Tom Krazit

Unisys Corp. added two new lines to its ES7000 server series Tuesday, the Orion and the Aries, which run Intel Corp.'s new 64-bit Itanium 2 processor. The company will try to dent the Unix-controlled high-end server market and convince companies to consolidate their server rooms with the new machines.

Unisys Corp. added two new lines to its ES7000 server series Tuesday, the Orion and the Aries, which run Intel Corp.'s new 64-bit Itanium 2 processor.

IDC has revamped its portrait of the worldwide PC market in 2001, saying it underestimated the number of PCs shipped by so-called "white box" manufacturers, which are smaller PC makers that operate mostly in a local market.

IBM Corp. announced more layoffs Tuesday, this time in its microelectronics unit, which manufactures and distributes memory, storage networking and PowerPC chips.

Hewlett-Packard will release the Compaq Evo Tablet PC by the end of 2002, and the device will be powered by a 1GHz Crusoe chip from Transmeta Corp., the two companies announced.

StarOffice 6.0 will be available worldwide on May 21 as a low-cost alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Office, Sun Microsystems Inc. announced Wednesday.

A free version of Sun Microsystems Inc.'s StarOffice business productivity suite is now available for download from OpenOffice.org, an open-source developer community sponsored by Sun.

Developers in North America are gearing up for Web services and battening down the security hatches, according to the results of a survey released by Evans Data Corp. on Wednesday.