While LCD monitor demand is expected to slip overall globally in 2013, demand in China is expected to see growth, according to market observers. The observers expect to see users in China swap out older monitor products and replace them ...
Tags: LCD Monitor, Market Demand
Lenovo is expanding software partnerships as it tries to break into a server market dominated by Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Dell. Its first such partnership expansion, announced Tuesday, is with VMware on virtualization products. Lenovo ...
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Apple is said to be "aggressively" hiring specialists from outside the company to join its wearable "smartwatch" technology project, dubbed the "iWatch". According to the Financial Times, a senior team member had to be persuaded to stick ...
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One of the biggest challenges facing the IT industry is determining how to boost the number of skilled cyber security professionals in order to combat an epidemic of cyber crime. That's according to Jon Ramsey, CTO of Dell SecureWorks, the ...
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Companies buying new PCs to avoid the end of support for Windows XP helped the computer industry dodge an even gloomier quarter, IDC said Thursday. Although the research firm was unable to quantify the impact that migrations had on PC ...
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Weakness in the global economy, component shortages, sluggish demand for Windows 8 and the popularity of tablets all contributed to another double-digit percentage decline for the global PC market in the second quarter. PC shipments in ...
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Prominent shareholder advisory group Institutional Shareholder Services has given a stamp of approval to Dell founder Michael Dell's bid to take the company private. "ISS recommends clients vote for this transaction, which offers a 25.5 ...
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SelecTech, Inc. has recently announced that its signature commercial and industrial static control flooring systems have tested to be the "best in class." In a recent scientific test study conducted by a renowned, independent static ...
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Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), says it has surpassed one billion hours of ...
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Dell's special committee has advised company founder, and prospective new owner, Michael Dell, to raise his acquisition offer following an improved counter-offer by rival Carl Icahn and his associate investors. The independent committee, ...
Billionaire Carl Icahn is approaching investors for$5.2bn in loans to back an alternative bid to buy out ailing PC maker Dell. Icahn,who will become Dell's largest external investor if Southeastern sell him about$1bn of its Dell shares,is ...
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UBM Canon Packaging Group announced the winners of the inaugural Visionary Awards the evening of June 19. The gala event, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, was held in conjunction with the AmeriStar Package Awards and EastPack ...
Tags: Packaging&Printing, Packaging Industry, Visionary Awards
Carl Icahn's bid to disrupt plans to buyout Dell have ramped up, with the billionaire offering to pay $14 a share for a majority stake in the company if shareholders help him in reducing the proposed $24.4bn (£15.6bn) offer for the ...
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Demand for mainframe and high-performance Unix servers is falling, but a new wave of SPARC and IBM Power chips for the servers will be unwrapped at the Hot Chips conference in late August. IBM, Oracle and Fujitsu -- the main suppliers of ...
Tags: Oracle, IBM, Unix Server Processor
You're forgiven if an ad for "the world's most portable desktop" confuses you. But don't be surprised if claims like that pop up more frequently, because computer manufacturers are beginning to make so-called portable desktops, complete ...
Tags: Portable Desktops, Tablets