A, RoHS directives contained in the scope of electrical and electronic equipment: 1. Large household appliances Large refrigeration equipment, refrigerators, freezers, other large food refrigeration, preservation and storage of ...
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January 27, 2003, the European Parliament and the European Council adopted Directive 2002/95/EC, that is, "in Electrical and Electronic Equipment Restrictions on the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances Directive" (The Restriction of the use ...
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Following through on a policy change announced in 2012, IBM has started restricting availability of hardware patches to paying customers, spurring at least one advocacy group to accuse the company of anticompetitive practices. IBM "is ...
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Oracle's database and high-performance workloads will run faster with the company's latest SPARC M6 chip, which has been tuned specially for the company's applications. The latest SPARC processor has 12 processor cores, effectively ...
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A recent series of cloud briefings sought to address the technology, legal and change management aspects of cloud. They prompted some thought-provoking discussions around the longevity and value of cloud computing. With so much noise ...
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until 2030, the IT industry is among those that must plan how its workforce will be impacted when these employees eventually retire.? While the tech industry emphasizes the new, legacy system skills are still valued since some companies ...
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LOOKING for a safe password? You can give HQbgbiZVu9AWcqoSZmChwgtMYTrM7HE3ObVWGepMeOsJf4iHMyNXMT1BrySA4d7 a try. Good luck memorising it. Sixty-three random alpha-numeric characters - in this case, generated by an online password ...
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All that new data flowing into enterprises can bring along an expensive partner: multiple copies. For better or worse, many types of data are copied multiple times for multiple purposes, including backup, archiving and development work, ...
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Nearly three dozen computer scientists have signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle’s effort to copyright its Java APIs, a move they say would hold back the computer industry and deny affordable technology to end users. The ...
Server sales fell by five per cent in the first quarter of 2013, with IBM, HP, Fujitsu and, especially, Oracle hard hit. Only Dell among the top five server makers increased sales and market share. Market leader IBM claimed a 25.5 per ...
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IBM is looking for ways to bring mobile and social workloads onto mainframes as a way of keeping the expensive machines competitive in today's changing IT landscape. This isn't the first time the company has tried to find new uses for ...
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According to research firm Gartner, Big Data is currently still a solution looking for a problem, despite it being forecast to drive $34 billion of IT spending in 2013 and create 4.4 million IT jobs by 2015. While businesses are keen to ...
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The head of IBM's mainframe group is looking to bring mobile and social workloads into the platform in another move that would help the mainframe stay relevant and fend off competition from lower-cost systems. The mainframe has confounded ...
Making the most of a sluggish world economy, IBM managed to increase its net income by 5 percent in 2012, even though revenue shrank by 2 percent. IBM reported revenue of US$104.5 billion for fiscal 2012, down from $106.9 billion in 2011. ...
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IBM reported on Tuesday that it managed to increase its net income by 5% in 2012, despite a sluggish world economy and a 2% decline in revenue. IBM reported revenue of $104.5 billion for 2012, which was down from $106.9 billion in 2011. ...
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