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 Cisco yesterday unveiled its vision of the data center architecture in industry’s first unified computing system. The company has added this new element as part of its Data Center 3.0 strategy, which aims at reducing total cost of ownership, accelerate business growth, and the extend the lifecycle of current infrastructure.The Unified...
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 Microsoft Hardware Group reportedly unveiled some notebook-focused accessories this week. The company on Tuesday introduced its first Notebook Cooling Base, an inch-thick stand with built-in fan. Available in white and black, the laptop-chiller is powered over a USB connection. So the news unfortunately does not regard any new...
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 During the TechFest tradeshow, Microsoft displayed all of
its new technologies in hardware, primarily focused on enhancing the user
experience. More than 800 researchers have been working at these numerous
projects, offering a vast idea about how computing will look like in the near
future.
Steve Ballmer, CEO at Microsoft, was...
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 HP has recently announced a sought-after Linux version of
its popular Mini 1000 consumer netbook. Basically, much of the internals are
similar to the other versions of the Mini 1000. However, the selling point of
the Mi version, which stands for Mobile internet, is the Linux OS dressed up in
nice clothes by HP.
On the HP Mini 1000...
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 At the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona, this week, 17 leading mobile companies came together to adopt a “Universal Charging Solution” (UCS) by 2012, using micro USB as the charging interface. The list of 17 members includes GSMA members such as 3 Group, AT&T, KTF, LG, mobilkom austria, Motorola, Nokia, Orange, Qualcomm,...
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 On Wednesday, during the GSMA Mobile world Congress in
Barcelona, the Chinese phone manufacturer ZTE announced that it would release a
phone model that is powered by solar cells.
The phone is called the Coral-200-Solar and it has been
designed and engineered by ZTE in cooperation with Digicel and Intivation. According
to a...
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 Intel announced that it would launch its next-generation micro-architecture chips with the Core i7 processor (Nehalem), on November the 17th in San Francisco, at a media and analyst event. Nehalem is also known as “the fastest processor on the planet” and it will feature three different quad-core models: the 2.66 GHz Core i7 920, the...
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 Consumer-electronics chain Circuit City (CC) Stores told the media it will close 155 U.S. stores, cut back openings and renegotiate some leases as the company deals with its deteriorating liquidity position. CC has been unable to turn its fortune around the past several years and now finds itself threatened by a weakening economy and...
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 Sony has been forced to make another product recall. Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Toshiba are recalling 100,000 laptop battery packs, which are made by Sony, after 40 reports of overheating batteries. The ones in question are the Sony 2.15Ah lithium-ion cell batteries made in Japan. These overheat, causing smoke or even flames to appear,...
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 Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., the world’s number one company in the advanced semiconductor technology business, said today it has started the mass production of its 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch multi-level cell-based solid state drives (SSDs) of 128GB capacity.Gerd Schauss, Director Memory Marketing EMEA, Samsung Semiconductor Europe, said the...
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