January 7, 2009 - Industry News
Apple’s final Macworld: Schiller delivers but announcements disappoint
Moments before Apple VP Philip Schiller stepped on stage at Macworld 2009, there seemed to be a buzz of anticipation in the auditorium at ...
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January 6, 2009 - Industry News
Lenovo shows off 16-inch thin laptop; Launches all-in-one PC, dual-screen mobile workstation
Ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show this week, Lenovo unveiled new consumer laptops and a debuted a dual-screen mobile workstation ...
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December 5, 2008 - Technology News
The weirdest computing disasters of 2008
Roasted laptops, panthers savaging memory sticks and angry fishermen throwing computers overboard top the list of the year's weirdest ...
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December 3, 2008 - Technology News
Has technology evolved our language beyond recognition?
You pick up your Blackberry in the morning because your notebook has a virus. You connect to your cloud storage and retrieve a few documents ...
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December 2, 2008 - Industry News
Palm: On track to become a historical footnote
Remember when Palm - maker of the Pilot and Tungsten PDAs and later the Treo smartphone - was the dominant player in the handheld device ...
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November 25, 2008 - Industry News
Apple’s new Macbooks: flop or fiasco?
The news that Apple has cut Macbook production by 20-30% may not be surprising given the world economy. But when HP reports that their Q3 ...
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November 21, 2008 - Industry News
Samsung mass producing 256GB SSDs
The company first revealed the 256GB multi-level cell solid-state drives (SSDs) in May. Samsung now offers SSDs with 8GB, 16GB and 32GB ...
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November 18, 2008 - Industry News
Greening the data center
Energy efficiency is a significant global issue today, and is expected to be even more important in the future. For the IT industry, concerns ...
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November 11, 2008 - Industry News
The IBM-Apple-Papermaster triangle: How far does a non-compete go?
The courtroom tug-of-war between IBM and Mark Papermaster is getting nasty. Papermaster responded Friday to IBM’s attempts to prevent him ...
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October 27, 2008 - Industry News
Intel apologizes to Apple, ARM for iPhone attack
Chipmaker Intel has released an apology for comments made by its executives this week on the inadequacies of the iPhone and the ARM ...
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October 22, 2008 - Technology News
Why glossy screens don’t work in notebooks
I’ve been complaining about Apple’s switch to glossy screens for a while now. As I’ve said in the past, glossy screens simply don’t work on ...
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October 15, 2008 - Technology News
Gartner: Top 10 technologies to watch over the next three years
On Tuesday, Gartner analysts Carl Claunch and Dave Cearley gave a crowd of IT leaders at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2008 a list of the top ...
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October 15, 2008 - Industry News
Cisco’s Chambers sees collaboration fueling productivity gains; Web 2.0 as new enterprise engine?
Cisco CEO John Chambers said Tuesday that there will be an "instant replay" in technology-led productivity gains in the current downturn ...
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October 10, 2008 - Technology News
The five products Apple must make
Apple made its latest big move into new territories last year with the launch of the now ubiquitous iPhone, expanding beyond the desktop and ...
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October 10, 2008 - Technology News
Scientists make ultrathin superconducting films
U.S. researchers have developed ultrathin films that when sandwiched together form a superconductor, an advance that could lead to a new ...
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October 3, 2008 - Industry News
The cost of doing business in China: Privacy
There’s a good amount of scuttlebutt today on a report that highlights how the Chinese government is monitoring Skype traffic for keywords ...
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October 2, 2008 - Technology News
Is security really a big drag on innovation?
Have you ever held back innovation because of information security concerns? Apparently more than a few technology executives are...
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October 1, 2008 - Industry News
Mobile-phone industry to boom, despite downturn
The mobile-phone industry is expected to boom, despite the global financial crisis, thanks to growth in emerging markets, according to ...
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September 17, 2008 - Technology News
How lame is lithium ion?
The last time I flew out of San Francisco, my laptop battery conked out as we passed Salt Lake City. Considering how I was stuck in cattle class ...
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September 16, 2008 - Technology News
Acer, Toshiba and Sony push laptop displays to 18.4 inches
Sony bills its new AW series as the "industry’s first" laptop with an 18.4-inch widescreen display. It is certainly one of the first, but ...
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September 10, 2008 - Industry News
The new buzzword is hybrid
Hybrid is one of the big words of 2008. Most people think of it in terms of energy, hybrid vehicles. But it also refers to software, a mixture ...
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August 27, 2008 - Technology News
Large Hadron Collider aces pre-launch testing
Pre-initiation testing of the Large Hadron Collider has now been completed, ahead of the particle accelerator's official launch on ...
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August 19, 2008 - Industry News
IBM: The mainframe is back
The mainframe is finding its way into emerging markets and is still holding strong globally, according to an IBM executive. Richard Pape, ...
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July 30, 2008 - Top Story News
The curse of the BlackBerry
Although he's supposed to be on holiday, U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown admits his BlackBerry will remain on as he wanders pensively along the ...
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July 30, 2008 - Technology News
Foxconn owns up to dodgy BIOS crippling Linux
The other day I blogged about how the Foxconn G33M-S motherboard didn't play nicely with Linux because it broke ACPI support. Well, as it ...
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