Wednesday, April 20, 2011

IT News Head Lines (InfoWorld) 20/04/2011





China set to surpass U.S. in PC purchases
When it comes to IT, China likes to build big, whether it's the world's largest supercomputer or city-size complexes dedicated to cloud computing. Now, China is near to adding something else to its list of big tech things: the world's largest market for PCs.

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Apple vs. Samsung vs. Apple
I'm reminded of the "Simpsons" episode where flying lawsuits ultimately morphed into "Everybody v Everybody."

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Samsung to sell HDD unit to Seagate in $1.4B deal
Samsung Electronics will sell its hard-disk drive operations to Seagate Technology in a $1.375 billion deal that will create strong links between the two companies, they said Tuesday. The deal stands to solidify Seagate's position as the world's second-largest maker of hard disk drives and comes less than a month after market leader Western Digital said it would buy Hitachi GST. If both deals go through, the hard disk drive market will have just three players by the end of the year, the other being Toshiba.

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Update: Apple sues Samsung, says its Galaxy Tab copied iPad
Apple has sued Samsung for allegedly copying the iPad, iPod, and iPhone with its Galaxy Tab and Galaxy handsets. Samsung copied Apple technologies, designs and even packaging with its Google Android-based products, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Apple is seeking a jury trial in the case.

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EMC integrates Avamar backup software and Data Domain
EMC today introduced the first major upgrade to its Avamar deduplication backup software , which integrates with the company's Data Domain appliances to give administrators a single view of their EMC backup environments.

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Chipset provides more insight into network's physical layer
This week, a $12 billion maker of network connectors and panels will unveil a chipset to provide greater security and visibility in data center networks.

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Update: Microsoft broadens Office 365 beta, launches app store
Microsoft is expanding the beta testing program of its Office 365 cloud collaboration and communication suite, almost doubling the number of countries and languages it's available in, the company said on Monday. In addition, Microsoft is opening an application and services storefront for the suite called Office 365 Marketplace. As of Monday, it features about 100 applications and 400 professional services from developers and channel partners.

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Red Hat's Ceylon a Java killer? Not likely
It looks like another potential "successor" to Java is on the horizon, with a Red Hat software engineer working on a language called Ceylon, which purports to fix the

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