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RSS gear top5 years ago: Dell sells sub-$1,000 PC
News Having risen to the top of the heap in direct PC sales, Dell is expanding its horizons into low-end printers, storage and networking gear. 28.09.99: Dell Computer has claimed to be the first major PC... [28 Sep 2004]
Sun rises on pay-as-you-go grid computing
News Sun also plans to announce new midrange storage systems, two mid-range Unix servers based on the company's UltraSparc IV processor and new networking gear to improve secure website performance. As with its... [21 Sep 2004]
Motorola picks Linux for HP mobile gear
News Motorola plans to sell mobile phone network equipment that uses Linux-based code, a step forward in network gear makers' efforts to rally around a standard. By using the same basic ingredients, they spend 20 per cent... [17 Aug 2004]
HP swings axe on failed execs
News Novia had served most recently as a senior VP in the HP unit that covers enterprise gear and services. Following through on a promise to shake up management after disappointing earnings, Hewlett-Packard on Thursday... [13 Aug 2004]
Microsoft could triumph over Linux thanks to copyright law
News HP has a vested interest in the area: the company is angling to be both a major supplier of Linux gear and a key partner for those creating, disseminating and consuming digital content. Widespread use of Linux and... [04 Aug 2004]
Sprint zeroes in on VoIP for small business
News Sprint joins a long list of tech heavyweights and top-tier telephone companies peddling slices of VoIP to small businesses. Sprint has bolstered its lineup of small office net phone equipment, a move that promises to... [16 Jul 2004]
Michael Dell steps down as Dell CEO
News So far, Rollins and other Dell executives have said that the company prefers to provide customers with inexpensive and easy-to-use gear, which allow companies to manage their own computing needs. The company had led or... [16 Jul 2004]
Microsoft takes on Linux in supercomputing
News But Microsoft has been "hot and cold, hot and cold, hot and cold" about high-performance computing and faces challenges in the market, said Nan Boden, executive vice president and co-founder of Myricom, which sells high-end networking... [24 Jun 2004]
HP combines more - services and high-end computing units merge
News For example, HP is number two in server sales and number two in sales of a key class of data storage gear, according to research firm Gartner. Livermore had been considered the top pick, when HP looked... [05 May 2004]
Storage management software market picks up
News But software is becoming more central to organisations, as they seek to squeeze more out of their storage gear and cut administration costs. Of these top five, only IBM and HP gained market share last... [20 Apr 2004]
Indian telecoms explosion tempts Cisco
News We have been working closely with all the premier carriers in India to provide them with packet gear. The networking giant has already been selling IP switching and routing gear to Bharti, as well to the... [15 Apr 2004]
Wal-Mart to sell Linux PCs
News In addition, it sells its Java Enterprise System of server software at $100 per employee per year, a price that goes down somewhat when customers buy Sun storage gear or up when they buy programming tools. [01 Apr 2004]
Wi-Fi-mad consumers send spend through the roof
News The Wi-Fi gear market continued its rapid growth in 2003, led mostly by consumer holiday sales, but companies saw a slight shuffle in their market share rankings. The overall revenue for Wi-Fi wireless networking... [11 Feb 2004]
Analysis: NAS and SAN uniting
Comment Companies have used NAS gear to store files created in applications such as computer-aided design software or spreadsheet programs. In contrast, NAS gear provides data access at the file level, which is... [26 Jan 2004]
Vodafone CEO: Microsoft OS not ready yet
News In October, Sarin predicted Vodafone's 3G effort will kick into gear around next autumn. Since Sarin took over as Vodafone's top executive this summer, commentators have identified a new era in the... [22 Dec 2003]
