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News The podcast series includes an exclusive performance from Martha Wainwright, interviews with writers Jeffrey Deaver, Kiterunner author Khaled Hosseini and 'Cityboy' Geraint Anderson, plus interviews with Mercury Prize... [05 Aug 2008]
InfiNet Uses WRQ Verastream for Repeatable Legacy/Web Solution
White Paper Mercury News, and a consortium of five Contra Costa, Calif.papers. InfiNet, the leading application service provider for U.S.media companies, needed to help a client meet a tough corporate mandate. The... [03 Jul 2008]
HP shakes up printing division
News The company would not comment on whether jobs cuts would accompany the reorganisation but an HP spokesman told The New York Times and San Jose Mercury News that a "rebalancing" of its workforce would be... [19 Jun 2008]
HP close to buying EDS for $12bn
News In recent years, HP has also been spending big on corporate infrastructure software companies, including the acquisitions of Mercury Interactive, Opsware, SPI Dynamics, Bristol Technology, and Peregrine. [13 May 2008]
Apple unveils 'world's thinnest notebook'
News During the keynote speech, Jobs touted Apple's environmentally-friendly efforts, claiming its MacBook Air contains mercury- and arsenic-free glass, BFR and PVC-free boards and 50 per cent smaller packaging than previous... [16 Jan 2008]
Army fires up wi-fi for troops
News Project Mercury - a programme to increase the number of telephones and hard-wired internet machines in Iraq and Afghanistan - is due to complete in December 2007, with work to install wi-fi access to begin immediately... [09 Oct 2007]
AMD's quad-core chip to launch next month
News In an interview published in the San Jose Mercury News, Ruiz said: "Every time we ran into a gotcha [or a technical glitch], it created a six-week-or-so hole in the schedule as we went back and fixed it. [21 Aug 2007]
HP talks up next-gen data centres
News HP has already spent a good chunk of change on Mercury Interactive, a management software maker, which it purchased last year. Erica Ogg writes for CNET News.com A business' success or failure hinges on... [09 Aug 2007]
Apple vows to be "greener"
News According to the letter, Apple will introduce its first Macs later this year that have displays backlit by light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which are free of the toxic substance mercury. Previously it has relied on... [03 May 2007]
Apple stock options saga: Jobs back in the spotlight
News The SEC is charging that Heinen ordered the creation of the falsified documents but the San Jose Mercury News reported earlier this week that Heinen's lawyers plan to argue that an in-house lawyer, Wendy... [25 Apr 2007]
Intel to make chips in China
News Dean McCarron, principal analyst at Mercury Research, said: "They will have this older process technology over there but it is much better suited for making chipsets. Michael Kanellos writes for CNET... [26 Mar 2007]
HP's coffers continue to swell
News Revenue from the company's PC group jumped 17 per cent to $8.7bn in the quarter, and the software group's revenue increased 81 per cent to $550m, buoyed by HP's acquisition of Mercury Interactive, the company said. [21 Feb 2007]
Intel, AMD fight it out for market share
News Overall, AMD continued its gain in the x86 processor market, said Mercury Research analyst Dean McCarron. Stephen Shankland writes for CNET News.com Intel continued to reclaim server chip market share... [31 Jan 2007]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: Rabbiting on about wi-fi
Comment These services (others include the better-known Rabbit, as well as Mercury Callpoint and Zonephone) allowed subscribers to carry phone handsets with them and make outgoing calls whenever they were within range (around... [28 Nov 2006]
Testing boosts Friends Provident's ecommerce apps
Case Study The financial services company is using Mercury's Quality Center and Performance Center products to spot and fix problems quickly. Get the latest financial services news straight to your inbox. Financial... [08 Nov 2006]
