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USB 3.0 spec to arrive next year
First there was USB 1.0. Then there was USB 2.0. Can you guess what’s next? That’s right: USB 3.0. At the Fall IDF show in San Francisco, a consortium of vendors including Intel, Microsoft, HP, TI, Read more…
Lenovo in talks to acquire Packard Bell
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Though once a mainstay of the IBM-compatible clone world, vendor Packard Bell fell off the map when the company merged with NEC in the late ’90s, amid complaints Read more…
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Sony/NEC ready Blu-ray burners
Optiarc, a joint venture between Sony and NEC, has unveiled five new desktop and laptop drives for the storage gluttons among us. In a move that will surprise no one, they’re all Blu-ray burners,
Read more…Intel readies yet another quad-core Xeon
AMD must really be hurting right now. Not only did Intel successfully launch a quad-core product (what’s in a name?) first, but AMD’s long-awaited 4×4 platform got whipped by Intel’s dual-core Kentsfield in benchmarks. And now this: Intel has announced that they’ll drop yet another quad-core part …
Read more…EMC plans for Web content management
Later this year, EMC plans to ship Documentum Page Builder, a new content-management system specifically designed for non-technical users–which in theory means less work for developers and webmasters. Its features include XML support for modular code and Dreamweaver support for porting code from that application. It’s unclear how much Page Builder will integrate with EMC’s storage software, although officials did indicate that integration is a long-term goal. Page Builder will start at …
Read more…Hybrid IP-PBX, wave of the future?
While small organizations are deploying voice-over-IP solutions, larger organizations are more prone to installing hybrids of packet-switched and traditional circuit-switched telephony, analysts at Dell’Oro Group said. Avaya, Siemens and Cisco Systems are the leading vendors in this trend, along with NEC and Inter-Tel. Changing entirely from traditional to IP systems is too much for most groups to handle at once, and some applications will always require the five-nines reliability and …
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