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IBM, Canonical Put Windows 7 in Their Crosshairs October 21, 2009 
IBM and Canonical have launched a Microsoft-free desktop software suite for U.S. companies, claiming the package will offer substantial cost reductions compared to a Windows 7 migration. Though the IBM Client for Smart Work package was initially designed for emerging markets, it sparked widespread calls for a similar offering in the United States.
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Acer Topples Dell to Claim No. 2 PC Vendor Slot October 15, 2009 
As global PC shipments rose 2.3 percent year over year in the third quarter, Taiwanese PC manufacturer Acer took the No. 2 spot in PC sales worldwide, according to market research firm IDC. That pushed Dell into third place; market leader HP, however, maintains its commanding lead. HP accounted for 20.2 percent of PC shipments worldwide in the third quarter, with almost 15.8 million units.
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Oracle's Ellison Challenges IBM to Server Duel October 15, 2009 
Larry Ellison ratcheted up his rhetoric against IBM on Wednesday, challenging Oracle's longtime partner and rival to "make our day" in a battle over business software performance. Ellison, Oracle's billionaire CEO, shook up the technology world in April by outbidding IBM and snatching up struggling server and software maker Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion.
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Wall Street Cheers Intel's Q3 Results, Q4 Forecast October 14, 2009 
Intel has been asserting for months that the personal computer business is rebounding from its deepest slump in nearly a decade. Its stock surged Wednesday on signs that things are picking up faster than expected, despite a few lingering trouble spots. Intel reported after the market closed Tuesday that its profit and sales both dipped 8 percent from July through September as spending by corporations remained weak.
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IBM's Mainframe Policies Draw DoJ Scrutiny October 09, 2009 
The Justice Department is looking into allegations that IBM has abused its dominant position in the market for mainframe computers, the data-crunching heavy lifters of the computing world that IBM introduced in the 1960s, which are now used to process some of the most sensitive data in banking, government and healthcare.
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Stylish, High-Performance PCs Suggest a Sea Change for Dell October 06, 2009 
To fully understand what Dell has accomplished with the Latitude Z and its other new business client offerings, it helps to remember where the company's PC solutions began. For years, Dell emphasized substance and notably aggressive pricing over style, delivering products with solid features and conventional design elements at costs designed to appeal to its core business customers.
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Cisco to Expand Its Video-Conference Room With $3B Tandberg Buy October 01, 2009 
Cisco Systems has made a huge play in the video-conferencing industry, acquiring one of the world's largest makers of such equipment for close to $3 billion. Cisco is acquiring Tandberg for about $26.37 a share in cash -- an 11 percent premium over Tandberg's closing price on the Oslo exchange. The proposal was recommended unanimously by Tandberg's board of directors.
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Ellison: Oracle Hearts MySQL September 23, 2009 
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison can be a wellspring of newsworthy comments. Little wonder, then, that for close to an hour on Tuesday, IT journalists were rapt as he ruminated on the subjects of the day in an interview with Sun Microsystems' Ed Zander at the Churchill Club in Silicon Valley.
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The iPhone's Five-Year Plan September 23, 2009 
Demand in companies of all sizes will see the iPhone taking 35 percent of the business market, according to a prediction from Forrester Research. This will be fueled by increased demand for smartphones worldwide. Meanwhile, Apple will continue to innovate and stay ahead of the market, Barclays Capital Research said.
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Dell Surges as PC Demand Picks Up August 28, 2009 
Dell's second-quarter results reinforce what other tech heavyweights have shown recently about the health of the personal computer industry: It's still wounded by the recession, but it is staggering back to its feet, thanks to consumers, bargain prices and little "netbook" laptops for surfing the Internet.
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HP's Q3 Profit Slumps as Ink Sales Dry Up August 19, 2009 
HP's 19 percent drop in quarterly profit shows that the company still relies heavily on printer ink and the troubled personal computer market, despite the aggressive transformation it's undertaking to branch out and encroach more on rival IBM's turf. IBM, which ditched its PC division as part of a major facelift over the past 15 years, now makes most of its money from software and services.
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Bad News for PC Sector Cushioned by Glimmer of Hope July 15, 2009 
Worldwide PC shipments will fall on a year-over-year basis for the first time in nearly a decade, but all signs still point to a late-year tech sector recovery, according to research firm iSuppli. Shipments will fall 4 percent from 2008 sales, to 287.3 million units, the firm predicted. This is the latest -- and perhaps the most optimistic -- of several research reports out lately.
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Dell Drums Up Virtualization-in-a-Box June 18, 2009
Less than three months after announcing a slew of products and services to propel its thrust into the data center market, Dell on Wednesday released several out-of-the-box virtualization solutions targeting both enterprises and SMBs. These are aimed at simplifying virtualization and helping customers cut their costs.
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IBM Offers Platform for Diving Into the Cloud June 15, 2009 
IBM had added a new service-and-hardware offering to its cloud computing repertoire. The bundle targets users seeking a single jumping-off point for deployment of a cloud environment focused on a discrete task, such as a test bed for application development. IBM CloudBurst is a set of preintegrated hardware, storage, virtualization and networking tools with built-in service management.
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HP Gives Scale-Out Architecture Extreme Makeover June 11, 2009 
HP on Wednesday announced its Extreme Scale-Out portfolio, intended to cut data center costs for businesses involved in heavy Web 2.0, cloud computing and high-performance computing activities. Such companies typically have data centers with thousands of servers. The HP ExSO portfolio includes a lightweight modular system architecture, as well as services and support.
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Sun Reports Poor Q3 but Investors Unfazed April 29, 2009 
Sun Microsystems has reported a $201 million loss for Q3 2009, a significant increase over the loss of $34 million that it registered in the same quarter a year ago. At $2.6 billion, third-quarter revenue fell short of Wall Street's forecast of $2.86 million and was a steep drop from the $3.3 billion the company realized in Q3 2008.
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