Software

Acorp to withdraw from motherboard market.

Second-tier motherboard makers Acorp Electronics will withdraw from the motherboard market and instead migrate into the production of networking devices such as ADSL2+ modems, the company said after a provisional shareholders meeting on Thursday, March 10.

Dell's Monumental Snafu Renders UK Vostro Laptops Useless.

Sun counts on AMD's Opteron to grow workstation business.

Santa Clara (CA) - Sun today launched three new workstation models: There are two AMD Opteron models, which, the company hopes, will increase its target market. The third new workstation is based on the Sparc processor and isn"t expected to reach many new customers: Instead, Sun believes the Ultra 45 will keep its existing 64-bit crowd happy.

Microsoft targets earlier ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX ship date.

ASP.NET developers won"t have to wait until next year to use Microsoft"s AJAX server controls and client-side JavaScript library if things go according to plan. Microsoft"s target ship date for its AJAX technology is now around the end of 2006, according to Scott Guthrie, general manager, Microsoft Developer Division, who says in his blog that customers have been asking for a "fully supported" version of the technology.

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