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HP’s TouchPad Could Have Benefited From Tweaked webOS, Apps
The blame for the demise of Hewlett-Packard s TouchPad tablet can be placed with several parties, according to an article in The New York Times Jan. 1. The article assigns blame to several parties for the demise of Hewlett-Packard s TouchPad tablet. After that product crashed and burned in the marketplace, HP abandoned its plans…
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IBM’s New CEO Makes Key Management Changes
As IBM enters 2012, the systems giant has announced a series of management changes focused on strengthening its sales, enhancing its presence in growth markets and bolstering its services business. In her first acts as CEO of IBM, Virginia Rometty announced the changes on Jan. 3 in a letter to employees. Rometty became IBM’s first…
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Microsoft to Allow Linux on Windows Azure: Report
Microsoft is preparing to give its cloud platform users the capability to run Linux on its Windows Azure cloud in 2012, according to a report. The All About Microsoft blog reports that Microsoft is poised to enable customers to make virtual machines (VMs) persistent on Windows Azure and is slated to deliver a Community Technology…
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HP Previews Spectre Ultrabook
Hewlett-Packard is circulating a teaser video for its Spectre ultrabook, which could appear at this month s Consumer Electronics Show. The 30-second video, reproduced on Websites such as The Verge, devotes most of its length to abstract imagery, although it ends with a brief shot of what is clearly a laptop, opening to emit a blast of…
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Amazon Could Miss Sales Goals: Goldman Sachs
A report from financial services firm Goldman Sachs warns that online retailer Amazon.com could miss its fourth-quarter sales estimates due to a slowdown in online shopping growth, despite impressive sales of the company’s Kindle Fire tablet and family of e-readers. Goldman Sachs analyst Heather Bellini said in a research note that based on sales estimates…