Don’t buy Ivy Bridge Ultrabooks, Intel says. Wait for next year
Intel will re-invent computing, senior executive Dadi Perlmutter said as he kicked off the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) at the Mosc One West (MOW) conference centre. Dadi is tipped as the next boss of...
View ArticleIntel ekes out more Haswell details
Kirk Skaugen, a long time Inteleer is now into thin clients, or should we say tablets, smartphones and Ultrabooks.Intel is really excited about touch and excited about Windows 8. All across the world...
View ArticleChinese hackers have control of US power grid
The company whose software and services remotely administers and monitor large sections of the US energy industry began warning customers about a sophisticated hacker attack. Telvent Canada said that...
View ArticleBMC looking for a buyer
While the cloud, management software, and storage is being touted as a licence to print money, even in a recession, it seems that BMC software does not think so. The company is looking at a potential...
View ArticleMicrosoft admits that it is copying Apple
After years of being accused of copying Apple, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said that his new business plan is to, er, copy Apple. Ballmer has indicated that Microsoft's cash cows of operating...
View ArticleLenovo knocks HP off the top of the PC ladder
As we predicted, Lenovo has robbed HP of its title of the world's number 1 PC maker, according to beancounters at Gartner. While its rival, IDC, still ranks HP in the lead, but by less than half a...
View ArticleApple security software reveals Windows passwords
Security software created by Apple is ideal for taking apart Windows machines according to a report from insecurity experts Elcomsoft. The software can turn over Windows computers sold by Dell, Acer,...
View ArticleMicrosoft opens Windows 8 for pre-orders
Software giant Microsoft opened its Windows 8 operating system for pre-orders and set the price for an upgrade to the full version of the software at $70 for a DVD pack. If you do not want a hard copy...
View ArticleBallmer wants to show off all his Microsoft hardware
The shy and retiring Microsoft CEO Steve "there's a kind of hush" Ballmer says he wants to take over the market by showing off his hardware. Windows 8 is imminent. The market raised its eyebrows when...
View ArticleDell builds second ARM server platform
Tinman Michael Dell has announced his company is building a second low-power server platform based around ARM chips. The company also indicated that it will donate to the Apache Software Foundation for...
View ArticleAMD and ARM team up for server chips
AMD has branched out from the x86 platform, announcing that it will begin production of server processors using ARM designs in 2014. AMD will produce 64-bit multicore SoCs as new approaches are...
View ArticleLenovo clocks weak profit growth
Even as it heads to become the world's top PC maker, Lenovo has recorded its weakest quarterly profit growth in more than two years. Lenovo reported a net profit of $162 million in the July-September...
View ArticleFacebook co-founder describes shambolic start of business
At an event at the Said Business School in Oxford, Andrew McCallum, who co-founded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg, described how the idea came to fruition in a week.Speaking at the Silicon Valley comes...
View ArticleSharp seeks capital from Dell, Intel, Qualcomm
Sharp is reportedly turning to US companies like Dell, Qualcomm, and Intel to keep it afloat, in exchange for a stake in the company and a steady supply of its own, flagship panel technology. Talks...
View ArticleQualcomm invests $120 million in struggling Sharp
Fast-growing wireless chip maker Qualcomm is set to move into the LCD screen market with a $120 million investment in struggling Sharp. The Japanese manufacturer announced that it had reached an...
View ArticleAMD announces new Opterons
AMD has released two new families of Opteron server chips. Dubbed the Opteron 3300 and 4300 families they have been on the roadmap under the name of Delhi and Seoul. The 3300 is built for single-socket...
View ArticleApotheker: Don't blame Apotheker for Autonomy
The most exciting CEO in Hewlett Packard's history, Leo Apotheker, has joined the very public blame game surrounding the multibillion dollar acquisition of British software outfit Autonomy, claiming...
View ArticleDell abandons Android
Tinbox shifter Michael Dell will no longer be shifting anything with an Android label on it. Dell vice chairman Jeff Clarke told the Dell World Conference in Austin the company is officially giving up...
View ArticleDell told Ballmer to call Windows RT something else
The shy and retiring Microsoft CEO Steve "sounds of silence" Ballmer was told in no uncertain terms that he should have a re-think about the name "Windows RT" for the ARM version of Windows 8. The head...
View ArticleDell snaps up data protection specialist
Grey Tin box maker Michael Dell has written a cheque for data protection outift Credant , as part of a cunning plan to expand his enterprise security portfolio.Credant's technology allows customers to...
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