Foxconn, Apple’s giant Taiwanese manufacturing partner, denies reports that workers at one of its Chinese factories went on strike Friday and says the only disturbances happened earlier in the week but were squelched right away. The ...
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A California court has ordered Oracle to continue support for the Intel Itanium chips used by Hewlett-Packard in a number of its servers. Last year, Oracle announced it would no longer develop its market-leading database server for the ...
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Oracle said yesterday it will continue porting its database and other software to Hewlett-Packard’s Itanium server platform after a California judge ruled that it was obligated to do so. Oracle announced in March 2011 that it would ...
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Intel has said it’s on track to launch the next-generation Itanium processor later this year, brushing away any speculation that the processor would reach its end of life in the near future. The next-generation Itanium chip for Unix ...
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Dell and VMware will sell a bundled system with server, network and storage components in support of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), the companies announced this week. Dell’s new vStart for VDI is based on VMware’s View ...
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Dell mapped out the next phase of its data centre strategy on Thursday with new hardware and software that it says will make it faster and cheaper for customers to deploy new hardware and applications. The new products include the Active ...
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Intel hopes to deliver performance and power-efficiency breakthroughs to servers with the new Xeon Phi family of processors, the first model of which is now shipping to customers, the company said on Monday. Chips in the Xeon Phi range, ...
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Apple retained the top spot in a survey released by the American Consumer Satisfaction Index, which also found that the tablet market is spurring PC makers to improve the quality of their products. The satisfaction rate for computers, ...
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In 1999, Roland Haitz plotted a graph that showed the remarkable exponential progress of LED technology over the previous 30 years. The data he gathered from his employer, Palo Alto, California, headquartered technology giant Hewlett ...
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs)—small colored lights available in any electronics store—are ubiquitous in modern society. They are the indicator lights on our stereos, automobile dashboards, and microwave ovens. Numeric displays on ...
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IDG News Service-Hewlett-Packard will allow enterprises to pay for managed LAN offerings based on usage,in much the same way they pay for cloud services,through a partnership with telecom service providers. HP's FlexNetwork Utility ...
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D2560 is built using the 32nm Saltwell architecture with a Cedarview processor core Chip maker Intel has introduced a new dual core processor, D2560, which is more advanced than the D2550 series launched in the first quarter of this year. ...
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With a promise to restore revenue and growth figures next year, Staples recognised the support its its key suppliers at its 2013 Business Solutions catalogue launch in Sydney last week with the presentation of its annual awards. Staples ...
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IDG News Service-Some of SAP's software products are now certified for use with Oracle's Database Appliance,which is essentially a streamlined version of its Exadata machine aimed at small and medium-size businesses. All SAP products ...
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Intel says the Commission did not have sufficient evidence of any wrongdoing by the company and the case turns on what customers' subjective understanding is. Intel has appealed the judges European Union General Court in Luxembourg to ...
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