Sales of high-end,touchscreen PCs running Windows 8 have been running"well above forecast",according to Erik Dithmer,vice president of end user computing at hardware vendor Dell. According to Dithmer,sales of the Windows 8-based Dell ...
Tags: Windows 8 PCs, sell well, Dell, touch-screen capabilities
Wintek Corp., a Taiwanese supplier of touch panels, cooperates with Quanta Computer to fill orders for Win8 products from brand vendors including HP, Dell, and Lenovo for the first time; along with growing design projects with Nokia, ...
Tags: Wintek, Q4 Gross Profit, Win8 Orders
German luxury car maker BMW is planning to produce the 3-cylinder petrol engines at Hams Hall plant near Birmingham in the UK, for its future i8 plug-in hybrid sports car The plan to make the car's petrol engine in the Midlands is part of ...
Vacon is launching the VACON® 100 Flow, an AC drive, optimized for pump and fan applications Global AC drive manufacturer Vacon is launching its new AC drive at stand 1-420 at the electric automation fair SPS IPC Drives 2012 in ...
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Hewlett-Packard said in a letter to the U.S.Securities and Exchange Commission that it had determined that its products were procured from a partner that was not informed that their ultimate destination was Syria. HP was responding to ...
Tape media and drive companies have begun shipping the sixth generation of linear-tape open(LTO)technology,which like previous generation upgrades,significantly increases the capacity and data throughput capabilities for backup and archive ...
IT buyers are moving away from using external networking services,according to new research from Computer Weekly and TechTarget. The survey showed 55.5%of organisations had used outside services for their networking,wide area ...
Computer Weekly has announced the third UKtech50, our annual definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT - the CIOs, industry executives, public servants and business leaders driving the role of technology in the UK economy. ...
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Hardware giant Hewlett-Packard has called in the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) after uncovering what it claims are accounting irregularities at intelligent-search software vendor Autonomy, which it acquired for $11.1bn (£7bn) in August ...
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HP is not the first to have referred Autonomy to the Serious Fraud Office,according to UK IT consultant Alan Pelz-Sharpe(pictured). HP bought Autonomy in 2011 for$11.7bn.But yesterday,HP wrote down the value of Autonomy by$8.8bn,accusing ...
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HP claims to have been wilfully misled by'former'members of Autonomy's management team in the lead up to its acquisition and has now written$8.8bn off of the company's value. The announcement of the write down came in the firm's fourth ...
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Hewlett-Packard is taking an $8.8 billion charge as a result of what it called serious accounting improprieties that occurred at U.K. software company Autonomy before it acquired the firm in 2011. Taking the charge into account, HP ...
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HP has reported almost across-the-board declines in revenue in its fourth-quarter and full-year results,which were capped by claims of accounting irregularities at Autonomy,the intelligent-search software vendor it acquired ...
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Emirates has started rolling out in-flight Windows 8 tablets that enable cabin crew to access core customer relationship management(CRM)and human resources(HR)information to improve customer service. Kevin Griffiths,senior ...
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Japanese consumer electronics firm Panasonic is to axe 8,000 jobs by the end of March 2013 as it continues its restructuring plans. The company has already axed 38,800 staff in a bid to return to profit, and the additional cuts will mean ...
Tags: consumer electronics, Panasonic, Sharp, AMD, job cuts, LCD panels