Following its buy-out of solid-state storage maker Texas Memory Systems (TMS) last autumn, IBM today said it plans to make a $1 billion investment in flash development, a new line of all-flash appliances, and announced a flash deal with ...
Tags: IBM, Flash-Based R&D
To concentrate more on software-defined data centres, hybrid clouds and end-user computing, VMware has sold the Protect product family to LANDesk. As part of its efforts to focus on those areas, VMware came to the conclusion that asset ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Salesforce.com is giving customers and partners access to a new set of tools and services for building mobile applications on its cloud platform. Like most enterprise software vendors, Salesforce.com is trying to cater to a world where ...
Tags: APP, Computer Products, Mobile
Toyota Australia last month recorded its second highest monthly export figures for the 2012/13 financial year. A total of 7,383 Camry, Camry Hybrid and Aurion vehicles were exported during the month of March. Of these about 97 per ...
The Citroen DS Wild Rubis has been revealed ahead of its Shanghai motor show public debut next week, previewing "the vision of a future DS SUV". Designed as a full plug-in hybrid SUV, the Citroen DS Wild Rubis measures 4.7 metres long, ...
Tags: SUV, Auto Parts, Transportation
SAP has spent the past year wooing entrepreneurs around the world in hopes they'll be entranced enough by its much-hyped HANA in-memory database to build products and even entire companies around the technology. On Friday, SAP brought the ...
Tags: SAP, commercial product
A one-off luxury supercar called the Icona Vulcano will be unveiled at this month’s Shanghai auto show. Designed by Shanghai-based company Icona – created in 2010 – the two-door, two-seat Icona Vulcano is powered by ...
Tags: Icona Vulcano, Hybrid Supercar
Luxury plug-in hybrid carmaker Fisker Automotive looks set to file for bankruptcy protection in the US as soon as this week, according to latest reports. Under pressure from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to re-pay nearly US$200 ...
The Toyota Camry Hybrid has overtaken the Toyota Prius in local sales, as Toyota’s in-house battle of the hybrids ticks over 50,000 units. Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has sold its 50,000th hybrid car in Australia – split ...
Tags: Toyota, Camry, Local Sales
You don't have to cram into a compact car to get good gas mileage. In fact, three popular midsized sedans we've recently tested get the same or better mileage than any non-hybrid, non-diesel small car. Despite attractive sticker prices, ...
Tags: Small Cars, Fuel Economy
Northern Marin County gets a new purveyor of bikes—and beer, too, if all goes according to plan—as Bicycle Brüstop prepares to open April 27 as a Giant partner store. Husband-and-wife owners Aaron and Carolyn Thompson are ...
Tags: bikes, Giant Store Brewing, Marin County
ODVA has launched an "initiative for process automation" in cooperation with major suppliers to the process industry, including Cisco Systems, Endress+Hauser, Rockwell Automation and Schneider Electric to further accelerate adoption of ...
Japanese Car manufacturer Daihatsu Motor has introduced its new hybrid passenger vehicle, MEBIUS, in the home-market. The vehicle is powered by a 1.8L hybrid engine that generates an output of 73kW and torque of 142Nm at 4,000rpm, ...
After more than 400 miles of driving the new Acura RLX, I can think of little good to say about it. Being neither luxurious nor sporty, the RLX fails to excite. And that's putting it mildly. The brand-new RLX—Acura's flagship sedan ...
Tags: First Drive, Bland Acura RLX
Broadband Technology 2000 has signed a rep and distribution deal with US start-up GreenVITY, which develops powerline comms (PLC) to Zigbee and Zigbee to PLC bridge ICs. The chips conform to the HomePlug Green PHY specification supporting ...
Tags: Broadband Technology, chips