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Intel has record year
FinancialIntel confounded some nervous concerns about geographic and technology trends with record revenue and earnings. For 2011, Intel's revenue of $54 billion was up 24 percent against 2010 and net income was up 13 percent to $12.9 billion. -
Microsoft has a prophecy of 2012 profit loss
Software megalith Microsoft has been consulting the augers and is warning that the liver on its sacrificial lamb is not up to scratch. -
Intel says turn up the heat
For ages, data centre designers have been working out ways to keep chips cool and this mostly involves spending a fortune on air con. -
Open source not enough to save WebOS
Open sourcing WebOS is not enough to save it, a leading analyst has warned. -
IDC poo-poos Windows 8
IDC has poo-pooed Windows 8 saying that it has concentrated too much on tablets rather than its traditional PC base. -
Cloud means happy days ahead for all sorts of vendors
A forecast from IDC predicted that spending by public cloud service providers on storage, but also on hardware, software and services will grow at a rate of 23.6 percent from 2010 to 2015. -
Intel aims at high RISC strategy
After years of slowly bumping off RISC based servers, Intel thinks it is ready to go for the kill. -
Seagate ships 4TB HDD
Seagate claims it's shipping the highest capacity hard drive in the entire industry, the four terabyte GoFlex Desk. -
IBM makes life all sunshine for Chinese citizens
IBM’s System z mainframe will be used to build a cloud based information system aimed at "improving the lives" of 300 million Chinese citizens. -
EMC steals storage revenues crown from HP
IDC's second quarter global disk storage systems report is out and it's good news for growth - with systems factory revenues swelling 12.2 percent compared to the same time last year, reaching about $5.6 billion. -
HP tied with IBM for booming server market top sot
While HP might appear to be losing its marbles throwing in the towel in the PC, phone and tablet markets, its server business goes from strength to strength. -
Taiwan's semiconductor industry set for quarterly decline
The charming Formosa which Computex calls home reckons Taiwan's semiconductor production value will reach as high as NT$413.8 billion in the third quarter of this year. It's down 1.1 percent from the second quarter, but that's still US $14.273 billion. -
PC chip sales faltered in second quarter
IDC said that sales of PC CPUs worldwide fell by 2.9 percent in the second calendar quarter compared to the first calendar quarter of 2011 and were flat compared to the second quarter of 2010. -
Acer floods Europe with notebooks by rail
With marine shipments taking a dive, Acer is rumoured to be trialling railway shipments to get its notebooks into the European market, fast. -
Semi market shows modest growth
A report from market research company IDC suggests that worldwide semiconductor revenues will grow by ony five percent in 2012, while growth up to 2015 will be relatively modest six percent CAGR. -
Sales of PCs shrink
Sales of PCs in Western countries has continued to shrink, and it if was not for developing markets would be in decline. -
Microsoft's Ballmer remains enthusiastic about Windows Phone
The understated CEO of Microsoft, Steve "there is a kind of hush" Ballmer, is said to be upbeat about Windows Phone's chances, despite a caning given in the marketplace. -
IDC tarot readers at odds with Intel's soothsayers
Tarot readers employed by the technology outfit IDC have come up with a future for Chipzilla which is the opposite to what Intel's soothsayers have been telling the world.
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