June 6, 2005

Apple Abandons IBM, Will Use Intel Chips Washington Post - By Mike Musgrove. Apple Computer Inc. said yesterday that it will stop using processors built by IBM in favor of Intel chips, which could help the company cut prices and offer more products but undercut Apple's reputation for going against the grain of the rest of the computer industry. Intel has been so associated with Apple's arch-enemy Microsoft, whose Windows operating system runs mostly on computers with Intel-equipped computers, that the term "Wintel" was coined as shorthand for such computers. 10:13:45 PM

Report: Scientists Successfully Test Ebola, Marburg Vaccines on Monkeys Voice of America - Ebola virus Researchers in the United States and Canada report they have successfully tested a vaccine against the Ebola and Marburg viruses, two of the world's deadliest infectious diseases. The news comes as health officials in Angola battle a Marburg outbreak that has killed nearly 350 people this year. In a study published in the current issue of the journal Nature Medicine, scientists report that they have successfully tested two new vaccines on macaque monkeys.  10:12:25 PM

Microsoft aims at the BlackBerry market Guardian Unlimited - Microsoft is muscling into the wireless email market that until now has been dominated by the maker of the BlackBerry, Canadian firm Research In Motion. Microsoft yesterday said it would give away free software upgrades to enable corporate users of its systems easy access to their email on mobile phones. RIM shares, listed in Toronto, fell more than 2% to C$98.05 in midday trade. The upgrade, what Microsoft calls "direct push technology", will bounce emails to a users' mobile phone as soon as the messages arrive on a company's server. Until now, they had to dial up the server to access any mail. 10:08:14 PM