Hewlett-Packard says sales in the emerging markets of Brazil, China, India, and Russia have led to triple-digit revenue growth for its Itanium processor-based Integrity line of servers in those countries.

Rich Marcello, executive VP and general manager of HP's business-critical servers business, says recent efforts in those countries have led to 17

Mozilla Corp. on Wednesday launched the first set of Firefox video commercials created by diehard fans of the open-source Web browser.
 
Part of the Firefox Flicks marketing campaign, the ads can be viewed online or downloaded for sharing with others. Links are also provided for embedding in Web pages or

Google has launched a beta version of a Web-based calendar service that allows users not only to input and track events, but also to coordinate schedules with others and create automatic event alerts. The free online tool offers several other features, including invitation creation, Gmail integration, and, of course, high-powered search capabilities.
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Orb Networks, whose free player software allows users to watch their televison and recorded media on a remote PC, said Thursday that it will now interact with TiVo personal video recorders.
 
Orb's DVR Everywhere software will allow Series 2 TiVo owners to connect their boxes to the PC, allowing video

Silver-zinc battery developer Zinc Matrix Power Inc. has received a $7 million investment to establish and staff a pilot production facility in Camarillo, Calif.

The round is being funded by existing investors. Investors include a large private equity group, Intel Capital, and OnPoint Technologies.

Zinc Matrix Power (Camarillo) will use

AMD easily exceeded Wall Street expectations for its first quarter earnings as company executives touted continued strong sales in server and mobile CPUs.

AMD reported earnings for the period ended March 26 of $184.5 million, or 38 cents a share, compared to a loss of $17.4 million, or 4 cents a share,

Novatel Wireless announced Monday that it has delivered samples of EV-DO and HSDPA 3G external PCI ExpressCards/34 to laptop manufacturers and major carriers.

Novatel said the EV-DO Express cards will support speeds up to 2.4 Mbps while HSDPA cards will support speeds up to 3.6 Mbps.

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Linux vendor Red Hat is poised to purchase middleware specialist JBoss in a move that will combine two of the top open-source technology brands and put Red Hat in a position to create a comprehensive enterprise software package.
 
JBoss sells standards-based middleware that serves as a building block for service-oriented

Attacks launched over instant messaging and file sharing networks are up dramatically over last year, a security firm said Monday, and exploits are becoming ever more sophisticated.

In the first quarter of 2006, malicious software attacks across instant messaging (IM), chat, and peer-to-peer (P2P) were up more than 700 percent over the

North Korea unveiled a new economic blueprint this week that sets the impoverished Stalinist state the target of becoming a high-technology powerhouse within two decades.
 
Military spending remains the biggest budget item and a top priority for North Korea, one of the world's poorest countries that fields the fifth biggest