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Intel Corp. Ultrabooks to Premiere By End of 2011
A new category of thin and light mobile computers in the sub $1,000 price range called Ultrabooks will grab 40 percent of the consumer laptop market by the end of 2012, according to Intel Corp’s Sean Maloney, executive vice president. Maloney was speaking at the Computex Taipei 2011 event in Taiwan, calling these new Ultrabooks…
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Dell, SAP Partner on Cloud, In-Memory Computing
A recently announced deal between longtime partners Dell and SAP involving a new in-memory application and storage appliance could turn out to be a significant landmark in the data center business. As a result of this partnership, announced last week at SAP’s Sapphire conference in Orlando, Fla., SAP’s customers will be able to deploy their…
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Cisco Gaining Ground in X86 Blade Server Market: IDC
Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Dell were among the familiar names at the top of IDC’s list of the top server vendors for the first quarter. Even Oracle, a year after buying Sun Microsystems, has become a known entity in the server space. However, new to the rankings is Cisco Systems, the networking giant that two years…
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Xerox, HP Boost Managed Print Services Capacities Through Acquisitions
Both Hewlett-Packard and Xerox have made acquisitions in an effort to bolster their managed print services. Technology giant HP announced that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of MSP provider Printelligent. The infrastructure, software and trained workforce of Printelligent, combined with HP’s channel relationships and base of services and…
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Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone 7 Windows Phone 7 has been a downright nightmare for Microsoft so far. The operating system hasn’t been appealing to consumers, and there have been issues with the update process. If Bill Gates came back to Microsoft, he’d work closely with the mobile division to address those issues. If Gates is known for…
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Dell Launches XPS 15z, MacBook Air Alternative for SMBs
Dell has launched what the company is calling the thinnest 15-inch notebook on the planet—the XPS 15z laptop. It’s the start, the PC maker said in a May 24 announcement, of what will be a new series of thin and powerful Inspiron- and XPS-branded notebooks arriving later this year. The 15z runs second-generation Intel Core…
