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 Topic: HardwareThe new items published under this topic are as follows.
High-Tech Giants Push for Digital-TV
Posted by: trraju on Friday, April 29, 2005 - 07:47 AM
Hardware
| WASHINGTON - A group of U.S. high-tech heavyweights on Wednesday urged Congress to set a firm date for the transition to digital signals for television broadcasts, saying it's critical for innovation and jobs. The High Tech DTV Coalition, launched Wednesday, includes Dell Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., International Business Machines Corp., Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. The group's executive director, Janice Obuchowski, who has been mentioned as a possible future Federal Communications commissioner, said "we have had 88 megahertz of spectrum lying fallow," referring to a swath of the 700 megahertz band currently occupied by broadcasters.
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Dell to Keep Expanding Beyond Desktop PCs
Posted by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 10, 2005 - 09:56 AM
Hardware
| AUSTIN - Dell Inc. chief executive Kevin Rollins said Thursday the company will continue to expand beyond traditional desktop PCs and offer more flat panel televisions, laptops and printers to help grow its business to $80 billion within four years. "As we've diversified, the PC unit volumes are less indicative of the way our company will perform," Rollins said during Dell's annual meeting with analysts. "While we're still interested in PC growth, it's not going to be the predictor it once was."
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Dell Ships New Four-processor Database Servers
Posted by: Anonymous on Sunday, March 27, 2005 - 02:40 AM
Hardware
| Computer maker Dell Inc (NASDAQ: DELL) has introduced two new database servers, the Dell PowerEdge 6800 and PowerEdge 6850. The two servers are based on the new 64-bit Intel Xeon MP (multi processor) and offer DDR2-400 ECC memory and PCI Express I/O, delivering performance that is up to 32% higher than previous Dell four-processor offerings, according to the company. The PowerEdge 6800 and PowerEdge 6850 support 32-bit and 64-bit database applications and have been validated for Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Database 9i, Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Microsoft SQL Server.
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Intel upgrading its Centrino technology
Posted by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 12:03 AM
Hardware
| SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec 30, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- California-based Intel says it will upgrade its high-profile Centrino technology for laptop computers next month, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The second version of the technology, code-named Sonoma, will offer better graphics and other performance benefits for portable machines in a bid by the Santa Clara, Calif., company to reinforce its dominance in lightweight portables, a market that rival Advanced Micro Devices has yet to penetrate.
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IBM's Solid Stake on the Desktop
Posted by: Anonymous on Friday, November 26, 2004 - 03:29 AM
Hardware
| IBM launched a bold foray into desktop computing last spring, when it took on Microsoft's desktop monopolies -- Windows and Office -- with its own Workplace product. Now it looks like Big Blue's package of collaboration, communications, productivity, and desktop management software has struck a chord.
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