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• Oracle-HP trial will trace an ill-fated partnership

  By Stephen Lawson | 01 June, 2012 20:57

  After Oracle and Hewlett-Packard enjoyed a long and fruitful partnership in enterprise IT, it's hard to find anything that hasn't gone wrong with their relationship over the past two years.

• Apple's iPad will be more popular than PCs in 2020

  By Karen Haslam | 01 June, 2012 08:09

  Piper Jaffray analysts think that in the long run any cannibalising of Mac sales by iPads will pay off because by 2020 the market share of tablets will be great than PCs, and the iPad will have the biggest share.

• Apple's Tim Cook: iPad will replace the PC 'for some people'

  By Karen Haslam | 31 May, 2012 07:11

  Following his claims that nobody wants a refrigerator-toaster, Apple CEO Tim Cook has reiterated his belief that the tablet and PC should never converge, and revealed that he does see the iPad replacing the PC in some cases.

• Livermore set to be first witness in HP-Oracle trial

  By Stephen Lawson | 01 June, 2012 02:04

  Ann Livermore, a member of Hewlett-Packard's board of directors and a longtime head of the company's enterprise business, will be the first witness called when a court in San Jose, California, hears HP's lawsuit against Oracle for ending future development on the Itanium platform.

• Apple's Tim Cook: Siri is some people's 'best friend' but it can do much more

  By Karen Haslam | 31 May, 2012 07:10

  Siri is “one of the most popular features of our most popular phone” according to Apple CEO Tim Cook. But: “There’s more that it can do”. Cook also noted that for some people, Siri has become their “best friend”.

• Dell's Ivy Bridge Latitude laptops offer 32.7 hours battery life

  By Agam Shah | 31 May, 2012 20:22

  Dell on Thursday announced Latitude business laptops with Intel's latest Core processors that can provide around 33 hours of battery life, but only when combined with attached battery packs.

• Apple, Foxconn slammed by SACOM on worker abuse in China

  By Agam Shah | 31 May, 2012 18:03

  A watchdog group has slammed Apple and its supplier Foxconn for failing to take corrective action on the plight of factory workers in China, saying the companies continue to abuse employees while providing poor working conditions.

• Freescale wants to make wireless charging cheaper, more ubiquitous

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 31 May, 2012 18:02

  With the introduction of three new reference designs, Freescale Semiconductor wants to cut the cost of wireless charging and offer the technology for tablets and power tools, the company said on Thursday.

• BYOD myths: cost savings, productivity gains, less headaches

  By Tom Kaneshige | 12 April, 2012 03:00

  A few years ago, corner-office executives shucked their company-owned BlackBerry smartphones in favor of personally owned iPhones, and then demanded IT support them. Thus began the great march toward BYOD, or bring-your-own-device.

• Intel: Ultrabooks offer more choice, better value than MacBook Air or iPad

  By Melanie Pinola | 01 April, 2012 06:03

  With the superhigh-resolution third-generation iPad selling like hotcakes, and a refresh of the MacBook Air expected soon, Windows-based laptops are seemingly becoming a dying breed in this "post-PC," Apple-dominated era.

• HP is ready to get back to business

  By Jared Newman | 29 October, 2011 08:12

  After a crazy year for HP that included a failed tablet, a hasty decision to abandon the PC business (a decision now abandoned), and a CEO shakeup, the company seems eager to get back to business as usual.

• IBM's Steve Mills talks Oracle, Watson's future

  By Chris Kanaracus | 23 June, 2011 02:28

  IBM's Steve Mills has long been known for his leadership of the company's software division, but last year he added hardware and systems to his responsibilities as well. That move put Mills in charge of 100,000 employees and products that generate US$40 billion in revenue for IBM, according to its website.

• CIO Rebecca Jacoby steers Cisco's IT ship

  By Stephen Lawson | 14 December, 2010 08:29

  Running the internal IT operations of Cisco Systems is a big job not just because of the size of the company -- more than 70,000 employees worldwide and a market capitalisation in the range of $US100 billion -- but also because Cisco is continually developing new IT products across a broad range of technologies and is known for rapidly adopting those products for its own use. Cisco CIO Rebecca Jacoby spoke with IDG News Service on the sidelines of the NetWork conference last week and shared some insights into the legendary enterprise IT company's own enterprise IT.

• Mobile device management: Getting started

  By Todd R. Weiss | 30 May, 2012 14:42

  The rapid-fire spread of mobile devices being used by enterprise employees can be a huge boon for businesses in productivity and customer service gains, but those advantages don't come without a price.

• WWDC 2012 forecast: Cloudy with a chance of new MacBooks

  By Ian Paul | 16 May, 2012 04:16

  Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference is less than one month away, and speculation is high about whether Apple will announce new iCloud features, refreshed MacBook Pros, overhauled versions of iOS and OS X and maybe even a new smartphone during the conference.

• Defining 'big data' depends on who's doing the defining

  By Brandon Butler | 10 May, 2012 20:41

  Big data is an IT buzzword nowadays, but what does it really mean? When does data become big?

• Today, printers. Tomorrow, 'integrated peripherals'?

  By Lamont Wood | 08 May, 2012 20:56

  Out went 42 aging black and white copiers with interface boxes that let them serve as printers. In went 42 new networked multi-function printers (MFPs) that could do color printing and copying and scan directly to e-mail, fax or files. And the owner, the Park Hill School District in Kansas City, MO, saves $19,000 yearly.

• Five good laptop bargains to consider

  By Melanie Pinola | 08 May, 2012 11:34

  Laptop manufacturers are hard at work updating their laptop lines and making new models using Intel's latest Ivy Bridge processors. If you're in the market for a new laptop, however, it may make more sense for you to buy a slightly older laptop running second-generation Sandy Bridge and save a few hundred bucks. Here's how to decide which purchase is your best option.

• Where did I come from? The origin(s) of my MacBook Pro

  By Josh Fruhlinger | 08 May, 2012 06:52

  I remember when I bought my first new Mac. The label on the box read something like "Assembled for Apple in California." Famously, that has now changed: Apple computers (and iPhones, and iPads) are assembled in China, and the conditions of the workers there came under scrutiny when Mike Daisey's one-man show about his trip to Foxconn factories there was featured on NPR's This American Life -- scrutiny that continued despite revelations that Daisey fabricated some of the incidents he described.

• Smartphone screens are getting bigger

  By Matt Hamblen | 03 May, 2012 20:11

  Smartphone screens are getting larger, although vendors will likely continue to offer many sizes to woo a wide variety of users.

• The greatest PC mysteries - solved!

  By PCWorld Staff | 30 April, 2012 23:40

  PC owners know that every computer has a unique assortment of components, applications and peripherals. Nevertheless, certain things - including a host of common PC problems and mysteries - are part of the shared experience of computer ownership.