The nonprofit Mozilla Foundation that organises the development of the Firefox Web browser said on Wednesday it has formed a corporate subsidiary, not to make money but to better focus its activities. Mozilla will work mainly on developing and delivering free software products such as the Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail program.
Intel’s second-quarter earnings grew 16% and sales jumped to a record ,23-billion (â,¬7,71-billion) on Tuesday as the world’s largest chip maker continued to profit from the rising popularity of notebook computers and growth in emerging markets.
Microsoft on Wednesday settled a lawsuit that claimed it planned to incorporate a patented networking technology into future versions of the Windows operating system without permission. The agreement grants Microsoft and chipmaker Broadcom access to related patents held by San Jose-based Alacritech for an unspecified fee.
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/ 28 February 2005
Jef Raskin, a computer interface expert who conceived Apple Computer’s groundbreaking Macintosh computer but left the company before it came to market, has died. He was 61. Raskin died on Saturday night at his home in Pacifica, his family said in a statement.
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/ 9 February 2005
Catching up with rival Advanced Micro Devices, Intel said on Tuesday it will ship a desktop PC microprocessor that can handle significantly larger chunks of data than most of today’s chips. The new 600-series Pentium 4s are the first Intel desktop chips that support a technology called 64-bit memory addressability.
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/ 8 February 2005
Setting up a battle for the future of computing, engineers from IBM, Sony and Toshiba unveiled details of a microprocessor they claim has the muscle of a supercomputer and can power everything from video game consoles to business computers.
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/ 13 October 2004
Driven by demand for flash memory chips used in cell phones, Intel’s third-quarter profits rose 15% as the chip-making giant struggled to overcome lacklustre PC sales, growing inventory, product missteps and stiff competition. For the three months ended on September 25, Intel earned ,9-billion, or 30 cents per share, on sales of ,5-billion.
Apple Computer is investigating complaints that its popular iPod mini is prone to static and other sound distortions when playing back music. The diminutive music players sometimes generate the noise when users touch areas around the headphone jack, according to a handful of reports posted at iPodlounge.com and Apple’s own discussion forums.
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/ 2 February 2004
Intel is launching the next generation of its flagship Pentium 4 microprocessor on Monday, adding more memory to the chip and other features that should allow it to reach record speeds of up to 4 gigahertz by the end of the year.