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HP’s new CEO said he is looking forward to jumping underneath the hood at the computer and printer maker and getting his hands dirty. Mark Hurd, who was named to the post Tuesday, is being characterized as a blue-collar CEO, more interested in rolling up his sleeves to solve problems than appearing in front of […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Intel is rounding out its single-core 64-bit Xeon processor family as it directs future product lines toward a dual-core architecture. The chipmaker announced five new Xeon chips for multi-processor servers under its Truland group of cores and chipsets. “Think Centrino brand for Xeon MP,” Carol Barrett, Intel director for enterprise platforms, said. […]

UPDATED: After a month of searching for a new leader, HP named Mark Hurd as its new president and CEO. Hurd, a veteran of National Cash Register (NCR) replaces the ousted Carly Fiorina. Fiorina was asked to leave in February after the board of directors disagreed with her strategic direction. Hurd will move into the […]

Orb Networks is throwing its current subscription model out the door to become a free streaming service and software provider, the company said Tuesday. Currently, the Emeryville, Calif.-based firm offers two months of trial service free. After that, the service costs $9.99 per month or $79.99 per year, plus a bit more for additional users. […]

Google has inked a deal that will let it buy Urchin Software for an undisclosed sum, the company said Monday. San Diego-based Urchin makes Web analytics software and provides on demand services that let customers track marketing performance. Urchin tools are available as a hosted service, a software product and through large Web hosting providers. […]

HP is preparing to announce a multi-million dollar grant from the U.S. military to help it stay connected, internetnews.com has learned. A source close to the deal said HP Labs will work with scientists at DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) on how best to use TCP/IP technology to improve the reliability of communications and […]

AMD is sharpening its dual-core chips for blade servers in hopes of hacking away at Intel’s majority market share. Ben Williams, vice president of servers and workstations at AMD, said the company may have only 5 percent of the server industry in its pocket now, but that may change once HP, IBM and Sun Microsystems […]

When developers start talking about minding their P’s and Q’s, they might just be referring to scripting languages that are proving their worth next to more established counterparts. PHP , Perl , and Python (the P-Languages) have really come into their own over the last four or five years because of their ability to augment […]

The founders of Palm and Handspring launched a new company Thursday to help unlock the secrets of the brain and apply them to computer science. Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky are spearheading Numenta, along with co-founder Dileep George, a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University, who will now serve as the principal engineer for the company. […]

Two European mobile players are sparring over the licensing rights of some GSM and GPRS technologies. Sweden-based Ericsson and U.K.-based Sendo wasted little time in their respective claims of patent infringement and unfair business practices. Ericsson started the ball rolling Thursday when it filed legal papers accusing Sendo of using its technologies in several countries […]

A next-generation network interconnect technology is gearing up for primetime, thanks in part to one key market, a new report claims. Analysts at IT industry research group In-Stat said adoption rates for AdvancedTCA (Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture) are expected to climb steadily now that the Open Standards Chassis (OSC) market is embracing the specification for […]

Three major IT companies announced new hardware, software and services today to round out their individual and joint enterprise ventures. Executives with Dell, Intel and Oracle discussed their ongoing relationship, this time focusing on upcoming 4-way PowerEdge 6800 and PowerEdge 6850 servers powered by 64-bit Xeon processors that can run massive data center software like […]