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  • Polycom Buys Video Content Management Provider

    Unified communications services specialist Polycom announced the acquisition of Accordent Technologies, a provider of video content management and delivery solutions, for approximately $50 million in cash. Polycom said it expects this acquisition to be neutral to earnings in 2011 and slightly accretive to earnings in 2012. Accordent grew to $9 million in revenues in 2010…

  • T-Mobile’s G-Slate, G2x Offer 4G

    ORLANDO, Fla.—Whether or not T-Mobile eventually ends up absorbed by AT&T, the carrier is still pushing forward into the tablet and smartphone spaces. At this year’s CTIA conference here March 22, the company is showing off the results of its latest collaboration with LG Electronics: the G2x, an Android smartphone with a muscular dual-core processor,…

  • Business Borrowing Climbs in February

    (Reuters) – A key measure of U.S. business activity rose sharply in February from a year ago, as companies borrowed more to invest in their operations, but the reading was down slightly from the prior month and credit quality eased, a lender group told Reuters on Tuesday. The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association (ELFA) said…

  • Dell’s Energy Efficient PowerEdge C5000 Servers

    Designed to help IT hosting and Web 2.0 companies achieve greater efficiencies in their data centers, technology giant Dell introduced its third generation of microservers, the PowerEdge C5000 line, including the PowerEdge C5125 and C5220, designed to meet the requirements of dedicated and virtualized IT hosting, Web 2.0 and cloud builder environments. The series of…

  • 1. The Photographer

    1. The Photographer About: The photographer in today’s tech world is looking for ample storage to save all their photos. They also want a nice screen to show those photos off. They might take pictures with a traditional camera, but it would also be nice if the tablet they were using had one too. After…

  • HP, Oracle, Intel Tussle Over Itanium

    Oracle ramped up the war of words between itself and HP yesterday, declaring that it would discontinue support of Intel’s Itanium chip – the high-end processor that competes against the likes of Oracle/Sun SPARC – because Intel top management said the chip was about to go end-of-life. HP and Intel fired back, saying Itanium will…

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