James Niccolai

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Whitman gives HP harsh report card

After quarterly profit dives 44 per cent and revenue declines by 7 per cent, the new CEO says the company has to invest more in itself

HP pays US$425,000 in hazardous laptop batteries case

HP learned of about 22 incidents involving the batteries in 2007 but it failed to report until 10 months later, says U.S. agencyrn

Microsoft’s last CES keynote hawks Windows 8, Kinect

Steve Ballmer gave Microsoft's farewell keynote at CES, where he talked up its Xbox, Windows 8 and Windows Phone software

CES: Tobii demos ‘gaze control’ on Windows 8

The technology makes the cursor jump directly to where the eye looks on the screen

Oracle’s Sparc SuperCluster due by year end

The company released its Sparc T4 processor in standard rack and blade servers, as well as a big clustered system

Dell to launch public cloud service this year

The company will use VMware's software to start and offer Microsoft Azure and an open-source cloud stack next year. Dell will also offer consulting services for companies to build private clouds in their own data centres

HP updates dependency mapping software

The company said an update to its DDMA mapping tool will help data centres develop chargeback programs. The new feature is what HP calls a collector portal, a Web interface that lists the applications and dependencies the software has uncovered

Four companies rethink databases for the cloud

NimbusDB, Xeround, ParAccel and Cloudant all aim to provide greater scale and elasticity through the development of new database technologies. Find out more

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