News: Hardware

• Toshiba Satellite A355D-S6930
  Arthur Gies
  Jul 09 2009

  With netbooks on one side and desktop replacements on the other, finding room for a laptop that's based around compromise is tough. In the Satellite A355D-S6930, Toshiba clearly aimed for an ...

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• EMC gets Data Domain, now what?
  Lucas Mearian
  Jul 09 2009

  NetApp Inc. said "uncle" yesterday after EMC Corp. outbid it for a second time in its quest to acquire Data Domain Inc, but some industry observers believe EMC, in its zeal to acquire the ...

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• Oracle mysteriously halts work on green data center
  Chris Kanaracus
  Jul 09 2009

  Oracle recently halted work on a green data center project in a suburb of Salt Lake City, but it is not clear why. The data center in West Jordan, which is supposed to support Oracle's on-demand ...

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• H20 rolls out sewer broadband to Sheffield
  Carrie-Ann Skinner
  Jul 09 2009

  Sheffield will be following Bournemouth as the next location in the UK to get 100Mbps broadband via the existing sewer system. H20 started its 'Fibrecity' project, which sees fibre-optic cables laid ...

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• Report: Price hikes killing SSD sales for laptops
  Lucas Mearian
  Jul 08 2009

  Surging prices for NAND flash memory have hurt what was a promising market for solid-state disk (SSD) drives in laptops this year, according to market research by iSupply Corp. In a report on ...

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• The big winner from Google Chrome OS: Telcos
  Eric Lai
  Jul 08 2009

  The coming Google Chrome Web-centric operating system could be a big boon for telecom vendors and wireless operators looking for another way to drive demand. For one, Google Chrome-based netbooks, ...

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• EMC fine tunes its management software portfolio
  Denise Dubie
  Jul 08 2009

  EMC Wednesday introduced the fruit of many acquisitions, organic development and integration work with its Ionix IT management software and services portfolio, which the vendor says will help ...

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• When private information and business concerns collide
  Johna Till Johnson
  Jul 08 2009

  I often advise IT professionals of the need to step up to working with their companies as strategic advisers around technology-related issues. This means helping business folk understand the ...

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• Clearwire to launch WiMax in Las Vegas on July 21
  Stephen Lawson
  Jul 07 2009

  Clearwire will start offering its mobile WiMax wireless data service commercially in Las Vegas on July 21, building on its still-sparse coverage area with a fourth major city. The service provider ...

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• Quick-boot laptops ready for a facelift
  Agam Shah
  Jul 07 2009

  After being hampered by slow adoption, laptops with quick-boot capabilities may soon be upgraded with new features that could make them attractive to users. Quick-boot capabilities had been on the ...

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