The name Foxconn has become shorthand for the human costs of building the iPhone in China, linking Apple to bad publicity about worker suicides, deaths from a plant explosion and rioting factory workers. But many other companies besides ...
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Hewlett-Packard's Envy X2 tablet-laptop hybrid will cost from $849.99 when it starts shipping in the U.S on Nov. 14, the company revealed on Wednesday. The Envy X2 is one of several products that use Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system ...
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Along with the long-awaited iPad Mini announcement today,Apple revealed what it called its Fusion Drive,which combines the high performance of NAND flash memory with the storage capacity of a hard disk drive(HDD). The Fusion Drive will be ...
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IDG News Service-Come Oct.26,when Microsoft is set to stage a release party in New York City,consumers may have to choose between a tablet with Windows 8 or Windows RT.The operating systems look and feel the same,but devices will differ on ...
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IDG News Service-Hewlett-Packard and Dell have published compatibility lists of printers and multifunction devices for the upcoming Windows 8 and RT tablet OSes,with a large number of models listed as bring incompatible with Windows RT. ...
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Computerworld-WASHINGTON--There's a new television show,"Revolution,"which looks at what happens to society after every piece of complex technology,including power generation,stops working.The reasons for this outage aren't explained. ...
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Even though an upbeat U.S.government jobs report caused shares of some companies to jump Friday,tech vendor stocks faltered on the back of mixed quarterly reports. Tech vendor financial reports this week painted a portrait of the state of ...
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Hewlett-Packard(HP)CEO Meg Whitman has unveiled a five-year turnaround plan for the troubled enterprise IT company,admitting the turnaround would take longer than expected. Speaking at an analyst briefing,she said:"We have to focus on ...
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Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman says she won't be able to say whether she has completely turned this company around until 2016. That was Whitman's message Tuesday to financial analysts in a presentation that was part history lesson,part ...
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Hewlett-Packard has outlined a turnaround plan that includes slashing the number of PC models it sells by 25 percent over the next two years. At its financial analyst day in San Francisco on Wednesday,HP also painted a weak financial ...
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Some of the tablet makers at a launch event for Intel's "Clover Trail" processor emphasized the business smarts of their products as a way to distinguish them from Apple's market-leading iPad. Dell, Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard, Acer and other ...
General Motors plans to discontinue outsourcing arrangements and pull most of its IT work back in-house -- a move the automaker said will result in the hiring of 10,000 IT professionals worldwide over the next three to five years. As part ...
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IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard on Thursday announced new Pavilion Sleekbooks, which the company is pitching as laptops that are cheaper than ultrabooks but competitive in weight and thickness. The new Pavilion Sleekbooks will come in ...
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Organizations using the Security Content Automation Protocol(SCAP)to manage their SUSE and Red Hat Linux servers can streamline their reporting operations,thanks to an update of the SUSE Manager that now generates metrics and reports in the ...
The forthcoming"Clover Trail"version of Intel's Atom chip will not work with Linux,the company reportedly confirmed on Thursday. Instead,speaking at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco,the company said Clover Trail will be"a ...
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