Scott Ferguson

After a long search for an OEM agreement, Microsoft will start bundling its Live Windows products with Lenovos desktops and notebooks. The two companies announced their joint agreement on March 14, and Lenovo executives said that the first PCs to come with these preloaded features will roll off the assembly line later this month. As […]

After months of uncertainty, former Hewlett-Packard Chairman Patricia Dunn will walk out of a California courtroom free of all criminal charges. On March 14, the same day her old company hosted its annual shareholders meeting, a California judge dismissed all criminal charges against Dunn. In addition, her three remaining co-defendants in the HP “pretexting” case […]

Financial services proved the most lucrative part of the enterprise server market in 2006, growing by 3 percent and accounting for more than $13 billion in revenue, according to new research by Gartner. IBM, helped by its System z mainframes, held the top spot with a 44 percent share of the financial services market. Hewlett-Packard […]

Hewlett-Packard is ramping up its desktop line with additions to four models that will emphasize energy efficiency and long life cycles for business customers. As it has with other models in its Compaq line, the Palo Alto, Calif., company will offer Intels Core 2 Duo processors in two of these desktops. In addition, one model, […]

Once again, Intel is ramping up its quad-core lineup. This time, the worlds largest chip maker is scheduled to unveil a pair of Xeon quad-core processors with 50-watt thermal envelopes. This represents a 60 percent decrease in power use from early chips that had 120 thermal watt envelopes and a 38 percent drop from 80-watt […]

3M has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that several IT vendors, including Lenovo Group, Hitachi, Sony and Panasonic, violated two patents the company holds for the design for lithium-ion batteries. The lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Minnesota on March 7, also names CDW, Batteries Com, Total Micro Technologies and Matsushita Electronic […]

When it comes to mainframe systems, IBM is taking a global view. The Armonk, N.Y., company is planning to unveil a new set of services for its System z mainframe systems March 8. The backdrop for this announcement is set to take place in Mumbai, India, where IBM executives believe there is a large potential […]

In what is turning into a bare-knuckle contest of blade server vendors, Hewlett-Packard is touting the results of a study it sponsored that claims its systems use 27 percent less power that IBMs blades. The study compared HPs c-Class blades to IBMs BladeCenter H servers. The study looked at power consumption and external air flow […]

Apple will likely introduce more NAND flash memory in several of its future products, including a sub-notebook that should hit the market by the second half of this year, according to a March 7 report by American Technology Research. The report, which was written by analyst Shaw Wu, looked at Apples supply chain and concluded […]

Lenovo and Avaya are looking to entice enterprise and midmarket customers with a new agreement that will bring new IP and unified communications tools to notebooks. At the VoiceCon show in Orland, Fla., the two companies are planning a joint announcement on March 6 that will eventually allow the integration of Avayas IP communications software […]