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WITH the enterprise market squarely in its sights, Google has tripled the capacity of its Search Appliance hardware/software solution, launching a new architecture that can index up to 10 million documents in a single box.
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CHINA-based PC-maker Lenovo has reported an after-tax profit for its first quarter of US$110 million (A$123.2 million), a jump of 65 per cent over the year ago quarter – despite shipments growing at the industry average of about 14.6 per cent.
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FOR old-school software execs at Big Blue, just the thought of revenge against Microsoft would be delicious. But IBM’s announcement that it would start selling “Microsoft-free” PCs must be sweet indeed.
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WHEN car giant Mitsubishi announced the closure of its Adelaide-based manufacturing facility at Tonsley Park for the loss of 900 jobs, the news hit South Australia like the end of the world.
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IF global chip-making giant Intel thought its lengthy legal issues with the Euopean Union were nearing an end, they drmatically underestimated the mood of refulators.
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MARKET research group Gartner says the industry has passed a significant milestone: There are now more than one million personal computers installed worldwide. |
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The first $116 million worth of computers in the Australian Government’s $1.2 billion Digital Education Revolution has been doled out – a milestone barely noticed.
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INTEL has given its China operations a major shot-in-the-arm, announcing the creation of a second China-focused venture capital fund worth US$500 million (A$541 million). |
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CHIP-MAKER Advanced Micro Devices has lost its most senior technology executive after CTO Phil Hester announced he would step down from the struggling microprocessor manufacturers. |
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CHIP-maker Intel has unveiled five new processors in its Atom line – formerly known by the development code-name Silverthorne – technology aimed at Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and embedded solutions. |
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JAPANESE innovator Fujitsu has unveiled a new 320GB 2.5-inch hard disk – double its previous top-line capacity – that it says will start shipping mid-year. |
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MICROSOFT has responded quickly to Toshiba’s decision to abandon its HD DVD format, saying it will no longer make HD DVD players for its Xbox video gaming console. |
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ANTITRUST regulators in Europe have raided the offices of processor giant Intel and several computer retails as part of an investigation of restrictive trade practices. |
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THE former chief technology officer of the One Laptop Per Child project has set up a spin-off company that aims to produce a laptop for just US$75 (A$84). |
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ARGUMENTS about whether gigantic LCD television screens deliver better picture quality than gigantic plasma TV screens may soon be consigned to the history of irrelevance.
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NEW York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has launched an instigation of chip-maker Intel amid concerns the company had violated anti-trust laws by coercing customers to exclude its rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). |
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A low-power memory card that automatically downloads photos wirelessly from a camera to a PC has won the prestigious Last Gadget Standing competition at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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IBM wants the US government to ban the imports of Taiwanese OEM manufacturing giant Asustek, claiming the company infringes IBM patents in a broad variety of its tech products.
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CHIP-maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has sold an 8.1 per cent stake in the company to the investment arm of the Abu Dhabi government for US$622 million (A$698 million) in cash.
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STORAGE market leader EMC has opened a new research and development facility in Beijing and committed to doubling its planned investments in China to 1 billion (A$1.1 billion) over the next five years. |
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NEITHER political party had given the tech sector any reason for optimism in an election campaign that had so far been a policy-free zone, AIIA chief executive Sheryle Moon said. |
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California-based PC standards organisation PCMCIA offered rave reviews of their first venture into China in the final days of CeBIT Asia 2007. |
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ORGANISERS have declared the CeMAT Asia, PTC Asia and CeBIT Asia events at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre an unqualified success, with nearly 50,000 business visitors from all over the world attending the shows over four days. |
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PERSONAL computer sales in the Asia-Pacific outside of Japan in the third quarter to September surged 24 per cent to 16.1 million units compared to the same period a year-ago, according to International Data Corp numbers. |
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Taiwanese PC maker Acer has won a massive deal to supply notebook computers to the NSW Department of Education and Training, cementing its place as market leader in the government sector. |
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TAIWANESE computer giant Acer is to acquire the US PC-maker and retail outlet Gateway, propelling Acer ahead of Chinese maker Lenovo as the world’s third biggest PC company. |
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INTEL has added to its quad-core server processors series with the launch of two new Xeon chips, including the industry’s first 3GHz processor that fits into a standard 120 watt power envelope. |
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A CONSORTIUM of some of the most powerful names in the tech industry has combined resources to improve the energy efficiency of power-hungry data centers. |
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A CONSORTIUM of some of the most powerful names in the tech industry has combined resources to improve the energy efficiency of power-hungry data centers. |
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APPLE has freshened its line of popular iMac desktops with new models that are slimmer, more powerful and have bigger screens. |
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CHINESE PC-maker Lenovo has reached an agreement with Novell under which it will pre-install Suse Linux on its popular ThinkPad notebook machines. |
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GLOBAL semiconductor revenues declined in the second quarter despite an increase in total shipments, the result of falling chip prices. |
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STORAGE solution provider Network Appliance, one of the fastest growing enterprise technology companies of the past decade, has announced a dramatic revenue slowdown. |
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PC-MAKER Dell has set its sights on capturing a big chunk of the emerging India market with the opening of its first India-based manufacturing plant in Chennai. |
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CHIP-making giant Intel has rejected European Commission charges that it engaged in anti-competitive practices, arguing that its market behaviour in Europe was both legal and in the interests on consumers. |
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DESPITE its ongoing corporate restructure, chip-maker Intel second quarter profits have jumped 44 per cent to US$1.3 billion (A$1.5 billion), the company said. |
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THE world's largest processor manufacturer Intel has joined the One Laptop Per Child initiative, which seeks to bring low-cost computers to third world children as a means of improving education and fighting poverty. |
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MICROSOFT has been hit by a A$1.35 billion repair bill for hardware problems with its Xbox 360 game console. |
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CHIP-maker AMD has invested US$7.5 million in ailing semiconductor design firm Transmeta in a deal thought to be aimed at securing energy efficiency technology. |
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PC-maker Dell, which made an art-form of selling direct to end-users – bypassing traditional reseller channels – will soon start selling some desktops and notebooks through retail outlets in Asia. |
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CHIP giant Advanced Micro Devices has confirmed it will ship its first Quad-Core Opteron “Barcelona” processors in August – scotching rumours that it planned to delay the launch. |
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MICROSOFT is taking another shot at the supercomputing software market, telling a conference in Germany that it wants the same server share on the high performance machines as it does in the rest of the market. |
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THE Apple faithful queued for hours outside of electronic stores in the US to become the first to buy the much anticipated iPhone, the company’s assault on the converged handheld communications/entertainment device. |
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MICROSOFT is targeting students in the giant India market with an "affordable" Windows Vista-based PC pre-loaded with Office software for US$500 (A$590). |
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LOWER memory prices and continued price competition in the microprocessor market has led research group Gartner to dramatically lower worldwide growth forecasts to 2.5 per cent for 2007. |
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DELL Computer will lay off ten per cent of its global workforce – or about 8,000 staff – as part of an ongoing restructure aimed at getting the troubled PC giant back on track. |
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MICROSOFT has claimed early success for its Zune hand-held music player and entertainment device (a hard drive-based killer in the iPod category). |
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WORDWIDE shipments of personal computers grew by about 10 per cent in the three months to the end of March according to two new research reports, signaling the underlying strength in the ICT sector. |
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SUN Microsystems is to donate a brace of storage hardware and software technologies to the open source community in a move it says signals the commoditisation of the storage. |
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PC maker Dell Computer is to let customers in the US decide between Microsoft’s pre-loaded Windows Vista and its predecessor Windows XP when they purchase new machines. |
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