11:00 18.08.2006
AP - Dell Inc.'s announcement that it will expand its use of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. microprocessors is another win for the smaller chip maker against larger rival Intel Corp.
AP - When Yale football coach Jack Siedlecki goes on a national recruiting trip, he hears the same questions over and over from parents.
AP - The video games site GameDaily is now part of AOL. Time Warner Inc.'s Internet unit said Wednesday it bought the consumer Web site and its industry newsletter earlier this month from Gigex Inc. AOL said it plans to turn GameDaily into its flagship brand for video games.
AP - I hope Dell computer owners like classical music, because they'll hear a lot of it when they're on hold to order replacement batteries for their notebooks.
Reuters - A joint venture of rival satellite television providers DirecTV Group Inc. and EchoStar Communications Corp. bowed out on Wednesday of a billion-dollar auction of U.S. licenses for advanced wireless services.
Reuters - Business software maker BEA Systems Inc. on Wednesday said net income for its second quarter was flat with the year ago, but earnings excluding certain items rose 49 percent.
Macworld.com - Apple continues to look into what the company describes as “irregularities” in issuing stock options. But don’t expect the ongoing investigation—or an upcoming hearing before the NASDAQ Listing Qualifications Panel—to have much of an impact on any upcoming product releases the company may be planning.
InfoWorld - Raising its profile in the SOA space, JBoss is readying upgrades to its jBPM (Java Business Process Management) software to support the 1.1 and 2.0 versions of BPEL (Business Process Execution Language). The open source software vendor also released a beta version of its ESB (enterprise service) bus this week.
PC Magazine - Brocade, Cisco Systems and Pillar Data Systems have joined Oracle in its validated Linux configurations program, set up to cover the entire stack of components its customers might encounter when installing the open-source operating system.
The Motley Fool - Just two weeks after announcing more market share gains in servers, Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD - News) is sticking it to Intel again. This time, it's a new version of the highly successful Opteron server processor that captured Dell's (Nasdaq: DELL - News) heart in May.
Macworld.com - MacSoft has posted a Universal binary release Halo. If you bought Halo before Apple started shipping Intel-based Macs, it’ll cost you $5 to download a new disc image from Macgamestore.com. What’s more, MacSoft is selling new discs directly for $9.95.
