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Cisco’s Acquisition of Inlet Technologies Complete
Communications giant Cisco announced it has completed its acquisition of privately held Inlet Technologies, a provider of Adaptive Bit Rate digital media processing platforms. Based in Raleigh, N.C., Inlet was acquired to help strengthen the capabilities of Cisco’s Videoscape TV platform, allowing service and content providers to deliver video experiences to a variety of devices…
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HP TouchPad Tablets Expected to Hit Stores in June, September
New details have emerged about the tablet plans of Hewlett-Packard, Motorola and Research In Motion, if a price sheet, said to be a leaked road map from a big-box retailer, is correct. Pre Central posted the road map March 14, and it shows the 10-inch Motorola Xoom going on sale March 17 for $649, followed…
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Xeon, Atom Chips for Micro Servers on Intel’s Roadmap
Intel officials are looking to use a combination of low-power “Sandy Bridge” Xeon chips and Atom processors to build out their portfolio of products for ultradense micro servers. Executives with the giant chip maker first talked about micro servers in 2009, describing high-performance, energy-efficient systems that share resources and target such environments as large data…
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Business Spending Hit $59 billion in 2010: NPD Report
Bouncing back to above pre-recession levels, sales of technology products to businesses through U.S. distributors, commercial technology resellers and office products dealers rose 12 percent to almost $59 billion in 2010, according to a report from NPD Group. Last year’s rebound in business spending followed a 9 percent decline in 2009, according to NPD Group’s…
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IBM Netezza, Revolution Launch Analytics Appliance
Revolution Analytics, the provider of R software, services and support, and IBM Netezza announced a partnership to integrate Revolution R Enterprise and the IBM Netezza TwinFin Data Warehouse Appliance. At the Predictive Analytics World conference in San Francisco on March 14, Revolution Analytics and IBM said their partnership enables customers seeking to run predictive analytics…
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HP Sets Cloud, WebOS and Analytics as Top Strategic Priorities
SAN FRANCISCO—In his first meet-the-press-and-analyst conference, new Hewlett-Packard chief executive Leo Apotheker on March 14 laid out in both general and in specific terms where he wants to take the IT giant in the next two years. In the process, Apotheker revealed that HP is about to roll out a new platform-as-a-service business for cloud…