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IBM, HP, Lead the Patent Pack in 2006
IFI Patent Intelligence, a patent assignee company that has been around since 1956, announced Jan. 11 its annual list of the top 25 U.S. patent winners. IFI assembles its listing using information from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and from CLAIMS, a text-searchable database of U.S. patents in the world. Darlene Slaughter, general manager…
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Week in Review: Dubious iPhone, Thin CES, Teradata Rocks
The big tech news of this week is obvious to anyone. David Beckham, 31, leaving Real Madrid for a $250 million contract to head to La-La Land to kick the soccer ball for the LA Galaxy tops my list. Can Beckham turn the stumbling Major League Soccer franchise from a hopeful to a real money…
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SIIA Report Gives High Marks to Offshore Development
The Software & Information Industry Association has published a report on the state of global software development, showing that a vast majority of companies that offshore their development operations report positive impacts on revenues and profits. For its Global Software Development Survey Report, the Washington D.C.-based SIIA teamed up with Symphony Services, a global product…
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SGI, Microsoft Ink Server Partnership
Silicon Graphics, which in October emerged from bankruptcy and staff cuts in October, is now teaming up with Microsoft to offer the Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 operating system in its Xeon-based servers. The two companies are scheduled to announce the new agreement Jan. 11. SGI, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., will start offering the 64-bit…
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Lenovo Acknowledges Delays in ThinkPad Tablet Shipments
If you wanted to be one of the first to try out Lenovo’s new ThinkPad X60 Tablet PC, you might have to wait a little longer. The Raleigh, N.C., PC maker disclosed on its official company blog that due to shortages of the panels used in the X60’s display, the new tablet will not start…
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AMD Pushes New Motherboard Format
LAS VEGAS—Small-form-factor PCs are becoming a mainstay for desktop PCs. Even high-end gamers have gravitated to smaller-form-factor PCs, which typically take up less room and consume less power. AMD is looking to gain market share in 2007. Click here to read more. However, there’s no widely adopted format for SFF motherboards smaller than MicroATX in…
