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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Chipmaker Intel has been granted a further short extension to respond to antitrust charges leveled by the European Commission, an Intel spokesman said on Friday. The response had been due on Friday but Intel will file instead on Monday, January 7, the spokesman told Reuters. The Commission in July, 2007, charged Intel […]

The basic Konica Minolta 8650DN unit can fit on a desktop and offers three trays.

Marathon EverRun HA pairs two servers into a virtual environment for high availability.

TEL AVIV—IBM said on Jan. 2 it had acquired XIV, a privately held storage technology company based in Tel Aviv. Financial terms were not disclosed. “This is about IBM further strengthening its infrastructure portfolio,” Daniel Powers, vice president of mergers and acquisitions at IBM System Storage, told a news conference. IBM said the deal would […]

NEW YORK (Reuters)—Dell Inc said on Friday British retailer Tesco will sell Dell personal computers in outlets across Europe. Dell said, starting January, customers will be able to purchase Dell XPS and Inspiron computers in Tesco stores in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia. Earlier this month Dell said it had reached […]

HELSINKI (Reuters)—International Business Machines Corp said on Friday it has agreed to buy in-memory database software provider Solid Information Technology from private owners for an undisclosed sum. Solid’s largest owners were private equity firms Apax Partners APAX.UL and CapMan. Solid is expected to have 2007 sales of around $14.4 million, Vesa Wallden, a member of […]

BOSTON (Reuters)—Oracle Corp said on Wednesday that quarterly profit rose 35 percent as new software sales soared, beating expectations at a time when investors are nervous that IT spending is slowing, and its shares climbed 4 percent. The world’s No. 2 publicly held software maker reported fiscal second-quarter net income of $1.3 billion, or 25 […]

TOKYO (Reuters)—Toshiba Corp said on Tuesday it would join a group led by International Business Machines Corp to develop system chips using 32-nanometer circuitry, as chip makers increasingly team up to cut development costs. The alliance also comprises Advanced Micro Devices, Samsung Electronics, Singapore’s Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Germany’s Infineon Technologies AG and privately owned U.S.-based […]

As always happens this time of year, my in-box fills up with predictions for the new year, and I’m being urged to add my voice to the chorus. I find “previews of what is to come” fall into two camps. Those that concern technologies or the applications of technology can be very creative. Symantec cautions […]

An online survey was conducted among a sample of technology decision makers selected from the Ziff Davis Enterprise Service Provider database from Nov. 27 to Dec. 10, 2007. In total, 393 ZDE subscribers qualified for and completed the survey. Qualified re