IDG News Service-China's largest search engine Baidu said on Monday the company would provide 30GB of free cloud storage to Android devices built with certain Qualcomm chips,in what's the latest move by the company to carve out a presence ...
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Computerworld-Cyber Monday 2012--yesterday--was the biggest online shopping day in history,according to multiple sources. The Adobe Digital Index,which tracks online spending,said that online sales totaled some$1.98 billion Monday,a ...
Computer sellers have scaled back their expectations of the sales pop they'll get from Windows 8 this year,an analyst said today. Brian White,of Topeka Capital Markets,said that his checks of Asian computer manufacturers--the relatively ...
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Dell completed its acquisition of Wyse Technology just last month and is now hiring, and not cutting, employees. Over the next year or so, Dell plans to add more than 200 employees, from engineering to marketing, to the approximately 525 ...
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IDG News Service - Dell has built a prototype server based on a 64-bit ARM processor from Applied Micro Circuits, which showed the system at a conference in Silicon Valley on Thursday. Dell has already said it was testing servers based on ...
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Dell on Thursday said it will offer dedicated servers in its data centers and off-premises application and storage services for companies looking to establish private clouds. Dell's Cloud Dedicated program intends to reduce the stress of ...
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Dell is back in the tablet market after laying low for a few months, announcing the XPS 10 tablet, which has an ARM processor and Microsoft's upcoming Windows RT OS. The XPS 10 is intended for work and play, said Alison Gardner, director ...
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Further expanding from its core mission of providing Linux distributions for desktop computers and servers, Canonical is developing a version of Ubuntu for smartphones. The company plans to market the OS to smartphone handset ...
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IDG News Service - Boston Limited on Monday said it was manufacturing and distributing a low-power server with ARM-based chips, becoming one of the few companies to make such a server commercially available. The Viridis server has the ...
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The path from birth to death is filled with choices about where to work and what kind of work to do. Sometimes the world is nice enough to allow us some input. These days, developers have a lot more say in their employment, thanks to rising ...
Computerworld-NetApp and Cisco this week revealed ExpressPod,a new converged infrastructure for small and medium-sized businesses(SMBs)based on its predecessor,FlexPod. ExpressPod follows two previous iterations of the pre-configured ...
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IDG News Service-Emerging chip technologies that Arm Holdings announced on Wednesday could help to power mobile networks that are being asked to handle more traffic with more fine-tuned controls. The provider of the dominant architecture ...
Computerworld-U.S.officials today struck at six long-running scams,freezing assets of 14 companies charged with bilking consumers by posing as tech support from Microsoft,Symantec and others. In a press conference,the Federal Trade ...
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Network World - Cisco, Brocade, Dell among others have jumped on board and look to ride the wave that is software defined networking. This despite experts' assertions that SDNs threaten Cisco's dominance in the tech industry. As is ...
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Computerworld - General Motors, which is insourcing the majority of its IT work, Friday said it is hiring 500 IT positions in Austin to staff a new "innovation center." The announcement is part of far-reaching GM plan to hire as many as ...
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