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| SMIC raised Q2 earnings |
7/30/2004 |
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Chinese foundry SMIC reported net income of $34.2 million on sales revenue of $221 million in the second quarter, the company said Friday.
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| Microsoft demostrates new search tool |
7/30/2004 |
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Microsoft Corp. demonstrated for the first time a search engine that looks for information on computer hard drives as well as information on the Web, a move to challenge the Internet-search leader, Google.
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| Intel to delay 4G P4 shipment till 1st quarter |
7/30/2004 |
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Intel Corp. said it will miss its year-end target for delivering 4G Pentium 4 for desktop computers. The company now expects to ship the high-speed chip in the first quarter, spokeswoman Laura Anderson said.
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| Intel chief asked employees to do it right |
7/29/2004 |
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Intel Corp. Chief Executive Craig Barrett has called on employees to focus on "actions and attitudes" to halt a string of product delays and manufacturing problems.
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| Online ad spending continue to jump |
7/29/2004 |
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Money spent on online advertising is expected to surpass that spent on magazines in three years, a market research firm said Wednesday
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| TSMC to boost capex amid good quarter |
7/29/2004 |
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TSMC announced record sales for the second quarter and said it expects to raise 2004 capital expenditure to US$2.4 billion from US$2 billion.
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| EDS net profit jumps |
7/29/2004 |
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EDS tripled its net income in the April-June period from a year ago by selling a software business and killing a money-draining contract, the company said.
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| Terra to sell Lycos, take the loss |
7/28/2004 |
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Spanish Internet service provider Terra Lycos plans to sell Lycos for between $95 million and $115 million, the company said Wednesday.
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| Sony net profit surges |
7/28/2004 |
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Sony Corp reported a more than 20-fold jump in net profit for the April-June quarter thanks to gains from subsidiaries including much improved Sony Ericsson.
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| AMD to introduce chip for low-end PCs |
7/28/2004 |
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AMD sets to introduce a new brand for chips used in inexpensive personal computers, in a move to gain market share from arch-rival Intel Corp.
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| Samsung to cut 4mx16 SDRAM to $2 |
7/27/2004 |
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Samsung Electronics plans to cut 64Mbit (4Mbitx16) SDRAM prices to US$2 per unit in August as it tries to reduce its inventories, according to a new source familiar with the matter.
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| Jacket with MP3 player |
7/27/2004 |
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A new jacket from Rosner GmbH & Co., a German clothing firm, incorporates a 128-megabyte MP3 player that is controlled through cloth buttons on the left sleeve. Headphones are built into the collar.
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| New virus hit search engines |
7/27/2004 |
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A new computer virus hit Google, Yahoo and other leading search engines as it tried to spread itself by repeatedly performing automated queries for additional e-mail addresses.
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| IBM to build supercomputer for government |
7/27/2004 |
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IBM has been selected to build a supercomputer for the U.S. Department of Defense that would be used by the military for war simulation, weather forecasting and other applications, the company said.
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| Google set price for IPO |
7/26/2004 |
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Google said Monday it hoped to raise as much as $2 billion in its long-anticipated initial public offering by selling about 14.1 million shares at an estimated price of between $108 and $135 per share.
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| Hynix delivers record profit in Q2 |
7/26/2004 |
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Hynix Semiconductor Inc. reported a net income of 620 billion won (about US$530 million) on 1,698 billion won (about US$1.46 billion) in its second quarter, the company said.
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| T-Mobile to sell HP handheld phone |
7/26/2004 |
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T-Mobile USA will use HP first-ever handheld computer that also works as a cell phone and can tap into the Internet using high-speed wireless hotspots, the companies said.
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