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Dell intros minitower workstation. And rack

Posted May 16, 2013 - 09:55 by a staff writer

Hardware company Dell has introduced two server products that it claims are best of class.

IBM sells itself short

Posted May 16, 2013 - 09:07 by a staff writer

IBM lost a lucrative government contract because it made a bid for the work which was too low.

Western Digital ships ultraslim drives

Posted May 16, 2013 - 06:27 by Nermin Hajdarbegovic

Western Digital has started shipping the world’s first ultraslim 2.5-inch drives, designed specifically to meet the needs of Ultrabook vendors and makers of all things thin.

Patent trolls get a good kicking

Posted May 16, 2013 - 06:19 by a staff writer

Mass suing by copyright trolls could be about to be consigned to the dustbin of legal history, according to the Mail Tribune .

Lotus 1-2-3 is dead

Posted May 16, 2013 - 06:15 by a staff writer

IBM has decided to finally lay to rest the second killer app of the PC - the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet.

Google's Page turns on Microsoft

Posted May 16, 2013 - 06:12 by Nick Farrell

Google CEO Larry Page is either an arch-manipulator of public opinion or one of the least self-aware people in human history.

Cisco turns its fortunes round

Posted May 16, 2013 - 06:09 by a staff writer

It appears that things are finally starting to turn around for the IT industry, after the industry bellwether Cisco published some decent results for once.

Intel Ultrabooks continue to flag

Posted May 16, 2013 - 06:07 by Nick Farrell

Chipzilla's efforts to push into the mobile arena are paying off, but the fashion bag maker is still in a holding pattern waiting for Ultrabooks to take off, according to an analyst from Morgan Stanley.

Google asks Microsoft to kill its app

Posted May 16, 2013 - 06:04 by Nermin Hajdarbegovic

Google wants Microsoft to kill its homebrew YouTube app for Windows Phone 8. T

Water cooled phone hits the world

Posted May 16, 2013 - 06:01 by Mike Magee

Smartphone makers are coming up with increasingly gimmicky features and ways to distinguish their Androids from the rest of the pack.

Woman tries to sell son on Craigslist

Posted May 16, 2013 - 05:58 by a staff writer

A 29-year-old single mom from Texas was arrested after it emerged that she tried to give away (or sell) her son on Craigslist.

Aaeon EPC-CV1 is an Atom-powered single-board computer

Posted May 15, 2013 - 15:15 by Shane McGlaun

Aaeon's EPC-CV1 is powered by an Intel Atom N2600 x86 processor, which is somewhat of a rarity when it comes to single-board computers, as most are equipped with RISC-based ARM chips.

Otellini (left), Craig Barrett (centre), Sean Maloney (right)

Intel's Otellini to spend more time with his tulips

Posted May 15, 2013 - 10:16 by Mike Magee

It is Paul Otellini’s last day at work today, as he steps down from the role of CEO to spend more time with his family and nurturing tulips in his garden.

Dell profits expected to decline

Posted May 15, 2013 - 07:05 by a staff writer

A report claimed that Dell will announce results tomorrow that don’t match the expectations of financial analysts.

Sales of PCs continue to slump

Posted May 15, 2013 - 06:50 by Nermin Hajdarbegovic

The global PC market contracted 13.9 percent in the first quarter of 2013 and Europe seems to have taken the worst hit. Sales of PCs in Western Europe fell off a cliff in the first three months of the year and they are down 20.5 percent year-on-year.

Qualcomm doesn't think much of Oracle

Posted May 15, 2013 - 06:35 by a staff writer

Qualcomm CIO Norm Fjeldheim is in the limelight following statements made about Oracle at the SuiteWorld 2013 conference on Tuesday, claiming NetSuite is a better fit for the company than Oracle.