In its messaging, EMC took a cue from Oracle when it staged one of the most extensive product launches in its 32-year history, unveiling a total of 41 new products. – Deep beneath a glitzy New York City product launch Jan. 18 that
included a couple of nonsensical stunts — 26 people cramming into a
Mini Cooper and a daredevil motorcyle jumper flying over 40 side-by-side
storage racks in Miami, Fla. — EMC revealed one all-important fact:
The company has fin…
Microsoft is benefiting from a strong corporate PC refresh, particularly in traditional products such as Windows 7 and servers, according to a new analyst report. – Microsoft could see its earnings rise in future quarters
thanks to a strong corporate PC refresh cycle, according to a new analyst
report.
“We believe Microsoft has been unfairly grouped into
so-called PC tech bellwethers that are currently facing growth challenges in
the post-PC area,” Yun Ki…
Apple’s iPad faces rising competition from RIM, Samsung and others. If it wants to blunt its rivals, Apple should consider these features for the tablet’s next version. – Apple’s next-generation iPad will add a front-facing camera and the ability
to operate on both GSM- and CDMA-based networks, according
to new reports circulating online.
Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair wrote in a recent research note that the
new iPad quot;is thinner than the existing model…
Keynote for iPad is shaping up as a handy tool for both the consumption and the fine-tuning of presentations, whether those are built with the industry-leading Microsoft PowerPoint or Keynote for Mac OS X. Keynote for iPad has new build and transition options, with the addition of the Lens Flare, Spin and Wipe build animations and the Revolving Door, Swoosh and Wipe transition animations. The updated version for the Apple tablet, released in late September, now allows users to export presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint format and copy presentations between Keynote and WebDAV-based hosting services such as the MobileMe iDisk site from Apple. The update also adds support for audio in builds that are imported from Keynote ’09 presentations. Other new features and bug fixes parallel those in the other iWork for iPad applications, and include object grouping and table handling enhancements and improved font matching routines for imported presentations, and other fixes to bugs encountered when using the iWork.com document sharing site, which is offered by Apple as a public beta. – …
Pages for iPad 1.2 inches closer to being a full-fledged word processor; it now offers a running word count for documents, supports tables of contents, document sectioning, and footnote and endnote options. Pages for iPad now allows users of the iDisk service on the Apple-hosted Mobile Me service& or another WebDAV service& to copy documents between Pages and the service. Font matching routines have been improved to make the opening of a Pages for Mac OS X or Microsoft Word document more of a seamless process, but the iPads limited font support remains a sore spot for some users. This release of Pages for iPad adds the ability to group or ungroup objects in a document, and includes several bug fixes, including issues found when importing or exporting Microsoft Word documents. Pages for iPad 1.2 also adds support for opening a .txt document from within the iPads Mail application, and support for cell-specific options in tables such as image fill, custom borders, and font size and color. – …
Keynote for iPad 1.2 improves table and font support, adds new animations, and allows copying of presentations between Keynote and services such as Apple’s MobileMe iDisk. – Keynote was the first of Apple’s iWork applications, and in
its iPad incarnation, it’s a rather polished tool for creating and editing
presentations. Because the business executives and road warriors that are the
iPad’s target market are also the ones most in need of a powerful yet easy-to-use
p…
The dual-core Intel Atom N550 processor has begun shipping in more than a dozen netbooks. With its newest low-power Atom chip, Intel hopes to keep the netbook market strong and tablet sales at bay. – Intels newest Atom processors are arriving in stores, powering a dozen netbooks from manufacturers that include Acer, Asus, Fujitsu, Lenovo, LG Electronics, Samsung, MSI and Toshiba.
The dual-core Atom N550 processors, announced Aug. 23, reportedly employ the same compact form factor as the singl…
Microsoft announces quarterly results July 22, and analysts expect refreshed business spending on software to affect its bottom line. Windows 7 and other desktop products remain Microsofts fiscal foundation. – Microsoft will announce its quarterly results July 22,
and analysts are expecting the company to post revenue of $15.27 billion. If
that number proves accurate, then Microsoft will find itself surpassed by
Apple, which announced quarterly revenue of $15.7 billion earlier this week.
Ten years ag…
Apple is reportedly readying two product refreshes a new iPod Touch by September and an 11.6-inch MacBook Air with an Intel Core iSeries ULV processor before year’s end. – Apple is reportedly readying a new MacBook Air, as well as a new iPod Touch,
DigiTimes
reported July 15, citing its senior analyst, Mingchi Kuo.
Kuo, reportedly basing her information on discussions with quot;upstream
component makers, quot; said the new MacBook Air will feature an Intel Core i…
Microsofts Windows 7 operating system, along with the recent release of Office 2010, is helping drive a tech refresh in the enterprise, says CEO Michael Dell. However, while Dell sees that refresh starting now, its likely to take two years for large businesses to fully convert a PC fleet to Windows 7. – AUSTIN, Texas – The release of Microsofts Windows 7 operating system in 2009, along with the subsequent release of Office 2010,
is helping to drive a corporate refresh among many enterprises,
although it could take businesses years to fully switch from Windows
XP, said CEO Michael Dell.
While sp…
Microsoft executives claim in an earnings call that a business hardware refresh has begun, particularly in the areas of desktops, servers and cloud-based services. While revenues for Microsoft’s enterprise and virtualization services rose in its fiscal third quarter, along with those of other business-oriented products, the overall numbers for the Microsoft Business Division remained down from the same quarter a year ago. In addition to pushing Windows 7 to businesses, Microsoft is also counting on its upcoming Office 2010 to appeal to enterprises and SMBs.
– Microsoft executives are saying they see the beginning of a long-heralded
business IT refresh, and suggested during an April 22 earnings call that it
could persist for a number of years. While Microsoft reported increased
spending on its business products during the third quarter of fiscal 2010,
…
closure of a long-time tax break. The carrier activated 2.7 million Apple iPhone smartphones during the quarter, and boosted subscriber numbers to 87 million, not too much lower than those of competitor Verizon Wireless, which will report first-quarter results on April 22.
– AT amp;T reported consolidated revenues of $30.6
billion April 21 for its first quarter of 2010, representing a growth of 0.3
percent, or $78 million, from a year earlier. The carrier additionally added
1.9 million wireless subscribers the highest first-quarter total in its
history for a total o…
Google ratcheted up its attack on Microsoft Office April 12 with its revision of Google Docs, which includes faster document, spreadsheet and presentation functionality. Leveraging a new JavaScript engine and HTML5, the new Google Docs is designed for more modern team collaboration at a time when companies are looking to break out of the siloed practice of having one user editing a document at a time. However, with this revision Google is also disabling Google Gears for Docs so it can rewrite this offline technology for HTML5 and modern Web browsers. But this move provides food for thought for current Docs users that work with Gears. In the meantime, eWEEK offers this look at the new features.
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Intel is launching its new six-core “Westmere EP” Xeon processors, and system makers such as IBM, HP, Dell, SGI, Cray and Super Micro are rolling out new and enhanced systems powered by the new chips. The Westmere EP launch comes as Intel prepares to release an eight-core Xeon and AMD readies its 12-core Opteron.
– Intel is rolling out its six-core “Westmere EP” Xeon processors, a move that has OEMs such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Dell refreshing their server lineups and is continuing an active quarter in the chip making business.
Intel on March 16 unveiled its new Xeon 5600 series chips, a family of 32-nano…
Market research firm Techaisle just completed a study of 1000 small businesses to determine the financial, security and productivity implications of replacing old PCs. Techaisle concludes that small businesses that try to eke out more use from aging PCs will take it on the chin in all three categories. There’s more in blogs from Microsoft and Intel, who in part sponsored the study.
Microsoft announces another quarter of revenue declines, but results were still stronger than expected, thanks to what Microsoft executives referred to as cost discipline and a streamlining of business divisions. With the release of Windows 7 on Oct. 22, consumers and businesses may be in the mood to buy new PCs and Microsoft products.
– Microsoft
reported another quarter of declining revenue for the first quarter of fiscal
2010. Nonetheless, Wall Street analysts and Microsoft executives both seemed
satisfied with the results, which were stronger than earlier estimates. The Oct.
23 announcement came a day after Microsoft launche…
Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 7 operating system could impel a massive tech refresh for businesses, a new research report suggests, as the enterprise and SMBs (small- to medium-sized businesses) purchase new hardware in order to more easily upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7. Other reports have suggested that the operating system will cause a tech refresh, although recession-squeezed IT budgets may delay adoption until later in 2010.
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Microsoft’s
Windows 7 operating system, due for general release on Oct. 22, could spark a
massive corporate upgrade cycle midway through 2010, according to an Oct. 12
analyst report from Jefferies amp; Company.
quot;It looks like the Win7 inspired upgrade cycle can start in
late 2010 and…
Powerful, next-generation servers allow for increased resource utilization, reduced licensing fees, reduced energy costs, and simplified IT operations – especially when you use virtualization technology to host several software-based server instances on one hardware unit. By refreshing their servers, some companies are consolidating rack space by 50-75 percent, and slashing energy bills by 60 percent or more. New servers also bring more processing power and reliability to the data center, so more work can be accomplished in a shorter amount of time.
Some companies can achieve payback in under 12 months when refreshing 4-year-old x86 servers with new Sun servers powered by Intel Xeon processors. The best way to find out how much you can save is by using an ROI calculator. The Sun Intel x86 Server Refresh Savings Estimator lets you enter the number and age of your current server fleet and view detailed reports explaining how much you can save and how quickly your company will realize a positive ROI.
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Powerful, next-generation servers allow for increased resource utilization, reduced licensing fees, reduced energy costs, and simplified IT operations – especially when you use virtualization technology to host several software-based server instances on one hardware unit. By refreshing their servers, some companies are consolidating rack space by 50-75 percent, and slashing energy bills by 60 percent or more. New servers also bring more processing power and reliability to the data center, so more work can be accomplished in a shorter amount of time.
Some companies can achieve payback in under 12 months when refreshing 4-year-old x86 servers with new Sun servers powered by Intel Xeon processors. The best way to find out how much you can save is by using an ROI calculator. The Sun Intel x86 Server Refresh Savings Estimator lets you enter the number and age of your current server fleet and view detailed reports explaining how much you can save and how quickly your company will realize a positive ROI.
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A report from Deutsche Bank suggests that companies will purchase Windows 7 and use the new Microsoft operating system as an excuse to upgrade their systems. The report also finds that businesses are increasingly interested in virtualization and upgrading to 64-bit computing, and will make the necessary IT investments to upgrade accordingly.
– A report by Deutsche Bank suggests that the release of Microsoft’s
Windows 7 operating system on Oct. 22 will prompt a massive tech refresh and
possibly build a renewed market for hardware and software vendors.
The release of the new operating system, upon which Microsoft
is relying to strength…
