Sunday, February 5th, 2012 3:30 pm

Server shipments up 8.5 percent

Stamford (ip-192.com): In the first quarter of 2011, worldwide server shipments grew 8.5 percent year-on-year, while revenue increased 17.3 percent, according to Gartner, Inc. From the regional standpoint, Eastern Europe grew the most significantly in shipments with a 21.1 percent increase. Eastern Europe also posted the highest vendor revenue growth at 36.0 percent for the [...]

Intel: World’s first Tri-Gate transistor

Santa Clara (ip-192.com): The first processors using three-dimensional Tri-Gate transistors will be put into high-volume manufacturing, Intel Corporation announced. The world's largest semiconductor chip maker says that the new design represents a significant breakthrough in the evolution of the transistor, the microscopic building block of modern electronics. The technology will be used to manufacture a [...]

Ken Olsen: Computer pioneer remembered

Boston (ip-192.com): Computing pioneer Kenneth Harry Olsen, named "America's most successful entrepreneur" by Fortune Magazine in 1986, died on February 6, 2011. Olsen was born on February 20, 1926. He earned his B.S. and M.A. in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1950 and 1952 respectively after serving in the U.S. [...]

Cisco: Mobile IT policies need to improve

San Francisco (ip-192.com): Two out of every three employees believe their IT departments should allow social media use during work hours with work devices, Cisco’s Connected World Report finds. The employees cite work-life balance as a key reason, particularly because many of them can work in a mobile, distributed fashion and put in longer hours [...]