IDG News Service - ARM showed strong growth in an otherwise weak semiconductor market, with robust demand for smartphone and tablet processors driving profit and revenue growth in the second quarter, the company said on Wednesday. The ...
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Monday, Microsoft unwrapped the next edition of its Office money maker at a press event and simultaneously launched a public preview for users to try out now. CEO Steve Ballmer touted the new software as "the most ambitious release of ...
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Prices are dropping on tablets running Android 4.1 OS, with Indian company Karbonn Mobiles announcing a tablet priced at around $125 and using Google's latest OS, code-named Jelly Bean. The Smart Tab 1 tablet is the second with Android ...
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IDG News Service - An American and a Frenchman have won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on quantum optics, which could one day lead to faster computer processors, better telecommunications or more accurate timepieces. ...
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Computerworld - Clustered storage vendor Scale Computing today upgraded its scale-out storage cluster to include compute resources dedicated to applications and a hypervisor component that allows storage and memory to be easily managed and ...
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Computerworld - Fred Abounader, a performance systems engineer at chip maker AMD, recently deployed a 6TB all-NAND flash storage array into a virtual server test environment. The result, he said, was astounding. In AMD's virtualization ...
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IDG News Service - A Russian startup company called Elbrus Technologies is developing a technology that will allow data center owners to migrate software designed for x86 platforms to ARM-powered servers without the need to recompile it. ...
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IDG News Service - MIPS, continuing its push to make a mark in low-cost tablets, is quickly trying to bring Android 4.1, also called Jellybean, to its processors. "We are working aggressively on bringing Jelly Bean to MIPS, and expect ...
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The Thunderbolt interconnect technology could take a while to reach smartphones and tablets because of power consumption issues that need to be resolved, Intel executives said on Wednesday. Intel would like to bring Thunderbolt to ...
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c-owned Motorola Mobility launched its first smartphone with an Atom processor from Intel, the companies announced at an event in London on Tuesday. The Razr i smartphone from Motorola. The Razr i is the first smartphone with a ...
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IDG News Service - New Windows RT tablets announced at the IFA trade show in Berlin have intensified competition among ARM-based chip makers, which are adding unique capabilities to processors so tablets become more attractive to buyers ...
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EMC is showing heavy interest in boosting its share of the data center market by moving from storage and related services to servers. Over the past two years, EMC has announced a number of partnerships and products that slipped its toe ...
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Resource developers, especially in the rare earths space, are suffering from the market's obsession with immediate results, says Byron King, writer and editor for Agora Financial's Outstanding Investmentsand Energy & Scarcity Investor ...
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Taiwan's MediaTek, a designer of mobile processors, plans to help bring Twitter to lower-end feature phones, by pre-installing the social media service on to the company's chipsets. The two companies announced the new partnership on ...
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IDG News Service - Oracle did the right thing this week when it pledged to resume porting its software to Hewlett-Packard's Itanium-based servers, but it should never have pulled that support from a critical platform as it did in March ...
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