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HP Introduces New PCs with AMD Chips
(Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co is rolling out a back-to-school lineup of notebook personal computers in what will be its largest single launch of laptops featuring processors from Advanced Micro Devices. HP said it refreshed or overhauled its Envy, Pavilion and Mini netbook consumer lines, and ProBook enterprise PCs. They will go on sale later in…
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Nokia, Microsoft Launch Mobile Software
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Nokia and Microsoft unveiled on Wednesday the first result of their new software collaboration aimed at breaking the dominance of Research in Motion’s BlackBerry in wireless services for corporations. Nokia and Microsoft, at one time fierce rivals in the mobile telecommunications business, announced the alliance in August 2009. They expect to offer…
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CDW Gets EMC’s Iomega Network Storage Array Appliance First
Iomega, EMC‘s small and medium business storage arm, will be launching a new Network Storage array rack-mount appliance next week that will significantly expand its market reach. Jay Krone, Iomega’s GM of network solutions, tells Channel Insider that the Iomega StorCenter ix12-300r Network Storage array will be exclusive to CDW until mid-June, when the product…
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Democrats Call for H-1B, L-1 Visa Restrictions
A new proposal by U.S. Sens. Harry Reid, D-Nev., Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Bob Menendez, D-N.J., would see a stiffening of the regulations surrounding H-1B and L-1 visas, including restricting the number of H-1B and L-1 employees that U.S. companies of a certain size could hire. While the plan currently circulating on Capitol Hill is…
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Data Centers and Clouds to Add Huge Hard Disk Drive Capacity
A prominent IT researcher forecast May 3 that the hard-disk storage industry will be building and selling products at an unprecedented pace during the next five years. In fact, the world hard drive industry is predicted to deliver more than 300,000 petabytes of storage capacity through 2015 — mostly to enterprise data centers and cloud…
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HP Palm Buy Leaves Tablet Space in Flux
Hewlett-Packard’s acquisition of Palm for $1.2 billion is widely expected to change the smartphone landscape, not to mention save the Palm brand from implosion. What’s less certain is how the deal might affect the nascent tablet PC market. HP has a number of decisions confronting it, including how to best integrate Palm’s products into its…