Dell: PC demand 'seems to have stabilized'
Computer maker says its upcoming second-quarter earnings results will reflect better demand for its goods and slightly better revenue.
Chip market shows signs of life
Analyst firm Future Horizons suggests chip market could be about to break a key psychological barrier, after last year's "severe overreaction" to financial uncertainty.
Memory price hikes make SSDs less attractive
Surging prices for NAND-type flash memory creates new hurdle for adoption of solid-state drives by making them significantly more expensive.
EMC wins NetApp in Data Domain bidding war
NetApp's proposed merger agreement with Data Domain was terminated after the former declined to raise its bid. EMC will now have the rights to acquire in US$2.1 billion deal.
Dell eyes more indirect income in South Asia
Hardware maker will boost enterprise partnerships as it seeks more revenue from indirect channel, which now accounts for 37 percent of its revenue.
EMC ups Data Domain bid as NetApp deal proceeds
Even as NetApp receives clearance from U.S. authorities to buy Data Domain for US$1.9 billion, rival EMC ups stakes to US$2.1 billion.
AT&T breaks sales records with iPhone 3GS launch
Carrier sells more phones the first day the iPhone 3GS went on sale than it ever has, even on the two previous iPhone launch days, according to an internal memo.
Dell working on Android gadget
Company is developing a pocket-size Internet device to take on Apple's iPod Touch, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
Intel to SMBs: Don't hold off PC refresh
Security risks and maintenance costs may make older desktops and notebooks more expensive than new machines, chipmaker points out.
Netgear to deliver 24TB NAS system
ReadyNAS rack-mounted appliance aimed at small and midsize businesses, will eventually hold up to 24TB as new drives become available.
Report: Consumer confusion over netbooks and notebooks
A report issued by the NPD Group revealed 60 percent of consumers who purchased a netbook thought it works the same as a notebook.
Printer vendors push green for cheap
Printer manufacturers zoom in on design, technology and tools to offer environment-friendly machines that can also help businesses reduce costs.
Roadrunner, Jaguar cement supercomp lead
IBM's Roadrunner and Cray's Jaguar retain top two positions on latest Top500 supercomputer list, which also saw four new systems in the top 10.
iSuppli: Global PC sales historic nosedive in Q1
Haviest anchor is desktop sales, down 23 percent year-over-over, most likely due to companies not buying many new computers for their workers.
LHC restart pushed back again
Cern's flagship particle accelerator, put out of commission by a quality-control flaw, will be switched on a couple of weeks later than previously expected.
Asia's 'bright' HPC future will take time
Region's high-performance computing has promising future but it will take some time for Asia to catch up with the West, industry watchers say.
Intel drops Centrino, explains Core i3, i5, i7 branding
Centrino will be phased out as PC brand, and be used as name for Wi-Fi and WiMax products. It will still be in market on mobile PCs into 2010 but will eventually be discontinued, blogs executive.
Intel toots its research horn for chips--and more
Chipmaker struts its stuff for next-generation networking, processors, energy efficiency and wireless power transmission at its research day.
IDC: Server spending tanks in Q2, but worst is over
Although global server revenue is expected to fall 29.6 percent in second quarter, IDC sees some signs of stabilization.
Infortrend moves into enterprise storage
The company is hoping that its five new SAN systems for scale-out storage will pull in medium-sized business customers.
Dell boosts enterprise virtualization portfolio
It unveils pre-configured packages for deploying and managing virtualized infrastructures, new storage products and a consulting service called ProConsult.
Snow Leopard features hint at Apple tablet
Some of the upgrades to Mac OS X show that Apple could be headed toward software that would translate well to a larger touchscreen device.
HP unveils new offering for 'scale-out' setting
Built for cloud computing and high performance environments, the new portfolio includes ProLiant SL server family and aims at cost and resource savings.
Palm picks new pilot to run company
Ed Colligan is stepping down as chief of the smartphone maker, and Jon Rubinstein takes over.
Via not serious contender to Intel, AMD
Taiwanese player has strengths to compete in niche areas but lacks the investment and product performance to truly take on the big boys, says analyst.
Apple: Next Mac OS X unlocks chip power
Snow Leopard features tech called Grand Central Dispatch to better tap into multicore chip power. Also: OpenCL for doing calculations on a graphics chip.
Cisco enters rack-mount server market
The company plans to move into the rack-mount server business as part of its "unified computing" push.
Flexible memory developed for chips
Researchers at U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology have created a flexible memristor, which can be bent or twisted and remain functional.
Philippine semicon on way up after 'hitting bottom'
Philippine semiconductor market--country's top export earner--on road to recovery with exports climbing from 0.76 percent to 9 percent in first quarter of 2009.
Acer launches first business netbook
The PC manufacturer has tailored its Aspire One netbook for the corporate crowd, adding greater storage and XP Professional.
HP delivers Istanbul-powered servers
The seven ProLiants built on AMD's new six-core Opteron chip come with heat- and power-management functions designed to drive down energy consumption.
Philippine govt agency sues IBM
Government social security arm alleges system built by IBM and subsidiary Questronix crashed due to defective software; sues for breach of contract.
First Tegra-based netbooks and MIDs unveiled
Nvidia's system-on-a-chip has shown up in a dozen netbooks and mobile internet devices at the Computex event in Taiwan.
Flash to be optimized for Intel, Nvidia netbooks
Adobe has announced collaborations with Broadcom and Nvidia that will see high-definition Flash video technology tweaked for portable Web-surfing devices.
Intel launches CULV chip for ultra-thin notebooks
The SU2700 is designed for notebook computers that are larger and more powerful than netbooks, but still much thinner than traditional laptops.
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