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Lees meerThe race to keep up with AWSs and Microsoft of this world. HPE is trying to up its Greenlake public cloud-like game by launching a storage-as-a-service (SaaS) platform with data service software abstraction layers operating on new Alletra storage ar…
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Lees meerBerkshire Hathaway’s annual Q&A also smashed Robinhood, tweaked Elon Musk, fawned over Apple Bitcoin is disgusting and contrary to the interests of civilization according to Charlie Munger, vice-chair of holding company Berkshire Hathaway.…
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Lees meerGoodbye, Mr Chips On Call There are few things worse than when someone nicks your chips, be they of the potato or silicon variety as our latest delve into the annals of On Call reveals.…
Lees meerChaebol's Q1 revenue reaches new all-time high of US$59B Samsung has vowed to maximize its silicon production by starting mass production of 5nm and 7nm products at its Pyeongtaek production line in the second half of 2021.…
Lees meerBiden administration rules expected in the next week or so A federal appeals court has overturned a district court order preventing plans for 3D-printed guns from being shared online.…
Lees meerA certain Chinese juggernaut's woes helped a bit, too San Diego HQ'd chipmaker Qualcomm has reported [PDF] quarterly financials that impressed even the worthless stock traders, courtesy of a recovery in phone sales and a strong output in China.…
Lees meerCupertino brought in more for Q2 than HPE did for all of 2020 so go figure Apple is having one helluva pandemic. The world's most valuable tech brand last night reported stellar numbers for its Q2 of fiscal 2021 [PDF] ended 27 March, with revenue up…
Lees meerMany owe thanks to Huawei ducking out under what IDC calls 'increased weight of US sanctions’ People are buying smartphones again, according to figures from analyst IDC which show the market grew 25 per cent year-on-year in Q1 2021.…
Lees meer$600m in patent royalty payments pour in to help margins pop Huawei has posted its Q1 2021 results – and the headline figure is a 16.5 per cent year-on-year revenue drop to CNY152.2bn (US$23.5bn).…
Lees meerBut for now, have some thin, light x86 Galaxy Pro laptops Samsung is touting some more Wintel laptops – the Galaxy Book Pro and Galaxy Book Pro 360 – and also teased a collaboration on new silicon.…
Lees meer#ResignModi posts hidden amid heartbreaking COVID-19 crisis Facebook temporarily blocked netizens from viewing posts calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in India as a COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak devastates the nation.…
Lees meerYour first step towards the self-driving data centre is choosing the right co-driver, says Huawei Sponsored How we build and manage data centres has undergone a massive transformation in recent years. But there is still much to do.…
Lees meerLow enough to witness Musk's Twitter trolling of Jeff Bezos? The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted an application by SpaceX to bring its broadband satellites closer to Earth.…
Lees meerHow to predict - and prevent - errors Sponsored Storage is perhaps the most fiendishly complex part of enterprise IT, as the storage infrastructure has to meet the demands of a range of workloads with differing requirements for performance, all whi…
Lees meerWhat's £23m compared to £1.35bn? The three most important words in any estate agent's lexicon are: "Location, location, location." The same is true for the UK's mobile carriers, who have just spent £23m to get their choice positions for their recent…
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