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September 10, 2007 (Computerworld) -- Palm Inc., which last month said it was on track to ship its Foleo lightweight PC this summer, instead pulled the plug on the Linux-based system. The Foleo was supposed to work with Palms Treo smart phone.

Intel Corp. released six Xeon 7300 chips, its first quad-core devices designed for servers that have multiple processor slots and run high-end workloads such as virtual systems, databases and ERP applications.

Two years ago: Google Inc. hired Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf as its chief Internet evangelist.

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