HP is preparing to release security and virtualisation improvements to its Unix operating system and says it's now fulfilling a long-promised Itanium performance advantage.

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will continue to fund petaflop-class supercomputer projects at Cray and IBM, but Sun Microsystems is out of the running.

Microsoft has insisted it did not slash its software prices to encourage Birmingham City Council to abort its Linux project.

Taiwanese electronics company First International Computer (FIC) hopes to replicate the open nature of the PC in mobile phones with the debut of a smart phone running an open Linux-based mobile software platform developed by one of its product managers.

Mandriva, the global editor of Linux distributions, announced yesterday that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Linbox FAS

Microsoft issued a "critical" security fix for Windows yesterday, two weeks before its scheduled release date.

Quad-core processors are only the beginning of what a revitalized Intel has to offer, the company's top executives said on Sept. 26.

A start-up called Simply RISC has built a single-core variant of Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc T1, an indication of interest in Sun's plan to encourage others to adopt and modify open-source designs for the processor.

Release includes virtualisation technology based on the open source Xen project, despite Red Hat executives' disparaging comments about Xen

Microsoft has not yet issued a patch for the vulnerability, which affects Microsoft Word 2000 and could lead to remote execution of code