Tumbling demand could affect PC makers next year, leading to industry consolidation, IDC said on Wednesday. Competition among PC makers …
On the comeback trail
AMD has been through quite a few upheavals in its history including the recent layoffs. It has often been at …
HP results lifted by laptop PCs
Hewlett-Packard reported a 19 percent jump in revenue for the October quarter, lifted by its EDS acquisition and strong sales …
Virtual action
What kind of key opportunities do you see in the Middle Eastern market? According to IDC, IT expenditure in the …
Data centre wiring
Data centers underwent a network convergence in the early and mid-'90s as Ethernet became the de facto standard. But as …
Struggling Sun faces difficult choices about future
Bad times just keep getting worse at Sun Microsystems, and the vendor may face hard choices about which parts of …
Nvidia to offer parallel tech for mobile devices
Chip vendor Nvidia plans to use its Cuda parallel computing architecture in all its GPUs (graphics processing units), including its …
Virtual World
Thanks to the XenSource acquisition, Citrix has inherited one of the most advanced technologies for open source virtualization: however Xen …
Setting up Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi discovery and connection tools have existed since the early days of 802.11. But while many of these tools have …
LCD makers rue price-fixing fines
Asian LCD makers fined by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) expressed regret over the price-fixing schemes that led to …
AMD rebuilding it’s confidence
With the launch of its latest quad-core Opteron processor, code-named Shanghai, on Thursday, Advanced Micro Devices is looking to rebuild …
Atom processor no longer in short supply
Evidence suggests that the shortage of low-cost Atom processors that system makers faced earlier this year is over. The low-cost …
Good deal or risky business?
It was five years coming, but the battery of my ThinkPad R50 finally met its maker. On a recent trip, …
NetApp expands EMEA management team
NetApp has announced the expansion of its EMEA managerial team. Nick Thurlow has been promoted to Vice President Sales EMEA …
Intel’s Atom boosts chip market, but tough times loom
Intel's new Atom processor helped drive the worldwide microprocessor market to a new shipment record in the third quarter, Nonetheless, …
Data centers beyond power efficiency
Increased power efficiency alone won't be sufficient to turn data centers truly “green,” Gartner pointed out in advance of a …
Mindware & Wyse Technology launches high performance desktop appliances
Mindware, a leading IT distributor in the Middle East, and Wyse Technology, the global leader in thin computing, announces the …
HP to buy LeftHand Networks
Hewlett-Packard will buy LeftHand Networks for US$360 million to fill in its storage virtualization and iSCSI lines with products for …
Intel’s six-core server chip hits the market
The new chip line offers a performance bump over its predecessor, the Xeon 7200 series, Intel said. Much of that …