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Article | 14/05/2010 Nvidia CFO: Manufacturing yield problems are 'easing'

Manufacturing problems that delayed the release of Nvidia's high-end Fermi chip family have eased, giving the company a boost in terms of sales and gr...

Article | 6/05/2010 Adidas miCoach Pacer

For the last couple of weeks, I've been running with a new gadget: Adidas' miCoach Pacer, a set of three small devices that combine audio coaching wit...

Article | 5/05/2010 On the run with Adidas' miCoach Pacer

For the last couple of weeks, I've been running with a new gadget: Adidas' miCoach Pacer, a set of three small devices that combine audio coaching wit...

Article | 5/05/2010 Large companies save more with private clouds -- sometimes

Although cloud computing service providers can help companies cut IT costs, many large and mid-size companies can achieve equivalent or greater saving...

Article | 28/04/2010 VMware, Salesforce.com building Java cloud platform

VMware and Salesforce.com are jointly developing a cloud computing service called VMforce designed for hosting Java applications, executives from the ...

Article | 23/04/2010 Bing loses more money as Microsoft chases Google

Microsoft posted strong results for the third quarter of its 2010 fiscal year, largely thanks to sales of Windows 7. But the company continues to suff...

Article | 26/04/2010 Israel gives approval for iPad imports

Israel lifted a ban on imports of Apple's iPad on Sunday, saying the device conforms with local wireless standards, the government said.

Article | 20/04/2010 One in four countries block some Google services

Google's services are blocked or censored to some degree in one-fourth of the countries where it operates, the company said Monday.

Article | 19/04/2010 VMware drops hints about Salesforce.com partnership

A senior VMware executive offered several broad hints about the nature of the company's upcoming partnership announcement with Salesforce.com, but sto...

Article | 13/04/2010 No Kin phones for Asia, Microsoft says

Microsoft has no plans to bring its newly announced Kin handsets to Asia, despite the large size and relative sophistication of Asian cell-phone marke...

Article | 7/04/2010 Intel, Nokia let MeeGo come outside to play

Developers got their first look at MeeGo last week, with the release of key components of the as-yet unfinished operating system.

Article | 6/04/2010 Researchers track cyber-espionage ring to China

Researchers in the U.S. and Canada have tracked and documented a sophisticated cyber-espionage network based in China, dubbed Shadow, that targeted co...

Article | 31/03/2010 E-mail accounts of foreign journalists in China hacked

The e-mail accounts of eight foreign journalists working in China and Taiwan were hacked recently, leading Yahoo to suspend several of the accounts la...

Article | 30/03/2010 Acer among first to sell AMD's newest Opteron server chip

Acer will be among the first major computer vendors to sell systems based on Advanced Micro Devices' latest Opteron server chips, the 6100 series, the...

Article | 23/03/2010 Google's China decision ignores conventional wisdom

Google's decision to stop censoring search engine results in China, announced in a blog posting Monday, flies in the face of common wisdom when it com...