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SSDs Gaining Ground on Hard Disk Drives in PCs
(Reuters) – Solid-state drives have struggled to become standard in PCs, but manufacturers could soon follow Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) lead and start using more of them as consumers warm to the benefits of flash storage. Increasingly used in smartphones, NAND flash storage is expensive but market leaders Samsung Electronics (KS:005930), Toshiba Corp (T:6502), SanDisk (NASDAQ:SNDK) and…
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EMC Acquires Isilon in $2.25B Storage Deal
NEW YORK, Nov 15 (Reuters) – EMC Corp (NYSE:EMC), the world’s biggest corporate data storage equipment maker, plans to buy smaller data storage firm Isilon Systems Inc (NASDAQ:ISLN) for about $2.25 billion, the latest in a series of multibillion dollar technology deals. The $33.85-a-share cash offer, announced by both companies on Monday, represents a 29…
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Cisco Unveils Virtualization Experience Infrastructure
Networking communications giant Cisco announced a wide-ranging desktop virtualization system and solutions comprising collaboration, borderless networking and data center technologies from the company and an ecosystem of virtualization vendors. Named the Cisco Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI), the system design integrates Cisco’s Collaboration, Data Center Virtualization and Borderless Networks architectures with desktop virtualization software and devices.…
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Ingram Micro Expects Big Holiday Sales Boost
LOS ANGELES, Nov 15 (Reuters) – Ingram Micro Inc (NYSE:IM) expects holiday season unit shipments to rise by 2 million units per week over last year as online retailers see orders for technology goods pick up. Ingram Micro, the world’s No. 1 technology distributor and services provider, said it expects to ship 6 million products…
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Screen Size Matters
Screen Size Matters HP and Dell should remember that screen size is extremely important in the tablet space. That’s especially important for Dell to understand. That company has been offering a 5-inch tablet, the Streak, that offers too little screen real estate for what customers are looking for. Apple’s iPad has a 9.7-inch display. If…
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Cisco Hires Apple iPhone Antennagate Exec
Nov 12 (Reuters) – Cisco Systems Inc (NASDAQ:CSCO) has hired former Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) executive Mark Papermaster, who left that company weeks after it was rocked by the "Antennagate" controversy on the latest iPhone. Cisco said on Friday Papermaster has joined the networking giant as vice president of its silicon switching technology group. Papermaster, who…
