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iPad Shipments Propel Apple Past HP to Top Mobile PC Position: Report
Surging iPad tablet shipments have propelled Apple to a 17.2 percent share of worldwide mobile PC shipments in the fourth quarter of 2010, placing Apple at the top of the DisplaySearch market share ranking. According to preliminary results from the company’s Quarterly Mobile PC Shipment and Forecast Report, Apple shipped more than 10.2 million notebook…
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Small Business Dogged by Essential But Unproductive Tasks
Small business communications company Fonality released the findings of the “2011 Report on UC and Cloud-based Services for SMBs” conducted by Webtorials. The study examined the productivity and communications challenges of small and mid-size businesses (SMBs). Findings revealed that knowledge workers at small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) spend 50 percent of their workday on necessary,…
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SonicWall Virtual Appliance Provides Secure Remote Access
Intelligent network security and data protection solutions specialist SonicWall announced availability of the Secure Remote Access (SRA) Virtual Appliance and Aventail E-Class SRA Virtual Appliance. The appliances add to the existing SSL VPN small to medium-size business (SMB) and enterprise-class hardware line-up and further expand the company’s virtualized appliance offerings that include management, reporting and…
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IBM, Nuance to Tune Watson for Health Care
IBM will incorporate Nuance CLU speech-recognition applications into the Watson supercomputer to provide information that assists doctors as they make diagnoses. IBM will continue its longtime collaboration with speech-recognition software developer Nuance Communications to bring the analytics capabilities of supercomputer Watson into the health care field. Under a research agreement announced Feb. 17, Nuance will…
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Dell Planning New Tablets, Smartphones
Dell CEO Michael Dell shared, during the company’s Feb. 15 earnings call, that the company planned to enter the 10-inch tablet space later this year, with a device running Android 3.0, known as “Honeycomb.” But according to a leaked document said to be Dell’s product roadmap, Michael Dell was severely understating the company’s plans. According…
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Dell Server Business Gets Boost from Cloud
Cloud computing, virtualization and workload migrations are helping to boost Dell’s server business, as the company continues its transition to a solutions provider, according to Dell executive Forrest Norrod. In a recent interview with eWEEK, Forrest Norrod, vice president and general manager of Dell’s Server Platforms business, said that even though the company is rapidly…