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Article | 19/10/2010 Gartner: Enterprise IT spending to hit $2.5 trillion in 2011
Worldwide enterprise IT spending will rise from $2.38 trillion this year to $2.46 trillion in 2011, a 3.1 per cent increase, the research firm Gartner...
Article | 13/10/2010 Google invests in wind farm transmission project
Google is continuing to back green energy projects, this time investing in the construction of a backbone that will carry energy produced by wind turb...
Article | 30/09/2010 TSMC allowed to upgrade chip technology in China
The Taiwanese government granted chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) permission to start using a more advanced chip technolog...
Article | 30/09/2010 Intel makes WiMax investment with South Korea's KT
Intel and South Korea's KT Corporation plan to work together to expand WiBro (Wireless Broadband) Internet service to several new areas of South Korea...
Article | 23/09/2010 Zuckerberg soars up Forbes list of richest Americans
If Mark Zuckerberg had a dollar for every user on Facebook ... oh wait, he does. He has lots of dollars for every user on Facebook.
Article | 21/09/2010 Canon plans 40 per cent hike in inkjet printer production
Canon is responding to strong global demand for inkjet printer products with plans to hike production by around 40 per cent in 2011, the company said ...
Article | 21/09/2010 Alibaba still wants Yahoo to sell back stake
Even though Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz made soothing comments about her company's relationship with Alibaba Group on Friday, the Chinese e-commerce giant d...
Article | 11/09/2010 Google plans research center in France
Google plans to make France the center for all its European cultural operations, and to open a new research center there, CEO Eric Schmidt told Frenc...
Article | 10/09/2010 Making smart IT decisions: Simple steps small businesses should take for smart IT investments
According to a recent report from Forrester Research, IT spending in the United States is expected to ramp up in the second half of the year with an e...
Article | 6/09/2010 Former Google China head invests in Chinese startups
One year after leaving his position as head of Google's China operations, Kai-Fu Lee is funding a dozen startups with his new company, Innovation Work...
Article | 17/08/2010 Intel to promote Atom with chip unit from Texas Instruments
Intel will expand the use of its Atom microprocessors in consumer electronic devices with the purchase of Texas Instruments' cable modem chip division...
Article | 11/08/2010 TSMC to break ground on solar cell factory by end of 2010
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) plans to break ground on its first solar cell factory before the end of this year, a company represe...
Article | 11/08/2010 Teradata quietly scoops up Kickfire
Data warehousing vendor Teradata has quietly scooped up Kickfire, a startup analytic appliance vendor known for its use of the open-source MySQL datab...
Article | 10/08/2010 Skype files IPO registration with SEC
Skype SA seeks to raise US$100 million through an initial public offering (IPO) in the U.S., as the Luxembourg-based provider of Internet telephony, v...
Article | 29/07/2010 Adobe acquires Web software maker for US$240 million
Adobe Systems has agreed to buy Web software maker Day Software Holding in a deal worth US$240 million, the company said in a statement Wednesday.