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Acer, HP, Asus to Lead Netbook Growth in 2010, Report Says
Notebook PCs in 2010 are on track to post solid double-digit growth due to improved economic conditions worldwide as well as the expected expansion of two high-achieving segments, netbooks and Consumer Ultra-Low Voltage (CULV) notebooks, according to a recent report by research firm iSuppli Corp. Overall notebook PC shipments will hit 209.5 million units in…
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Apple iPad Could Hurt Sales of iPod Touch
Apple’s iPad may cannibalize sales of related devices, including notebooks and the iPod Touch, according to a March survey by Alphawise, Morgan Stanley’s specialized internal research team. Some 44 percent of iPad owners surveyed said they would forgo purchasing a notebook, while 24 percent said MacBooks and 20 percent said PCs. “U.S. consumer PC, and…
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Microsoft Office 2010 and Sharepoint 2010 Set to Launch
Microsoft will launch Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 May 12, offering the platforms to businesses roughly a month before consumers. With that release, Microsoft hopes to maintain its dominant market share in the productivity segment despite upcoming challenges from cloud-based applications such as Google Apps. Microsoft originally released the beta versions of Office 2010, SharePoint…
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Feds Stop Counterfeit Cisco Networking Hardware Ring
A 49-year-old man has become the latest person brought down by a federal investigation targeting people trafficking in counterfeit Cisco network hardware. “Ehab Ashoor, 49 … [of] Sugarland, Texas, was sentenced in the Southern District of Texas to 51 months in prison and ordered to pay $119,400 in restitution to Cisco Systems, the Department of…
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IBM, Jamie Oliver Target Same Mission, Childhood Obesity
IBM is turning its massive computational and data analysis capabilities to the health care field. IBM officials on May 6 announced a project at their Almaden Research facilities to take public health data that’s already been collected to help government agencies, businesses and health care providers develop strategies to better take on a host of…
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Cisco Rival Aruba Networks Acquires Outdoor Mesh Network Supplier Azalea
Distributed enterprise networking technology vendor Aruba Networks (NASDAQ: ARUN) will acquire Azalea Networks, a supplier of outdoor mesh networks. The stock deal is worth about $27 million, plus up to an additional $13.5 million in cash over two years. Azalea offers mesh products for outdoor industrial applications in the oil and gas, logistics, manufacturing, mining, petrochemical,…