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NEW YORK, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Intel Corp (NASDAQ:INTC) found a defect in one of its chips, hurting its credibility at a time when demand for microprocessors in personal computers is being threatened. Although the company said on Monday it is fixing the problem, it stopped shipments of the chip, which is used in PCs […]

HELSINKI, Jan 28 (Reuters) – North American smartphone vendors Apple and RIM, along with low-cost Chinese producer ZTE , emerged as the biggest winners on the booming cellphone market in final quarter of 2010. Research firm IDC estimated the global handset market grew last quarter 18 percent from a year ago, while Strategy Analytics said […]

Switzerland Jan 28 (Reuters) – Tata Consultancy Services (BO:TCS), India’s top software services exporter, expects to hire as many or slightly less than the more than 50,000 employees it hired in 2010 this year as the race for talent heats up in India’s technology outsourcing business. In an interview with Reuters, TCS Chief Executive N. […]

(Reuters) – Concerns that roaring demand for tablets and smartphones like Apple’s iPad and iPhone will leave Microsoft in the dust are simply overdone, Microsoft International’s president told Reuters. "Devices are going to go and come," Jean-Philippe Courtois, president of Microsoft International, told Reuters at the World Economic Forum, adding that the company was making […]

SEATTLE, Jan 27 (Reuters) – Sales of Microsoft Corp’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows software fell short of outsized expectations, rekindling fears that the spread of mobile gadgets will erode its main PC-focused business. Microsoft surprised Wall Street with a better-than-expected profit, helped by resurgent corporate spending after the belt-tightening of past years. But its shares stayed flat […]

Virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions specialist VMware announced the general availability of Go Pro, a cloud service designed to enable small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) to consolidate, control, and secure their physical and virtual IT infrastructure. Go Pro is available by subscription for $29.95 per admin/month, and the company said later this they expect to […]

The trend of personal smartphones infiltrating the workplace is being led by both Apple’s iOS and Android smartphone platforms, according to Good Technology’s second quarterly data report detailing the changing landscape of IT and mobile enterprise technology. In the fourth quarter of 2010, this trend continued to grow, but the iPad "revolutionized" the enterprise mobility […]

EMC’s security division, RSA, announced its Authentication Manager Express. The newest strong authentication platform is a risk-based and on-demand authentication system designed for small to medium-size businesses to provide up to 2,500 users with secure access to data and business applications through SSL Virtual Private Networks and online portals. The system employs an intelligent risk […]

TOKYO/DAVOS, Jan 27 (Reuters) – Chinese group Lenovo (HK:0992), the world’s No. 4 PC brand, is to invest $175 million in a joint venture with Japanese company NEC (T:6701) to sell PCs in Japan, it said, to help it outpace global market growth. The new company will also sell personal computers to the overseas Japanese […]

(Reuters) – Worldwide mobile application store revenue will almost triple to $15.1 billion this year, boosted by a surge in Google’s Android market, research firm Gartner said on Wednesday. Apple created the market for mobile online software stores with the iPhone store in mid-2008, scoring an instant hit that drove smartphone sales and reshaped the […]

(Reuters) – A year ago, Microsoft Corp blew away Wall Street’s earnings forecasts with blistering sales of its new Windows 7 operating system and trumpeted optimism about the recovery in tech spending. This week, with its stock trading slightly lower than a year ago, the world’s largest software company is set to report lower profit […]

HELSINKI, Jan 26 (Reuters) – Consumers picking up tablet computers, or pads, during the holiday season boosted the personal computer market 19.2 percent in the fourth quarter, research firm Canalys said on Wednesday. Hewlett-Packard Co (NYSE:HPQ) and Acer Inc (TW:2353) continued to lead the global market, while strong sales of the iPad lifted Apple Inc […]