In an attempt to check a slide in its market share, Intel said Monday it would deliver a new package of chip technologies later this year to better differentiate its products from those of rival Advanced Micro Devices.

The technologies, dubbed vPro, aim to set Intel-powered PCs apart by introducing a new

Hewlett-Packard Co. on Tuesday said it plans to roll out next month consulting, integration and support services for customers implementing the MySQL open source database.
 
The offerings are part of an agreement with MySQL AB, which distributes and develops the database. Under the deal, HP will provide the services to

A security firm on Tuesday reported discovering a phishing scheme in which the scammers used Internet telephony to copy a bank's automated voice system in order to steal customers' passwords, account numbers and other personal information.

In the attack that occurred last week, con artists sent spam disguised as coming from a

Microsoft has given software pirates a little more to worry about, following the announcement this week that it has begun to widen the scope of its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program to include checks for the authenticity of Microsoft Office software. The company also has made changes to WGA to broaden the reach of

WiMax chipset maker TeleCIS Wireless Inc. is getting ready to ship a chip designed to bring portability to the wireless broadband standard known as fixed WiMax.

The TCW 1620, which supports the 802.16-2004 WiMax standard, runs at under 500 mW, and it is small enough to be used in PC cards or USB

Apple on Monday introduced the 17-inch version of its Intel-powered MacBook Pro. The new laptop computer will start shipping next week for $2,799.

The 17-inch MacBook Pro features a 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo processor. It has a 667MHz front side bus (FSB) and 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM expandable to 2GB.

The new

JasperSoft Corp. on Monday unveiled its open-source business intelligence architecture, and started shipping a new server for building customized reports for any department within a company.
 
The JasperServer is the first component unveiled as part of the architecture, which builds off of the company's reporting software called JasperReports. The product

IBM Corp.’s Microelectronics Group plans to deploy 193-nm immersion lithography in production at the 45-nm node, according to a company official.

And in an apparent move to hedge its bets, IBM will also use its current 193-nm “dry” lithography tools at the 45-nm node as well.

“We will use a

Researchers at Finland's University of Oulu have discovered multiple flaws in the software used for administering the Internet's DNS (domain name system).

Exploiting the vulnerabilities could "cause a variety of outcomes," including crashing the DNS server or possibly enabling attackers to run unauthorized software, according to an advisory that the U.K.'s National Infrastructure

As promised, Microsoft Tuesday released an updated edition of its April 11 MS06-016 security bulletin to eliminate a host of bad behaviors that the original fix caused on systems running older Hewlett-Packard software or NVIDIA graphics drivers.
The 2.0 patch, which is still dubbed MS06-015, will be offered to users only if