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Intel’s 2010 Clarkdale Desktop CPUs: What to Expect
Clarkdale to Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad (and the North Bridge): Hasta la Vista, baby. Intel’s latest processor iteration has...
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Cisco’s Chambers demonstrates home TelePresence
Cisco Systems Chairman and CEO John Chambers demonstrated how the company’s TelePresence videoconferencing technology could be developed into a consumer product, showing...
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Microsoft joins SVG working group
Microsoft, which has been criticized for its lack of support of the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) specification in its Internet Explorer (IE)...
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Y2K all over again in 2010?
A decade after the Y2K crisis, date changes still pose technology problems, making some security software upgrades difficult and locking millions of...
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Microsoft dumps upgrade pricing for Office 2010
Microsoft disclosed retail prices for Office 2010, and said it has no plans to offer "upgrade" editions — the discounted versions for...
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WD releases its fastest external hard drive
Western Digital Corp. (WD) introduced its fastest My Book external hard drive, which uses the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface that’s up to...
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Symantec product hits end-of-decade snafu
Symantec is warning that its Endpoint Protection Manager server product is erroneously marking signature updates issued this year as out of date....
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Google offers to help run a ‘white spaces’ database
Google is soliciting the U.S. Federal Communications Commission for the company to be an administrator of a database that would allow devices...
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Open-source BI going mainstream, Gartner says
Adoption of open-source business intelligence software is doubling every year because the products are viewed as "good enough" for routine applications, according...
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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...