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1. EMC keeps lead in falling storage market

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

     Factory revenues for worldwide external disk storage systems are falling, says IDC, thanks to a decline in server system sales. Factory revenues for worldwide external disk storage systems are ...

2. Microsoft confirms Windows 7 is done

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... 6, while the general public will have to wait until October 22. Windows Server 2008 R2 reached the RTM phase as well and will be “available on or before that date.” Redmond (WA) – Microsoft officially ...

3. Ubuntu aims for a 10 second boot time

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... logged in desktop with an idle CPU and disk. Remnant said that the time budget will be 2 seconds for the kernel, 2 seconds for drivers and filesystem mounting, 2 seconds for the X.org server and 4 seconds ...

4. Patent trolls live under the bridge

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... Bartur in 2006. The suit claims that Dell breaches its patent on systems using its Remote Desktop system, including XenServer and XenDesktop thin clients. HP, it's alleged, breaches the patent with its ...

5. Intel and AMD may be radically changing the future of the PC

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

   Analyst Opinion - We had a major reorganization at AMD last week that should not only make them more efficient. It may also make them the leading change agent in the server space as we move to a more cloud-based ...

6. Why Apple needs Microsoft to survive the coming OS battle

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   ... their U.S. antitrust trial and put them solidly in the EU's gun sights.   Then the OS forked. Windows NT, which had initially been intended for workstations and servers, dropped into the business ...

7. Emerging battlefield: Browser installers

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... an increase in market share of about 0.2%.) Last month, the organization posted a revised Firefox installer on its servers for 24 hours , which shows users who canceled installation a feedback form. ...

8. Complexity kills the computer industry

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

   ... gave way to the mainframe and the technology moved out of the labs and into business, the second was the wave that created PCs, workstations, servers - and the networks that tied them together.    ...

9. Why Sun makes a whole lot of sense for IBM

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   ... more innovative hardware vendors out there, but it is not its strength. It was one of the companies jumping on AMD’s Opteron processors and made substantial advances in the server market, but selling ...

10. Apple gets another secret Intel processor

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... server vendors have already received plenty of these chips from Intel, none of them has announced a product with Nehalem Xeons. In fact, I cannot remember that any other major vendor such as Dell or HP ...

11. Intel declares war

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... a vast new market potential for Atom since TSMC has connections to many consumer and lower end PC-type products (e.g., MIDs, webtop devices, netbooks, media servers/set-top boxes, etc.), especially in ...

12. Microsoft says there’s room for a netbook-like server

    (Software/Software Features)

    It’s not that Microsoft does not have enough server software products already. There are 45 different packages addressing all those segments businesses may or may not think of. But Microsoft believes ...

13. HP and Dell accounted for 37 percent of Intel's 2008 revenue

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... servers and nettop computers) accounted for 55% of Intel's 2008 revenue, or $20.67 billion, down from 56% in 2007. Sales of mobile microprocessors (that include notebooks, netbooks and wireless devices) ...

14. Red Hat and Microsoft play nice on virtualization

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... the incorporation of both Linux and Windows servers within their data center. Chicago (IL) - Microsoft and Red Hat have joined forces on a virtualization interoperability pact that will be great for customers ...

15. Gartner: Seven years needed for mass cloud computing acceptance

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... model whereby the local PC does not primarily store applications or data, but rather serves as a terminal for accessing stored data and applications on remote servers - called "the cloud".This model, while ...

16. Trust Digital opens enterprise doors for Apple's iPhone

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... of the Blackberry Enterprise Server," said Dan Dearing, Trust Digital's chief marketing officer. "IT departments require an efficient way to manage and secure the iPhone before they will consider it fully ...

17. Intel unleashes Core i7, beats itself

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... would be a new micro-architecture. […] And as for today, mainstream users will hardly feel the benefits of all these innovations. Mostly the users of multi-socket server platforms will really enjoy the ...

18. AMD Shanghai: Is it enough?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... back in the game or will be remain a player behind Intel for the rest of the year in the server and workstation space.Analyst Opinion - A lot hinges on Shanghai, AMD's replacement for Barcelona. It is ...

19. Windows Vista SP2 beta due next week

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... to Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 versions and wrap improvements for those operating systems into one package.   When it is available, users can expect “previously released fixes focused on ...

20. Android source code released, anyone can now make Android devices

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... one developer to create an application that syncs contacts at the Exchange Server 2007 with the G1 address book, partly addressing G1's lack of out-of-the-box Exchange compatibility. Too much openness ...

21. Wall Street meltdown will ripple through the tech sector

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... bankruptcy afterwards.  At the same time, Bank of America was throwing a life preserver to venerable Wall Street firm, Merrill Lynch and purchased the company for $50 billion in stock. But how does ...

22. Can AMD survive another Core 2 Duo?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... chip based on Nehalem architecture, will debut in desktop flavors in the fourth quarter, there will be more Nehalem mobile and server chips in 2009; there will be more details on the company’s much discussed ...

23. Security guru describes DNS flaw, says Internet Armageddon narrowly averted

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... DNS cache poisoning.  Several months ago, Kaminsky discovered a vulnerability in the DNS protoctol that allowed bogus name information to be sent to other servers and desktop computers – in essence ...

24. Micron preps 256 GB SSDs for notebooks

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      Micron announced a new generation of its RealSSD flash disk drives for server and notebook applications Capacities are now hitting 256 GB, but the real questions appears to be pricing and not ...

25. Apple patches DNS vulnerability, sort of

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... can redirect web surfers to malware-laden or phishing sites. Kaminsky discovered DNS vulnerability by playing around with server ports and transaction IDs.  He found that some implementations of ...

26. Leaked memo offers a peek inside Steve Ballmer's head

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... SQL Server. Linux is also in Microsoft's sight. "We must continue to compete against Linux in key workloads such as Web servers and high performance computing," Ballmer said.   As expected, Microsoft ...

27. Apple battling Acer for the third spot in US computer shipments

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... estimates for Q2 2008 (in thousand units)   Source: Gartner (July 2008) Note: Data includes desk-based PCs, mobile PCs and X86 servers. Acer data includes Gateway's consumer shipments and Packard ...

28. Surprise: Apple sues Mac-clone maker Psystar

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... copies of OS X Leopard and Leopard Server to its customers. In doing so, Psystar is violating the Mac OS X End-User License Agreement (EULA), which explicitly prohibits anyone from selling and installing ...

29. Rumors of AMD CEO departure gain traction

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Q1 in line with seasonality and record a restructuring charge. However, the company appeared to have had a decent quarter as Barcelona quad-core servers were launched top-tier vendors, Phenom triple-cores ...

30. iPhone 3G not quite ready for the enterprise - analyst

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... lack of over-the-air means to directly deploy enterprise applications. The fact that enterprises are required to distribute their applications through Apple servers is "generally unacceptable for mission ...

31. Firefox 3 and Safari 4 in browser speed race

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... a web server. The browser's JavaScript engine is solely responsible for interpreting and executing JavaScript commands embedded in HTML code. As a result, a browser's JavaScript engine performance is directly ...

32. Comparing Apple and Microsoft keynotes and Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... longer than your arm only to realize that TechEd basically represents only one division of the company. The respective keynotes of Steve Jobs and Bob Muglia, who runs Microsoft’s server and tools business, ...

33. Global server revenue hits dotcom bubble levels

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    The global server market had another solid quarter, posting the eighth consecutive quarter of positive revenue growth. According to IDC, $13.0 billion of Q1 revenue is back at 2001 levels - the very end ...

34. AMD rolls out low-power quad-core Opteron CPUs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... that the TLB bug delayed the launch of these processors  by about 8 months has turned out to be a major problem for AMD, as Intel has been the only option for companies that transitioned their servers ...

35. AMD announces 6-core and 12-core Opteron processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      AMD has updated its server processor roadmap with single-die 6-core and dual-die 12-core Opteron processors. The new processors will be manufactured in a 45 nm process that will be introduced ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... mobile, server and workstation. However, after the acquisition, the company slowed down to a crawl, while the competition stepped up the game and left AMD/ATI offerings behind. AMD 5.0: Asset Lite era, ...

37. Intel fires up new Atom processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Server CPUs is also a business that does not provide room for substantially higher CPU shipments every quarter. If Intel is looking for new growth areas, which ones are there?    Intel believes ...

38. Sun spills the beans on upcoming Intel/Microsoft announcement

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... advantage of these powerful new machines is very limited. While server and workstation applications have been threaded for many years, very few mainstream applications ranging from utilities to games have ...

39. TV panel prices stable as clients stock up well ahead of peak season

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... observers. The TV panel market is being driven by demand from Chinese vendors who are advancing their panel orders in order to fill up their stock well ahead of the peak season in the second half of the ...

40. AMD’s Markham labs: Flushing out graphics bugs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... graphics driver lab. It is separated into different stages, ranging from development to quality assurance and houses hundreds of mid-tower PCs (we counted about 400) as well as a rack-server installation. ...

41. 32" PDP boom may not last beyond 2008

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    The recent shortage of 32" LCD panels has gifted PDPs of the same class with a strong outlook for TV applications in 2008, but industry observers claim the boom in 32" PDPs may not last beyond ...

42. Rob Enderle: 2008's Apple, Dell, Google, HP, Lenovo, Sony, Microsoft and Linux

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... BlackBird desktop, the first touch screen all-in-one with the TouchSmart and bought out what was the best Microsoft PC like collaborative product of the year the MediaSmart Home Server. Dell wasn't ...

43. The AMD Barcelona back story

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... might be in the market for a server or workstation needing a quad core part not evaluating it regardless of anything I or any other analyst says.   However there were a couple of things at  ...

44. Intel tapes out high-end desktop chipset for Nehalem core

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... a chipset for DP servers and workstations as well as "Foxhollow", which will be offered for UP servers and workstations. Information on Tylersburg are scarce at this time, but we hear that ...

45. Intel intros 3.0 GHz quad-core Xeon, drops Pentiums

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... the volume availability of a new flagship server-processor. The Xeon X5365 is based on the Clovertown (quad-) core and clocks in at 3.0 GHz, while staying in a 120 watt power envelope. Simultaneously ...

46. AMD’s four-three strategy to beat Intel

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... of choice OEM’s, the companies that brand server and PC hardware, prefer vendor relationships where the vendor knows they are a vendor and is clearly subservient to the OEM.   They are ...

47. IBM consolidates servers into mainframes

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    In one of the largest virtualization efforts announced to date, IBM said that it will replace 3900 of its servers with just 30 mainframe systems – reducing power consumption by about 80% or enough ...

48. Intel preps DP server boards for 45 nm arrival

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Intel has informed system builders that it is about to refresh its entire Xeon DP motherboard line product line in order to support the upcoming 45 nm Wolfdale (dual-core) and Harpertown (quad-core) processors. ...

49. Intel phasing out Dempsey and Paxville MP server processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Intel plans to announce the phase out date for its Xeon 5000 series (Dempsey) 2-way server processors in July, while its Xeon 7000 (Paxville MP) series 4-way server processors is scheduled to be phased ...

50. Analysis: How serious are the bugs in Intel's Core 2 Duo?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... between initial creation and production ramp-up. From January until their release (sometime in Q4 for servers and desktops), these 45 nm chips will do nothing but be tested, fixed, tested again, fixed, ...