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Article | 24/11/2009 HP reports solid Q4 on services growth

Hewlett-Packard reported an 18 percent jump in profit for its fiscal fourth quarter, thanks to cost-cutting efforts and the strength of its services b...

Article | 24/11/2009 HP reports solid Q4 on services growth

Hewlett-Packard reported an 18 percent jump in profit for its fiscal fourth quarter, thanks in large part to the strength of its services business.

Article | 20/11/2009 Dell's Q3 profit slides 54 percent

Dell reported third-quarter profits on Thursday that were down 54 percent from this time last year, though the company said it was encouraged by a sli...

Article | 17/11/2009 HP pushes thin clients with new hardware, tools

Hewlett-Packard is trying to tackle concerns about the cost and complexity of thin-client computing with new products and tools announced Tuesday.

Article | 12/11/2009 AMD talks Bulldozer, Hemlock and Fusion

If chip makers competed on the basis of code names rather than products then Advanced Micro Devices might have beaten Intel a long time ago.

Article | 11/11/2009 Updated: Adobe laying off 680 staff to cut costs

Adobe Systems will lay off 680 staff, or 9 percent of its workforce, in its latest move to cut costs, the company confirmed Tuesday.

Article | 10/11/2009 EU issues objections to Oracle's Sun acquisition

The European Commission on Monday issued its formal "statement of objections" over Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, saying the deal w...

Article | 10/11/2009 EU issues objections to Oracle's Sun acquisition

The European Commission has issued its formal "statement of objections" over Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Sun said in a regulator...

Article | 5/11/2009 HPC vendor pitches tools to build 'private cloud'

Much of the talk about cloud computing in data centers has been about enterprise workloads, but high-performance computing (HPC) customers are getting...

Article | 28/10/2009 Survey revives debate over mainframe's future

A new survey of data center users predicts a sharp drop in mainframe usage, though some industry analysts say the results seem unlikely.

Article | 24/10/2009 Investor Carl Icahn quits Yahoo board

Carl Icahn, the activist investor who pushed for some of the big changes that have taken place at Yahoo, announced his resignation Friday from the com...

Article | 22/10/2009 VMware reports a sharp drop in profit

VMware's third-quarter profit dropped by more than half as the company invested more heavily in research and development, though its revenue increased...

Article | 21/10/2009 Sun to cut 3,000 jobs as Oracle awaits approval for deal

Sun Microsystems will lay off up to 3,000 workers over the next 12 months as Oracle awaits approval from European regulators for its acquisition of th...

Article | 14/10/2009 Dell slams netbooks, says Windows 7 is our savior

Michael Dell has given netbooks a big thumbs down, but he thinks Windows 7 can restore our faith in PCs.

Article | 7/10/2009 AIR 2.0 will flow to Flip cams, local apps

While Flash Player got most of the attention at Adobe Systems' developer conference this week, the company also announced an update to Adobe AIR, a ru...