IBM has started to roll out a new processor for its Power family of servers, a project that will start with higher-end systems and eventually reach the midrange and low-end boxes. The new Power7+ chip has a higher clock speed than its ...
ARM on Tuesday introduced its first 64-bit Cortex-A50 series processor designs as the company tries to preserve its dominance in smartphones and tablets while catching up with Intel in servers. The new ARM processors, Cortex-A57 and ...
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Intel on Tuesday said its revenue and profit dropped during the third quarter of fiscal 2012 compared to the same period a year earlier, and blamed a tough economy for poor sales of its products. The company's profit was $2.97 billion for ...
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Hewlett-Packard has added four new all-in-one PCs with Windows 8 to its portfolio, including the HP SpectreONE, which lets users control Microsoft's new OS with a wireless trackpad instead of touching the screen directly. HP's upcoming ...
Lenovo yesterday said it plans to acquire Stoneware, a small U.S. based company specialising in cloud products for schools and governments, as part of the PC maker’s strategy to bolster its cloud computing offerings. While Lenovo ...
Lenovo on Wednesday announced the ThinkPad Tablet 2, which has a 10.1-inch screen and kicks off a new generation of the company's PCs and devices with Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 operating system. The tablet will weigh less than 600 ...
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Apple may finally be feeling the PC sales slump in the U.S., research firm IDC said Thursday. According to IDC, Apple sold fewer Macs in the U.S. during the second quarter than it did in the same period a year earlier. If the research ...
First-time surprise entrant Wipro tops the list of rankings in the 18th edition of the Greenpeace “Guide to Greener Electronics,” with Apple dropping two spots to sixth compared to last year’s study. The guide, released ...
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Samsung’s recent licensing of 64-bit processor designs from ARM suggests that the chip maker may expand from smartphones and tablets into the server market, analysts said this week. Samsung last week licensed ARM’s first ...
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Hewlett-Packard released two beta versions of its open source webOS on Friday: one for developers that runs on the Ubuntu Linux desktop, and one for the "OpenEmbedded" development environment, intended to help developers port webOS to new ...
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Hewlett-Packard's lawsuit against Oracle over the latter's decision to halt future software development for Itanium will enter its second phase on Feb. 4, 2013, in front of a jury that will determine whether Oracle breached a contract and ...
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Unless Hewlett-Packard gets its act together quickly, Lenovo will soon become the world's number one PC maker. If that happens, it's going to create a moment of national angst. Headlines would declare: Chinese firm becomes world's top ...
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At $199, Google's Nexus 7 may seem like a tempting tablet, but some potential buyers and analysts say that it lacks hardware features and is a feeble attempt to energize the Android OS in a market dominated by Apple. Google on Wednesday ...
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For the first time in a generation, PCs in the second quarter of the year didn't account for the majority of DRAM sales, yet another sign that the industry is moving into a post-PC era, according to data from IHS iSuppli. PCs in the ...
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A former executive at Taiwanese LCD marker AU Optronics has been convicted of participating in a worldwide conspiracy to fix the prices of LCD panels,the U.S.Department of Justice said. Shiu Lung Leung,AU Optronics'former senior manager ...
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