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AMD, Intel Bringing More Cores to More Servers(PC Magazine) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-03-16 18:50:12)
PC Magazine - Tuesday's big chip news was the introduction of Intel's new six-core Xeon 5600 chip, along with new servers based on the chip from Dell, HP, and IBM. While the news itself wasn't surprising, what it will usher in in terms of server performance bears watching.
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Intel unveils new server chips ahead of AMD(Reuters) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-03-16 16:11:08)
Reuters - Intel Corp released its newest server chips on Tuesday, as it seeks to maintain its dominance over rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc, and prepare for an expected rise in demand.
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Low-Power Xeon 5600 Boosts Servers, Workstations(NewsFactor) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-03-16 15:53:21)
NewsFactor - Intel rolled out a new range of Xeon processor chips Tuesday that are based on the chipmaker's 32nm logic technology featuring second-generation high-k metal gate transistors. Called the Intel Xeon Processor 5600 series, the new server and workstation devices promise to decrease energy consumption in data-center applications even as they boost processing speeds.
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IBM Adding Development and Test Offering to Public Cloud(PC World) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-03-16 15:00:25)
PC World - IBM will soon offer software development and testing services through its public cloud, adding to a private cloud option launched in June 2009, the company said Tuesday.
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Windows Phone 7 Series: Everything You Need to Know(PC World) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-03-16 14:49:00)
PC World - Devices running Windows Phone 7 Series software won't hit store shelves until later this year, but Microsoft recently offered a peek into the upcoming OS at its MIX10 conference for developers and Web designers. The latest version of Microsoft's mobile platform promises to deliver a radical shift, with a new focus on features like social networking, the Web, and gaming.
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Five Reasons to Embrace Intel Xeon 5600 Processors(PC World) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-03-16 14:36:00)
PC World - Intel unveiled an array of new Xeon 5600 server processors. Like the Core i7 980x desktop processors, the Xeon 5600 chips deliver up to six CPU cores on the more efficient 32nm architecture.
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Intel's New Xeon 5600 Chips Outperform Predecessors(PC World) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-03-16 07:30:17)
PC World - Intel introduced a line of Xeon server chips that operate up to 60 percent faster than previous server processors, the company said on Tuesday.
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HP, IBM, Dell Launch Servers With New Intel Chips(PC World) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-03-16 07:30:12)
PC World - Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM rolled-out new servers on Tuesday based on Intel's latest Xeon 5600 microprocessors, which promise better performance and power consumption.
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Twitter in China? In Due Time, Twitter Founder Promises(PC World) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-03-16 04:40:11)
PC World - During a New York panel discussion on social media and digital activism held Monday, Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei secured a promise from Twitter creator Jack Dorsey that his company will offer a Chinese version of its social networking service.
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Twitter working on Chinese registration page(AP) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-03-16 03:18:30)
AP - Twitter is working on a way to allow Chinese users to sign up to the social networking site in their own language, a co-founder of the site said Monday night, but access to the popular site remains blocked in the country.
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Venezuela denies plans to censor Internet(Reuters) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-03-16 00:03:12)
Reuters - Venezuela is not planning to censor the Web or to shut down social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook, officials said on Monday, after President Hugo Chavez called for regulation of the Internet.
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Militant and hate group Internet use grows: report(Reuters) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-03-15 18:08:00)
Reuters - The use of social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube by militant and hate groups grew by almost 20 percent in the past year, a report by the Simon Wiesenthal Center found on Monday.
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Pegasystems Buys CRM Vendor Chordiant(PC World) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-03-15 17:20:16)
PC World - Pegasystems said Monday it would buy Chordiant for roughly US$161.5 million, adding CRM (customer relationship management) and analytics capabilities to its BPM (business process management) stable of applications. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter.
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Oracle Loses XML Co-inventor to Google(PC World) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-03-15 16:10:14)
PC World - One ex-Sun Microsystems employee who will not be cashing an Oracle paycheck is XML co-inventor Tim Bray, who has opted instead to work for the Google.
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Facebook Sets up Office in India(PC World) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-03-15 13:00:00)
PC World - Social networking company Facebook said on Monday that it is setting up an office in Hyderabad in southern India. The new office will have online sales and operations teams, said Don Faul, a director of global online operations at Facebook, in a posting on the official Facebook blog.
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Ruckus Attacks Enterprise Wi-Fi With Pricing(PC World) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-03-15 12:20:22)
PC World - Ruckus Wireless aims to lower the cost of entry to enterprise IEEE 802.11n Wi-Fi gear with a stepped-down line of access points it is introducing on Monday.
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Facebook opening operations office in India(AP) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-03-15 11:32:22)
AP - Social networking site Facebook is opening an operations office in India, its first in Asia, to help manage rapid growth in the number of users.
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IBM Says Rivals Behind Anti-IBM Report in India(PC World) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-03-15 08:30:09)
PC World - IBM has slammed a report critical of the adoption of its mainframes in India, saying the report was driven by IBM competitors and has no credibility.
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Facebook to open office in southern India(Reuters) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-03-15 08:06:46)
Reuters - Popular social-networking site Facebook will open an office in India, joining a long list of international firms that have looked to tap a skilled workforce that provides support services at relatively cheap wages.
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Smartphones put the moves on social networking(AFP) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-03-14 23:01:45)
AFP - Mobile social networking ruled on Saturday as the techno-hip at South By South West (SXSW) used location-based services on smartphones to track down everything from panels to parties.