Infrastructure

Intel Corp. officially launched its vPro PC architecture to the Australian market, saying the new technology will alleviate client software and security management.

Application slowdown lowers productivity, employee morale and adversely affects customer loyalty, according to a recent survey. The survey said common complaints include slow response to user commands, long delays in business transactions or processes and slow loading of Web pages. Deployment of tools could overcome the problem, a Canadian analyst said.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is launching two servers using Intel Corp.'s new dual-core Itanium chip in a bid to gain market traction for the troubled Itanium line.

Cisco will sustain double-digit growth through the rest of the decade by incorporating data, voice, video and mobile capabilities -- what it calls its "quad play" -- across product lines, while addressing the service provider, enterprise, commercial and consumer markets.

IBM Corp. has chosen Sao Paulo as the sixth global location for its specialized software and services laboratories known as "Hipods" or high-performance on-demand solutions facilities, which focus on resolving large-scale computing issues for IBM customers, including eBay Inc. and Google Inc.

Microsoft Corp. Tuesday released final pricing for Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 (RC1)and unveiled the details of its sweeping plan to get the operating system into the hands of millions of new testers.

The Early California Population Project (ECPP) has brought scattered information together to provide researchers with a vast body of fully searchable information in one data repository. During the eight-year project, the huge database was developed by manually entering information from microfilmed images.

Poor data quality, or dirty data, can affect performance and productivity, especially if business decisions are being based on it. Industry experts often say that data is a company