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• 25 March 2013

• News: HP's prototype 3D display creates holograms viewable from 180 degrees

  Glasses-free stereoscopic 3D sounds like a great idea, right? Just sit down and watch the images reach out to you. Unfortunately, in practice, we've seen glasses-free 3D fall short, with a darkened 3DS display and reduced viewing angles on 3D HDTVs.

• News: Imagination, TSMC collaborate on graphics chips with 3D transistors

  Graphics processors with 3D transistors could come to smartphones and tablets through a technology collaboration between Imagination Technologies and contract chip maker TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.).

• 22 March 2013

• News: AMD's newly-announced Radeon HD 7790 guns for the budget 1080p gaming crown

  Last month's release of Nvidia's Titan graphics card--the most powerful consumer GPU ever announced--may have inspired uncontrollable drooling among the enthusiast crowd, but at a cool $1000, the card simply isn't priced to move. AMD's latest release takes a different tack. Today, the company announced the Radeon HD 7790 series graphics card, a $150 mid-range GPU designed to bring better 1080p gaming to the masses.

• News: Samsung launches Southeast Asia's first Enterprise Experience Centre in Singapore

  Samsung Electronics so far has been known for its consumer mobility products and solutions in this region. Now, the South Korean electronics giant has trained its eyes on the enterprise segment of the market.

• 21 March 2013

• News: Big monitor demand grows as overall display market shrinks

  Monitor shipments will continue to sink in 2013. But when consumers do buy a monitor, they’ll turn to larger screens—31-inches or more in size.

• News: IBM moves toward post-silicon transistor

  Exploring methods of computing without silicon, IBM has found a way to make transistors that could be fashioned into virtual circuitry that mimics how the human brain operates.

• News: Apple's hire of Adobe CTO foretells move toward iOS-OS X hybrids

  Apple's hiring of Adobe's former CTO Kevin Lynch opens some intriguing possibilities for the company's future moves, analysts said today.

• News: Apple leads consumer cloud storage wars

  Apple is dominating the cloud storage wars, followed by Dropbox, Amazon and Google according to Strategy Analytics "Cloud Media Services" survey.

• News: QLogic promises speed, simplicity with first Mt. Rainier cache-on-adapter products

  QLogic's technology for clustered cache storage on SAN adapters will hit the market this month in the form of adapters with integrated 200GB or 400GB flash cards.

• News: Oracle's storage business falters as market slows in Q4, says Gartner

  Oracle suffered the most as growth in the storage market continued to slow during the end of 2012. Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM also struggled while EMC emerged as the big winner.

• 20 March 2013

• News: Mac troubleshooting: dealing with hard drive woes

  Your Mac has begun showing signs of trouble. Perhaps you frequently get errors when trying to open or save files. You suspect a problem with the hard drive. Before panic sets in, you want to launch Apple's Disk Utility and select Repair Disk from the First Aid tab. Hopefully, that will remedy the situation. One problem though: Repair Disk is dimmed and you can't select it. Why? Because OS X cannot attempt repairs on an active startup drive. You can still use Repair Permissions, which may help in certain situations. But let's assume it doesn't.

• How-Tos: Speed up your PC with an SSD – and the right tweaks

  If you are still using a conventional hard drive, there has never been a better time to upgrade. Prices for SSDs have finally dropped to under £1 per Gigabyte, making them one of the best hardware investments at your disposal. In this How-To, we'll tell you how to prepare and what to keep in mind for the upgrade to an SSD.

• 19 March 2013

• Opinion: Multi-monitor tracking system keeps you focused, makes sure you don't miss anything

  A multi-display setup is a great work setup because it helps you multitask, but at the same time it can be extremely distracting when you are surrounded by ten different open apps.

• News: Nvidia to speed up graphics processors with Maxwell, Volta

  Nvidia wants graphics processors to create avatars with realistic human faces, and power visual searches in which images can be identified to produce matching search results.

• News: Warren East explains why he's leaving ARM

  Warren East, the outgoing CEO of UK chip design company ARM, has never displayed the bravado of his counterparts across the Atlantic, and that was on show Tuesday when he explained his surprise decision to leave the company on July 1.

• News: Nvidia unveils new Tegra chips for smartphones, tablets

  Nvidia wants to bump up graphics and application performance on tablets and smartphones with the two new Tegra mobile processors it announced on Tuesday.

• News: ARM appoints Segars as CEO after Warren East retires

  Simon Segars will become ARM CEO when Warren East retires July 1, the company said Tuesday.

• News: Flash storage cost claims need 'careful examination'

  Storage will be all solid state at some point in the future, but the vision of an all-flash data centre is still some way off, according to Nimble Storage.

• News: HP's Itanium secrets cost us $95 million, Oracle says

  Hewlett-Packard misled IT buyers about plans to phase out its Itanium server platform and in the process stole potential sales from Oracle and other rivals, costing Oracle about US$95 million in profits, the company plans to testify in a jury trial starting next month.

• 18 March 2013

• News: HP eyeing $4 billion damages claim in Itanium case against Oracle

  Hewlett-Packard may seek damages of US$4 billion to $4.2 billion from Oracle in its lawsuit over support for Itanium server architecture.

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