Year: 2009
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Intel Bails on Larrabee Graphics Chip
(Reuters) – Intel Corp (INTC.O) has scrapped plans to launch an advanced graphics chip based on its novel Larrabee design, after concluding that delays in the project would make it uncompetitive, a spokesman said on Sunday. The move is a setback to Intel’s plans to compete with Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) and Advanced Micro Devices Inc… Read more
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Microsoft Hyper-V Takes On VMware on Virtualization: Will the Mighty Fall?
On the surface, VMware’s unshakable stronghold in the enterprise so far seems unchallenged by the likes of virtualization alternatives from vendors such as Citrix and Microsoft. But although VMware ranked top among best vendors in TheInfoPro’s most recent survey of IT leaders at about 300 enterprises, there is just the barest hint that Microsoft may… Read more
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Dell Reorganization Puts Focus on Smartphones
For the second time in less than a year, Dell is reorganizing its business divisions, this time adding a communications division to head up its smartphone initiative and combining its consumer and SMB divisions into a single division. A Dell spokesman tells Channel Insider that the combination of the consumer and SMB divisions will simplify… Read more
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Absolute Acquires Asset Management Company
Absolute Software yesterday announced the $12.1 million acquisition of Pole Position Software, owner of LANrev, in a deal that will help expand Absolute further into asset management. Absolute is best known for its Computrace software suite, which enables enterprises to track the location of mobile assets with its geotechnology feature and freeze device data in… Read more
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Busted: Microsoft’s Anti-Piracy Blitz
Claiming a more than 100 percent increase in reports from people who unknowingly purchased counterfeit software, Microsoft Corp. (www.microsoft.com) has announced Consumer Action Day, a simultaneous launch of education initiatives and enforcement actions in more than 70 countries to “help protect consumers and increase awareness of the risks of counterfeit software.” The company reports more… Read more
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Interwork Adds File Sharing and Offsite Backup to Security as a Service Suite
Ctera Networks (www.ctera.com) has signed on with value-added distributor Interwork Technologies (www.interwork.com) to launch a storage and data protection offering to its more than 4,000 resellers. Called S-Sphere, the all-in-one SMB solution for file sharing and offsite backup is delivered as part of a security as a service (SaaS) suite that features products from five… Read more