [...]

AMD To Help Make Bono’s Wish A Reality
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced it will provide significant support to legendary musician Bono of U2 to make his wish of accelerating Internet connectivity to hundreds of thousands of Africans a reality. Bono’s wish to connect every hospital, health clinic and school in Ethiopia to the Internet is [...]

SAMSUNG Demonstrates Push-To-All Technology
Samsung Electronics, a leading wireless communications company, is proud to announce the development of a working PTA (Push-to-All) solution. The demonstration of the PTA solution proto-type took place at the company’s Telecommunications R&D Center in Suwon, Korea.
This total mobile communications solution incorporates the existing PTT (Push-to-Talk) one to multi-user voice technology [...]

IBM Helps Drive Open Source Development
IBM today contributed more than 30 open source projects to SourceForge.net and launched new online skills-building programs to spur innovation, collaboration and development around emerging open source projects.
Additionally, IBM today announced it is extending support for developers building Web applications using PHP, a popular open source Web development language. [...]

HP Lands No. 1 Position in Worldwide Server Shipments for 11th Consecutive Quarter
HP closed out 2004 as the leader in worldwide server shipments for the 11th consecutive quarter, according to fourth quarter 2004 figures released today by IDC.(1)
HP’s leadership was fueled by a strong quarter for HP ProLiant systems in the x86 market, a [...]

Akamai and Macromedia announce availability of Flash
Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM), the leading global service provider for accelerating content and business processes online, and Macromedia (Nasdaq: MACR) today announced the immediate availability of Akamai Streaming for use with Macromedia Flash. Akamai customers can now take advantage of the on-demand Flash streaming media service, delivered over [...]

SAMSUNG Electronics Begins Mass Producing World’s Largest-capacity Multi-chip
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, today announced that it is mass producing the world’s largest-capacity multi-chip package (MCP). The new 2.5Gb MCP will enable multimedia-intensive mobile phones, especially 3G phones, to have memory levels that, for the first time, are equivalent [...]

AMD Continues Multi-Core Momentum With Dual-Core AMD Athlon
After garnering rave reviews for its multi-core server and workstation demos at LinuxWorld last week, AMD (NYSE: AMD) gave an encore performance today by demonstrating a dual-core AMD Athlon™ 64 processor, manufactured on 90nm technology. The demonstration took place at the company’s Sunnyvale facilities. AMD has now publicly [...]

Symantec Announces Extended Agreement With MSN
Symantec Corp., the global leader in information security, today announced the extension of its licensing agreement with MSN for Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam. Since November 2002, Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam has been utilized by MSN Hotmail to help detect and stop billions of spam messages before they entered MSN Hotmail customers’ in-boxes. [...]