IDG News Service - Michael Dell has teamed up with investment firm Silver Lake to buy computer maker Dell, the company he founded as a 19-year-old in 1984, in a deal valued at about $24.4 billion. After the transaction closes, Michael ...
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A court has rejected Oracle's appeal of a judge's ruling in the lawsuit Hewlett-Packard brought over Oracle's decision to stop porting its software to HP's Itanium server platform. In August, a California superior court judge ruled that ...
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Hewlett-Packard researchers are developing a cloud-based "avatar" to manage all of a user's mobile devices and wireless networks. Their idea is to give individual users an identity that transcends the many smartphones, tablets and other ...
Hewlett-Packard plans to use its recently announced SDN controller to distribute its TippingPoint intrusion prevention system across networks, overcoming the scale limitations of dedicated appliances. The research project, called ...
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Lenovo's profit for its fiscal third quarter grew by 34% over last year, as the company also reported that its smartphone business in China had become profitable for the first time. For the quarter ended Dec. 31, Lenovo's net profit ...
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The scale of global semiconductor sales in 2012 down 3% compared with 2011, to 297.6 billion dollars. Among them South Korea's Samsung Electronics purchases increased 28.9% year-on-year, reached 23.9 billion dollars to be the global sales ...
According to Japanese media reports, the most authoritative global IT research and advisory firm Gartner consulting firm (gartner) released a 2012 Global electronics manufacturers, semiconductor accessories demand survey report on January ...
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Even as mobile computing has become a top priority to executives, businesses lack internal leadership for mobile efforts, and the IT vendors they rely on, such as IBM and Oracle, aren't delivering on the mobile app front either, a newly ...
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Cisco Systems' sale of its home networking business to Belkin International marks the end of a 10-year odyssey through the world of consumer products, but the company plans to keep reaching consumers through their carriers and cable ...
Acer is trying to adapt to the slowdown in the PC market by shutting down its eMachines unit and refocusing Gateway and Packard Bell to offer new products that are "beyond the PC." Earlier this week, Acer took charges to the tune of ...
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Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs threatened Palm with a patent lawsuit if it did not enter into an agreement in which the companies pledged not to hire employees from each other, unsealed court documents show. Jobs threatened Palm with ...
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A Washington, D.C.-based law firm, Mehri & Skalet PLLC, says it is "investigating" a potential class action suit against Columbus, Ohio-based Safelite AutoGlass, alleging that the company, in its role as a third-party administrator (TPA), ...
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Late Apple chief Steve Jobs threatened to slap Palm with patent lawsuits to prevent the tech rival from hiring away its talent, according to court documents available on Wednesday. Unsealed copies of an email exchanged between Jobs and ...
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has begun installing millions of sensors on just about anything that costs more than $50. The technology will be used to track medical equipment, supplies, specimens and implants -- and ...
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Facebook has proposed a new model for designing servers that it says will give businesses more choice in selecting components and a smarter way to upgrade systems when needs change, though it remains to be seen how widely its method will be ...
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