Archives for October, 2009

Are you mulling new ways of refreshing desktop and laptop estates?


57 per cent say ‘Yes we are!’
Workshop  In this week’s poll we asked if people were rethinking their desktop strategies, and what options they were considering. So what is really happening – is anyone actually considering refreshing their desktop and laptop estates? Well when we asked you “Have you been given pause for thought about [...]

Intel opens cloud fluffing school


Dude, we know Google
Intel has opened its very own cloud-fluffing school.…

Cray has ups and downs in Q3


Gears up for 2010 XT5 upgrades – and profits
High-end parallel supercomputer maker Cray, which has been trying for the past year to round out its business by peddling entry-level HPC gear, is still not quite making it up in volume. But some big deals and system upgrades, as well as an expanding custom engineering business [...]

Intel aims 30W Nehalem at ‘microservers’


Two-core ‘Clarksdale’
Intel will soon offer a two-core ‘Clarksdale’ processor rated at a mere 30W, aiming to slip this low-power chip into the super-svelte “microservers” it first trumpeted at its developer forum last month.…

Juniper spruces up products, burnishes identity


New hardware, software, and cloudy vision
Juniper Networks is launching a fleet of new software, hardware, and partnerships today under a major retooling of the company’s brand identity.…

Internet pops champagne on (second) 40th birthday


Lo and behold: It all began with a memory overflow…
Today, the Internet celebrates its second 40th birthday.…

Sony recalls defective power bricks


Shocking admission
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a recall for tens of thousands of power adapters for Sony VAIO desktops.…

Sun aims for sky, shoots self in foot


Targets not acquired
As European regulators drag their feet on approving Oracle’s $7.4bn acquisition of Sun Microsystems, the securities laws for public companies back home in the States compel Sun to still do its paperwork. Sun has dutifully sent out the proxy notices to shareholders telling them to mark their calendars for the annual shareholder meeting, [...]

Sony recalls 69,000 AC adaptors


Electric shock risk
Sony has asked more than 69,000 owners of some of its all-in-one desktop Vaio PCs to return the machines’ AC adaptors in order to avoid the risk of electric shock.…

Compellent pulls off a strong quarter


Boringly booming business as usual
Compellent has shown steady growth again, recording $32.2m revenues in its third 2009 period in a 31 per cent rise on the previous quarter.…

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