A year after a flooding disaster in Thailand took out a large portion of hard disk drive production, the industry has fully recovered with shipments to the computer market expected to hit a record level this year. According to market ...
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AkzoNobel of Amsterdam,The Netherlands is to boost capacity at one of its US sites in order to meet increasing demand from the semiconductor industry,particularly for the production of light-emitting diodes. The investment-at its ...
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Microsoft is taking a"big gamble"with its new Windows 8,one that will see the operating system peak at just 20%to 25%of corporate PCs,Gartner analysts said today. "Microsoft is taking a big gamble over the next few months with Windows and ...
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Henry Tyndale School, which caters for pupils with special educational needs (SEN), has rolled out touchscreen devices for its 120 students. The school has implemented a range of Dell technology, including multi-touchscreens, laptops and ...
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Someday, we'll look back at the office furniture we used at the turn of the century and it will seem, well, like furniture we used at the turn of the century — old, obsolete, sepia-toned, and kind of funny. "Can you believe it?" ...
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The race to manufacture the most power-efficient and fastest chips is gaining momentum, with contract chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries on Thursday announcing technology advances that analysts said could allow the company to catch ...
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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 ...
Tags: Sleekbooks, Cheaper, Ultrabook Alternatives
Dell has launched a range of devices running Windows 8, including a 10-inch tablet, which it claims will fit "easily into current IT environments." The company said the new range of Windows 8 devices could solve issues with the ...
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Security experts believe passwords offer little or no protection from unauthorised access to corporate IT systems and online accounts, and now Intel is working on an alternative. An increasing number of data breaches are being blamed on ...
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Microsoft has found several PCs,manufactured in China,to have had malware installed by cyber criminals. Microsoft's digital crimes unit stumbled across the malicious software during an investigation into Chinese manufacturers in August ...
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Intel on Thursday demonstrated multi-gigabit wireless docking technology that affords speeds of up to 7Gbps, 10 times the rate of the fastest Wi-Fi networks based on the IEEE 802.11n standard. At its annual Intel Developers Forum, the ...
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The wireless standard dubbed WiGig is set to launch in products in 2013, enabling users to connect all mobile and desktop devices without wires. The Wireless Gigabit Alliance formed in 2009 to create the WiGig standard, which will run ...
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Mobile device management (MDM) is not about security, according to Eric Green, senior vice-president of business development at security firm Mobile Active Defense Partners. "There is no security in MDM; its ability to secure a device is ...
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IDG News Service-The U.S.Department of Justice is recommending that AU Optronics,a Taiwanese maker of LCD panels,pay a US$1 billion fine,and two former executives serve 10 years in prison,for the company's participation in a long-term ...
Tags: DOJ, AU Optronics, LCD price fixing, highest fine
The man responsible for Intel's mobile computing platforms says he is pushing the company's engineers to squeeze Intel's next-generation Haswell chip into laptops even thinner than those available today. Delivering the opening speech of ...