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Article | 2/09/2010 Fujitsu says green IT services can cut bills by 20 percent

Most of the talk about IT energy efficiency has focused on the data center, but office equipment like PCs and printers can offer plenty of opportunity...

Article | 1/09/2010 Dell hawks its new modular data center

Dell has been relatively quiet about its modular data-center products, but on Tuesday it showed off a new design it has started selling to large "hype...

Article | 2/09/2010 Is Charles Phillips leaving Oracle?

Oracle co-President Charles Phillips may soon be leaving the company after some public missteps and a recent change in Oracle's upper management, a fi...

Article | 27/08/2010 HP raises 3PAR offer to $27 per share, outbids Dell again

Hewlett-Packard has raised its offer for 3PAR to US$27 per share, outbidding Dell once more as the battle to acquire the California-based storage vend...

Article | 24/08/2010 IBM Power chips to get 'no-power' sleep mode

IBM is developing a new deep-sleep mode for its Power processors that will allow them to draw almost no power when they are idle, an IBM engineer said...

Article | 20/08/2010 HP: WebOS tablet coming early next year

Hewlett-Packard will release a tablet PC based on Palm's webOS operating system in "early 2011," the head of HP's PC division said Thursday.

Article | 20/08/2010 HP after Hurd: 'We're looking forward, not back'

Hewlett-Packard announced its third-quarter financial results on Thursday and insisted it was "looking forward, not back" following the surprise depar...

Article | 19/08/2010 Intel grabs server market share from AMD, says IDC

Intel has expanded its share of the server microprocessor market, taking advantage of a slow product transition at perennial rival Advanced Micro Devi...

Article | 17/08/2010 IBM unleashes 256-core Unix server, its biggest yet

IBM has strengthened its hand in the Unix business with new systems based on its Power7 processors, including a server for large enterprises that scal...

Article | 14/08/2010 Oracle signals an end to OpenSolaris

Oracle appeared to confirm this week what many in the computer industry already suspected: The OpenSolaris project is dead.

Article | 13/08/2010 Oracle sues Google over Java use in Android

Oracle has filed a lawsuit against Google, charging that its Android phone software infringes Oracle patents and copyrights related to Java, Oracle sa...

Article | 11/08/2010 Oracle provides Sparc road map, but questions remain

Oracle has sketched out a five-year road map for Sun's Sparc-based servers, hoping to reassure customers about the future of the platform and reverse ...

Article | 9/08/2010 RIM bumps into the politics of global business

Research in Motion is getting a tough lesson in geopolitics.

Article | 4/08/2010 Facebook doubles the size of its first data center

Facebook has decided to double the size of its planned data center in Oregon before the first part of the project is even built, the latest sign of th...

Article | 31/07/2010 Terry Childs is denied motion for retrial

The former San Francisco network administrator who refused to hand over passwords for one of the city's networks was denied a new trial on Friday and ...