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Dell Opens Up About Desktop Linux
Michael Dell, chairman of Dell, says he believes in offering Linux on the desktop, server and workstation. What he doesn’t believe in, for now, is giving Linux full support on the desktop. In an exclusive interview, Dell explained his company’s Linux desktop strategy to DesktopLinux.com’s Steven J. Vaughan Nichols. “People are always asking us to…
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Intel to Boost Wireless Notebooks
SAN FRANCISCO—Intel plans to power up the wireless capabilities of notebook PCs. The chip maker will offer, later this year, a WiMax PC card that will allow notebooks to tap high-speed Internet connections, and during 2007 it aims to equip its notebooks with a new generation of higher-bandwidth Wi-Fi, dubbed 802.11n. It also showed off…
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Power, Performance at the Core of Future Intel Chips
SAN FRANCISCO—Attention to power consumption has formed the core of a new generation of Intel chips coming out later this year. Justin Rattner, Intel’s chief financial officer, kicked off the company’s spring Developer Forum here March 7 by taking the wraps off some of the features behind the chip maker’s Core Microarchitecture. Core Microarchitecture, otherwise…
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Data Centers Give Intel Static over Electric Bills
Jeffrey Skolnick, of the Georgia Institute of Technology, used to just worry about harnessing enough computing power to chase down cancer genes. Today, he’s worried about his electric bill, too. Skolnick, director of the Institute’s Center for the Study of Systems Biology, in Atlanta, said concerns about server power consumption and heat weighed heavily on…
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The Vista Vortex
The provisioning of new clients and the ongoing management of passwords may not seem like the most pressing issue of the day in 2006, but it’s likely to become a major opportunity for solution providers starting as early as this spring. That’s because as the forthcoming Vista upgrade of Microsoft Windows becomes a more tangible…
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MSP Automation Saves, While Customization Costs
When Bill Clinton ran successfully for President in 1992, he won largely on the strength of the campaign mantra, “It’s the economy, stupid.” As legend has it, this statement was posted in the war room of his campaign headquarters. All service providers should have a similar mantra if they want to be successful and sell…
