Intel targets low-price laptops with Celeron chip refresh
Intel has started shipping four new Celeron chips intended for low-priced laptops as it gears up for the back-to-school shopping season. The new dual-core Celeron 877 and 847 chips, based on the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture, are part of the same family of processors that appeared in low-priced laptops in the $200 to $500 range during last year's holiday shopping season. The 877, in particular, will allow vendors to cut prices while boosting performance.
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Judge sides with Hewlett-Packard, rules Oracle must continue porting software to Itanium
A California court on Wednesday ordered Oracle to continue porting its software to the Intel Itanium chips used by Hewlett-Packard in a number of its servers. Last year, Oracle, which competes with HP in the hardware market but shares many customers with the vendor, announced it would cease supporting Itanium.
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Microsoft finishes Windows 8, but concerns remain, say analysts
Microsoft today announced that it's wrapped up Windows 8 and declared that the operating system has met the RTM (release to manufacturing) milestone. "A short while ago we started releasing Windows 8 to PC OEM and manufacturing partners," said Stephen Sinofsky, the president of Microsoft's Windows group, in a blog post Wednesday.
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