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Portable USB Drive Boots PCs into Mandriva

Hard drive vendor LaCie has teamed up with Mandriva on a bus-powered USB 2.0 hard drive preloaded with desktop Linux. The "GlobeTrotter" boots Mandriva Linux...

Intel, AMD Believe in the Power of Four

The race is on to produce four-core processors for PCs. Intel Corp., which is readying a bevy of dual-core chips for release in systems in...

Intel Research Shows Compound Boosts Chip Performance

Intel Corp. is trying out new material in an effort to boost chip performance in the next decade. Researchers at the Santa Clara, Calif., chip...

The Chicken, the Egg and the Linux Desktop

I recently wrote about why the Linux desktop needs major vendor support before it can take off. I got a lot of letters about that...

Flash Memory: Today the iPod, Tomorrow the World?

Editors Note: This story is part of Innovations 2006, a continuing series of stories from the reporters and editors of Ziff Davis Internet. Instead...

Toshiba Targets Channel with Low-Price Notebooks

Toshiba has introduced a new line of Tecra notebooks in an effort to make it easier for businesses and the resellers that serve them...

Sun to Roll Out First of Niagara Servers

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Tuesday unveiled the first systems to run on its new multicore UltraSPARC T1, which the company hopes will give it...

AMD, IBM Tout Chip Performance Gains

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and IBM are intentionally introducing strain into their chip-making partnership. The two companies on Tuesday detailed some of their work in...

Linux Desktop Developers Find Common Ground

Open Source Development Labs Inc. this weekend called together architects from over two dozen key desktop-oriented Linux projects to work out their differences and...

Channel Choice Means a Brighter Future for HP

Sometimes a vendor makes a move that indisputably makes so much sense, one has to wonder why nobody thought of it before. Such is not...