Gillian Law

Intel Corp. announced yesterday the launch of its Intel 845 chip set for Pentium 4 processor-based PCs.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating suggestions that Sun Microsystems Inc., Rambus Inc. and Unocal Corp. illegally kept patents secret to gain a jump on competitors, USA Today reported Monday.

Why use your own computer when you can make use of other people's? Researchers at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana have demonstrated "parasitic" computing -- using other people's servers to do your own processing, they said in an article in this week's Nature magazine.

Why use your own computer when you can make use of other people's? Researchers at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana have demonstrated "parasitic" computing -- using other people's servers to do your own processing, they said in an article in this week's Nature magazine.

The much-lauded Irish "Celtic tiger" economy is likely to see slower growth due to the downturn in the global IT sector and should adjust its budgets accordingly, said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in an annual report.