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Article | 18/05/2013 Bitcoin finding its feet at first Silicon Valley conference

Bitcoin is growing up. The virtual currency that caught the public's attention last month when its value zoomed briefly past US$200 kicked off its fir...

Article | 17/05/2013 Yahoo calls press conference amid Tumblr acquisition rumors

Yahoo has called a mystery press event in New York City on Monday afternoon, hot on the heels of rumors that it plans to buy Tumblr for US$1 billion.

Article | 17/05/2013 Virtual reality and non-conductive liquids: data centers get innovative

Google I/O is getting most of the attention this week, but a conference at the other end of Silicon Valley showed there's plenty of innovation happeni...

Article | 16/05/2013 Dell profit dives 79 per cent on falling PC sales

Dell reported another quarter of declining profits and revenue Thursday as CEO Michael Dell continues his fight to take the company private.

Article | 16/05/2013 Swedish data center saves $1 million a year using seawater for cooling

A data center in Sweden has cut its energy bills by a million dollars a year using seawater to cool its servers, though jellyfish are an occasional ha...

Article | 14/05/2013 Datacentres show signs of 'green fatigue'

A new survey from the Uptime Institute suggests fatigue is setting in when it comes to making data centers greener, and it may be partly due to overac...

Article | 7/05/2013 Syria 'disappears' from the Internet, security firm says

Internet traffic to and from Syria, which is in the midst of a civil war, appears to have dried up.

Article | 25/04/2013 Interview: Dell software chief talks transformation

John Swainson has one of the more challenging jobs in the tech industry right now. As president of Dell's software division, he's charged with sorting...

Article | 24/04/2013 Dell corrals acquired products for BYOD market

Dell has pulled together products it gained from its recent acquisitions into a series of BYOD offerings, though it faces the challenge of selling the...

Article | 19/04/2013 IBM-Lenovo deal likely to focus on low-end, commodity servers, analyst says

Any deal by IBM to sell parts of its server business to Lenovo is likely to focus on low-end commodity x86 hardware, not higher-end x86 systems such a...

Article | 18/04/2013 IBM may sell x86 server business to Lenovo, reports say

IBM is in "advanced discussions" with Lenovo over a possible deal for it to purchase IBM's x86 server business, according to two news reports.

Article | 18/04/2013 AMD's revenue drops 31 percent as CPU sales plummet

Advanced Micro Devices reported a 31 percent drop in revenue for the first quarter as it continues to battle a weak PC market and lackluster demand fo...

Article | 13/04/2013 Wide-scale attack against WordPress blogs reported

Unidentified hackers are said to have have launched a large-scale attack against WordPress blogs and any hosts using weak passwords are urged to updat...

Article | 12/04/2013 New datacentre survey shows mediocre results for energy efficiency

A new survey suggests that large datacentres might be less energy efficient than was previously thought.

Article | 6/04/2013 Facebook weighs in on Home's privacy implications

Facebook has posted a Q&A on its website about the privacy implications of its new Facebook Home software for Android phones, though it was unclear if...