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Laptops, Mini-Notebooks to Grab the Spotlight at 2009 CES
While the U.S. economy remains in a recession and the 2009 CES expo has been scaled back a bit, PC vendors such as Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard and others are using the show to highlight a new offering of laptops and mininotebooks that are thinner, lighter and much cheaper for consumers to buy. At the same time, AMD and Freescale Semiconductor are each launching new platforms that look to challenge the market that Intel has created with its Atom processor.
- At the 2009 CES expo, its all about laptops, ultraportables and mininotebooks.
When this years CES officially kicks off Jan. 7 in Las Vegas with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer delivering the opening keynote address, PC makers such as Lenovo and Hewlett-Packard along with Intel, Advanced Micro Devices,...
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IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 for Apple Mac OS X Supports Google, Yahoo Calendars
IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 is now available for Mac OS X computers, boasting a user interface that lets users access Notes' full messaging and collaboration features from one screen. The new release also interoperates with Web calendar applications from Google, Yahoo and other public Web calendars, allowing users to display their Lotus Notes work calendar and their personal Internet calendar on the same screen. IBM claims this is its attempt to make Notes more social -- integrating work and play -- as it seeks to compete with Microsoft.
- IBM's
Lotus Notes 8.5 enterprise e-mail application is now available for
Apple computers running the Mac OS X Leopard operating system, months
after rolling out to Windows and Linux users.
Key to Lotus Notes 8.5 for Macs is an integrated user interface that
lets users access and manage e-mail...
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Samsung Unveils New High-Capacity, 'Green' Enterprise SSD
The new SSD can process IOPS (input/output per second) more than 10 times faster than the fastest 15K-rpm SAS disk drive available for transactional data workloads, Samsung said. It features a random read speed of 25K and a random write speed of 6K.
- Solid-state semiconductor maker Samsung revealed Jan. 6 that it has developed a new enterprise-level 2.5-inch, 100GB solid-state drive that can handle heavy-duty applications such as video on demand, streaming media content delivery and on-line transaction processing while consuming substantially le...
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Google Named the #3 Abuse Provider
New forms of abuse find a welcome home at Google, and the company doesn't yet seem up to the task of fighting them. Perhaps it's a responsiveness issue.
- Much has been made of the recent revelation that Google had reached #4 on Spamhaus's list of quot;The 10 Worst Spam Service ISPs quot;. In fact, as I check now, they're #3.
It's no secret why GMail is such a big spamming source now: Spammers have had success cracking their CAPTCHA tests and create...
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Clearwire Debuts Portland WiMax
It's the first WiMax rollout since Clearwire and Sprint Nextel combined operations debuts in Portland. The open all-IP network provides mobile and wireless customers with average download speeds initially of 2M to 4M bps and peak rates that are considerably faster. Clearwire plans to provide WiMax service in most of the top 100 markets by no later than 2010, although the current economic conditions could put a crimp in those plans.
- If not quite coast-to-coast, WiMax is now at least on each coast. Three
months after Sprint Nextel carried out the nation's first WiMax rollout in
Baltimore, Clearwire the newly combined WiMax operations of Sprint and
Clearwire flipped the switch Jan. 6 on a WiMax deployment in Portland,
Ore.
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