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HP May Not Spin Off PC Business: Report
Hewlett-Packard executives reportedly are rethinking the controversial decision to get rid of the company s $41 billion PC business. Rather than spin it off into its own company or sell it, HP may end up keeping the Personal Systems Group, according to an Oct. 12 story in the Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with…
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Asus Releases ‘Zenbook’ Ultrabooks
Asus, a day after Acer introduced the first of its ultrabooks, is readying two of its own ultra-thin and -light laptops to hit the market on Oct. 12. Asus executives on Oct. 11 announced what they are calling Zenbooks, the 11.6-inch UX21 and the 13.3-inch UX31, two systems that are joining Acer’s Aspire S3-951 as…
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IBM Launches Cloud Computing Tools, SmartCloud Foundation
Technology giant IBM launched a set of cloud computing tools designed to help business partners adopt cloud business models and generate new revenue streams by offering public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructures, applications and services to their clients. The company is extending the IBM SmartCloud portfolio with two new public cloud services, SmartCloud Enterprise+ and…
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Apple iPhone 4S Breaks Record for iPhone Preorders
Apple announced that preorders of its iPhone 4S have topped 1 million in a single day, surpassing the previous single-day preorder record of 600,000 held by iPhone 4. The iPhone 4S is the company’s latest smartphone and comes with new features including Apple’s dual-core A5 chip, an all new camera with advanced optics, full 1080p…
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Mobile Cyber-Attacks to Double By End of 2011
Mobile threats have exploded this year, and researchers believe the number of mobile device exploits will double by the end of the year, according to the latest IBM report. The number of known mobile operating system vulnerabilities will increase only incrementally from 2010 to 2011, but the number of exploits based on those flaws is…
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Microsoft and Yahoo: Will They or Won’t They?
Microsoft has no plans to acquire Yahoo, according to a new Bloomberg report. Bloomberg drew its news from two people familiar with the matter, who refuted an earlier report from Reuters that the software giant was seriously considering a bid for the Web-portal company. That Reuters report suggested that Yahoo’s market value stands at $18…