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...US computer company began trialling its version of the technology with a small number of companies late last year....
...According to Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner, the growth opportunities exploited by companies such as HP and Dell came from the business and gaming markets....
...The company’s enterprise services unit, which is being spun off and merged with Computer Sciences Corporation as part of a deal made this year, also reported weak results in the third quarter, which the...
...In hardware devices, there is plenty of lost ground to make up. Google and Apple both sell smartphones, tablets and laptop computers, while Amazon is making inroads with its Kindle....
...Michael Dell is an intensely personal man, which might explain why he is taking his computer company private after 25 years as a public corporation....
...Corporate person in the news: Michael Dell Michael Dell is an intensely personal man, which might explain why he is taking his computer company private after 25 years as a public corporation, write Chris...
...Dell’s losses reverberated across the hardware sector, but many companies were caught in the late upswing....
...A much bigger portion of the server market, dominated by HP, Dell, IBM and Sun Microsystems, involve not tech companies but large corporations like banks, insurance companies, governments and education institutes...
...Software and computer hardware will be the biggest growth sectors and western Europe is expected to be the strongest region with an 11 per cent rise in spending....
...But broadly, it entails a business outsourcing technology hardware to a third party and then paying according to usage....
...And we can now judge the government’s fundamental assertion in US v Microsoft....
...One of TPG’s signature deals in recent years was its investment in Lenovo, the Chinese computer hardware maker that acquired IBM’s PC business in 2004....
...Growth in IT spending by small and medium businesses is outpacing that of large corporations, says IDC, a market research company....
...Oracle, Sun and Dell are among other hardware and software manufacturers to have espoused grid principles....
...Mr Hurd has spent a lot of time looking at how HP can strengthen its enterprise business, which provides computers, software and services to large corporations....
...And similar to GM, IBM began facing new competitors, not foreign but mainly domestic…new companies that had entered the computer business…companies like H-P, Sun Microsystems, Compaq, Dell and Microsoft....
...James Boyle: Not so simple Richard Epstein: An argument with two parts In 1984, the United States Court held in Sony Corporation v Universal City Studios (Betamax) that the owners of motion pictures could...
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