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Adobe Digital Magazine Viewer Revealed
In a bit of competitive irony, the technology was used to build Wired magazine’s June iPad edition – despite Apple’s refusal to support Adobe’s Flash, which is used to display many popular Websites’ rich content but which Apple CEO Steve Jobs has condemned as slow and buggy. Adobe’s digital magazine viewer seeks to marry digital…
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Qualcomm Begins Shipping Two New Snapdragon Chipsets
The two new chipsets, called Mobile Station Modem (MSM) 8260 and MSM8660, integrate two enhanced cores running at up to 1.2GHz. The former is designed for compatibility with HSPA+ networks – such as the one T-Mobile has been rolling out – and the latter for HSPA+/CDMA200 1xEv-DO Rev. B. READ MORE >>
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World’s Fastest Supercomputers
The Chinese boast two of the world’s top ten fastest supercomputers, according to rankings published by the TOP500 organization. The Nebulae, based in Shenzhen, is currently the fastest system worldwide in theoretical peak performance at 2.98 petaflops per second (PFlop/s). China’s ambition to enter the supercomputing arena, among other areas of world competitiveness, because clearer…
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Novell Offers PlateSpin Solutions for Microsoft Windows and Linux
Novell announced update versions of three of its PlateSpin Workload Management products, Migrate, Protect and Forge. The key upgrade to these latest versions is support for both Microsoft’s Windows operating system (OS) and the open source Linux OS. These virtualization management solutions, which the company said would be available later in the month, offer live…
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IBM Adds Storage, Server Solutions To Express Lineup
Storage and servers have been good to IBM, with a large helping hand from Big Blue’s channel, and the company intends to continue that momentum with two new solutions configured for the channel. Shipping on June 15, the DS3500 Express doubles the capacity and performance of any previous storage product in the DS3000 family and…
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HP Enterprise Services Business to Cut 9,000 Jobs
HP (NYSE:HPQ) will cut 9,000 jobs in its HP Enterprise Services Business division, the company has announced, as the result of a data center consolidation to move its infrastructure onto its own Converged Infrastructure product lines. The workforce reduction, which comes two years after HP announced its acquisition of IT services firm EDS, will consolidate…
