A US-based sustainable manufacturing consortium, the International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI), is partnering with its member, Purdue University, and Tuskegee University on an international effort to replace conventional ...
ARM has had a boost from Facebook by being added to Facebook's Open Compute Project.This means that Facebook and other server customers will buy servers from companies which use both x86 processors and ARM processors. The Open Compute ...
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How Dell will fare in private hands – if a buyout is indeed imminent – depends entirely on how the company’s management will react to the declining revenues from its PC business, and how it will develop other areas of its ...
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Shaun Jackson, a former bike industry designer who co-founded the Eclipse company in the 1970s, died Tuesday after being injured in a small plane crash here on Saturday. The private plane's pilot was killed immediately after ...
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With buyout talks gaining steam, analysts say Dell Inc. could be looking to free itself from quarterly distractions and shareholder pressures - a move they said could be good for the world's No. 3 PC maker. "I can see where it would look ...
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Following news that Dell was in negotiations for a private equity buyout, analysts said on Tuesday that multiple private equity firms would have to invest in Dell for a buyout to be possible. The analysts pointed toward the company’s ...
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In its battle for the top spot in the rocky PC industry, Hewlett-Packard has edged out rival Lenovo to take back its leadership position. Last October, HP, which had long held the No. 1 position in the worldwide PC market, suddenly had a ...
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Banking on the trend toward cloud computing, Hewlett-Packard has created a stand-alone organization to oversee the company's hosted computing services and software offerings. Saar Gillai will oversee the new unit. Gillai, whose title is ...
Tablets and smartphones are more popular than ever, but PCs will continue to dominate how we use the internet and work. That's according to a new report by analysts at Deloitte, which examines the top technology trends for 2013. The ...
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Dell, the world's third-biggest PC vendor, is in talks that could see it taken over by private equity, according to reports. However, discussions with TPG Capital and Silver Lake are currently at a preliminary stage and financing has ...
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Dell may be sold to private equity, reports Bloomberg, with the computer company said to be talking to two private equity companies - Texas Pacific Group and Silver Lake. The reports surfaced after Dell's corporate strategy boss left to ...
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Saar Gillai HP has created a new unit to oversee the company’s cloud services and software products, in apparent recognition of the trend toward cloud computing. The new unit, called the HP Converged Cloud unit, will be headed by ...
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Shortages of touch-enabled Windows notebooks led to a steeper-than-expected decline in PC sales last quarter, an analyst said. According to IDC, global PC shipments in 2012's fourth quarter fell 6.4% compared to the same period in 2011, a ...
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Despite a major push by rival Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard has held onto its position as the top seller of PCs worldwide, according to IDC. The researcher Thursday reported that HP maintained its worldwide PC lead in the fourth quarter despite ...
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PCs were upstaged by tablets, smartphones and TVs at this year's International CES show, with some companies maintaining a smaller presence or holding back product announcements for a later date. There were fewer product announcements ...
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