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Intel Gives Prices for Ultralow-Voltage Chips, Laptops
Intel posted new prices for Intel’s mobile processors, including its latest low-voltage and ultralow-voltage processors, the LV Intel Core 2 Duo L7700, L7500 and L7300. The LV Intel Core 2 Duo L7700 (1.8GHz), L7500 (1.6GHz) and L7300 (1.4GHz) have 4MB Level 2 caches and support for an 800MHz FSB. The $316 L7700 costs as much…
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Tech Data: IT Spending Flat
IT distributor Tech Data missed Wall Street’s profit expectations, but said its second quarter was a good one, relatively speaking, as IT spending remained flat. Tech Data reported earnings of $23.7 million or 45 cents a share on net sales of $6.17 billion. Earnings for the same period a year ago reached $7.2 million or…
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IT Distributors End Free Ride on Shipping
IT distributor Tech Data will institute a $2 handling fee on all orders shipped, the company revealed during its earnings announcement and call Aug. 21. Tech Data’s move follows a similar one announced by its larger rival Ingram Micro earlier in August. A third IT distributor, Synnex, is "taking a wait-and-see approach" to adding such…
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Sun Fires Up Server Lineup with Intel Chips
Sun Microsystems is looking to round out its server portfolio with new systems based on Intel processors and designed for high-performance computing and back-office applications such as databases. At the start of the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco Aug. 19, Sun will introduce a pair of servers that use Intel Xeon processors from the…
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Intel Unveils Solid-State SATA Storage Drives
SAN FRANCISCO—Intel has been developing solid-state flash memory processors for as long as flash has been around (20 years). But only on Aug. 19 at the Intel Developer Forum here did the world’s largest chip maker announce its first-ever flash-based SATA drives for data storage. Intel’s High-Performance SATA (Serial ATA) solid-state drives are data storage devices…
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Salesforce.com Acquires InStranet Customer Service Knowledge Base
Salesforce.com, a 9-year-old company that has grown mostly from internal expansion, disclosed on Aug. 20 that it has acquired AppExchange partner InStranet, the producer of customer service knowledge base technology, for $31.5 million. InStranet’s knowledge base technology is used by business-to-consumer or business-to-business customer service call centers to give service agents online reference and policy databases…