IDG News Service-British chip designer Imagination Technologies plans to acquire the operating business of processor maker MIPS Technologies,as well as some of its patents,in an effort to strengthen its position on smartphones.At the same ...
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Facebook has been carrying out trials with local businesses, exchanging free Wi-Fi for check-ins on the social network. The project is called Social Wi-Fi and sees Facebook offer a small number of firms routers and free Wi-Fi if they ...
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The name Foxconn has become shorthand for the human costs of building the iPhone in China, linking Apple to bad publicity about worker suicides, deaths from a plant explosion and rioting factory workers. But many other companies besides ...
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Reseller and cloud service provider, Mason IT has managed to avoid the use of costly storage area network (SAN) architecture, after deploying Nutanix for the cloud. Mason IT, which partners with Cisco, VMware, Juniper, Huawei and now ...
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Three storage suppliers used VMworld Europe 2012 to launch converged storage stacks. Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) launched 11 Unified Computing Platform stacks, NetApp added SME-targeted ExpressPods to its existing FlexPod converged stack ...
Industrial Ethernet switches and other devices produced by industrial networking equipment manufacturer RuggedCom contain a vulnerability that could be exploited to compromise SSL-based communications between them and their users,according ...
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O2 will build out its free Wi-Fi network using networking technology from Cisco. Access to O2 Wi-Fi will be free for all customers, regardless of which provider they use. The roll-out of the network has already begun. During the Olympics, ...
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But executive chairman Jerry Rawls thinks that communications firms will have to begin adding to their network capacities before long. Datacom versus telecom:Finisar's last eight quarters Finisar,the top-ranked supplier of optical ...
Computer giant HP has chalked up a $8.9bn HP has chalked up a $8.9bn (£5.6bn) loss(£5.6bn) loss in it is latest quarterly results due to write-downs on its poorly timed $13.9bn (£8.75bn) purchase of services company EDS. ...
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Guest writer Andy Gardner,design manager for mixed signal products at Linear Technology says that for designers of networking equipment increasing system functionality adds Asics and processors,each requiring several voltage rails,resulting ...
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Networking equipment company Brocade Communications Systems said late Monday that a jury in California had found competitor A10 Networks responsible for intellectual property infringement and unfair competition,awarding the company a$112 ...
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Huawei must focus on its enterprise business if it is going to continue to grow its revenues in coming years. This was the conclusion of a report released today by analyst Forrester, which claimed Huawei needed to expand its enterprise ...
Oracle is planning to discuss how its Exalogic application server machine is"the logical choice"for running applications,during a special webcast event on Wednesday. Exalogic was introduced by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison as"one ...
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Google has reported a 10%increase in net income in the second quarter of 2012,reaching$2.79bn,compared to$2.51bn in the same period last year. Revenue from the UK was$1.18bn,representing 11%of Google sales.Total revenue was$12.21bn,up ...
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China's Huawei Technologies wants to take a bigger bite out of the enterprise market with a wider range of storage products, months after the company completed an acquisition of its joint venture with U.S. firm Symantec. Huawei is best ...
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