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A San Francisco appeals court has unanimously rejected a petition filed by Napster Inc. in which the controversial music distribution company sought a reexamination of an injunction handed down against it earlier this year.

Hitachi Data Systems Corp. furthered its relationship Monday with Network Storage Solutions Inc. (NSS), tapping the small storage vendor as a reseller of Hitachi's Freedom Storage line of products.

Revenue from worldwide server sales dropped four per cent during the first quarter of 2001, paving the way for a possible price war that could be a boon to end users, according to market figures due out Wednesday from research company International Data Corp. (IDC).

Dell Computer Corp. became the latest major computer hardware vendor to announce a shift in its server strategy towards an architecture built around server blades late last month.

Gordon Moore, one of Silicon Valley's most influential and respected people, officially resigned from the board of Intel Corp. last Thursday.

Pro-technology groups are trying to convince women that a career in tech can be chic.

Sales of smart cards soared in 2000, suggesting that users are taking to the computing devices that can be used to store data and transfer information between devices such as mobile phones, according to a study issued Monday.

Intel Corp. will have its Itanium coming out party on May 29 with a number of vendors launching servers and workstations, according to various industry sources.