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Intel Corporation today provided a planned update to the company's Business Outlook for the second quarter, which ends June 29.Intel expects second-quarter revenue to be between $6.2 billion and $6.5 billion, compared to the previous range of $6.4 billion to $7.0 billion. The lower revenue expectation is primarily due to softer than expected demand in Europe. Microprocessor units are at the low end of the normal seasonal pattern, with a weaker than expected mix. Intel's enterprise, mobile and communications businesses are in line with expectations. The company continues to expect a seasonally stronger second half.The second-quarter gross margin percentage is...

US intelligence has received new reports that Osama Bin Laden recieved a kidney transplant in late February.Defense officials have recieved persistent reports that the Al Qaeda leader has severe kidney problems.The latest reporting, believed to have come from informants, again suggest that Bin Laden recieved treatment with the help of dialysis machines supplied by Pakistan's Intelligence agency.He may have recieved the surgery in Afghanistan or Pakistan.

Just got finished watching the major newscasts at 5:30 the media is blaming Clinton/ DemonRATS! for intelligence failures.I about feel over in my chair when the Canadian on ABC said that the disclosures would be more damaging to the Liberals..other networks including CNN are following.

Sock'it'to'em ScottBy Eva Glass, 08/05/2002 20:18:48 BSTI TOOK A TRIP over to Old Blighty last weekend – my, oh my, that old place really needs a shake up. But on my travels I met someone from Sun Microsystems who tipped me the wink about the "close connection" between it and AMD. He told me, and said that I should keep it quiet, that Sun will definitely use Opterons when the CPUs formerly known as Sledgehammer launch. Better than that – Sun will sell boxes containing multiple Sledgehammers under its own brand name. What are the reasons for this? It's not,...

Three people are charged with a plot to steal secrets from Lucent and sell them to a Chinese telecommunications provider A federal grand jury on Thursday handed up new charges against two former Lucent Technologies scientists and a third man, the alleged mastermind of a plot to steal secrets from Lucent to sell to a Chinese state-owned telecommunications provider, authorities said. Xu Kai, 33, and Lin Hai, 30, former high-level scientists for Lucent, and Cheng Yong-Qing, 37, are set to be arraigned on Monday on an additional 14 counts of possessing trade secrets and nine counts of wire fraud. The...