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Article | 23/10/2012 Apple announces hybrid drive technology in Macs

Apple announced it will be including hybrid drive technology in its new iMac and Mac mini desktops, which will offer flash-like performance with up to...

Article | 6/09/2012 WD launches new portable hard drives for Windows PCs, Macs

Western Digital subsidiary WD recently unveiled two sleek, thin 500GB portable external hard drives for Mac and Windows PC users. The two new drives, ...

Article | 4/05/2011 Chip maker Adapteva aims to speed up smartphones

Startup chip design company Adapteva on Tuesday announced the multicore Epiphany processor, which is designed to accelerate applications in servers an...

Article | 28/04/2011 Intel eyes post-Thunderbolt interconnect for 2015

A new interconnect technology being developed by Intel could be ready for use by 2015 and will be able to shuttle data between computers at up to five...

Article | 27/04/2011 What your business can learn from Amazon Cloud outage

The servers are back up and users can once again check in on Foursquare and ask questions on Quora, but the legacy of last week's Amazon Elastic Cloud...

Article | 27/04/2011 Google to loosen up Apps contract terms

Google will allow companies to sign up users for its paid <a href="http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html">Apps for Business</a> hoste...

Article | 23/04/2011 Thanks, Amazon: The Cloud crash reveals your importance

The outage of Amazon's Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) service has shone a light on the number of Websites that use the service, which allows companies to...

Article | 15/04/2011 Turn Amazon Cloud drive into desktop-accessible storage

As you may recall, Amazon recently unveiled its new Cloud Drive service, which provides 5GB of free online storage. (Elsewhere I explained how you cou...

Article | 14/04/2011 Google defends Apps for Government

Google went on the defensive on Wednesday, saying it never misled the U.S. government about Google Apps' compliance with an important security standar...

Article | 13/04/2011 Intel to open up Thunderbolt development this quarter

Intel on Tuesday said that developer kits for Thunderbolt will be available this quarter, which could lead to the quick availability of a wider range ...

Article | 13/04/2011 IBM refreshes Power systems to keep Unix sales edge

IBM has updated its Power systems lineup with higher-density blades and faster processors for its mid-range Power 750 server, looking to keep its mome...

Article | 13/04/2011 Lenovo announces service for cloud-aware clients

Lenovo on Tuesday announced a hosted applications service that can detect the hardware capabilities of an end user's laptop and tailor the service acc...

Article | 13/04/2011 Google denies lying about Apps' certification

Google on Monday denied an allegation by rival Microsoft that it lied about an important government certification.

Article | 13/04/2011 Facebook shares green data center designs but keeps x86

Facebook is a wonder of our age. With more than half a billion users, the fact it serves detailed and personalized pages to every user--within a secon...

Article | 13/04/2011 IBM's Watson not as smart as you think

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. -- As smart as IBM's Watson supercomputer may have seemed while defeating two former Jeopardy champions , it wouldn't be able to hold...

Article | 12/04/2011 Microsoft accuses Google of lying about Apps for Gov't

<a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2011/04/11/google-s-misleading-security-claims-to-the-government-raise-serious-que...

Article | 9/04/2011 Dell to spend $1B on cloud services this year

As the market for cloud services grows, the big enterprise IT vendors are moving swiftly to develop cloud offerings that cater to their respective mar...

Article | 8/04/2011 IBM to launch Websphere 8 in June

IBM plans to release the next version of its flagship Java application server, Websphere 8, on June 17, according to documents posted to IBM's website...

Article | 8/04/2011 Facebook shares its data center secrets

Facebook is sharing some of the secrets that help make its Prineville, Oregon, data center one of the world's most efficient.

Article | 8/04/2011 VMware to ship virtualization clients for Android, Mac OS X

VMware will ship a desktop virtualization client for Android Honeycomb-based tablets at the end of the second quarter or beginning of the third quarte...