At IFA 2010 IBM (NYSE: IBM) will showcase how it can help Consumer Electronics (CE) manufacturers shift to a services-based business model to provide better device management, enable the quick development and launch of new value-added service capabilities and find new revenue streams. (IBM is in the IFA TecWatch area, [...]

Higher education organizations across the country are deploying high-density Dell C6100 servers to power critical HPC research. Designed with a shared infrastructure and efficient power and cooling features, the C6100 is ideal for higher education organizations that depend on HPC to enable groundbreaking computational modeling, programming and visualization-based research.
Dell [...]

Dell announced the winner of its first Connect Your Classroom contest today. St. Dorothy School in Glendora, Calif., was voted in as winner and will receive $20,000 of new Dell technology and consulting to update the school’s classrooms and help improve student learning with technology.
The school was chosen as the winner [...]

Apple® today announced that in less than 48 hours since its launch on Wednesday, more than one million users have joined Ping, its new social network for music which lets users follow their favorite artists and friends to discover what music they’re talking about, listening to and downloading.
“One-third of the people [...]

HP today enhanced its award-winning portfolio of mini notebook PCs with new products that span consumer, business and education markets.
With thin, striking designs, the new models are engineered to provide an unsurpassed customer experience:

The redesigned HP Mini 210, an affordable companion PC, gives consumers all-day computing, optional high-definition (HD) video playback(1,2) [...]

HP today revealed new consumer notebook PCs that fuse advanced technologies with stylish designs to deliver a superior computing experience.

For maximum sensory appeal, HP delivers the thrill of 3-D entertainment to the HP ENVY 17 3D – the first 17-inch notebook PC to support 1080p 3-D and Blu-ray – and [...]

HP Enterprise Services today announced a new storage management capability that helps clients better organize and manage the explosion of digitized data to gain superior control of their information while improving asset utilization.
The HP Virtualized Storage Service (VSS) can save clients up to 30 percent in costs by maximizing utilization [...]

HP and 3PAR Inc. today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase 3PAR, a leading global provider of utility storage, through a cash tender offer of $33 per share in cash, or an enterprise value of $2.35 billion. The transaction has been approved by [...]

Microsoft Corp. and Temenos Group AG, the global provider of banking software, today announced the successful completion of a high-performance benchmark that measured the high-end scalability of TEMENOS T24 (T24) on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter.
The testing environment, created to reflect real-world retail banking [...]

Fujitsu announced the launch of its new software as a service (SaaS)-based solution for library administration aimed at municipal public libraries throughout Japan.
The SaaS-based solution, WebiLis, provides the functions needed to administer a library over the Internet, from Fujitsu’s datacenters. Libraries can quickly and inexpensively deploy an ICT system environment [...]