Tag: design

  • Freescale Unveils New Tablet Design

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    (Reuters) – Chipmaker Freescale Semiconductor Inc is staking its claim on the tablet computer market, an emerging product category that will generate plenty of interest in 2010. Although next-generation tablet PCs are scarcely evident on the market, the technology world is abuzz about their potential, as Apple Inc is expected to unveil its offering in… Read more

  • With Fresh Focus on Design, Laptops Come of Age

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    (Reuters) – Say goodbye to the "black brick" laptop. The era of the plain, dowdy PC is officially over. As computer makers roll out their new notebooks and netbooks ahead of the end-year holiday shopping season, razor-thin, sleek and colorful are most definitely in, as are arresting designs in an ever-expanding array of choices. Hewlett-Packard… Read more

  • AMD Serves Up New Platform

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    If one were to characterize the competition between Intel and AMD as a baseball game, then there have been few homeruns — Centrino (Banias) and Opteron/Athlon 64 (Hammer) — and a lot of base hits that provide either parity or a small advantage. According to a new report from iSuppli Corp., Intel inched ahead last… Read more

  • HP Shows Off Ultra-Thin PCs, Stylish Netbook

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    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co unveiled several new products for the important fall season, including thin and light laptop PCs and an eye-catching new netbook. The world’s No. 1 PC maker has ably navigated a steep industry downturn in computer sales, managing to grow its global market share to 20 percent even as consumers… Read more

  • VMware Promises to Cut Server Costs by Half

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    VMware has announced a new promotional program that guarantees at least 50 percent savings on server hardware. Customers participating in the promotional program will work with the VMware Professional Services organization to deploy VMware’s virtualization platform on existing servers using established best practices. Customers will not have to pay for the design and implementation services… Read more

  • Get Physical: Rediscover Layer 1

    Lawrence Walsh

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    At a recent tech conference, I stumbled upon a number of IP-video surveillance vendors showing off their wares. The convergence of traditionally analogy physical security systems with the Internet protocol world should improve efficiency by operating disparate systems over a single network. However, these vendors insisted that their installations would require running a separate IP… Read more