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Rumors of HP Acquisition of Check Point Persist
I’m not sure whether it will come to fruition, but rumors of an HP acquisition of Check Point persist. Check Point was in the news this week in relation to its allegedly takeover-friendly market...
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AMD Completes, Further Explains ATI Acquisition
AMD announced today that it has completed its $5.4-billion acquisition of Canada’s ATI Technologies. In welcoming ATI formally into the AMD fold, the chipmaker provided further insight into on how...
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Making Sense of SGI’s Decline
Martin Veitch of CIO UK Magazine reviews the final disposition of Silicon Graphics, acquired for approximately $25 million in cash by Rackable Systems, and tries to make sense of it all. SGI was no...
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Taiwan Semiconductor Seeks LED and Solar Acquisitions
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world’s largest contract manufacturer of computer chips, is preparing to make its first acquisitions in two years, according to a Bloomberg news item....
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MIPS Pushes Android into Home Entertainment
MIPS Technologies — former purveyor of RISC chips to computer-workstation vendors and now a vendor of processors used in a variety of home entertainment and networking devices – is hoping to find a...
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Nokia’s Belated Netbook Nothing Special
Another slow news day meant that legions of journalists and bloggers went overboard in response to the announcement of a fairly run-of-the-mill netbook from Nokia. I just don’t see how Nokia’s netbook...
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What Intel Capital and Cisco Have in Common
What do Intel Capital and Cisco have in common? Well, they probably have a few things in common, but something they definitely share is an interest in promoting and profiting from proliferation of the...
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Dell Looks at Chrome and Moblin for Netbooks
Microsoft doesn’t seem keen on making Windows run smoothly on netbook PCs, so it’s no shock to find PC vendors, such as Dell, investigating the viability of Google’s Chrome OS as an operating system...
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Components Shortages Affecting Vendors Worldwide
At the moment, components shortages seem to be pervasive in the technology industry. Vendors large and small, throughout most of the world, have been affected by them to greater or lesser degrees. The...
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Pondering Intel’s Grand Design for McAfee
Befuddlement and buzz jointly greeted Intel’s announcement today regarding its pending acquisition of security-software vendor McAfee for $7.68 billion in cash. Intel was not among the vendors I...
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Why RIM Takeover Palaver is Premature
Whether it is experiencing good times or bad times, Research in Motion (RIM) always seems to be perceived as an acquisition target. When its fortunes were bright, RIM was rumored to be on the...
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Attention Shifts to Cavium After Broadcom’s Announced Buy of NetLogic
As most of you will know by now, Broadcom announced the acquisition of NetLogic Microsystems earlier this morning. The deal, expected to close in the first half of 2012, involves Broadcom paying out...
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Intel-Microsoft Mobile Split All Business
In an announcement today, Google and Intel said they would work together to optimize future versions of the Android operating system for smartphones and other mobile devices powered by Intel chips. It...
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HP’s Launches Its Moonshot Amid Changing Industry Dynamics
As I read about HP’s new Project Moonshot, which was covered extensively by the trade press, I wondered about the vendor’s strategic end game. Where was it going with this technology initiative, and...
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HP’s Project Voyager Alights on Server Value
Hewlett-Packard earlier this week announced the HP ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) line of servers, based on the HP ProActive Insight architecture. The technology behind the architecture and the servers...
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Components Shortages Affecting Vendors Worldwide
At the moment, components shortages seem to be pervasive in the technology industry. Vendors large and small, throughout most of the world, have been affected by them to greater or lesser degrees. The...
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