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Seagate invests £120m in UK factory

Martin Courtney — 2008-07-03T16:49:00.000Z

Martin Courtney, Computing, Thursday 3 July 2008 at 16:49:00

Disk drive manufacturer expects to ship a billion hard disk drives in the next five years

Hard disk drive maker Seagate is to invest £120m in extending its Londonderry factory to produce greater volumes of read-write heads for its products....

IBM digs mainframe 'black hole'

Martin Courtney — 2008-07-03T13:48:00.000Z

Martin Courtney, Computing, Thursday 3 July 2008 at 13:48:00

Acquisition of rival PSI may lead to complete market domination

IBM has acquired rival mainframe vendor Platform Solutions Inc (PSI) for an undisclosed sum. Both companies have agreed to drop outstanding legal disputes over intellectual property (IP) rights against each...

Ad firm promotes green IT rollout

Janie Davies — 2008-07-03T09:49:00.000Z

Janie Davies, Computing, Thursday 3 July 2008 at 09:49:00

Warmer datacentres and print management spearhead green push

Media and advertising firm Ogilvy & Mather (O&M) has drawn up an IT policy to tackle environmental impact which includes conserving power on desktops, slashing unnecessary printing, consolidating servers and...

Is this progress or are we wasteful?

Mark Samuels — 2008-07-02T17:27:00.000Z

Mark Samuels, Computing, Wednesday 2 July 2008 at 17:27:00

The popularity of the computer has provided us with many benefits, but just what are we going to do with them all, asks Mark Samuels

Depending on your point of view, breaking the one billion actively-used PCs barrier is either representative of the power of technology, or the waste of man....

The pIT stop Q&A: When should I virtualise a server?

The pIT stop panel — 2008-07-02T17:13:00.000Z

The pIT stop panel, Computing, Wednesday 2 July 2008 at 17:13:00

Computing readers put their IT questions to our expert panel

Dave Pearce asks the pIT stop panel: When should you virtualise a server and when should you not? What are the most important aspects of the decision process? The pIT...

Computer Aid ends the headache of commercial IT disposal

Janie Davies — 2008-07-02T16:56:00.000Z

Janie Davies, Computing, Wednesday 2 July 2008 at 16:56:00

A west London college is favouring Computer Aid for the decommissioning of end-of-life PCs

Commercial IT disposal is time consuming and complicated, but a charity can provide a suitable alternative, says a west London college....

Intel chip market domination continues as notebook sales surge

Martin Courtney — 2008-07-02T15:45:00.000Z

Martin Courtney, Computing, Wednesday 2 July 2008 at 15:45:00

Consumer notebook sales underpin Intel/AMD revenue market share

Intel took 79.7 per cent of world CPU revenues in the first quarter of 2008, down 0.7 percentage points from its 2007 first-quarter revenues market share, according to a report...

European Commission set to fight data roaming charges

Neon Kelly — 2008-06-30T17:21:00.000Z

Neon Kelly, Computing, Monday 30 June 2008 at 17:21:00

Viviane Reding is expected to announce new regulations in an effort to drive down costs

Brussels is expected to battle the high cost of data roaming charges this week, as the deadline for operators to take action expires....

UK PC shipments rise 14 per cent

Neon Kelly — 2008-06-30T15:52:00.000Z

Neon Kelly, Computing, Monday 30 June 2008 at 15:52:00

Mobility is driving the market, as users continue to swap their desktops for notebooks

PC shipment figures for the UK have shown solid growth during the first quarter of 2008, rising 14.3 per cent to 3.23 million units....

Beijing rehearsal wins gold medal

Janie Davies — 2008-06-26T17:40:00.000Z

Janie Davies, Computing, Thursday 26 June 2008 at 17:40:00

Atos Origin has completed its second and final technical rehearsal ahead of the Beijing Olympic Games in August

With less than seven weeks to go until the Olympic Games opening ceremony, the second and final technical rehearsal has been successfully completed....

Microsoft chases the server virtualisation pack

Martin Courtney — 2008-06-26T11:45:00.000Z

Martin Courtney, Computing, Thursday 26 June 2008 at 11:45:00

Looks to make up lost ground on VMWare with Hyper-V cost and virtual machine management arguments

Microsoft has today made the final release version its long awaited Hyper-V server virtualisation software available free for download from its website....

Declining desktop sales force vendor action

Martin Courtney — 2008-06-26T05:00:00.000Z

Martin Courtney, Computing, Thursday 26 June 2008 at 05:00:00

Stagnant desktop PC sales and notebook price pressure force strategy rethink among big suppliers

UK PC vendors face some tough strategy choices as desktop sales decline and lower-cost notebooks erode profit margins, despite the fact that the volume of PCs sold is on the...

Identity card scheme will not mandate fingerprint readers

Tom Young — 2008-06-24T14:50:00.000Z

Tom Young, Computing, Tuesday 24 June 2008 at 14:50:00

A proliferation of different fingerprint reading machines will be used in government programmes

The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) will not mandate the use of any particular type of hardware for collecting biometrics under the National Identity Scheme....

Virtualisation is top choice for SMBs

Neon Kelly — 2008-06-23T16:44:00.000Z

Neon Kelly, Computing, Monday 23 June 2008 at 16:44:00

Companies say the technology can combat the economic downturn

Two in five small to medium businesses (SMBs) say virtualisation is the best way to bypass a potential recession. Of 100 companies questioned by internet service provider Star, 43 per...

One billion PCs are now in use

Neon Kelly — 2008-06-23T10:15:00.000Z

Neon Kelly, Computing, Monday 23 June 2008 at 10:15:00

And the global total will double to two billion by 2014, as emerging markets grow

There are now more than one billion PCs in use worldwide and this number will double by the year 2014, according to Gartner research....