DELL INC, the world’s largest personal-computer maker, said second-quarter net income rose 29% as it bolstered sales of servers and printers and expanded outside the US.

New York: Intel Corp this week may demonstrate its first chip that can run both personal computers and the most- powerful server machines, in a bid to stem customer defections to Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

MYDOOM, the latest worm to infect computers over the internet, has become the fastest-spreading attack since last summer’s twin attacks by the Blaster worm and SoBig virus, computer security experts said yesterday.

EMC CORP, the world's third-largest maker of data-storage computers, had a fourth-quarter profit of $220.1 million as acquisitions helped boost sales 25%.

The Dow Jones industrial average reached its highest level since mid-2002 today as investors greeted strong earnings from General Electric Co and Juniper Networks Inc.

Investors on Wall Street left stocks little changed today with blue chips slightly higher and tech stocks nudging the Nasdaq composite index lower.

A bad jobs report today halted Wall Street’s 2004 rally, sending stocks sharply lower as investors cashed in profits from the market’s recent advance.

SHARES of Hewlett-Packard Co, the world’s second-biggest computer maker, fell as much as 12% after the company said it missed analysts’ third-quarter sales and profit estimates and cut personal computer prices too much.

Gateway Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co will require employees not directly involved with customer activities to take five or more days off later this month in a bid to cut costs, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing company spokespeople.

International Business Machines Corp said Electronic Data Systems Corp's problems are specific to EDS itself, a company spokeswoman said.