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1. Microsoft issues Windows 7 security advisory

   (Security/Security Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   Situation "actively" monitored Microsoft has confirmed that it is "investigating" reports of a possible denial of service vulnerability in the Windows Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. However, the ...

2. Infinity Ward deploys Modern Warfare 2

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Monday, 09 November 2009

   ... is a big chunk (almost 3 percent) for a 12 billion dollar industry." Woo explained that the recent controversy over dedicated servers and graphic scenes involving terrorists will likely have little or ...

3. Apple update fixes critical Snow Leopard bugs

   (Software/Software Features)

   Monday, 09 November 2009

   ... when composing a new message. Address Book and/or Mail stop responding when opened. Some email messages received from an Exchange Server are not formatted correctly. Mail reports "Account exceeded bandwidth ...

4. Microprocessor sales aided by Atom smasher

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 09 November 2009

   ... the pack with sales of Intel's Atom increasing by 35.7 percent in Q3, compared to Q2 2009. But desktop PC CPUs also rose by 11.4 percent, and X86 server processor sales rose by 12.2 percent quarter on ...

5. Nvidia reports 3Q revenue jump

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 06 November 2009

   ... enthusiasm for our Tesla platform for parallel computing in the server and cloud-computing markets." Nvidia CFO David White explained that the company's GPU business - which includes desktop, notebook ...

6. Intel: Xeon 5500 servers are "cash machines"

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 06 October 2009

   Former Intel CTO Pat Gelsinger once predicted that Nehalem-based Xeon 5500 servers would act as "cash machines" for the IT industry. Although Pat recently left the company to pursue other opportunities ...

7. Psystar screws Apple with virtualization licensing program

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 05 October 2009

   ... pre loaded with our unique technology including the Darwin Universal Boot Loader (DUBL)," Psystar explained in an official statement. "Qualifying products must fall in desktop, server or mobile categories. ...

8. AMD bullish about server market

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   Tuesday, 22 September 2009

   ... an alternative event just a block away from the Intel Developer Forum and wheeling in stray hacks off the street, briefing them about the stuff it makes. Everyone knows that sales of server chips have ...

9. Microprocessor diversity threatens X86 hegemony

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 14 September 2009

   ... desktops, notebooks and servers. However, only the notebook sector produced growth (13 percent) - compared to the second quarter of 2008. Similarly, both the desktop PC and entry-level server segments ...

10. Intel confirms top management shakeup

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 14 September 2009

    ... Data Center Group, focused on servers, cloud computing, networking and high-performance computing, will be headed by Kirk Skaugen. The Visual Computing Group will be managed by Jim Johnson. The Ultra ...

11. Intel's Pat Gelsinger leaves for EMC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 13 September 2009

    ... of sales and marketing, Sean Maloney, will increase the size of his empire by taking server chips, graphics and other microprocessors under his wing.Gelsinger was the pioneer of several projects at Intel ...

12. EMC keeps lead in falling storage market

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 04 September 2009

      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 ...

13. Server sales continue to plummet

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 01 September 2009

    Sales of servers worldwide fell by 30.1 percent year on year during the second quarter of 2009, according to the latest survey from IDC.Sales of servers worldwide fell by 30.1 percent year on year during ...

14. Dell holds out hope for PC industry

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 27 August 2009

    ... half of this year, although strong sales to the commercial sector aren't likely until 2010. Dell relies heavily on selling PCs and servers to large organizations while retail sales do not form large part ...

15. Dell down but netbook sales save PC day

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 15 July 2009

    ... are in thousands and X86 server sales are excluded from these figures.   Rank Vendor Q209 Share Q208 Share Growth 1 HP 13,095 19.8% 12,644 ...

16. PC shipments fall for first time in years

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 14 July 2009

    ...  The main reason for the decline is an expected 18.1 percent plunge in desktop shipments, predicted at 124.4 million in 2009, down from 151.9 million in 2008. Entry-level servers — which iSuppli includes ...

17. India suffers first ever negative PC sales

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 13 July 2009

    ...  Notebooks 62% 38% Servers 61% 39% Multinational brands accounted for 51 percent of the ...

18. Is Microsoft set up for failure with Windows 7 and Office 2010?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Monday, 13 July 2009

    ... Microsoft believes that Windows 7 will sell four times as well as Windows Vista. Today we heard from ScriptLogic , a desktop and server management company, that 60% of companies do not share Microsoft’s ...

19. Windows 7 faces an upgrade uphill struggle

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 13 July 2009

    ... Intel and AMD, who reported that corporations and large organizations were keeping a tight control on their purse strings with server chip shipments being particularly affected.When asked how IT departments ...

20. HP announces AMD 6- and 12-core workstations

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 01 July 2009

    ... you are after the best performance, you may even want to skip the xw9400 and go with a dual-socket Intel Xeon 5500-series system (Nehalem core). At least according to public server/workstation benchmarks, ...

21. iPhone 3G S launches with another round of delays

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 19 June 2009

    ... there was enough demand to overwhelm Apple’s and AT&Ts registration servers. Reports about activation delays, in which users were told that they may have to wait up to 48 hours for a working phone ...

22. Intel displays its Achilles' Heel

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 10 June 2009

    ... from sales in the PC and server area. Intel is thick within the corporate realm, and because of the credit crunch, large organizations decided that they weren't going to spend very much on upgrading ...

23. Dell suffers catastrophic profit fall

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 28 May 2009

    ... there was no improvement in demand across the board, with sales of notebooks, desktops and servers all sliding. Dell turned in profits of $290 million for the quarter, compared to $784 million in the ...

24. Intel buys OpenHand in netbook move

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 12 May 2009

    ... access and email. According to the OpenHand web site, its functionality includes Server Side Forwarding which lets people send documents on corporate servers by using a mobile gizmo for "fractions of a ...

25. Intel Atom sales slumped in first quarter

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 11 May 2009

    ... percent in the quarter, picked up from Intel. In the server segment Intel held 89.3 percent, AMD 10.7 percent. In the desktop sector, Intel held 70 percent while AMD held 29.8 percent. IDC estimates ...

26. Sun fails to shine for Sun Microsystems

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 28 April 2009

    ... But that's in line with statements made by AMD's CEO Dirk Meyer, who said in a financial conference call recently that few corporations and large organisations are prepared to spend on server systems right ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Tuesday, 28 April 2009

    ... 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 ...

28. Golden Goose continues to lay Microsoft eggs

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 24 April 2009

    ... market, particularly in the corporate sector. Microsoft said that while its CRM, Office Communications Server, and SharePoint revenue grew by over 20 per cent, its transactional revenue decline by 25 ...

29. Tech firms' results hold up better than expected

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 23 April 2009

    ... prospects for improvement, with a new version of Search set to launch in the next few months and rumors of a tie-up with Yahoo. Server-software sales grew seven percent year over year to $3.47 billion, ...

30. AMD optimistic although future is murky

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 22 April 2009

    ... which includes enterprise server systems. He said: “The commercial market is still weak, and wallets are closed.” There are however some bright spots ahead. He said that AMD will pull Istanbul into May, ...

31. IBM withdraws $7 billion offer for Sun Microsystems

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 06 April 2009

    ... of at least 35 software companies, thus boosting the company’s software sales 37% since 2004, putting the company right behind Microsoft and Oracle in the software industry. Sun largely depends on server ...

32. SGI sold to Rackable Systems for $25M, conditionally

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 01 April 2009

    ... Systems is server and data-center storage provider that is looking to add SGI's high-performance server systems used in supercomputers to its line of business. The terms of SGI's sale under bankruptcy ...

33. The next iPhone looms on the horizon

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 25 March 2009

    ... It also looks like the aluminum casing is back, like with the first iPhone (bellow). Image credit: iPodObserver ALUMINUM IS BACK! The inside back casing of this rumored next iPhone appearance hints of ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 18 March 2009

    ... 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 ...

35. NEC achieves world record in x86-based JVM performance

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 18 March 2009

    Yesterday, NEC reported a world record Java Virtual Machine (JVM) benchmark score of 2,150,260 SPECjbb2005 bops, which equates to a value of 134,391 per JVM -- beating the previous 16-socket server score ...

36. iPhone OS 3.0: A thousand new APIs for developers

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 17 March 2009

    ... Text alerts that visually appear just like text message (SMS) alerts.While the supported application is running on the phone, it maintains connectivity via Apple's servers. When the user exits the app, ...

37. Cisco expands into building blade servers

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 16 March 2009

    Cisco is expected to unveil to unveil project California later today. It is believed to be a blade server unit combining the networking technology Cisco has been known for as well as all other components ...

38. Dumb and dumber: Apple insists on smarter Genius in iTunes 8.1

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 13 March 2009

    ... not enabled yet. "The feature isn't live yet, but it will be in the coming days," was his only comment. So, there you have it. Apparently Apple needs to do a bit more tweaking of its iTunes servers ...

39. No recession here: NPD says U.S. gaming industry in good health

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 11 March 2009

    ... FINAL FANTASY XI:  THE FIRST MULTI-PLATFORM MMORPGSquare's Final Fantasy XI has been the first MMORPG that enabled console and desktop gamers to meet each other in the same virtual world, on the same servers, ...

40. European Commission rewards Microsoft for playing nice

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 04 March 2009

    ... prices” for access to interface documentation for work group servers. The EC found that Microsoft had abused its dominant position under Article 82 of the EC Treaty. According to the decision, Microsoft ...

41. Intel declares war

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 03 March 2009

    ... 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 ...

42. Microsoft working on Bob 2.0? Meet Laura the talking head

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 03 March 2009

    ... a somewhat lifelike appearance and function. Such a chip would normally sit inside a server in a company's data center." See The New York Times. Laura is not Bob, at least not reportedly. See Bob ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 24 February 2009

    ... 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) ...

44. UPDATED: Qimonda: German memory maker declares bankruptcy

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 23 January 2009

    ... graphics DRAM chips, 15% to 20% of the server DRAM market, under 10% of non-server DRAM for PCs.Nam Hyung Kim, director and chief iSuppli analyst said, "The primary factors driving Qimonda into insolvency ...

45. Apple TV approaching critical mass with "Take 3" - next month?

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Friday, 23 January 2009

    ... doesn't apply to devices which have features beyond digital TV. 3: Built-in Time Capsule and AirPort Extreme - Time Capsule inside ATV3 would turn the set-top box into a home media server as well, making ...

46. Analyst: Windows 7 unlikely to spark 2009 PC sales

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 13 January 2009

    ... has rolled out major service pack releases without any server problems despite download times that were often 3x to 10x longer than required due to load.This may, however, serve to indicate that interest ...

47. Microsoft posts TagReader for iPhone

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 12 January 2009

    ... and turns them into query sent to Microsoft's servers, the technology connects users to related online information, freeing him from having to type long URLs or texting shortcodes or launch browser. ...

48. Top 10 people in technology

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Sunday, 28 December 2008

    ... giant HP back into the wind, overtake Dell in PC shipments and recently IBM in server volume, grow the services division organically and through a $14 billion acquisition of EDS, a company that holds numerous ...

49. PC market growth expected to slow to a crawl in 2009

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 03 December 2008

    ... be still growing (thanks to a solid first half), but 2009 looks like the weakest year for PCs in seven years. The market research firm expects U.S. PC and server sales will contract by 2.9% to 67.1 million ...

50. Apple throws DMCA at Psystar

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 03 December 2008

    ... selling cheap Macbook knock-offs. The theory has legs since Macbooks represent over half of all Macs sold. Apple also accused Psystar of advertising imminent sales of "additional computers, servers, laptops, ...