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February 11, 2004 Intel Says Chip Speed Breakthrough Will Alter CyberworldBy JOHN MARKOFF AN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11 — Intel scientists say that they have made silicon chips that can switch light like electricity, blurring the line between computing and communications and presenting a vision of the digital future that will allow computers themselves to span cities or even the entire globe.The invention demonstrates for the first time, Intel researchers said, that ultrahigh-speed fiberoptic equipment can be produced at personal computer industry prices. As the costs of communicating between computers and chips falls, the barrier to building fundamentally new kinds of...

<p>NEW YORK — Secretary of State Colin L. Powell returned to the United Nations yesterday, a year and a day after his Security Council presentation on Iraq's suspected weapons — this time with an unrepentant defense of the intelligence that prompted the United States to oust Saddam Hussein.</p>

Culturecom Takes on Wintel with V-Dragon By Doug Young HONG KONG (Reuters) - Watch out, Wintel -- a new "Draglin" is coming to China. Hong Kong's Culturecom Holdings Ltd. has combined its Chinese-friendly V-Dragon central processing unit (CPU) with the open-source Linux operating system. The plan is to take on the dominant "Wintel" combination of PCs that run on Microsoft Corp's Windows software using Intel Corp CPUs. In its drive to take on Wintel, Culturecom has found powerful allies in IBM Corp, which is making and supporting the new chips, and the Chinese government, which is promoting Linux...

Prescott Arrives : Intel debuts their new Prescott core today by launching 4 new CPUs while also scaling legacy architectures. We benchmark them all. Introduction Intel has been promising their new core for a while now and on this Super Bowl Sunday they finally deliver. Intel teases us with four new Prescott cores, a newly clocked Gallatin core, and the final chapter of the Northwood core. We put the 3.2GHz CPUs head to head to head and of course throw in Athlon64s and an AthlonFX-51 in order to find out who is king of the silicon. Officially, Prescotts in 2.8GHz,...

<p>Hewlett-Packard Co. on Thursday will announce that it earned a record-breaking $2.5 billion Linux-based revenue in fiscal 2003, with its Linux services and solutions business posting a 40 percent rise over fiscal 2002.</p> <p>While the revenue was derived from the sale of Linux-related products and services, the Palo Alto, Calif., company did not specify exactly what was included and counted as Linux-based revenue.</p>

SAN JOSE (AP) -- Intel Corp. posted better-than-expected profits and record revenue in the fourth quarter, a period marked by robust global demand for the company's computer chips in laptop, desktop and business machines. The results offered strong vindication of Intel's decision to continue spending on research and equipment during the darkest months of the technology downturn. However, Intel's stock slid 3 percent after the report. "We ended the year on a high note as ongoing strength in emerging markets coupled with improving demand in established markets drove revenue to record levels," said Craig R. Barrett, Intel's chief executive....

'Intel inside' comes to flat panel TVs 14:05 09 January 04 NewScientist.com news service Computer chip giant Intel is to enter the consumer electronics market for the first time with a chip specifically designed to power cheaper, better flat-panel TV displays. Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini told the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Thursday that his company’s new liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCOS) chips would yield displays priced below $2000 and provide crisper images than rival technologies. These include the digital light processors (DLP) pioneered by Texas Instruments - those displays sell for between $3000 and $6000. Philips, Sony, Mitsubishi and Toshiba...

6 million US jobs to move to India January 05, 2004 12:32 IST India is likely to benefit from the exodus of high tech jobs from North America as over 6 million jobs are expected to shift overseas in a decade. "In the next decade, as many as 6 million jobs might be sent to India and other nations by US companies in search of lower costs and a tech-savvy, English-speaking workforce," Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said in a recent report. India and Outsourcing: Complete Coverage "The shift of North American technology jobs to low wage countries like India cannot...

ON CAPITOL HILL Democrats subvert war intelligence Has politicization of Senate committee threatened national security? It's one of the unsolved political mysteries of 2003: Exactly who drew up the plan for Democrats to abuse the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, or SCCI, as a stealth weapon to undermine and discredit President George W. Bush and the U.S. war effort in Iraq? The plot, authored by aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., vice chairman of the committee, has poisoned the working atmosphere of a crucial legislative panel in a time of war, Senate sources say. It centered on duping the panel's...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1015893/posts Politicized Memo Creates RowWashington Post ^ | November 6, 2003 | Dana PriestThe FACT that certain unknown Democrats are focusing more on taking down the president than intelligence, while we are at war and 2 years after suffering the worst attack on this country's soil, is unacceptable and as Zell Miller said, borders on treason.   http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1015951/posts A Tale of Two Scandals Frontpage ^ | 11/6/03 | Ryan O’Donnell   http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1015092/posts Democrats use national security intelligence for political purpose http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1015862/posts YOO-HOO Ds! (espec. Howard and Susan): How to use MEMOGATE to take your party back. . .    ...

BR>By Franklin Fisher, Stars and StripesEuropean edition, Sunday, December 21, 2003 Franklin Fisher / S&S In a residential driveway in Baghdad, paratroops from the 82nd Airborne Division zip-cuff a suspect during a raid spanning Thursday night and Friday morning. Franklin Fisher / S&S During a large raid in Baghdad, Iraq, paratroops keep watch outside a suspect’s house while fellow soldiers search inside. The house was one of three the Company D soldiers hit early Friday morning. Company D troops did not detain anyone from this house. Overall, the operation netted 14 detainees, coalition officials said. Franklin Fisher / S&S Paratroops...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - During secret visits to Libya, US intelligence officials found a more advanced uranium enrichment program than publicly disclosed but no evidence of actual production of fissile material for nuclear weapons, officials said Saturday. They were given extraordinary access during two-week-long visits in October and December with the help and encouragement of Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Khadafy who met personally with them, senior intelligence officials said. The secret dealings culminated Friday with the stunning annoucement in London and Washington and Tripoli that Libya has agreed to fully disclose and dismantle its programs to build unconventional weapons under...

<p>BAGHDAD (AP) — Saddam Hussein's capture is already reaping dividends for the U.S. military, providing intelligence that allowed U.S. soldiers to capture several top regime figures and uncover rebel cells in the capital, a U.S. general said Monday.</p> <p>The U.S. military hopes Saddam will clear up allegations that he had chemical and biological weapons and a nuclear weapons program, said U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Mark Hertling of the 1st Armored Division.</p>

Bush's Iraq Trip Cements Role As Leader By WILL LESTER, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - President Bush's surprise Thanksgiving trip to Baghdad served as a crash course on the power of presidential incumbency. While Bush tied himself even more closely to the outcome of a war that has dragged on, he reinforced his role as commander in chief before cheering troops — an image his Democratic opponents can't match. The visit to a mess hall at Baghdad International Airport came at the end of an increasingly violent month for U.S. troops in Iraq. An American soldier died Friday when guerrillas...

Sen. Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said Wednesday that he was forced to limit the activities of the Senate Intelligence Committee because he no longer believes Democrat members who sanctioned the partisan misuse of committee resources can be trusted with foreign intelligence secrets. Noting that committee Democrats have yet to identify the author of a controversial memo urging that intelligence data be used as a political weapon against President Bush, Frist told radio host Sean Hannity, "If those people are still in the room handling intelligence given to us by other nations so that they can undermine our Commander-in-Chief, that...

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Ut., said Thursday that Sen. Zell Miller, D-Ga, was right to charge this week that a memo outlining plans by Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats to politicize Iraq war intelligence borders on "treason." But the Utah Republican defended the committee's ranking Democrat, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-WV, saying he shouldn't have to resign as the committee's vice chairman even if he's found have authorized staffers to prepare the bombshell document. Asked about Sen. Miller's comment on Wednesday that the memo was "treason's first cousin" and that "heads should roll" over the episode," Sen. Hatch told radio host Sean Hannity,...

President Bush should stop cooperating with Senate Intelligence Committee probers until the person who authored a memo urging Democrats to use committee resources for corrupt partisan purposes is fired, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said Wednesday. "This is a real crisis of whether or not the Congress can perform honest, non-partisan, intelligence oversight aimed at protecting the nation," Gingrich told radio host Sean Hannity. "I don't see how the White House can cooperate with an intelligence committee which has this level of partisanship," he added. "[What the memo suggests doing] violates every rule that we've had for managing...

Microsoft and IBM Announce Technology Agreement IBM Technology to Power Future Xbox Products and Services REDMOND, Wash. and EAST FISHKILL, N.Y., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced that it has entered into a semiconductor technology agreement with IBM Corp. Under the agreement, Microsoft has licensed leading-edge semiconductor processor technology from IBM for use in future Xbox(R) products and services to be announced at a later date. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20000822/MSFTLOGO ) "Microsoft is already developing the software and services that will drive the Digital Decade," said Robbie Bach, senior vice president of the Home & Entertainment Division...

When techies consider unions By Aliza Earnshaw, The Business Journal of Portland The very notion of a labor union for software developers and other information-technology workers may strike some as paradoxical, or even ridiculous. After all, techies are thought of as well-compensated, highly skilled workers. So the beginnings of a techie labor union here in the Portland area, called ORTech, may come as a surprise to many who work with or are themselves high-tech workers. "THEY [TECHIES] THINK of themselves as highly skilled individuals who are valued for what they are," said Ilya Ratner, a programmer with years of experience...

U.S. corporate technology purchases may not be increasing in a big way, but chipmaker Intel (INTC ) certainly isn't crying. The Santa Clara (Calif.) outfit's investment in new technology, such as wireless gear, during the long earnings downturn is boosting profits big-time. How big? On Oct. 14, Intel reported that profits had more than doubled from a year ago. Third-quarter net income came in at $1.7 billion, or 25 cents a share, vs. $686 million, or 10 cents a share, in the same period of 2002. Revenue for the quarter was $7.8 billion, vs. $6.5 billion a year ago. The...