Sunday, February 5th, 2012 2:45 pm

Europe: Weak demand for PC’s, mini-notebooks

Stamford (ip-192.com): PC shipments in Western Europe totaled 12.7 million units in the second quarter of 2011, a decline of 18.9 percent from the same period in 2010. The mobile PC market was particularly hit hard with a 20.4 percent decline, as mini-notebook shipments decreased 53 percent, according to Gartner, Inc, an information technology research [...]

2011: 42 percent of PCs run Windows 7

Stamford (ip-192.com): Linux distributions are expected to remain niche operating systems over the next five years, capturing a market share of less than two percent because of the remaining high costs of application migration from Windows to Linux, information technology research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc. says. In the consumer market, Linux will be run [...]

Infected PC’s: Google sends warning message

Mountain View (ip-192.com): Users of Windows machines should be on the watch for emails from Google: The Internet search and cloud computing company started alerting hundreds of thousands Google Search users that their machine might have been infected by malware. Google says that it can detect certain types of malware based on network traffic flow [...]

Encryption for non-volatile main memory

Raleigh (ip-192.com): Security concerns are one of the key obstacles to the adoption of new non-volatile main memory (NVMM) technology in next-generation computers, which would improve computer start times and boost memory capacity. But now researchers from North Carolina State University have developed new encryption hardware for use with NVMM to protect personal information and [...]