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Gartner: Enterprises Must Adopt Tablets Early
It’s time for businesses to start using tablets, like the Apple iPad, according to Gartner analysts. Complementing laptops and smartphones more than replacing them, tablets offer opportunities for exploration, solutions for tricky deployments and a way of getting ahead of competitors, Gartner said in the April 5 report, which echoes the findings of a March…
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Intel Targets Unix Market With Xeon E7 Chips
Intel is continuing its assault on Unix servers and mainframes with the release of its latest high-end Xeon processors, including chips that offer up to 10 cores. The latest missive came April 5, when Intel officials unveiled the Xeon E7 "Westmere EX" portfolio of chips, which they said offer 40 percent more performance than the…
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H-1B Jobs: IT Solution Providers at a Disadvantage
IT hosting and on-demand infrastructure provider SingleHop is growing fast. In the last five years the small company in Chicago has increased revenue 4,000 percent. SingleHop’s core business of hosted applications and on-demand infrastructure services are in hot demand as businesses of all kinds embrace managed services and hosted applications in the cloud. SingleHop’s employees…
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Apple
Apple Apple has taken the smartphone category that RIM first revolutionized and turned it into a cultural phenomenon with the iPhone. RIM’s been struggling to keep up with Apple’s cool factor ever since. Google Hot on Apple’s heels, Google has taken advantage of RIM’s vulnerability through a surge of new Android-powered smartphones. Last quarter it…
