(ZD NET) Compaq Computer has delayed the shipment of the Pocket PC 2002 upgrade for its iPaq handhelds. The company had planned to ship the upgrade CDs last week to iPaq owners who had requested them but has delayed shipment until the first week in November, Compaq spokeswoman Nora Hahn said. Pocket PC 2002 is the updated version of Microsoft's operating system for handheld computers. A Microsoft representative said the software has already been delivered to Houston-based Compaq. The upgrade is free to consumers who purchase an iPaq between Sept. 6 and Nov. 30. After that, the upgrade will cost $29.95.
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(C|Net) People rushing out to buy Windows XP may be surprised by the hefty package of downloads already available for updating the brand-new operating system. Depending on the version of XP people will be assailed with 20MB or more in downloads. Some fix security holes, others resolve glitches and a few add new features.
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(Reuters) - Reflecting a continuing price war between Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. have planned to cut prices on its microprocessors, industry sources said. Intel typically cuts prices on a few or several its microprocessors on a Sunday and publishes the magnitude of those reductions on Monday as it announces new chips. But this time, the sources said, it will announce just the price cuts. Intel's Pentium 4 chips running at 2.2 gigahertz will ship late in the fourth quarter and be announced in January.
AMD will follow suit by trimming prices on its Athlon chips, sources said. Intel has lost market share through the first half of this year, dipping to below 78 percent. But because of the fierce price war undertaken by Intel against AMD, in the third quarter Intel regained 0.8 points of market share to 77.5 percent. ''It certainly has had a dramatic impact on the profitability of both companies and it hasn't really stopped AMD's gains in market share,'' Insight 64 analyst Nathan Brookwood said of the price war. ``By and large, AMD has been selling virtually everything it can make, it just hasn't been selling it at the prices it would like.''
Intel's fastest chip available right now, the 2.0 gigahertz Pentium 4 costs $562 in lots of 1,000 and will come down about 30 percent to $400 or so, the industry sources said. The 1.9 gigahertz Pentium 4 will also come down in price. Certain Pentium III chips will also be cut, as Intel works to phase out that processor. Intel said that in the third quarter, shipments of the Pentium 4 topped those of the Pentium III for the first time.
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(C|Net) Consumers used to have to buy a computer to get a free Palm device or a digital camera, but the freebie bar has just been lowered with the release of Windows XP. Staples, Circuit City, Office Max and other retailers are offering a cavalcade of freebies for a limited time to customers who buy the home or business edition of. In some instances, the value of the goodies outstrips the cost of the software.
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