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Chip Sales Climbed 18.3 Percent In 2003
Chip sales during the past year demonstrated robust growth, the Semiconductor Industry Association reported Monday. The SIA, which represents over 80 percent of the United States’ semiconductor companies, said that the chip industry grew by 18.3 percent to $166.4 billion, one of the strongest years on record. The chip market was driven by strong demand…
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Microsoft Patches Serious IE Flaw
Microsoft Corp. on Monday finally released a patch for a dangerous vulnerability that lets attackers trick Internet users into visiting malicious sites. The flaw has been public knowledge for some time, but Microsoft failed to include a fix for it with January’s scheduled patch releases. The vulnerability has to do with the way IE parses…
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John Parkinson: Budget Blacks and Blues
In the final quarter of every calendar year I send out a survey to my private research panel asking them about their (or their company’s) technology spending plans for the coming year. The respondents—a 30-year collection of just over 600 friends, acquaintances, ex-colleagues, clients and other contacts in the technology world who are willing to…
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Robert Sutton: The Best-Practices Trap
The argument for adopting “best practices” seems ironclad, at least on the surface. If you want your company to get better, you look at what great companies do (or at least companies that perform better than yours), and then copy it. This assumption is so obvious that most management writers, consultants, software vendors and gurus…
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Lindows Loses Early MS Battle in Netherlands
A Netherlands judge last week granted Microsoft Corp. a preliminary injunction against desktop Linux vendor Lindows.com Inc. and its resellers. The decision by the Amsterdam District Court “orders Lindows.com within eight days of service of this judgment to cease and desist from the infringement of … the WINDOWS trademark … by using the signs “Lindows”,…
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Intel Launches Prescott; 64-Bit Question Unanswered
Intel formally launched its next-generation “Prescott” microprocessor on Sunday, providing slight performance increases over the previous Pentium 4. Intel executives also declined to put to rest rumors of Prescott’s 64-bit capabilities. The Prescott will ship in 3.2-, 3.0-, and 2.8-GHz speed grades beginning on Monday, with supplies of the 3.4-GHz low enough that many system…
