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Cisco Reports Solid Quarter, Cites Collaboration, Cloud Strengths

May 13th, 2010 | No Comments

Cisco Systems saw revenue in its fiscal third quarter jump to $10.4 billion and income climb to $2.2 billion, in what CEO John Chambers calls an outstanding quarter. Chambers cites Cisco’s data center partnership with EMC and VMware, and the acquisition of Tandberg, as key strengths of the enterprise networking company.
– Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers sounded
both excited and cautious as he announced strong quarterly earnings for the
company May 12.
Several times during a lengthy conference call with analysts
and reporters, Chambers touted fiscal third-quarter results that included
revenue of $10.4 billion and…

Intel may unveil its 600GB 25 nm Solid State Disk in 2010

May 6th, 2010 | No Comments

Nowadays when SSDs are available only for 100$, Intel is also expected to release a 600GB 25 nm SSD by the end of 2010.
SSDs being more efficient than Hard Disk drives have higher read/write speeds, consume less power as well as are smaller in size. SSD have a drawback that they have a short life
Intel [...]

Visual Studio 2010 Makes Solid Progress

April 24th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft’s Visual Studio development software gains enhancements to its core functionality and its handling of ASP.NET, C#, C++ and VB. Here, eWEEK Labs reviews Visual Studio 2010 in detail.
– Microsoft’s flagship product for developers,
Visual Studio 2010, represents a substantial improvement over Visual Studio
2008, with enhancements to the tool’s core functionality and its handling of ASP.NET, C#, C++ and VB. What’s
more, along with the VS 2010 release Microsoft has updated .NET Fra…

Wilco Launches Festival Solid Sound Fest in MA 8/13-15

April 7th, 2010 | No Comments

WILCO LAUNCHES SOLID SOUND FESTIVAL AT MASS MoCA AUGUST 13-15

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The SOLID SOUND FESTIVAL is a new festival curated by the Chicago band Wilco. It debuts August 13-15 at MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) in North Adams, MA. The SOLID SOUND FESTIVAL is an independently promoted and ticketed three-day event of music, art, comedy, interactivity and more. Wilco headlines the weekend, in the band’s only East Coast performance of the summer. This new festival also presents individual performances by all the Wilco members; side projects including Glenn Kotche‘s On Fillmore, The Nels Cline Singers, The Autumn Defense featuring John Stirratt and Pat Sansone and Mikael Jorgensen‘s Pronto.

Tickets for SOLID SOUND FESTIVAL are on sale this Friday, April 9 through the band’s official website wilcoworld.net and through solidsoundfestival.com. From April 9 to May 31 tickets for the three-day event will be available for $86.50 (including all fees and parking) and after June 1 for $99.50 (including all fees and parking).

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Oracle Takes Hit on Sun Costs but Records Solid Q3

March 25th, 2010 | No Comments

Oracle’s quarterly profit slipped by 11 percent due to the enterprise database and middleware maker’s digestion of the $7.4 billion deal that brought it Sun. Nonetheless, the company reports profit of $1.19 billion, or 23 cents per share, for the quarter ended Feb. 28.
– Oracle, after a tumultuous 2009 during which it acquired Sun Microsystems
and battled IBM and SAP
in the markets, reported March 25 that it came through the last quarter in good
financial shape despite the expensive legal and regulatory issues surrounding
the Sun deal.

The enterprise database…

Biosensors gains 1.9% as China prospects stay solid, says Nomura

March 16th, 2010 | No Comments

Biosensors (B20.SG) has gained 1.9% at 79.5 cents in active trade as investors relook at stock after 8.2% fall since beginning March, reported Dow Jones Newswires.

Recent weakness triggered partly by concerns over heart stent maker’s distribution business in Germany following Medtronics’ acquisition of Invatec, an affiliate Krauth Cardiovascular, which distributes Biosensors’ flagship BioMatrix stent in Germany, one of Europe’s major stent markets.

3D Solid Modeling, 3D Solidworks and 3D modelling Software Posted By : Steve P Jack

January 20th, 2010 | No Comments

3D modeling is the procedure of developing a mathematical demonstration of any three-dimensional surface of object via 3D modeling software. The product is called a 3D model.

REVIEW: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Beta Brings Already Solid Server into Modern Day

January 12th, 2010 | No Comments

SharePoint is one of of Microsoft’s biggest success stories in the corporate world. SharePoint 2007 is still a solid performer for a variety of tasks, but it has been showing its age. eWEEK Labs’ tests of the SharePoint 2010 beta show that Microsoft has done a good job of bringing the server squarely up with the times, providing business-oriented social networking features and a new interface, as well as beefed-up capabilities for the kinds of tasks for which businesses have been leveraging SharePoint.
– Ask businesspeople what the best and most useful product made by Microsoft is, and you may be surprised to hear many skip past the more obvious choices–such as Windows and Office–and go right to SharePoint.
Introduced as a modest set of online extensions for a variety of online and collaborative …

Services, Cost Cutting Delivers Solid Quarter for HP

November 24th, 2009 | No Comments

Services delivered a solid quarter for HP, generating $8.9 billion in revenue. HP CEO Mark Hurd said the integration of EDS into the company was ahead of schedule, and that HP was able to cut 19,000 jobs in the wake of the EDS purchase in 2008, which helped save on the bottom line. Overall, HP generated $2.4 billion in profit on $30.8 billion in revenue.
– Hewlett-Packard reported solid quarterly numbers on the strength of its services business and it cost-control efforts, including the elimination of 19,000 jobs in the wake of merging EDS into the company.
HP Nov. 23 said revenue for its fiscal year fourth quarter 2009 came in at $30.8 billion, down…

HP Releases Solid Fiscal Numbers After 3Com Announcement

November 12th, 2009 | No Comments

HP released preliminary fiscal fourth-quarter numbers in the wake of its announcement that it is buying networking equipment vendor 3Com for $2.7 billion. HP officials say revenues for the quarter will be 12 percent higher than the previous quarter, but 8 percent less than the same period last year. HP is scheduled to release its final quarterly numbers Nov. 23.
– On the heels of the announcement that it is buying networking
equipment vendor 3Com, Hewlett-Packard is releasing preliminary fiscal
fourth-quarter financial numbers that show revenues up 12 percent over the
previous quarter.
HP is scheduled to release final quarterly figures Nov. 23, but releas…

New MacBook Offers Sleek Style, Solid Performance

November 6th, 2009 | No Comments

Reviewing the new MacBook, Michael DeAgonia (computerworld.com) calls it â€a solid laptop that feels sculpted instead of assembled and has the processing power users need.â€ DeAgonia concludes that the MacBook â€œis a compelling computer at a compelling price,â€ with â€œbeauty that is more than skin deep.â€

BlackBerry Tour Is a Solid Device, but It Makes a Frustrating Trade-off

July 27th, 2009 | No Comments

Available for both the Sprint and Verizon networks, the BlackBerry Tour does not break new smartphone ground. However, it packs many of the modern features and capabilities users have come to expect from a smartphone, and all the management and e-mail prowess mobile administrators expect from a BlackBerry. The device can be used internationally, but at the expense of Wi-Fi capabilities–a frustrating trade-off.
– With the BlackBerry Tour 9630, Research In Motion breaks no new ground in
terms of its core device software or end-user usability, introduces no
revolutionary or even particularly noteworthy new hardware features to the
mobile device landscape, and does little to distinguish the look or feel of t…