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• 11 March 2013

• News: AT&T to sell BlackBerry Z10 for $200 under contract March 22

  AT&T will sell the BlackBerry Z10 touchscreen smartphone on March 22 for $199.99 with a two-year contract, the carrier confirmed.

• News: CEO at chip maker ST-Ericsson steps down

  ST-Ericsson's CEO Didier Lamouche has decided to resign from his post as owner Ericsson looks for a way to ensure its future.

• 09 March 2013

• News: How big data is transforming IT from a cost centre to a profit centre

  The rise of big data is turning IT departments into “profit centres” for businesses, according to Hitachi Data Systems chief economist, David Merrill.

• News: For Qualcomm, there's more to LTE broadcast than saving networks

  LTE broadcast could make video and other content run better on smartphones and tablets, and the emerging technology has at least one highly motivated backer in mobile chipmaker Qualcomm.

• 08 March 2013

• News: Toothpaste inspires better solar panels, batteries at PARC

  They say inspiration can come from the most unlikely places. For a scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center, the Xerox-owned lab in Silicon Valley best known as PARC, it came from a tube of toothpaste.

• News: Huawei leans on SAP to give enterprise push a boost

  Huawei Technologies' enterprise division is ramping up its European presence, helped by the announcement this week that SAP has certified the company's servers to run its HANA in-memory platform. Such deals with SAP and other big software vendors will be key for Huawei to succeed in the enterprise.

• News: ExaGrid adds cloud option for disaster recovery

  A backup-hardware maker is now embracing the cloud as part of its offering for disaster recovery.

• News: Schools test 'app store' for learning through Gates-funded project

  Some school administrators are testing a bold idea to integrate the multitude of systems that are used to store student data, giving teachers a single view of how students are performing and allowing them to better deliver the right learning materials.

• 07 March 2013

• News: Prices of DRAM expected to stabilize, NAND to fall

  After multiple years of double-digit drops, prices for DRAM could stabilize as demand exceeds supply and the number of memory makers dwindles, a research analyst for IC Insights said this week.

• News: KILL: Product snapshot: AMD "Richland" APU

  The PC World Australia story, "Product snapshot: AMD 'Richland' APU," was sent to the newswire for distribution before an embargo time was lifted. The story, which posted Wednesday, has been removed from the wire. Online editors are asked to remove it from their websites as soon as possible

• News: Storage strategies for the brave new world

  The enterprise storage picture is changing fast as resources are abstracted through virtualization, new computing options like cloud are embraced, and companies search for ways to extract more value out of the data they already are swimming in, even as more arrives in the guise of big data.

• News: Foxconn still in negotiations for Sharp stake, despite Samsung deal

  Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group said it was still negotiating a deal for greater cooperation with Sharp, despite the Japanese display maker securing a US$110 million investment to supply LCD panels to rival Samsung Electronics.

• News: Storage controllers no longer last for years but months: VMtech

  Storage controllers that would usually last for years end up becoming full in months. VMtech director, Len Findlay attributes this to more being put on the disk than before.

• 06 March 2013

• News: Adaptec demos 12Gbps Serial Attached SCSI

  The arrival of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) at 12Gbps will be a boon for demanding applications such as databases, according to Adaptec by PMC, which is demonstrating the technology at Cebit.

• News: Product snapshot: AMD "Richland" APU

  AMD is trying to get noticed again in the notebook space with a new Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) codenamed Richland, which is based on, but improves on the previous APU, codenamed Trinity.

• News: Nvidia expands pro graphics card line with Quadro K4000, K2000 & K2000D

  Nvidia has fleshed out its range of Quadro workstation-class graphics cards based on its Keplar platform it launched with the K5000 last year.

• News: Samsung locks up Sharp as long-time screen provider

  Japan's Sharp has secured a US$110 million lifeline investment from Samsung Electronics, and agreed to become a major supplier of screens for the South Korean company's growing electronics empire.

• News: Samsung locks up Sharp as long-time screen provider

  Japan's Sharp has secured a US$110 million lifeline investment from Samsung Electronics, and agreed to become a major supplier of screens for the South Korean company's growing electronics empire.

• 05 March 2013

• News: Why Moore's Law, not mobility, is killing the PC

  While rumors of the PC's demise are greatly exaggerated--an industry that moved more than 350 million units in 2012 is not "dead"--computers undoubtedly aren't selling as quickly as they once did. Analysts forecast PC sales to far exceed tablet sales for the foreseeable future, but the growth rate for PC sales has utterly and completely flatlined.

• News: Enterprises struggling with virtualised back-up and recovery

  Enterprises are failing to gain the full benefits of virtualised architectures, according to research, with companies suffering from poor data backup and recovery strategies and inadequate data protection.

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