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Peoplesoft to buy JD Edwards for 1.7 B in stock |
6/2/2003 |
Peoplesoft, a leading provider of application software, will exchange 0.86 share of its stock for each share of J.D. Edwards. Based on Friday's closing prices, that represents a premium of about 19 percent for J.D. Edwards shareholders.
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April chip sales flat but up 10% from last year |
6/2/2003 |
Worldwide semiconductor sales rose 10% year-over-year in April but stayed flat from March, according to Semiconductor Industry Association . April chip sales totaled $12.1 billion, up from $11.1 billion in April 2002 but virtually unchanged from March.
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New lower cost consumer storage drive |
6/2/2003 |
A new lower cost storage drive will make its debut on retail shelves this summer, appearing in $200 MP3 players or less than $150 thumb drive capable of holding 25 hours of music.
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Intel Centrino crashes Microsoft XP |
5/30/2003 |
Intel's new mobile and wireless Centrino chip architecture can experience a "blue screen" crash in Windows XP when running widely distributed virtual private network security software f
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Arrow to cut 400 jobs |
5/29/2003 |
Arrow Electronics announced that will eliminate 400 jobs, or about 3 percent of the company's global work force.
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Altis Semi to produce MRAM for IBM |
5/29/2003 |
Altis Semiconductor, a joint venture wafer fabrication facility owned by IBM and Infineon Technologies, has been given the job of turning MRAM technology into a commercial product
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AMD cut Athlon XP price |
5/28/2003 |
AMD cut prices on its mainstream Athlon XP processor to compete head-on with Intel's Celeron.
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Phoenix launch software to disable stolen PC |
5/27/2003 |
Phoenix Technologies and Softex have team up to offer software called TheftGuard, which is designed to automatically disable any stolen PC connected to the Internet.
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Online retail sale up 26% |
5/27/2003 |
Online retail sales rose 25.9 percent during the first quarter of 2003, according to a new report from the Department of Commerce
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Philips closes UK CRT factories |
5/27/2003 |
LG.Philips Displays has announced it would close several of its UK facilities for manufacturing CRT tubes and materials.
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