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iPad Shipments Propel Apple Past HP to Top Mobile PC Position: Report
Surging iPad tablet shipments have propelled Apple to a 17.2 percent share of worldwide mobile PC shipments in the fourth quarter of 2010, placing Apple at the top of the DisplaySearch market share ranking. According to preliminary results from the company’s Quarterly Mobile PC Shipment and Forecast Report, Apple shipped more than 10.2 million notebook…
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IBM, Nuance to Tune Watson for Health Care
IBM will incorporate Nuance CLU speech-recognition applications into the Watson supercomputer to provide information that assists doctors as they make diagnoses. IBM will continue its longtime collaboration with speech-recognition software developer Nuance Communications to bring the analytics capabilities of supercomputer Watson into the health care field. Under a research agreement announced Feb. 17, Nuance will…
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Dell Planning New Tablets, Smartphones
Dell CEO Michael Dell shared, during the company’s Feb. 15 earnings call, that the company planned to enter the 10-inch tablet space later this year, with a device running Android 3.0, known as “Honeycomb.” But according to a leaked document said to be Dell’s product roadmap, Michael Dell was severely understating the company’s plans. According…
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Dell Server Business Gets Boost from Cloud
Cloud computing, virtualization and workload migrations are helping to boost Dell’s server business, as the company continues its transition to a solutions provider, according to Dell executive Forrest Norrod. In a recent interview with eWEEK, Forrest Norrod, vice president and general manager of Dell’s Server Platforms business, said that even though the company is rapidly…
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Intel vPro Tools Get Better Management, Security
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.—When Intel starts shipping its newest "Sandy Bridge" PC processors later this quarter, the chips will come with the latest generation of the company’s vPro on-board management and security capabilities that now will include the ability to lock down lost or stolen PCs via a 3G text message. Intel officials have put on demonstrations…
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IBM’s Watson Beats Humans on Jeopardy!
The humans redeemed themselves in the second game of the man vs. machine "Jeopardy" tournament, after the previous game’s debacle, but it wasn’t enough. The best "Jeopardy" player is now a computer named Watson. Watson didn’t dominate the Feb. 16 game as thoroughly as it had on the previous night, with Ken Jennings and Brad…