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1. Sun and Fujitsu upgrade SPARC processor

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... technology and it can be even better with investment by increasing the rate of innovation," emphasized Ellison. "We will make it faster and more reliable, while reducing its power consumption. If IBM wants ...

2. IBM 'kicks workers in teeth'

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   The UK's largest union is warning IBM to brace itself for a backlash from thousands of employees against the company's plans to close the final salary pension schemes and to alter the terms of its early ...

3. IBM sued over DRAM patents

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

     A law suit started in a Delaware district court alleging that IBM has breached a number of patents relating to dynamic random access memory (DRAM). A law suit started in a Delaware district court ...

4. Patent trolls live under the bridge

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Dell, HP, Fujitsu and IBM have been hit by a lawsuit in the Eastern District of Texas Marshall Division - famously known for its ability to expedite patent (chapter 830) disputes.Dell, HP, Fujitsu and ...

5. Worldwide server revenues slump by 25 percent

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ...  Q109/Q108 growth HP $2,913 29.3% $3,946 30% -26.2% IBM $2,904 29.3% $3,624 27.6% -19.9% Dell $1,093 11% $1,590 12.1% -31.2% Sun $1,018 10.3% $1,367 ...

6. Cisco expands into building blade servers

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... like Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Sun and IBM. Chicago (IL) – Cisco is expected to unveil to unveil project California later today. It is believed to be a blade server unit combining the networking technology ...

7. IBM again top US patent holder, vows to go after lesser claims

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

     In 2008, the top ten companies who were issued patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) was released today when IBM announced they have shattered not only their previous record, but also ...

8. Timeline: How AMD changed over the past 39 years

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   ... second-source microprocessor supplier of 8086 and 8088 chips for IBM. AMD creates the 80286 clone called Am286, based upon Intel's design and microcode. 1985: ATI (later acquired by AMD) develops its ...

9. Global server revenue hits dotcom bubble levels

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

   ... of software. Windows-based servers comprised $5.1 billion or 39.2% of all server revenue in Q1. Unix servers came in at 30.6%, Linux at 13.7% and IBM z/OS servers at 8.4%.  ...

10. Analysis: How AMD Asset Light will reveal MAD AMD

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... to acclimatize with the new corporate culture, Dave decided to leave AMD in the summer of last year. Phil Hester. The most recent departure, Phil was brought from IBM to head the AMD Fusion project. He ...

11. AMD leads Formula 1 supercomputer championship

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... (by TFLOPS): ING Renault F1 Team: Appro Xtreme-X2, 1024 sockets, 4096 cores (AMD QC Opteron) Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro: Acer/IBM/Racksaver, 1000+ processor sockets (upgrading to QC Opteron) BMW Sauber ...

12. IBM watercools successor of record-breaking Power6 supercomputer

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      IBM announced the replacement for its record-breaking Power570 supercomputer. However, the Power 575 is a bit more more than just a successor, since IBM decided that it cannot rely on air-cooling ...

13. Mac OS X Leopard gets UNIX certification

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... allows users to take advantage of other UNIX 03 applications that are currently available from Fujitsu, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Sun Microsystems.   Mac OS X 10.5, dubbed “Leopard”, was ...

14. A comparison of next-gen display interfaces

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... redefined to move data in this way, but are not currently. Supporters Intel, Compaq, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, IBM, NEC and Silicon Image Hitachi, Matsushita, Philips, Silicon Image, Sony, Thompson, Toshiba ...

15. Sun shines in sluggish 2006 server market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... to 10.8%), which puts the company in third place of the ranking. IBM leads the market with revenues of $16.9 billion, followed by HP with $14.2 billion, Sun with $5.7 billion, Dell with $5.4 billion and ...

16. Gateway recalls 35,000 Sony batteries

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... manufacturer that has been forced to recall the batteries: In recent weeks, Dell, Apple, Toshiba, Lenovo, IBM, Fujitsu and Hitachi have recalled more than 7.5 million notebooks. Sony estimates that the ...

17. Battery recall estimated to cost Sony at least $430 million

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... months ago, now includes Dell, Apple, IBM, Lenovo, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Hitachi, and Sony. Correlatively, Sony today also announced changes to its earnings forecast for the rest of the year. It was obvious ...

18. Sony recalls own laptop batteries

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... to be impacted in Japan and China. Other countries are possibly also going to be included in the Vaio battery recall. The tally of computers by the battery recall is nearing 8 million. Dell, Apple, IBM, ...

19. Hitachi becomes newest victim of Sony recall

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... will not have an impact on company earnings. Hitachi's announcement makes them the least hit from the recall. The list of impacted companies now includes Dell, Apple, IBM, Lenovo, Toshiba, Fujitsu, and ...

20. Fujitsu adds to Sony battery recall count

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... laptops. Apple, Lenovo, IBM, and Toshiba have also announced large-scale recalls of their notebook computers. Problems that have occured as a result of the affected computers range from minimal overheating ...

21. Cray, Sun, IBM support AMD's Torrenza platform

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    AMD today announced a first wave of companies that are "evaluating" the firm's "Torrenza" platform. According to AMD, Cray, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, IBM and Sun Microsystems "have endorsed Torrenza ...

22. AMD's Opteron scores another big quarter

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... "However, IBM and Sun were the only top 5 server vendors to outgrow the market in Q1 06 - growing factory revenue 11.2% and 84.3% respectively - and gaining x86 market share in the process. HP led the ...

23. Intel releases Woodcrest benchmark results, claims series of records

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... of Intel's Server Platforms Group. Specifically, Woodcrest servers built by Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, Hewlett-Packard and IBM now have taken the lead in the SPECint_rate_base2000, SPECjbb2005, TPC-C and SPECWeb2005 ...

24. IBM squeezes terabytes onto new storage tapes

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    IBM and Fuji have partnered up to develop magnetic tape technology that can store up to 6.67 billion bits per square inch or 8 terabytes on a single cartridge. This is an increase of about 15 times over ...

25. Dell loses market share to HP, says IDC

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... though not as badly as Dell - is Lenovo, which carries on the ThinkPad tradition started by IBM. Now that Lenovo's numbers have normalized following its takeover of the ThinkPad brand, its growth numbers ...

26. Transmeta increases revenue, reduces loss

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... the company had given. In addition, Transmeta said it ended the year with no long-term debt as it paid its remaining $5.0 million debt obligation to IBM in the fourth quarter of 2005. According to the ...

27. Growth of PC market to be impacted by economic downturn, says IDC analyst

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... it's well entrenched in retail channels as well as commercial sales to businesses. Struggling for presence among them is Lenovo, which inherited IBM's pre-eminent ThinkPad series, and dubbed IBM's former ...

28. AMD subpoenas dozens of major Intel customers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... which include Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lenovo, Gateway, Sun Microsystems and units of Fujitsu and NEC. Read the complete story here. (CBR)  ...

29. Huge JPEG patent infringement suit filed against Microsoft, Apple, IBM, many others

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      In a filing in United States District Court on Monday, Forgent Networks, whose subsidiary, Compression Labs, Inc. is the current patent holder for JPEG image compression technology, filed suit principally ...

30. Cell to appear in more consumer electronics by 2007

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

      The Cell microprocessor, which is being co-developed by Sony, IBM and Toshiba and will power the next-generation PlayStation console, is set to roll out in a wider range of consumer devices in 2007, ...

31. Sun, Fujitsu join forces to fend off HP and IBM

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Sun Microsystems is teaming up with longtime partner Fujitsu of Japan and Siemens of Germany to jointly develop the next generation of Sun systems, the companies said on Tuesday. Sun Microsystems ...

32. IBM, Fujitsu Unveil New Laptops

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      IBM and Fujitsu on Monday debuted new laptops that feature low-power mobile processors. IBM and Fujitsu on Monday debuted new laptops that feature low-power mobile processors. "For its part, IBM ...

33. Fujitsu may beat IBM with fastest Linux supercomputer

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      IBM has a challenger in the race to deliver the world's fastest Linux-based supercomputer. IBM has a challenger in the race to deliver the world's fastest Linux-based supercomputer. A day after ...

34. Trend to use desktop CPUs in notebooks on the rise

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... (HP) and will make new models for IBM slated for launch in the first quarter of 2003. Compal Electronics makes desktop CPU-based models for Toshiba and Acer, while Wistron designs and manufactures the ...

35. ATI Mobility Radeon Shipping In Over 30 Pentium 4 Notebooks

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... Gateway 600L, HP Evo Notebook N800c, HP Evo Notebook N1000c, HP Evo Notebook N1000v, HP Pavilion zt1290, HP Presario 1500, HP Presario 2800, IBM ThinkPad A31,IBM ThinkPad T30, MicronPC TransPort GX3, MicronPC ...

36. IBM sells off more storage biz (to LSI Logic)

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      IBM is continuing its flight from the storage component business by selling its Mylex business unit, which makes RAID controllers, to chipmaker LSI Logic Corp. IBM is continuing its flight from ...

37. AMD mobos are certifiable

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... of CPUs for A-brand desktops (from Dell, Compaq, HP and IBM) for corporates. In Europe, Fujitsu Siemens - AMD's biggest customer on the continent - and NEC use AMD in some commercial lines, making it easier ...

38. Intel Moves Mobile Chips to 0.13-Micron

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... are brand names). Intel also launched three mobile Celeron processors at speeds up to 1.20 GHz. Systems based on the new mobile processors will be available from Compaq, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, IBM, ...

39. Intel's 1.40 GHz Pentium III

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... and pedestal front-end application servers, as well as ultra-dense servers. OEMs including Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, Hewlett Packard, IBM and NEC are expected to introduce systems this quarter based ...

40. Panasonic's Tough Handheld Computer

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... currently on the street. Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, Hewlett Packard, IBM and NEC should start shipping machines based on the new processor this quarter. The Xeon processor platform is based on the ...

41. MP3s to Go

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... to PC-server OEMs. Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu/Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM are among the PC server OEMs that have already received Adaptec's Ultra320 SCSI ASIC samples. Adaptec says that Ultra320 includes ...

42. Wireless Advertising Association Poised to Put Ads on Your Cell and PDA

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... makers are now pushing mobile computers that use the new chips, including Acer, Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, NEC, Sony, and Toshiba. Intel also talked about the Intel 830 chipset ...

43. IBM Snipes at Microsoft's Arrogance

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Microsoft has been talking trash in recent weeks about open-source software based on the GNU General Public License (GPL). Fujitsu is going all out with a laundry list of different volatile memory ...

44. IBM Shoots for 210 GHz Chips

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      So much for Moore's Law. It's summertime, and the digital cameras just keep on coming. We've seen a bunch of them in the past few weeks at varying price points. The cheapest new camera we've ...

45. IBM and Hitachi Push Storage Interoperability

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      It's nice when the big boys work and play well together, especially if it makes the lives of IT folks easier. Fujitsu Microelectronics is now putting forth a stacked multi-chip package integrating ...

46. IBM Quadruples Disk Drive Density

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      IBM doesn't think that your hard drive is big enough and, if your thinking about using your computer as a digital VCR, they may be right. Intel let us know that its new low-voltage mobile processors ...

47. Kofax Powers Fujitsu's High-Speed Scanner

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Kofax's color-image processing technology has been selected by Fujitsu for its new fi-4990C high-speed color scanner. IBM Corp. has announced what it believes is one of the company's most ambitious ...

48. AMD to use IBM SOI in Hammers

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Advanced Micro Devices has finalized an agreement with IBM Corp. Transmeta Corp.'s rocky early start in the mobile market may be overshadowed by news that Microsoft Corp. has chosen the Crusoe ...

49. Big Intel price cuts coming

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... Co., IBM Corp., and NEC Corp. Six new members, Computer Associates International Inc., Fujitsu, Hitachi LTD, Covalent Inc., Mitsubishi Electric, and Miracle Linux, have announced support. Initial funding ...

50. MSN Satellite fine-print

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... makers in regards to notebook projects that would have used the Crusoe microprocessor. Even as IBM, Compaq Computer Corp., and Toshiba America waffled in their support for the chip, Transmeta was going ...