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Apple updates server line

Apple updates server line

Apple has become the latest company to offer Intel's new Xeon chips in its servers.
Shaun Nichols Apr 8 2009 12:43PM Hardware
AMD offers discounts on Opteron upgrades

AMD offers discounts on Opteron upgrades

AMD has announced an upgrade program that lets partners and customers swap older Opteron processors inside systems for newer ones at a discounted price, offering a performance boost without the cost of ripping out and replacing the entire server.
Daniel Robinson Apr 8 2009 6:10AM Hardware
Rumours hint at three new BlackBerry handsets

Rumours hint at three new BlackBerry handsets

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) is gearing up to release three new handsets, according to an online report.
Sylvie Barak Apr 7 2009 5:48AM Hardware
IBM/Sun Microsystems deal breaks down

IBM/Sun Microsystems deal breaks down

Talks between IBM and Sun Microsystems over a possible merger are reported to have broken down after the two IT giants failed to agree terms.
Ian Williams Apr 7 2009 5:48AM Hardware
NetApp backs storage guarantee with $1m offer

NetApp backs storage guarantee with $1m offer

NetApp is offering a whopping 50 terabytes of enterprise data storage, worth about $1 million, to an Australian organisation willing to be iTnews' guinea pig in a benchmark test to prove the validity of NetApp's storage virtualisation guarantee.
Brett Winterford Apr 6 2009 3:48PM Hardware
Western Digital enters solid-state drive market

Western Digital enters solid-state drive market

Western Digital has completed a US$65 million cash acquisition of SiliconSystems which supplies solid-state drives for the embedded systems market.
Staff Writers Apr 6 2009 12:39PM Hardware
Ford vehicles to get dashboard PC with mobile broadband

Ford vehicles to get dashboard PC with mobile broadband

Ford is to introduce what it claims to be "the world’s first broadband-capable in-dash computer system," to selected US models.
Dave Bailey Apr 6 2009 12:33PM Hardware
Inside the Global Switch Sydney data centre

Inside the Global Switch Sydney data centre

A rare and exclusive look at the results of the last phase of construction and power and cooling upgrades at one of the region’s flagship data centres.
Apr 6 2009 11:46AM Hardware
Amazon takes heat over Kindle DRM

Amazon takes heat over Kindle DRM

A literacy group is planning to protest the organisation that pushed for restrictions on Amazon and its Kindle 2 ebook reader.
Shaun Nichols Apr 6 2009 6:11AM Hardware
MIT designs viruses that can build batteries

MIT designs viruses that can build batteries

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have genetically engineered viruses to build lithium batteries.
Iain Thomson Apr 6 2009 6:11AM Hardware
Intel sheds light on low-power transistors

Intel sheds light on low-power transistors

Researchers at Intel are coming forward with a new process which could cut the power consumption for transistors.
Shaun Nichols Apr 4 2009 9:35AM Hardware
IBM close to US$7bn offer for Sun

IBM close to US$7bn offer for Sun

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that IBM is close to finalising a deal to buy Sun Microsystems.
Iain Thomson Apr 3 2009 1:19PM Hardware
Nehalem-based servers: nice kit, but who's buying?

Nehalem-based servers: nice kit, but who's buying?

Intel's Nehalem server processors have been launched to great fanfare, but experts believe its arrival will cause few firms to change their existing upgrade plans.
Dave Bailey Apr 3 2009 6:08AM Hardware
Netbook sales soaring while notebooks stutter

Netbook sales soaring while notebooks stutter

Sales of low-cost netbooks are growing strongly, in contrast to the rest of the market according to analysts.
Iain Thomson Apr 2 2009 3:37PM Hardware
HP settles with CSIRO over Wi-Fi suit

HP settles with CSIRO over Wi-Fi suit

The CSIRO has one less target in its ongoing litigation battle with the big guns of the ICT industry over its claims to patents on Wi-Fi technology.
Brett Winterford Apr 2 2009 11:24AM Hardware
Greenpeace accuses PC makers of reneging on toxins pledge

Greenpeace accuses PC makers of reneging on toxins pledge

PC makers HP, Lenovo and Dell have abandoned plans to eliminate vinyl plastic (PVC) and brominated flame retardants (BFRs) from their products by the end of 2009 because of the recession, according to Greenpeace.
Tom Young Apr 2 2009 6:13AM Hardware
New IBM Nehalem servers feature altimeters

New IBM Nehalem servers feature altimeters

IBM's Nehalem-based servers are likely to use less power in low-lying Sydney than in cities with higher elevation.
Brett Winterford Apr 1 2009 3:58PM Hardware
Intel launches Xeon Processor 5500 series

Intel launches Xeon Processor 5500 series

Intel has introduced 17 enterprise-class processors led by the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series.
Jenny Eagle Mar 31 2009 4:18PM Hardware
Wayback Machine stowed in shipping container

Wayback Machine stowed in shipping container

Non-profit organisation the Internet Archive has crammed its entire history of the internet into a shipping container.
Dave Bailey Mar 31 2009 6:16AM Hardware
Touch-screens are not the future of computing, says HP

Touch-screens are not the future of computing, says HP

Despite the current emphasis on touch-screen functionality for everything from smartphones to table-top PCs, HP believes that touch computing will have only limited use for desktops and laptops.
Madeline Bennett Mar 27 2009 10:45AM Hardware

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