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Lenovo outs ThinkCentre M81 and ThinkStation E30

Published on: 1st April, 2011

Lenovo has recently presented its new ThinkStation E30 workstation, as well as the ThinkCentre M81 desktop computers aim which target professionals. Both offer Intel’s second-generation Core processors. Lenovo’s E30 comes as a replacement for the E20 and for the first time offers the option of solid state storage, either in 160GB or 80GB capacities. The [...]

Apple’s growth will soon outpace HP and IBM

Published on: 28th March, 2011

George Colony, Forrester Research CEO, has recently placed a forecast that Apple’s growth will continue to outpace that of its rivals, HP and IBM. The two companies will most likely fall behind, in terms of yearly income, as early as 2013. The CEO expects Apple’s revenues to surpass $200 billion during the same time period. [...]

Google, Apple and others trying to settle poaching case

Published on: 20th September, 2010

Several companies are in talks with the Department of Justice and try to avoid an investigation related to anti-competitive hiring deals. Among these companies, Adobe, Apple, Google, Intuit, Intel and Pixar are trying to forefend an antitrust case. They are supposed to stop any pacts they have to prevent poaching each other’s employees. The Wall [...]

Coalition to boost creation of Linux-based devices

Published on: 9th June, 2010

Important electronic producers have formed a coalition with the declared goal of boosting the creation of devices based on Linux. ARM, Freescale, Texas Instruments, IBM, ST-Ericsson and Samsung are all partners of Linaro in this project and will provide software and tools meant to encourage the creation of open-source tablets and other devices in an [...]

IBM and Lenovo lead in reliability report, Apple is third

Published on: 6th June, 2010

The latest computer reliability report of Rescuecom shows improvements in the scores of the top five companies. IBM and Lenovo have seen the strongest growth and share the first place for the first quarter of this year. Although Apple has maintained the highest overall score in 2009, it is only ranked third. Asus comes second [...]

IBM to develop 35TB data tape, 39 times denser than current magnetic tapes

Published on: 29th January, 2010

IBM has announced a big step forward in developing a higher density magnetic tape. It has recorded data onto a prototype magnetic tape made of dual-coat barium ferrite, at a density of 29.5 billion bits per square inch. This is 39 times denser than any current magnetic tape is capable of. New technologies developed with [...]