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Acer’s Aspire Ethos Notebooks Sport Removable Touchpads
Acer America has designed its latest notebook PCs — the Aspire Ethos AS8951G and AS5951G — to deliver a high-definition personal theater experience for a range of activities, including graphic-intensive gaming, video streaming and viewing of high-definition DVDs, photography and videos. This is aided by the notebooks’ detachable touchpad that doubles as a remote control.…
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Itanium Battle Between HP, Oracle Heads to Court
Hewlett-Packard’s rapidly disintegrating relationship with Oracle is threatening to spill over into the courtroom again, now that HP is suing the software giant over its abandonment of Intel s Itanium processor platform. A week after HP officials sent a demand letter to Oracle essentially warning of a lawsuit over the issue, they followed through June…
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Citigroup Reveals More Than 350,000 Cards Affected After Data Breach
Citigroup officials are saying now that 360,083 credit card accounts were accessed in the data breach this month, far more than the 210,000 they originally estimated. Citigroup released the revised tally in a letter to customers June 15. The release came after Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen said the company was not giving out enough…
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RIM Revenue Down for Q1, 500,000 Playbooks Shipped
Research In Motion earned $4.9 billion in revenue for the first quarter of fiscal 2012, down 12 percent from the previous quarter. Net income also declined, and RIM executives on a June 16 earnings call acknowledged that the BlackBerry maker is undergoing a turbulent period in its long history. RIM s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, a…
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Google Apps Partners Team Up for Security Bundle
Google Apps partners CloudLock, Backupify and LTech have collaborated to release the Secure Cloud Bundle, a collection of products to enhance data security, backup and IT administration for organizations that use Google Apps. By buying the bundle rather than the products separately, customers can save more than 60 percent on the price. The bundle is…
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Panasonic Toughbook to Offer Android Tablet
Panasonic Solutions Company announced its plan to deliver an enterprise-grade Google Android-based tablet to the market later this year. The Toughbook tablet is designed to address a current gap in the market by introducing a secure, durable and functional device that will feature a high brightness, daylight viewable 10.1″ screen and include an integrated active…