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Asus Eee Monitor pictures leaked

Asus Eee Monitor pictures leakedSeemingly genuine images of Asus's upcoming all-in-one monitor and PC have appeared on a French blog


Gartner: Hardware market to defy economic slump

The hardware market in general is still growing, with the main areas of growth being low-end Linux systems and high-end mainframes, says the analyst house


RIM reports healthy profits, BlackBerry sales

The company's quarterly profits have doubled year-on-year, and there are now 16 million subscribers to its BlackBerry service


Virtualisation to drive use of staff-owned PCs at work

Gartner claims PC virtualisation tech could give staff more freedom to use their own hardware at work, without compromising network security


RFID can disrupt medical tech, claim researchers

Dutch scientists say electromagnetic interference generated by the track-and-trace chips can disrupt medical devices, posing a threat to patients


Google urges rethink on server efficiency

Luis Barroso, a Google engineer, says equipment makers' techniques for lowering mobile devices' power consumption do not apply to servers


One billion PCs now in use worldwide

There are now over a billion PCs in active use, according to analyst firm Gartner, with the number predicted to double by 2014


Asus desktop Eee due in August — with XP

The Atom-toting desktop machine will use Windows XP, due to Microsoft's decision to extend the OS's availability for 'nettop' computers


At 60, 'Baby' celebrates birth of computing

On Saturday, it will be exactly 60 years since the world's first stored-program, electronic, digital computer flickered into life


HP to overhaul printing division

The company has announced a significant reorganisation of its most profitable division, paring five groups down to three within the printing and imaging division


NHS gets MRSA-resistant keyboards

The keyboards, designed by doctors at University College London Hospital, are completely flat and have flashing lights to remind users to wash their hands


HP adds fault tolerance to blades

High availability is the main feature of HP's latest blade server as the company grows its family of c-Class systems


Intel creates spin-off solar-cell company

SpectraWatt represents a big leap for Intel into the clean-tech sector, and is expected to start shipping cells to solar panel makers by the middle of 2009


Microsoft is not alone in chip woes

Microsoft is not alone in chip woesIt can seem hard to believe that a company with all the resources of Microsoft can make make a billion-dollar mistake with a small chip-design fault. Yet chip design is not an exact science and Rupert Goodwins, who has been there himself, details how it can go horribly wrong


IBM looks to bridge worlds of IT and electricity

The company's top hardware executive Bill Zeitler plans to call for co-marketing with utilities to promote datacentre efficiency incentives


Motorola to halve research labs

To reduce costs, the loss-making mobile-phone maker will halt projects and transfer some employees to other units


Asus announces UK date for new Eee PCs

Two new versions of the popular low-cost subnotebook will go on sale in the UK at the start of July


2008 proving a peak-growth year for laptops

Analyst firm IDC predicts portable personal computers, helped by popular mininotebooks such as the Asus Eee, will help keep average selling prices up, boosting the worldwide market


iPhone 3G: Does it do the business?

iPhone 3G: Does it do the business?Apple says it's the 'best phone for business. Ever'. We ask IT pros whether they agree


Nokia urges Linux developers to learn business

The handset manufacturer's head of software says open-source developers need to play along with current industry themes such as DRM, IPR and SIM locks


Rackspace opens wood-powered datacentre

Rackspace opens wood-powered datacentreRackspace has touted the 'green' credentials of its first European datacentre, fuelled by a wood-burning power station


HP launches new PCs in major product rollout

The company rolled out 50 new products on Tuesday at a Berlin conference, the largest such product refresh in the Personal Systems Group's history


IT pros back iPhone 3G for business

Polled in advance of the iPhone 3G's launch, ZDNet.co.uk readers listed the features they think would spur business adoption of the device


Loopt previews location-based iPhone app

Loopt previews location-based iPhone appDemonstrated at Apple's WWDC 2008, the new app blends social networks with the Maps application, so you can see where your friends are


eBay shows off auction app for iPhone

eBay shows off auction app for iPhoneThe new app has a basic front door with options to track auctions you've bid on, and see whether you've been outbid


O2 releases iPhone 3G pricing for UK

The operator has announced its tariffs for the iPhone 3G, which it will launch on 11 July with an increased focus on business customers


Apple debuts iPhone 3G

Apple debuts iPhone 3GSteve Jobs reveals the iPhone 3G, with faster download speeds, longer battery life, GPS, a lower price and a near worldwide release on 11 July


Jobs demos GPS on iPhone 3G

Jobs demos GPS on iPhone 3GAt Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2008 in San Francisco, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs demonstrates GPS on the new iPhone 3G


AT&T sacrifices profits to snare iPhone 3G users

The company has negotiated a deal with Apple to subsidise the cost of the iPhone 3G, potentially attracting more users but diluting earnings


IBM breaks the petaflop barrier

IBM breaks the petaflop barrierPerforming one quadrillion calculations per second, the Roadrunner supercomputer has parallels with the human brain, says a project team member


Steve Jobs unveils the $199 iPhone 3G

Steve Jobs unveils the $199 iPhone 3GApple's chief unveiled the long-awaited iPhone 3G at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on Monday, with drastically reduced pricing


Will iPhone 2.0 be more business-friendly?

Will iPhone 2.0 be more business-friendly?Ahead of the Worldwide Developers Conference, ZDNet.co.uk looks back on what Apple has done to attract business users to its handset


HP, Acer settle patent case

Patent-infringement lawsuits aiming to stop Taiwan-based Acer exporting PCs to the US have been resolved via a confidential settlement


Emerging markets want feature-packed phones

Phone manufacturers must find ways to squeeze more features ontp lower-priced phones to capture tech-savvy consumers in emerging nations, says NXP Semiconductors


'3G iPhone' speculation at fever pitch

In the run up to Steve Jobs's keynote at next week's annual Worldwide Developers Conference, rumours are rife about the features Apple's smartphone will soon be sporting


IBM to cool layered chips with water

Scientists from the IBM Zurich Research Lab and the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin are working on a microchip that uses micropipes of water to cool itself


Epson aims to cut CO2 emissions by 90 percent

The company has pledged to cut its CO2 emissions by 90 percent by 2050, through a variety of strategies, including shrinking its printer parts


Seagate debuts 300GB, 2.5-inch drive

Seagate debuts 300GB, 2.5-inch driveThe company's Savvio 10K.3 drive packs 300GB capacity into a small-form-factor, enterprise-class drive suitable for use with a SAS interface


AMD ready to unleash Puma

After the delayed launch of Barcelona, the company is on schedule for the release of its Puma notebook technology


BlackBerry joins police on the beat

Thames Valley Police is rolling out 1,100 BlackBerry smartphones, giving officers access to police systems while on the beat to boost efficiency


Acer launches £199 subnotebook

Acer launches £199 subnotebookThe world's second-largest laptop manufacturer enters the same market as Asus's Eee, with its own Linux-based subnotebook


Apple iPhone loses US market share to RIM, Palm

IDC figures reveal that Apple's market share dropped from 26.7 percent in the fourth quarter to 19.2 percent in the first


Global semiconductor market boosted by PC sales

The Semiconductor Industry Association says chip sales rose 5.9 percent in April compared to last year, despite a sluggish economy


Nvidia chipset to challenge Atom and Nano

With its Tegra line, Nvidia weighs into the same subnotebook-oriented market that is currently occupied by Intel's Atom and Via's Nano


New Eee PC models due on Tuesday

The Eee 901 subnotebook and Eee Box desktop machine are expected to appear at the Computex exhibition, with other launches also possible


HP's big IT consolidation

HPThe company has trimmed the number of apps it runs from 2,500 to around 1,800, but faces another round of consolidation after the EDS acquisition


Dell sets sights on PC-maker crown in Asia

The company is confident it can become the top PC maker in Asia after strong performance in the region helped boost first-quarter results


Via Nano to take on Intel's Atom

Via has released an energy-efficient CPU aimed at competing directly with Atom, Intel's latest mobile processor


Asus embeds lightweight OS in laptops

Several of the manufacturer's upcoming notebooks will include an embedded, instant-on operating system that uses a Linux stack


Via opens up its subnotebook design

The chip designer has open sourced the reference designs for its Mini-Note device, in a bid to make it easier for laptop makers to incorporate Via's platform



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