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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has set their sight to its ambitious goals: To parlay its success in new chip technology over the past two years into market share growth and become the provider of half of all computer microprocessors within the next decade.
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AMD’s Ambition: 50% Of Market By 2015
I just came across this new service from Iomega, which recently announced on last Thursday, June 2, 2005.
iStorage provides online storage services for both consumer and prfoessional accounts.
iStorage Consumer account is available in capacities of 250MB (USD$44.96/year), 1GB (USD$134.96/year), and 5GB (USD$374.96/year).
iStorage Professional accounts are available from 1GB (USD$186.75/year) to 15GB (USD$1,199.25/year) and up.
Both account types include a redundantly backup client and 128-bit encryption data transfers (SSL or Triple-DES). They claimed that Data loss is virtually impossible with two physically redundant servers located on the east and west coasts.
If you signup in the month of June for annual subscription, you are entitled for 25% discount. :)
Anyway, after checking out their services, what came into my mind is Google Gmail is already providing over 2Gig space for free, but conversely Iomega is putting on high price tag on their online storage service. Wouldn’t it be a risky business to do? HMmMm…. let’s see how it goes in the coming months. :)
McAfee announced on June 2, 2005, the acquisition of Wireless Security Corp, which is a privately held company that offers innovative Wi-Fi security solutions to protect home and small business wireless networks from unauthorized access to a wireless network, its contents, or Internet service.
Apple Computer plans to announce Monday that they will be switching its computers to Intel’s microprocessors. The company plans to move lower-end computers such as the Mac Mini to Intel chips in mid-2006 and higher-end models such as the Power Mac in mid-2007, sources said.
The announcement is expected Monday at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, at which Chief Executive Steve Jobs is giving the keynote speech. However, IBM, Intel and Apple declined to comment for this story at this point of time.
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Apple Switches To Intel Chips
Ebay announced on Wednesday, 1 June, 2005, it agreed to buy Shopping.com, which enables consumers to compare products online and to read consumer reviews.
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The purchase price of about USD$620 million in cash, or USD$21 a share, is a 20 percent premium over Shopping.com’s Wednesday close of USD$17.44 and shares surged nearly 20 percent in after-hours trading. eBay lost over 1 percent.
The move by eBay would strengthen its business in providing online comparison shopping. Besides, users of Shopping.com can specify an item they are looking for and the Web site will direct the user to vendors providing that product in eBay..
Shopping.com also has more than 400,000 Epinion reviewers that Ebay said would complement its own community-feedback-based marketplace.
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Dell and HP revenue growth in server market outpaced IBM and Sun Microsystems in server market, while overall growth slowed in the first quarter of 2005.
In summary, the overall market grew 4.1 percent to USD$12.3 billion worldwide compared with the year-earlier quarter, a rate that was slower than that of each quarter since the second of 2003, according to figures Gartner released Wednesday.
Rank in server market:-
1. IBM – 29.8 percent market share, 1.1 percent revenue growth
2. HP – 28.1 percent market share, 13.1 percent revenue growth
3. Dell – 10.8 percent market share, 13 percent revenue growth
4. Sun – 9.5 percent market share, drop 4.2 percent revenue
Rank in Unix server market:-
1. IBM – 30.3 percent market share, 12 percent revenue growth
2. HP – 28.7 percent market share, drop 0.7 percent revenue growth
3. Sun – 27.8 percent market share, drop 6.6 percent revenue growth
Rank in servers using x86 processors such as Intel’s Xeon and Advanced Micro Devices’ Opteron:-
1. HP
2. Dell
3. IBM
Rank in Blade servers:-
1. IBM
2. HP
3. Sun
4. Dell
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