Intel prepares to close Philippine plant
The first U.S. company to set up shop in the Philippines, Intel stuns employees and country with plans to shut down its manufacturing plant within the year.
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Google scientist to demo quantum computer
Dr Hartmut Neven is to participate in a demo by start-up D-Wave Systems of a device claimed to be the first practical quantum computer.
Acer shines in Thai notebook market
The Taiwanese notebook manufacturer enjoyed a 42 percent market share in the first quarter of 2007 and saw its revenues jump by 37 percent in the notebook segment.
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ASUS to sell Eee PC with XP
Taiwanese PC manufacturer ASUS is planning to release a version of its educational UMPC, the Eee PC, running Windows XP this month.
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Sun Project Blackbox debuts in Asia
update Sun Microsystems' data center in a box makes its first appearance in Singapore, before moving on to four other cities in the Asia-Pacific region.
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WD claims top spot for external drives
Western Digital claims top spot for external drives expecting over 1.1 billion of sales for PCs, Macs and digital cameras by year-end.
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AMD CTO out, no replacement named
Phil Hester oversaw tech direction after being named to the CTO post in 2005, which means he was at least partially responsible for AMD's Barcelona server processor.
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New chips on the block
A host of new microprocessors and chip platforms are set to debut this year, including AMD's first 45-nanometer processors, as the battle for market supremacy wages on.
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S'pore supermart launches next BI phase
Singapore's NTUC FairPrice overhauls business intelligence backend servers in order to perform deeper number crunching on customer data.
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IBM denies re-entering PC market with Russian deal
Big Blue says it's not getting back into the PC market, despite selling "Microsoft-free" PCs running Linux and OpenOffice in Eastern Europe.
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Dell's disappointing quarter
The computer maker misses analysts' expectations and blames turnaround costs and "conservative" customer spending.
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Seagate pays out over gigabyte definition
Customers can claim a 5 percent refund on the purchase price of their hard drives following a lawsuit over Seagate calculating 1KB at 1,000 bytes not 1,024.
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OLPC to make XO laptop commercially available
For a limited time, U.S. buyers will be able to purchase, at US$399, one XO laptop for themselves and one for a child in the developing world.
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AMD tries for the cycle with triple-core chip
In baseball, amassing a single, double, triple and home run in the same game is known as hitting for the cycle. AMD will try for the chip industry equivalent next year.
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iPod gets touchy, with price cut
It's not exactly an iPhone, but the iPod Touch does have Wi-Fi. Plus: a deal with Starbucks and an iPhone price cut.
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Palm cancels first-generation Foleo
Palm says it's canceling the launch of the Foleo, but adds that it will release a second version some day.
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Apple sells refurbished iPhones
While the US$100 discount may be good news to wannabe iPhone owners with smaller budgets, it sparks a interesting question. Just where are the refurnished iPhones coming from?
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Some iPhone customers finding dead spots on iPhone screens
A few iPhone users are encountering problems with the iPhone's touch screen, prompting Apple to replace some units.
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HP hunts U.K.'s oldest HP-UX system
Company says it will award a free Integrity server to the owner of the oldest HP-UX installation in the country.
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Intel: Desktops won't overpower servers
update Even as the computing prowess of desktop PCs becomes increasingly fast, they will not replace the need for server farms, says chipmaker.
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