Stephen Shankland
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China: HP, Intel open Itanium 2 center
News To promote the Itanium 2 server processor in Asia-Pacific, HP and Intel have opened a test center in Shanghai that allows customers to try before buying.
IBM introduces Power6 chip
News Featured in a new server line, Power6 designed to operate at twice the speed but at same energy level as Big Blue's Power5+ chip.
Tags: Processors, Servers
Sun-Netscape Alliance launches ad blitz
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Yahoo pink slips issued, recruiters circling above
News The company has begun cutting approximately 1,500 jobs, as it continues to evaluate which operations can be shut down.
Tags: Web sites, Domain names, Search, Video, Workforce, Yahoo! Inc., layoff, Stephen Shankland, Sunnyvale, job
HP aims for networking cloud with 3Com buy
News Hewlett-Packard says it plans to acquire maker of network switching and routing products in a deal valued at US$2.7 billion.
Tags: Networking technology, Hewlett-Packard Co., network, 3Com Corp., Networking technology
Microsoft talking deal, not buy with Yahoo
News The two companies are once again on speaking terms, though several sources tell News.com that an outright purchase is not on the table.
Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions, Internet advertising, Web services, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Stephen Shankland, Carl Icahn, TechCrunch, News.com
Yahoo hires former Adobe exec to lead applications group
News Bryan Lamkin, who led strategy on many of Adobe's flagship products, is being brought in to head up Yahoo's application development division, a key part of the Yahoo Open Strategy.
Tags: Human resources, Adobe Systems Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Adobe PhotoShop, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Bryan Lamkin, Adobe Creative Suite, e-mail, Flickr, senior vice president
Hunch: The search for better search
News Community question-and-answer sites from Microsoft, Google and others have sputtered. New site by Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake aims to refine the model.
Tags: Search, Web sites, Internet advertising, Site, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Search Engine, Wikipedia, Laptop Computer, Flickr
Novell names new CTO
News The Linux and server software seller taps Jeffrey Jaffe to replace Alan Nugent, who left the company earlier this year.
Tags: Directory services, Software, Open source
Linux available on ThinkPad T61 and R61
News Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 will finally be available on the ThinkPad T61 and ThinkPad R61 with Intel Centrino processors, says Lenovo.
Tags: Linux, Linux desktop OS, Notebooks and tablets
Enterprise-level Ubuntu Linux due this week
News Ubuntu Linux developers plan to make a new landmark version of the software widely available this week.
Tags: Linux, Linux server OS
HP, Intel, Yahoo join forces on cloud computing research
News A new "test bed" project will give the three companies, as well as partnering researchers, access to top-notch hardware for exploring the future of the hot server-outsourcing technology.
Tags: Web services, Utility computing, Servers, Storage, Business applications, Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp., Google Inc., India
HP, Inktomi ink server deal
News Hewlett-Packard and Inktomi, which makes software that speeds delivery of Internet data, will work together to sell server appliances that store frequently visited Web pages.
E*Trade moves to Linux servers
News The online broker announces that it is the latest company to move over to Linux, replacing some middleware servers using Sun Solaris with IBM systems running Linux.
Cobalt Networks' IPO price climbs to $22
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