(Reuters) - The marketing wheels at Microsoft Corp. are grinding into motion as the software giant gears up to launch its Xbox video game console, which it envisions not only as a gaming machine but an entertainment hub for the home. With less than a month to go before the Nov. 15 debut of Microsoft's big foray into the $20 billion-a-year global video game market, the company is marshaling everything from Mexican food to 18-wheel trucks to preach the Xbox gospel, executives said on Friday. The first advertisements are just now starting to appear in gaming magazines, marking the beach-head of a half-billion-dollar campaign to sell the Xbox over the next year and a half. Soon, ads on youth-oriented television stations like MTV and WB will start beaming the message to legions of potential buyers, mostly the 15-to-25-year-old males Microsoft sees as its key audience.
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(Reuters - International Business Machines Corp. has launched a faster version of its mainframe computers, whose sales have helped it buck a downward trend in technology spending. The upgrade to the mainframe, called the e-server z900, nearly doubles the speed of secure transactions for large corporations, such as top retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. This is the first upgrade that IBM, which is by far the dominant maker of mainframes, has made to its newest machines, introduced one year ago. Mainframes, large computers that handle billions of pieces of data, have made a comeback at IBM. On Tuesday, the company said while personal computer sales.
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Weekly CPU Prices: If you're about to buy a P4, put that credit card away and step away from the keyboard! I know you're sick of hearing me tell you to wait for the expected P4 price cuts... Lord knows I'm sick of repeating it, week after week. But do you really want to pay $553 for a 2GHz P4 now, just to watch it drop in price inside of two weeks? So hold on just a bit longer and wait for those rumored cuts to come in.
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(Press Release) Adaptec, Inc.has introduced an affordable, low-profile PCI RAID card aimed at the growing high-density server market. The single-channel card is the newest member of Adaptec's growing family of small form factor RAID solutions that includes two recently announced zero channel products. The Adaptec SCSI RAID 2110S is the follow-on product to the Adaptec 2100S. The single-channel card's low-profile MD2 design enables it to fit into more system enclosures than cards of standard height. It features a true 64-bit/66MHz PCI architecture and a newer microprocessor with hardware XOR. The card is priced at $499 MSRP. Like all Adaptec microprocessor-based RAID products, the Adaptec 2110S ships with Adaptec's intuitive Storage Manager Pro software.
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(Press Release) ATI Technologies Inc.announced today that its MOBILITY RADEON graphics processor is now shipping in Apple's latest Titanium PowerBook G4 notebook line. Ideal for mobile creative professionals, Apple's new PowerBook G4 features the MOBILITY RADEON graphics processor with 16 MB DDR (double data rate) SDRAM (synchronous dynamic random access memory) and other leading-edge components, including a PowerPC G4 processor with Velocity Engine (a 128-bit vector processing unit) operating at up to 667 MHz (megahertz). The PowerBook G4 also features a DVD-ROM (digital versatile disc read-only memory) optical drive, up to five hours of battery life and a 15.2-inch TFT XGA (thin-film transistor extended graphics array) display housed in a one inch-thick, 5.3 pound titanium enclosure.
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