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Dell's Q3 profit slides 54%

IDG News Service - Dell reported third-quarter profits on Thursday that were down 54% from this time last year, though the company said it was encouraged by a slight uptick in sales from the prior quarter. Dell's net income for the three months to Oct. ...

From JAMES NICCOLAI, ComputerWorld,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Thomson Reuters,  Hewlett-Packard,  Cisco Systems, Inc.,  Perot Systems,  Gartner, Inc.

Dell's Q3 profit slides 54 percent

Sales to enterprises and small businesses were down sharply from a year earlier Dell reported third-quarter profits on Thursday that were down 54 percent from this time last year, though the company said it was encouraged by a slight uptick in sales ...

From JAMES NICCOLAI, NetworkWorld,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Thomson Reuters,  Hewlett-Packard,  Cisco Systems, Inc.,  Perot Systems,  Google Inc.

HP pushes thin clients with new hardware, tools

IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard is trying to tackle concerns about the cost and complexity of thin-client computing with new products and tools announced Tuesday. Proponents of thin clients say they can cut costs by allowing desktop programs to be ...

From JAMES NICCOLAI, ComputerWorld,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: JetBlue,  Hewlett-Packard

Adobe laying off 680 staff to cut costs

IDG News Service - Adobe Systems will lay off 680 staff, or 9% of its workforce, in its latest move to cut costs, the company confirmed Tuesday. The job cuts will be made worldwide and are designed to bring Adobe's costs in line with its 2010 budget ...

From JAMES NICCOLAI, ComputerWorld,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Adobe Systems,  Omniture, Inc.

EU issues objections to Oracle's Sun acquisition

IDG News Service - The European Commission on Monday issued its formal "statement of objections" over Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, saying the deal would harm competition in the database market. Oracle responded that it would ...

From JAMES NICCOLAI, ComputerWorld,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Oracle,  European Commission,  Sun Microsystems, Inc.,  U.S. Department of Justice,  Securities and Exchange Commission

HPC vendor pitches tools to build 'private cloud'

IDG News Service - Much of the talk about cloud computing in data centers has been about enterprise workloads, but high-performance computing (HPC) customers are getting some options as well. HPC specialist Platform Computing released some new tools ...

From JAMES NICCOLAI, ComputerWorld,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Martin Harris,  Microsoft Corporation

EMC teams with Intel for power-efficient cloud storage

IDG News Service - EMC is working with Intel on a more energy-efficient version of EMC's Atmos cloud storage system that should be available in the second half of next year, the companies said. It's one of several ways that Intel is working with other ...

From JAMES NICCOLAI, ComputerWorld,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Intel,  AT&T Inc.

Survey revives debate over mainframe's future

A new survey of data center users predicts a sharp drop in mainframe usage, though some industry analysts say the results seem unlikely. The survey was carried out by Afcom, one of the best-known groups representing data center workers. Afcom asked ...

From JAMES NICCOLAI, NetworkWorld,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: IBM

Survey revives debate over the future of the mainframe

IDG News Service - A new survey of data center users predicts a sharp drop in mainframe usage, though some industry analysts say the results seem unlikely. The survey was carried out by Afcom, one of the best-known groups representing data center ...

From JAMES NICCOLAI, ComputerWorld,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: IBM

Investor Carl Icahn quits Yahoo board

IDG News Service - Carl Icahn, the activist investor who pushed for some of the big changes that have taken place at Yahoo, announced his resignation Friday from the company's board of directors. In a letter to the board that was also released to ...

From JAMES NICCOLAI, ComputerWorld,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Yahoo!,  Microsoft Corporation,  Jerry Yang,  Carol Bartz

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