Hewlett-Packard on Monday said it has created a business unit that will deal in purpose-built systems based on specific applications and usage models, and also announced the reorganisation of its server unit. The HP Converged Systems ...
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Hewlett-Packard on Friday started shipping its US$169.99 Slate 7 tablet with Android 4.1, which signals the company's reentry into the consumer tablet market after the TouchPad imploded in 2011. The tablet became available first in the ...
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Investors Silverton Partners and Sevin Rosen Funds have sold their stakes in Javelin Semiconductor Inc of Austin, TX, USA, which was one of the first firms to develop 3G wireless communications power amplifiers (PAs) based on ...
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Hewlett-Packard in the next few days will ship the $169 Slate 7, the company's first product for the consumer tablet market since the spectacular failure of the WebOS-based TouchPad in 2011. Buyers will be able to order Slate 7 by the end ...
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Intel has announced that the Thunderbolt and USB SuperSpeed specifications will soon double data transfer speeds, opening up peripheral pipes to greater throughput. But what Intel hasn't hyped much is the fact that the upgrade to the USB ...
IBM's reported interest in selling parts of its x86 server business to Lenovo may bring major changes to the global market. IBM is the third-largest seller of x86 servers by factory revenue, with 15.7% of the global market in 2012, ...
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Even though PC shipments were down 14% last quarter, Microsoft's Windows division yesterday posted revenue about the same as the last year, making up for slumping sales to OEMs with impressive growth in long-term licensing agreements sold ...
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Dell remains committed to Microsoft's Windows RT, despite the poor market reception to the OS and a decline in prices of related tablets. The company has "future generations" of its XPS 10 tablet, which runs Windows RT, under development, ...
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Dell remains committed to Microsoft's Windows RT, despite the poor market reception to the OS and a decline in prices of related tablets. The company has "future generations" of its XPS 10 tablet, which runs Windows RT, under development, ...
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The low-power capabilities of ARM-based processors have created high expectations for their use in servers, but one of Dell's top engineers said they are unlikely to take off until 64-bit versions hit the market. "I don't think you'll see ...
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Applied Micro Circuits is aiming to make its 64-bit chip for ARM servers more powerful and flexible through a collaboration with specialized chip maker Altera. Applied Micro on Monday said it would combine its 64-bit X-Gene chips with ...
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The low-power capabilities of ARM-based processors have created high expectations for their use in servers, but one of Dell's top engineers said they are unlikely to take off until 64-bit versions hit the market. "I don't think you'll see ...
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Asian acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene producers Thursday said a sharp drop in ABS demand in China in the first quarter of 2013 could be linked to a record decline in worldwide sales of personal computers as reported by the US-based research ...
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A "perfect storm" of struggling PC companies, aversion to Windows 8 and wider mobile-device adoption plunged the already struggling PC market into a free fall during the first quarter this year, IDC said. Worldwide PC shipments in the ...
Oracle's sales force isn't usually seen as the easiest to work with, with customers bombarded by multiple account representatives from different product areas. But changes are in store, according to Oracle co-President Mark Hurd, who ...
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