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IBM on Monday said it had invented technology that could reduce power consumption and speed up performance of processors used in PCs, servers and other devices.

As if "openness" wasn't already the key word of the year for mobile communications, Nokia took the concept a step further Tuesday, announcing plans to create an organization called the Symbian Foundation, which will make the Symbian mobile operating system an open platform, with licenses to be offered royalty-free.

Intel's revenue increase for the fourth quarter fell short of analysts' estimates in part because of weak prices for memory chips.

Emphasizing that more must be done to expand the volume of Linux applications, Novell President/CEO Ron Hovsepian proposed Wednesday that a standardized application certification process be developed among different players in the Linux market.

Another role could soon be added to the many already performed by home gateway devices: identifying video pirates.

China's project to build an open computing platform got a boost Saturday as two European companies added their weight to a January agreement between China's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and France's atomic energy authority, the Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA).

Several vendors of tools for software development announced their support for Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s (AMD) upcoming Opteron and Athlon chips Tuesday.

Intel has produced prototypes of high-density memory chips using an advanced manufacturing process, and will use the technology in faster microprocessors scheduled for introduction in the second half of next year, the company announced Tuesday at the CeBIT trade show in Hanover, Germany.

Red Hat Inc. announced Wednesday that it will soon unveil its Embedded Linux Developer Suite, which will be marketed toward developers who need a standardized open-source platform for faster creation, deployment and testing of target software components for embedded devices.

A group of 24 IT companies are banding together to form the TV Linux Alliance, which will focus on developing a Linux environment for the digital set-top box market. The companies, which come from cable, satellite and telecommunication sectors, are seeking to shorten the time to market, lower development costs and simplify the development of the Linux set-top boxes, the companies said in a statement released at the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA) conference in Chicago.