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Samsung Reveals Ultra-Thin LCD Panel
Samsung Electronics has sliced the size of its new liquid crystal display panels to the thickness of a credit card, crafting what it claims is the thinnest mobile LCD screen on record. The company made the announcement Nov. 21, and stated mass production of the .82 mm screens would begin in the second half of…
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JBoss Seals French Connection with Bull, ObjectWeb
BERLIN—Some might call it the French Connection, and others might call it the falling of a wall, but the agreement between JBoss and the ObjectWeb consortium to collaborate on open-source technology is a breakthrough in the middleware world. At JBoss World Berlin here, Paris-based Bull and JBoss, a division of Red Hat, on Nov. 21…
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The Vanishing Veg-Out Vacation
Shortened workdays before big holidays are an increasingly rare occurrence, finds a survey released Nov. 15 by Hudson Employment, a New York-based staffing and outsourcing company. Half of the workers surveyed responded that their companies do not offer them any extra flexibility around the holidays, and 54 percent say their office is no more casual…
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Dell Beats Wall Street Estimates in Q3
Despite a delay of almost a week, Dell released its fiscal third-quarter results on Nov. 21 and beat Wall Street estimates with a net income of $667 million. For the fiscal quarter that ended Nov. 3, the Round Rock, Texas PC maker posted revenue of $14.38 billion, a 3.5 percent increase from last year, and…
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IBM’s International Intrigue
IBM likes to talk about the fact that it is not in the application software business and therefore is a better partner for ISVs because it doesn’t compete with them directly. Of course, the problem that IBM faces is that behemoths like SAP and Oracle have taken up so much of the market that they…
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IBM Sees Novell-Microsoft Deal Benefiting Linux
Just about everyone has expressed an opinion on the Novell-Microsoft patent agreement—except, that is, for the 800-pound gorilla of Linux: IBM. Today, Scott Handy, IBM’s VP of Worldwide Linux and Open Source, decided that enough was enough and it was time to state IBM’s position. In an interview with Linux-Watch.com, Handy opened by saying that,…
