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The global semiconductor market is expected to exit 2009 with a revenue decline of 12.4 percent, according to iSuppli. But while that will mark one of the most difficult years for the industry, it wasn’t as bad as iSuppli had predicted earlier in the year, when the forecast was for a revenue fall of more than 20 percent. Intel retained its top spot, and number-two supplier Samsung will be the only top-10 supplier to post a profit. AMD’s strong performance in the microprocessor space helped the company limit its revenue losses.
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Gartner analysts say that the data center problems that have been plaguing businesses for years—including power, cooling and spaces costs—will only get worse in 2010, and that data center managers need to proactively deal with the issues. Gartner urged businesses to monitor and measure power use, get rid of old or underutilized servers and consolidate data centers.
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After a successful restart last week, CERN's Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator which cost $10 billion to construct, circulated two beams simultaneously for the first time.
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While the business optimism of cost-conscious businesses has flutuated significantly throughout 2009, a survey by Constant Contact suggests companies are feeling positive about the holiday shopping season.
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Implix announced the release of GetResponse Developer Zone, designed to help cost-conscious businesses improve their e-mail marketing ROI.
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Glowpoint's ScheduleSync telepresence feature now integrates with Microsoft Exchange, the company announces.
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Services delivered a solid quarter for HP, generating $8.9 billion in revenue. HP CEO Mark Hurd said the integration of EDS into the company was ahead of schedule, and that HP was able to cut 19,000 jobs in the wake of the EDS purchase in 2008, which helped save on the bottom line. Overall, HP generated $2.4 billion in profit on $30.8 billion in revenue.
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The request also set back by six working days to Dec. 4 a previously set Nov. 25 date for a hearing in Brussels, in which Oracle was to argue its case to EC commissioners that annexing Sun would not materially affect the world's enterprise parallel database market.
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IBM's research team comes up with a new tool that translates text between English and 11 other languages.
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Former Intel CEO Craig Barrett and current Xerox CEO Ursula Burns are part of a group that will push forward the Obama administration’s effort to improve science and math education in the United States. In addition, the public-private partnership will look to grow an interest in the subjects among U.S. students. Group members said the effort is important to help keep the United States competitive in the global economy.
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When disaster strikes a data center, ultimately it doesn't matter what caused the problem. What does matter is how quickly and reliably the problem can be resolved to minimize business damage. Prevention efforts, including standard backup policies and redundant systems, continue to be important, but they're not enough. To effectively minimize risk, CEOs and their IT leaders must turn their business-continuity efforts toward reliable recovery from the unforeseen. Some companies are pioneering new approaches to smart IT disaster recovery. Working with these companies, Accenture's Edward Minyard has identified seven critical points common to the new strategies. Minyard is a certified continuity manager with real-world experience that includes 18 months in New Orleans, beginning immediately after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, as a key member of the Emergency Operations Center.
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Verizon is rolling out its Telehealth Collaboration Services, which aid health care organizations in setting up online collaboration environments to help physicians connect remotely with patients and other health care professionals. Verizon also will help organizations design and implement the telehealth environments. Other vendors, such as Cisco Systems, also are getting into the telehealth field, which one analyst company says could grow into a $6.1 billion market annually.
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The culprit of the FAA 4-hour flight-plan system failure was eventually determined to be a routing error in the software configuration inside a telecom router link at the FAA's Salt Lake City data distribution hub, pushing the router offline. Here is a detailed point-by-point timeline, supplied to eWEEK by the FAA and the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists union.
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The deal, which includes $530 million in cash, will give Ciena the products, platforms and IP that are used by Nortel in the business. Ciena's deal is a step in Nortel's decision to dismantle much of its business since filing for bankruptcy protection earlier in 2009. Several other vendors, including Avaya, Nokia Siemens and Telefon, have bought other Nortel units, such as the enterprise and wireless businesses.
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Check Point Software Technologies acquires FaceTime Communications' application classification and signature database. The technology will appear in a new software blade sometime in 2010.
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eWEEK Labs' exclusive hands-on tests show that Cisco's UCS (Unified Computing System) combines high-end hardware with integrated management software to create a data center computing platform capable of hosting high-value applications, despite some Version 1.0 flaws.
Windows 7 DirectAccess is being billed by Microsoft as the "great extender"--a next-generation access technology designed to connect remote clients in the age of the vanishing network perimeter. One of the primary deliverables borne of Microsoft’s “better together” development strategy--which leverages the simultaneous release of the new Windows 7 client OS and the new Windows 2008 Server R2 server OS--DirectAccess worked well in eWEEK Labs' tests. However, system and security requirements may make DirectAccess just a pipe dream for many organizations right now.
The Panda MOP SAAS server and workstation anti-malware solution allows systems to be managed and protected from a central location, regardless of whether they are inside or outside the company network. This saves on the upfront cost of buying and installing a central management server and the ongoing cost of maintaining that server. Panda MOP also leverages true cloud-based functionality for analysis of suspicious files. In tests, malware detection worked well, at least when it came to viruses and Trojans.
Parallels Desktop 4.0 Switch to Mac edition makes it simple to convert a physical PC--including applications and data--to a Windows virtual machine running on a Mac. Parallels further eases the transition by including several hours of helpful instructional demonstrations that show step-by-step how to perform tasks in the Mac world.
Tzolkin's DNS-based site failover and geographic load balancing services are easy to implement, relatively inexpensive and non-disruptive.
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