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Software Companies Get $24 Million Investment from Intel
Intel is investing more than $24 million in software companies that touch on areas that the giant chip maker is particularly interested in, including cloud computing. In all, Intel Capital–the vendor’s investment arm–will spread the money among seven software makers. The investments, announced Sept. 8, highlights Intel’s ongoing interest in building out its software capabilities,…
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Microsoft, Google Both Suffer Cloud Computing Outages
It was not a banner week for cloud computing. Cloud computing rivals Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) suffered brief outages that knocked off some of their key messaging and collaboration products. Google Sept. 7 saw its Google Docs word collaboration application cramp up for one hour, shutting out millions of users from their document lists,…
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Server Power Efficiency Gets a Boost From IDT CoolRAC
Integrated Device Technology, a specialist in developing system-level solutions designed to optimize its customers’ applications, announced coolRAC technology, a power architecture for enterprise data centers that is engineered to increase energy efficiency and lower operating cost. IDT’s technology does not require a data center redesign or changes to the physical architecture, which helps minimize the…
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Motorola Introduces 4G Droid Bionic Smartphone
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android smartphone OEMs have pumped out so many handsets based on the open-source operating system–more than 300 varietals worldwide–that many of the latest handsets offer incremental improvements over their predecessors. Since Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZW) launched the Motorola Droid in November 2009, it has released two Droid updates, each time offering incremental improvements over…
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Lenovo Looks to Beat Dell in PC Market By Year End
HP may be contemplating dumping its PC business, but Dell and Lenovo are revving up their engines for a race in the PC market, both looking to gain share from number one player, HP. Dell lost the title of number one PC maker to HP five years ago, and CEO Michael Dell has been quick…