The Amazon Kindle and Apple's iPad are two very different devices, yet they are locked in a one-on-one battle for the wallets of content consumers, and it's not yet clear if the market is big enough for both of them.
Read more..But just because people can say goodbye to the mouse doesn't mean they will. Here are four reasons not to count out the PC mouse just yet.
Read more..The device will be called the "LePad" and will use the Android mobile operating system while other Chinese companies have also developed their own tablets, with some even billing their devices as imitation iPads.
This advance in battery technology could help maintain energy storage capacities for longer periods while making batteries safer by preventing excessive heating.
Read more..Other advances are needed, including tight integration between IT gear and building management systems.
Read more..Microsoft is bringing its Azure cloud to the local data center with the introduction of the Windows Azure Platform appliance.
Read more..Colt Technology Services Group is looking to attract companies that want to increase their data-center capacity without committing to building a large-scale facility.
Read more..New technologies emerge all the time, but only a handful change everything that follows in their wake. And they're not always the first of their kind. For good or ill, the following 12 technologies changed our lives.
The company announced the two-socket ThinkServer RD230 and RD240 rack server, and the ThinkServer TD230 tower server, all of which are powered by six-core Intel processors.
Read more..IBM officials characterize the zEnterprise system as their most significant change to the mainframe platform in at least two decades, and it is being coupled with some the other products to take advantage of it.
AMD is ahead of schedule with its upcoming Fusion chips, which will appear first in netbooks and low-end laptops early next year, but not in tablets, the company said last Thursday.
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Texas Instruments on Wednesday agreed to buy two chip factories in Japan, adding to other distressed chip assets its been able to purchase since the global recession hit last year.
Read more..Companies that designed spacious data centers ended up wasting a lot of money, powering unnecessary infrastructure. Today's data-center design decisions all pivot around maximizing efficiency, while giving companies a path for future growth.
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HP's Flexible DC is based on a butterfly design, with four prefabricated building quadrants that surround a central administrative section.
Read more..The media response to the iPad has been largely negative so far, which is slightly surprising given that the tablet was more or less on par with what the rumors specified. While much of the criticism seems valid, the Apple iPad is also the most promising tablet of 2010, and in the hands of the right user, a respectable business machine.
Competitive pressure is expected to come from media tablets like Apple's iPad but Ma said heavy demand for notebooks would still be a key driver in the upcoming years.
Read more..New discs, drives are the first to support BDXL specs, but rewritable 100GB and write-once 128GB BDXL will follow.
Read more..I/o Data Centers hopes to leapfrog the competition by developing what it claims will be a new, more integrated type of containerized data center, the company said recently.
Read more..A top Microsoft executive today compared Apple's iPhone 4 to his own company's problem-plagued Vista operating system.
Read more..A third of enterprises are looking to move to desktop virtualization according to research from desktop services specialist Centrix. More than three-quarters of the respondents said that cost reduction was the prime driver for the move to the technology.
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Let's assume for a moment that Google's collection of Wi-Fi "payload" data really was unintentional. And that Google never used the data, didn't even know it was there and stored it securely. Is it actually a privacy leak if no one has looked at the private data?
By its very nature, business especially the auto industry cannot work in isolation. Rajesh Uppal shows the benefits of bringing suppliers and dealers on the same page as one's organization.
It took one ERP implementation and a series of crises for Sanjay Jain to realize the secrets of project success.
You can get data classification right, but still end up with wrong information or data that’s not in the form your business users want. And then you would not have done a great job.
Work-life balance doesn’t have to be a tightrope walk, as the CIO of the world’s third-largest spirit’s company tells you. Work with a merged calendar, he says. "It helps me ensure that no clashes — like birthdays — take place".
