Video: The agreement between Nokia and Qualcomm, the approach made by Nvidia to Android and the presentation of the new Vodafone device HTC Magic marked the second day of this event.
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Virtualization Set to Grow 43% in 2009
The economic slowdown and important developments in this market segment have allowed virtualized systems to grow at a strong rhythm.
Mini-Notebooks Power 2008 PC Growth
Figures just released for PC shipments in Q4 2008 reveal the big inroads made by mini-notebooks into the Western European portable market, which drove sales for various leading manufacturers.
Mobile World Congress: Summary of Day 1
Video: The ecological mobile of Samsung, the presentation of Windows Mobile 6.5 and the new products presented by Nokia mark the inauguration of the MWC.
UK Companies Streamline 2009 IT Expenditure
The first results of an annual IDC survey reveal that UK enterprises are approaching 2009 IT budgets with caution and prioritise cost-cutting and efficiency projects.
Green Ethernet Standard to Unleash Marketing Blitz
A standard for energy-efficient Ethernet, due in 2010, will unleash a barrage of green marketing, promising savings for IT managers
Zmanda Cloud Backup : Open Source Disaster Recovery Solution
SMB data protection in the cloud is now available for small to medium-size businesses thanks to open source backup and recovery firm Zmanda.
What Will It Take To Make IT Go Green?
Whether they act to stave off a global crisis, or a meltdown in their own budgets, IT professionals need to have better information if they are going to clean up their act.
Can Sustainable IT Avoid False Accounting?
Now the word is out: there is money to be made in sustainable IT, we can expect the usual feeding frenzy as vendors try to cash in. This time, we can't afford to fall for phony greenwash.
UK Government to cut IT budget by billions
The UK government will slash its IT spending, in a bid for greater standardisation and simplification, according to Treasury advisor Martin Read.
Ghosts in the machine help E.ON cut server costs
The energy provider has consolidated its data centres across Europe amid rising power prices
AMD’s New Phenom II Cuts Energy in Half
New tri-core and quad-core chips from AMD cut the Phenom II processor energy bill in half - and they will spread from consumers to the enterprise later this year.
UK Bluetooth firm buys US GPS outfit
CSR has agreed to buy the leading GPS vendor SiRF, in a bid to merge another technology into its chips - and cash in on a projected boom in GPS handsets.
IBM pushes for 21st century infrastructure
IBM has a set of new management functions and a "cloud czar", in a bid to provide the management and control that virtualised data centres and outsourced IT will require.
IBM’s Cloud Announcements – Not Just Fluff
System management announcements can be vague; stir in the cloud and you have a recipe for complete incoherence. But IBM's cloud announcements have substance, analysts say.
“No-fuss” Linux net-top updated
French computer maker claims solid-state, low power desktops are the future
PC Power Management Can Save £28,000 a Year, Says Gartner
An organisation with 25,000 PCs can save $43,000 (£28,800) per year by using power management, according to research by analyst Gartner - but other analysts have called the figures a simplification.
Facebook SupportsOpenID
Facebook has joined the board of the OpenID Foundation, joining Google, IBM, Microsoft and Yahoo in a big to to let users port port their data around the Web.
IBM Puts Zend PHP stack on System i
IBM is to preload Zend's PHP-based Web stack with every shipment of System i, the operating system for for IBM Power Systems. Around five million developers and 22 million Internet domains use PHP, including Yahoo and Facebook.
RFID Puts Us All at Risk
I've never really thought of myself as much of a seer, prognosticator or predictor of the future, but based on a column I wrote back in 2005, I may just have a future in the prediction field.
UK Academics Launch Open Source PC Power Saver
The University of Liverpool's PowerDown can shut down idle PCs, saving users thousands of pounds.
NetApp Drops SMB Storage
Storage company NetApp quietly axed its line of midmarket-based storage solutions, StoreVault.
Microsoft Changes Windows 7 UAC
Microsoft has agreed that Windows 7 will generate a prompt if there is an attempt to change the user account control settings - in response to pressure from bloggers who claimed the planned OS was vulnerable.
Wozniak Joins Storage Startup
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has signed up as chief scientist at Fusion-io, a Salt Lake City-basedcompany that makes compact NAND flash storage arrays.
Intel Delays ‘Tukwila’ Chip Again
Intel has delayed the four-core "Tukwila" `version of its Itanium processor, originally billed as the first 2 billion transistor chip and scheduled for 2007.
Green Grid Measures Data Centre Efficiency
The Green Grid consortium has issued a set of guidelines to solve one of the trickiest issues facing sustainable computing - how to measure the efficiency of a data centre.
Where Does Malware Come From?
Anti-virus vendors are getting more than 50,000 submissions of new malware per day now. How can the malware business be so productive? It turns out the numbers aren't really as big as all that.
Lenovo Boss Quits as PC Maker Reports A Loss
ThinkPad maker Lenovo posted its first quarterly loss in three years, and CEO William Amelio has said he will resign.
MySQL Founder Leaves Sun
MySQL founder Monty Widenius has left Sun after a very public flap over bugs in MySQL 5.1 and months of rumours.
W3C Calls for Web 2.0 Data Sharing
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has called for social networking applications like Facebook and Twitter to share profiles and data, to grow further Web 2.0 opportunities.