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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer demonstrated a new touch-screen, tablet-style computer from Hewlett-Packard Co. on Wednesday night, the first of several such devices expected to be unveiled this month. - read more at KomoNews - Microsoft

IBM Corp. rolled out its first systems using its new Power7 processor, widening its lead over competitors and stealing thunder from Intel and Hewlett-Packard who announced a new Itanium processor. Hewlett-Packard - IBM - Itanium - Hardware - POWER7 - read more at EETimes Europe

For the past year, I've explored in this column the day-to-day challenges of running a small business. Now I'm tackling something that's always tricky for an entrepreneur: stepping away and handing over the reigns to a new management team. The reason for this transition is pretty simple: I've been offered ... - read more at The Big Money

Intel announced its Itanium 9300 series microprocessor today, a high-end supercomputing chip with 2 billion transistors on a single chip. The number of transistors, or basic on-off switches that control the flow of electrical signals in a chip, is about twice as much as what Intel and other big companies ... - read more at V entureBeat

As virtualization stretches deeper into the enterprise to include mission-critical and resource-intensive applications, IT executives are learning that double-digit physical-to-virtual server ratios are things of the past. Virtualization vendors may still be touting the potential of putting 20, 50 or ... - read more at The Industry Standard

IBM on Monday launched its latest Power7 processor, which adds more cores and improved multithreading capabilities to boost the performance of servers requiring high up time. The Power7 chip has eight cores, with each core able to run four threads, IBM said. A Power7 chip can run 32 tasks simultaneously, ... - read more at The Industry Standard

High-Performance, Flexible MIPS32® 24KEf™ Pro Series® Core to Power Next-Generation Digital Home DevicesSUNNYVALE, Calif. - MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer, home networking, wireless, ... - read more at WebWire

Analysts Aaron C. Rakers and Matthew J. Nahorski at Stifel Nicolaus (NYSE: SF) have released an update on Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ). The company will report earnings for the first-quarter FY10 on February 17, 2010. Analysts at Stifel Nicolaus expect several upside drivers to Hewlett-Packard's ... - read more at Benzinga

IBM is set to launch its long anticipated Power 7 processor today, in hopes of keeping a competitive edge against main competitors in the Unix server business Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. - read more at TechSpot

NEW YORK (Reuters) - IBM is beginning a long-awaited upgrade to a range of servers and other hardware to make them more energy-efficient and competitive than rival products by Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems Inc. - read more at Reuters - Technology