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EMC to acquire Archer Technologies
EMC said that it plans to acquire GRC (governance, risk and compliance) vendor Archer Technologies for an undisclosed sum. The transaction is...
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Intel gets ready to launch 32nm Westmere chips
Intel Corp. is making a big leap later this week, moving from a 45-nanometer manufacturing process to 32nm with three new chips....
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Lenovo makes space for AMD chips on ThinkPad laptops
Lenovo is looking beyond long-term partner Intel and beginning to offer budget ThinkPad laptops based on Advanced Micro Devices’ processors, the company...
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Windows market share slide resumes
Microsoft’s Windows resumed its usual losing form last month as the operating system’s usage share dropped by about a third of a...
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Dell enters converged networking market
Dell entered the Fibre Channel over Ethernet market recently, with OEM deals from Brocade and QLogic and endorsed 10Gigabit Ethernet as a...
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Apple wins appeal of iPod hearing loss case
A federal appeals court upheld a lower court ruling that said Apple’s iPod music players do not pose an unacceptable risk to...
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Avaya credit rating dropped to junk status in wake of Nortel buy
Avaya is now the undisputedly largest unified communications vendor, but its purchase of Nortel’s enterprise business has dropped the company’s investment rating...
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Hackers find a home in Amazon’s EC2 cloud
Security researchers have spotted the Zeus botnet running an unauthorized command and control center on Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing infrastructure. This marks...
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Google: My 10 Resolutions for 2010
As 2009 becomes 2010, Google remains the most interesting technology company. Google is involved in so many–probably too many–things and the regulatory...
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iolo technologies? products now available throughout the Middle East
iolo technologies, LLC, recently crowned the fastest-growing company in the U.S. by the American Business Awards, announced that its entire line-up of...
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Mac sales to set another record, says analyst
Apple will report selling another record number of Macs in the final quarter of 2009 when it unveils its financial figures later...
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The future of open source
There’s no question that the open source community is a passionate one — and one with significant influence on technology directions and...
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If Windows is a dead end, what’s next?
The writing is on the wall. Despite a major push to sell the much-maligned Windows Vista, customers aren’t buying. Nearly two years...
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Forecast 2010: 6 hottest skills for 2010
Pent-up demand for new projects. Veteran employees leaving the company. Who could complain about such pressures in the waning months of 2009,...
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Google patent ties interactive gaming to Youtube
A patent application filed in February and released to the public this week reveals Google’s attempt to build games on top of...