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Monday, October 12, 2009

Training to Climb an Everest of Digital Data

Ashlee Vance

It is a rare criticism of elite American university students that they do not think big enough.

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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Servers With Cellphone Chips? Yep, Here They Come.

Ashlee Vance

The era of such a deeply philosophical data center question is upon us.

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Monday, June 29, 2009

Acer’s Everywhere. How Did That Happen?

Ashlee Vance

About three months ago, Gianfranco Lanci flew into San Francisco International Airport, got off the plane and made his way to the passport control stations. As he pulled out his documents, the passport agent immediately recognized him as the chief executive of Acer.

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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Why Can’t We Get an Accurate Battery Life Test For Laptops?

Ashlee Vance

There’s a discussion taking place in the PC industry that is equal parts encouraging and sad.

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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Asustek Vows to Out-Apple Apple

Ashlee Vance

Two years ago, Asustek wowed the world with the hottest selling computing product to arrive in recent memory: the Eee PC netbook.

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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Hewlett-Packard’s War of Words With Cisco Begins

Ashlee Vance

It’s pretty amusing to watch Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems come to grips with what amounts to a Data Center Death Match. Last week, HP declined to comment for my story on Cisco’s upcoming virtualization server, which will thrust Cisco into the server market for the first time.

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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Dell’s MacBook Air Rival Confirmed by…Dell

Ashlee Vance

All the speculation about Dell’s upcoming Adamo computer appears somewhat comical once you learn that the company’s confirmation of the product has been sitting in plain sight. Last week, I spotted what looked like a blog post from luxury magazine UptownLife, discussing a future laptop from Dell possibly thinner than Apple’s MacBook Air.

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Monday, December 15, 2008

Survey Asks: Internet Access or Sex?

Ashlee Vance

Intel came up with a novel way to show how important the Internet and computing have become in the lives of Americans. In conjunction with Harris Interactive, the company conducted a survey of adults in the United States under the prosaic-enough banner, “Internet Reliance in Today’s Economy.”

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Computing From Weather to Warcraft

Ashlee Vance

For years, Western governments have used supercomputers to model weapons of nuclear war. Now a company in China uses the powerful machines to tend the fantasy realms of World of Warcraft.

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Thursday, September 11, 2008

The End of an Era at VMware

Ashlee Vance

Mendel Rosenblum’s exit this week from VMware marks the end of an era–both for the company and virtualization software as a whole.

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