Stories by: Stephen Lawson

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    Techies gather for a lunch to save the world 22/11/2009 08:54:00

    The 43rd floor of the Spear Tower in downtown San Francisco is empty. Possibly because of the slumping economy, there's just a big, open office space with unfinished white walls overlooking a million-dollar view. It was an appropriate setting for Lunch for Good, an event on Wednesday that brought together nearly 100 people deep in the Bay Area's social-networking industry to talk about a futuristic question: how online social networks can help humans find common ground.
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    EMC brings Avamar backup to PCs, Macs 18/11/2009 16:07:00

    EMC is extending its Avamar backup software to all parts of an enterprise's infrastructure with clients for PC and Mac desktops and laptops.
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    Two rival supercomputers duke it out for top spot 16/11/2009 15:08:00

    A Cray supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has regained the title of the world's most powerful supercomputer, overtaking the installation that was ranked at the top in June, while China entered the Top 10 with a hybrid Intel-AMD system.
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    Clearwire claims 173,000 WiMax users 12/11/2009 08:18:00

    Wireless broadband provider Clearwire had about 173,000 WiMax subscribers at the end of September and should be able to offer service to 120 million potential subscribers in the U.S. by the end of next year, the company said Tuesday.
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    HP to buy 3Com in $US2.7bn networking, data center bid 12/11/2009 08:12:00

    Hewlett-Packard has agreed to buy 3Com for about US$2.7 billion, pushing forward the giant IT vendor's strategy for combining computing, storage, services and networking under one roof.
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    HP to buy 3Com in networking, data center bid 12/11/2009 11:18:00

    Hewlett-Packard has agreed to buy 3Com for about US$2.7 billion, pushing forward the giant IT vendor's strategy for combining computing, storage, services and networking under one roof.
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    Cisco undervalues Tandberg, investment firms say 09/11/2009 06:51:00

    Two investment consulting companies laid out objections to Cisco's US$3 billion offer for Norwegian videoconferencing vendor Tandberg on Friday, saying in an open letter to Cisco and a press interview that the bid undervalues Tandberg.
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    HP MEMS could shake up motion sensing 06/11/2009 02:48:00

    That accelerometer in your new iPhone 3GS must seem pretty cool, switching the phone to landscape view and steering you through racing games and all. But it's nothing compared with what Hewlett-Packard has come up with.
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    Palm shows Ares WebOS development tool 06/11/2009 09:53:00

    Palm will introduce a Web-based development environment for WebOS applications, called Ares, by the end of this year.
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    Sybase smooths enterprise path for iPhones 04/11/2009 08:16:00

    Sybase is extending its Afaria mobile-device management platform and database software to the Apple iPhone, taking advantage of new enterprise features in Version 3.1 of the iPhone's software to give IT departments more control and capabilities on the popular handset.
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    DiVitas mobile collaboration goes to iPhone, Android, RIM 03/11/2009 01:10:00

    Mobile unified communications vendor DiVitas Networks has added iPhone, BlackBerry and Android to the set of platforms it is supporting with software to access desk-phone and presence features on cell phones.
 
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