Cray on Friday agreed to acquire server maker Appro International for US$25 million in cash as it looks to strengthen its high-performance computing product portfolio. Cray will integrate Appro's operations into a new Cluster ...
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Hewlett-Packard (HP) has advised consumer customers not to downgrade new PCs equipped with Windows 8 to the earlier Windows 7. In a message on its support website, HP said that consumer-grade desktop and notebook systems shipped after ...
Tuesday's election leaves President Barack Obama in the White House and maintains the balance of power in Congress.In many longstanding technology debates,policy experts see little movement forward,although lawmakers may look for ...
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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 64-bit Cortex-A57 ...
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IDG News Service-Hewlett-Packard is incorporating three different components,previously available separately,into its HP Unified Functional Testing(UFT)automated testing application so developers can test all aspects of a multi-tiered ...
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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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Looking beyond PCs and tablets,Lenovo on Monday announced the first server from the newly formed Enterprise Product Group,which deals in servers,storage,networking and software. The ThinkServer TD330 is a tower server based on Intel's ...
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IDG News Service - There's been a lot of talk from about 64-bit ARM servers, but without software the fledgling platform won't get very far. Several big vendors made announcements this week that show software support is on its way. Red ...
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IDG News Service-Notices will be sent out to developers of up to 100 mobile apps that are not compliant with California privacy law,starting with those who have the most popular apps available on mobile platforms,the office of the state's ...
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IDG News Service-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 ...
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Computerworld-The apps for Microsoft's new Windows operating systems are good enough to entice early buyers of tablets and other touch devices,analysts said Sunday. But the jury remains out on Microsoft's long-term chances of winning its ...
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IDG News Service-In a bid to help large businesses create and manage snapshots of application data across sprawling enterprise environments,CommVault is releasing the snapshot component of its Simpana suite as a standalone product. The ...
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Computerworld-There will be a sea change in the non-volatile memory(NVM)market over the next five years,with more dense and reliable technologies challenging dominant NAND flash memory now used in solid-state drives(SSD)and embedded in ...
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IDG News Service-When it comes to analyzing big data,software packages such as Hadoop or the R statistical language come readily to mind.But at least one company,AppNexus,also relies on the Python programming language to help conduct ...
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Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman took to the stage at Gartner's Symposium/ITexpo here Wednesday looking to convince customers that HP is on solid footing. She emphasized the tech pioneer's commitment to research and development, security ...
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