The new millennium was the year Microsoft was ordered to bifurcate, dot-coms tanked on Wall Street, WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers saw his merger mania capped and Napster scared the recording industry nearly to death. 2000 was a cascading waterfall of events that ended any doubts about the Net's ability to change the way we think, learn, play and do business.
Hewlett-Packard is recalling almost 16,000 notebook batteries worldwide after reports of the devices overheating and burning, according to a report released on Thursday by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Microsoft last week launched a hostile US$44.6bn takeover bid to buy Web giant Yahoo. If the deal goes ahead it will be the latest in a line of multibillion-dollar mergers and acquisitions the tech sector has witnessed in recent years.
Compaq Computer warned its first-quarter earnings would fall short of expectations amid a personal computer price war and a softening US economy, and said it will axe about 5,000 jobs, or 7 percent of its work force to cut costs by up to US$600 million.
ZDNet Australia reviews 2001's hottest IT stories. 2001 was the year of the virus, the year of Linux, and the year the music industry began to seriously lose control of its intellectual property, as audio file swapping proliferated across the Net.
HP believes that retaining executive talent is what will make the Compaq merger succeed. But history shows that heroes with lofty resumes aren't always enough to turn things around.
With less than a week remaining before the HP shareholder vote on the proposed acquisition of Compaq, CEO Carly Fiorina is making an all-out effort to persuade fence sitters to support the deal.
A third of today's top 10 manufacturers could exit the PC business by 2007, according to a new report.
Big Blue's plan to sell its PC unit to China's Lenovo Group (formerly known as Legend) would be the latest example of a move toward consolidation as the market reaches maturity.
The wonderchip that wasn't serves as a lesson about how complex development plans can go awry in a fast-moving industry.
Compaq's latest contender for a slice of your company's notebook PC budget is a slimline sub-3kg system that looks good, performs well and comes with an attractive price tag.
Australian computer vendors can expect poor sales for the second quarter of 2001, according to forecasts outlined in a report on the PC market's performance, released by IT industry analysts International Data Corporation (IDC).
Infiniband, the new storage/server interconnect, has been snubbed by Intel and Microsoft -- but that's no reason to count it out.
Ultra thin and still ultra fast. For this review we received eight notebooks in total. We also ended up receiving a few notebooks that scraped under 2.5kg which was our limit.
Intel will celebrate the Fourth of July with the launch of faster Pentium 4 chips, but don't expect fireworks or a major bump in lagging Pentium 4 sales. The chipmaker will release 1.8GHz and 1.6GHz Pentium 4 processors in early July, sources said.
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