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Business Week, 3/17/03: Laptop Makers Don't Want This Intel Inside
The new Centrino comes with a disappointing wireless chip
Ten years ago this month, Intel Corp. (INTC ) unveiled its first Pentium processor. On Mar. 12, accompanied by an all-out international marketing campaign, the chipmaker will take the wraps off its next great hope: Centrino. It combines a powerful new Pentium processor and chipset with a Web-surfing wireless chip. Today, PC makers buy those components separately, but Intel claims they work better as one package and use less power -- a crucial combination for the next generation of notebooks. Indeed, Intel is betting that Centrino will further seal its dominance of the market for PC chips as more individuals and corporations shun desktops in favor of laptops. Proclaims Intel President Paul S. Otellini: "This is the biggest thing since Pentium."
Too bad PC makers don't agree. Dell Computer Corp. (DELL ), Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ ), and other top manufacturers are eager to harness the extra power and efficiency of the new Pentium, but they are underwhelmed by Intel's wireless technology, which they say transmits data more slowly than those of rivals such as Broadcom.
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Computerworld, 3/6/03: Gartner warns against buying uncertified Wi-Fi devices
By Paul Roberts, IDG News Service
Research firm Gartner Inc. is warning companies to delay investing in 802.11g wireless LAN technology until products can be properly certified by the nonprofit Wi-Fi Alliance.
Jumping on the 802.11g bandwagon may result in interoperability problems with other 802.11g devices as well as older 802.11b WLAN technology, Gartner said.
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TechWeb, 3/6/03: Sprint Gives Away Wireless Card To New Customers
Sprint rolled out a new promotion Thursday for laptop and PDA users, and said it would give away a PCS Wireless Card to every customer who signs a two-year contract for the new $99.99 unlimited PCS Vision Plan for laptops and PDAs.
The Novatel cards, which work with any laptop and PDA that has a Type II PCMCIA slot, are free only to customers who sign a two-year service agreement. Customers penning a one-year deal, however, can purchase the Novatel, and other, wireless access cards, at a discount.
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Microsoft
ZDNet, 3/6/03: Microsoft promises end to 'DLL hell'
By Matt Loney
Windows Server 2003 will bring an end to one of the biggest headaches for Windows users and administrators, according to Microsoft. The problem, which relates to Dynamic Link Libraries--software modules that can be shared by several different applications--has become an increasing headache over the years.
Problems typically occur when an application is installed that uses an updated version of a Dynamic Link Library--or DLL--that is already used by another application. If the original application cannot work with the updated DLL, then the user gets an error message; Windows and Windows applications have no notion of DLL version numbers, and so the problem can be difficult to track down.
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Messaging
Infoworld, 3/7/03: Messaging looks to the long term
Web services, IM, and other technologies are altering the map of long-term enterprise messaging strategy
By Cathleen Moore March 07, 2003
Long deemed essential to the enterprise, messaging platforms are poised for a significant makeover as evidenced by the maturation and confluence of technologies in today’s enterprise messaging space.
No longer confined to the e-mail inbox alone, companies are looking for messaging platforms that offer connections to more data sources because previous methods of connectivity -- oftentimes a rudimentary cut and paste -- are no longer good enough.
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PC Industry
IDG News Service, 3/6/03: CIO survey: Dell winning PC enterprise market share
Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News ServiceLatin America Bureau
Dell Computer Corp. continues to increase its share of companies' PC spending "hand over fist," according to a survey of chief information officers (CIOs) from the U.S. and Europe conducted by the research department of investment bank Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.
Of the 100 respondents, 78 said Dell is winning share of their companies' PC spending, which makes Dell "the runaway winner" over Hewlett-Packard Co., which is winning share from the companies of 44 respondents and IBM Corp., which got the nod from the companies of 42 respondents, according to Merrill Lynch, which released the survey results in a report Tuesday.
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