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IBM announced that the Gartner research firm has once again named IBM the worldwide market share leader in the application infrastructure and middleware software segment based on total worldwide revenue for 2010. According to Gartner’s latest middleware report, IBM was the leading software vendor in 2010 with a 32.6 percent market share, extending its lead […]

Hewlett-Packard is opening a facility that will act as a testing ground for efficient and sustainable data center technologies. Unveiled March 30, the site in Fort Collins, Colo., will serve multiple purposes, including being used as a data center for internal applications run by HP as well as a test-bed for green data center operations. […]

Cisco Systems has been making a large deal about converged data center hardware infrastructures for more than two years with its Unified Computing System, as increased functionality gets wedged into smaller components and servers and routers—and as Cisco got into the server business. Now the world’s biggest IT networking company and newbie data center systems […]

TAIPEI, March 31 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s Acer , the world’s No. 2 PC vendor, replaced its chief executive in a surprise move on Thursday, barely a week after it gave a downbeat outlook that wiped more than $1 billion off its market value in four days. Its Italian chief executive, Gianfranco Lanci, will leave the […]

HP March 31 made it possible for users of Google Cloud Print to print documents, Web pages and other files to any HP ePrint-enabled printer from any supporting Web, mobile or desktop application on any computer or smartphone. HP is the first major printer maker to officially pick up the Cloud Print cause. Interested users […]

A Dell executive is attracting a massive amount of attention for suggesting the Apple iPad will eventually bomb in the enterprise. “Apple is great if you’ve got a lot of money and live on an island,” Andy Lark, who leads the global marketing efforts for Dell’s Large Enterprise Group, told CIO Australia in a March […]

Salesforce.com March 30 agreed to purchase Radian6 for $276 million in cash and $50 million in stock, giving the enterprise application provider a credible social media management tool. Radian6 analysis widgets and reporting tools help businesses monitor and filter social media conversations generated on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, blogs and other social media Websites. The idea […]

The Apple iPad and the media-tablet market it has given rise to continue to affect the larger tech world. Market research firm Gartner, since deciding to add media tablets to its worldwide IT spending projections, has raised its outlook for 2011. The firm now expects IT spending in 2011 to reach $3.6 trillion—a 5.6 percent […]

At least one Microsoft executive seems unconvinced that tablets are much more than a passing fad. “Mobile is something that you want to use while you’re moving, and portable is something that you move and then use,” Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer, reportedly told the audience at a lunch in Sydney. “These […]

NASA said March 30 that it has decided to enact a third one-year option on a contract with Computer Sciences Corp. to provide supercomputing support services at NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Federal Airfield in Mountain View, Calif. The option is valued at approximately $58.6 million, the aeronautics agency said. The option exercised on […]

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Google has reportedly tapped phone maker LG to build an Android 3.0, or "Honeycomb," for the search engine’s Nexus brand, which has been accorded to two smartphone lines to date. Citing a report from Russian blog Mobile Review, Boy Genius Report said the Nexus tablet would be used as Google’s base for development when it’s […]