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Intel is the dominant microprocessor vendor in the world, holding an almost 80 percent share of the world's chip market, according to research firm iSuppli. The company's chips run in most PCs and servers today, and in recent years—thanks in large part to Intel's intense rivalry with Advanced Micro Devices—processors have become smaller, more powerful and more feature-rich. Gone are the days when upgrading chips meant simply cranking up the clock speed. For example, now Intel, AMD and other chips makers—including Sun Microsystems and IBM—are rapidly growing the number of processing cores on each chip. Intel and AMD each have chips with six cores, and both are planning to aggressively grow those numbers in the near future. The processors also now offer such features as power management, on-board virtualization capabilities and increased memory bandwidth, all of which were highlighted in Intel's launch of its "Nehalem" architecture and AMD's rollout of its "Istanbul" Opteron chip. On its Website, Intel recently offered a high-level glimpse of what goes into the making of a CPU. Here are some of the slides from the graphics presentation, which show only the most important steps among the hundreds that are needed to build a processor. Photo credits: Intel
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A new survey by research firm Gartner found that businesses were relatively lukewarm to software as a service, suggesting that, despite the hype, these applications need more work in order to gain full acceptance within the enterprise. Those who declined to use SAAS cited high costs, difficulty with integration and failure to meet technical requirements as primary reasons.
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Google is set to announce another Android-based smartphone, so it's time to consider Android’s standing in the enterprise. Does Android have what it takes to beat out the competition from the likes of RIM’s BlackBerry, the Palm Pre Web OS and Microsoft Windows Mobile?
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Microsoft Internet Explorer isn't the best browser on the market, but it's still leading the way. What will it take to finally get Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser to lose significant ground in the enterprise? Will Firefox, Chrome or Safari challenge IE in the enterprise?
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SurePayroll's monthly hiring index and business optimism survey indicate hiring is up, slightly, while business owners are optimistic about the economy.
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Microsoft has announced the pricing scheme for the various versions of its new Windows 7 operating system pricing. And once again, Microsoft is insisting on confusing some folks. At the same time, Apple offers a relatively easy pricing plan for its upcoming Snow Leopard operating system.
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HP is putting AMD’s six-core ‘Istanbul’ Opteron processor into a high-end workstation aimed at such applications as engineering, 3-D digital imaging and oil and gas. HP officials said the troubled economy is putting pressure on businesses to quickly get a solid return on their IT investments, which the new AMD Opteron chips enable, due to new virtualization, performance and efficiency features.
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Oracle’s newest middleware technology platform takes advantage of virtualization and other next-generation technologies being integrated into the enterprise, and includes new developer tools for easier application build. Oracle President Charles Phillips suggested that the company’s goal is to offer a pre-fabricated environment that allows IT administrators a substantial degree of control over their networks without needing to cobble together enterprise IT architecture by improvisation.
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SAP rolls out two new applications, SAP BusinessObjects Risk Management and SAP BusinessObjects Process Control, that allow users to monitor their organization’s risk, comply with government regulations and keep their internal controls in place. Despite the global recession, SAP has been releasing new enterprise-centric applications and platforms at a steady rate throughout 2009.
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Security researchers are tracking a Trojan that has swiped as many as 88,000 FTP credentials for organizations such as Symantec, McAfee, Amazon, Cisco and the Bank of America. According to researchers at Prevx, the compromises are part of an operation that has been in business for more than two years.
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt says that the worst of the financial crisis is almost over and the U.S. economy should begin to turn around by the fall. Schmidt is also optimistic about 2010.
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Juniper Networks will lay the technology foundation for two new data centers scheduled to open next year for the NYSE Euronext exchange, which is looking to reduce the number of its global data centers from 10 to four. Juniper will use Data Center Infrastructure Solutions to create a network that will improve performance and scalability, reduce complexity and cut data center costs. It also will offer a latency of 50 microseconds.
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NEWS ANALYSIS: How much does enterprise security really matter? Since most employees aren't being educated, it might not matter enough to businesses. For many companies, using software such as Microsoft Security Essentials makes more sense since employee computers are protected and IT departments can save time and money by not having to train employees about security.
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The HP Mini 5101 netbook is being positioned as a companion PC for executives and students. For those wanting an everyday notebook, HP also introduced the ProBook 4310s, which starts at 4.34 pounds and $799.
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NEWS ANALYSIS Lenovo was once the enterprise's darling. But after some false starts, the Lenovo and its ThinkPad laptop line might not be best-suited for the enterprise anymore as it now faces some stiff competition from the likes of HP and Dell. This week, the Lenovo ThinkPad T400s looked to offer something new for enterprise and business users.
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