LONDON — Spansion, the flash memory venture between AMD and Fujitsu, is planning to collaborate with ‘strategic partners’ to integrate logic blocks into its MirrorBit technology that would form the basis of a new line of products dubbed Logic on Flash.

The first collaboration, announced Tuesday (Nov. 15), is with M-Systems. Future

Microsoft Corp, which built its business by aiming to put a "computer on every desk" is moving into the high-end supercomputing market as hardware becomes more affordable, chairman Bill Gates said on Tuesday.

The world's largest software maker will offer a version of Windows called "Compute Cluster Server 2003" that offers high

Microsoft is considering the possibility of free, advertising supported versions of its applications, including Windows.

An internal research paper prepared for an executive brainstorming session recommends looking into delivering software such as Works, Money, and Windows free of charge, supported by advertising revenues.

However, Michael Gartenberg, research vice president

Forex Capital Markets LLC's deal to take over the foreign exchange business of futures brokerage giant Refco Inc. should help shore up the flagging reputation of the online retail currency industry, FXCM's chief executive officer Drew Niv told Reuters in an interview.
 
Refco on Friday agreed to sell some of

WiMax wireless broadband technology is gaining momentum worldwide with the announcement by Intel that carriers across the globe are deploying, or will soon be rolling out, fixed WiMax networks using the company's technology.
 
The operators are introducing commercial deployments in cities as well as suburban and rural communities, allowing broadband

Network Appliance this week is set to launch a new enterprise Web security appliance, the latest move in the vendor’s massive effort to build security into its entire storage product line.

The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based storage vendor is taking its first steps to add security to its product line with its new NetCache

Cimmetry Systems Corp. said Friday (Nov. 11) that the first service pack for its AutoVue 19 enterprise-wide file viewing software adds support for Catia V5R15 and SolidWorks 2006 computer aided design (CAD) products from, respectively, Dassault Systemes SA and its subsidiary SolidWorks Corp.

The service pack is available immediately for AutoVue customers

Backing up critical data is so crucial that companies that don’t do it regularly probably won’t be in business for very long. Companies that do perform regular backups can either do it in time-consuming, roundabout ways or use a backup device that makes the job as easy as possible.

With its unique

Supercomputer experts from all over the world will descend on Seattle beginning this weekend to learn the latest about high performance computing at Supercomputing 2005 (SC/05) The keynote will be delivered Tuesday by Microsoft Chairmen and chief Software Architect Bill Gates.

SC/05 attracts attendees primarily from universities and government research labs, but

Microsoft this week made available an updated beta release of its Windows Workflow Foundation technology. The beta version is built to work with the general release of the Visual Studio 2005 toolset, which was unveiled Monday.
 
The new beta also will function with a beta release of the Office 12