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Intel this week offered a preview of platforms using its Core i7 Extreme Edition processor. Although the company is aiming the processor heavily at the gaming market, analysts said there are also clear business applications for the processor.

Code-named Gulftown, the i7-980X Extreme Edition processor is the industry's first 32nm, six-core processor with 12 computing threads. Intel introduced the i7 family last September with its exclusive Turbo Boost technology and Hyper-Threading Technology.

Dell is fed up with losing ground to Acer. Last year Dell lost its spot as the world's second-largest computer maker to its Taiwanese rival, lagging behind Acer in market share for the first time ever. As of the fourth quarter of 2009, Dell had just 12.4 percent of the global market, according to market research firm IDC, compared with 13.4 percent for Acer and 21 percent for Hewlett-Packard.

Dell Inc. said Thursday its net income fell 5 percent in the last quarter despite early signs that businesses may be starting to buy new computers again.

Consumers snapped up low-cost laptops and smaller netbooks over the holidays, pushing Dell's PC shipments up 29 percent. Those products are less lucrative, though, and Dell's revenue and profit in the consumer PC division grew much more slowly. Dell's profit margin was below expectations, and its shares fell 7 percent in Friday trading.

Cisco Systems on Thursday moved to end its long-term relationship with Hewlett-Packard. With the two companies increasingly competing in servers and networking, Cisco decided to formally cut HP from its reseller program, effective April 30.

Cisco's decision means HP will no longer have access to proprietary information from its newly found rival. Although HP can still sell Cisco products to its client base, the computing giant won't be able to tap into incentives.

Google might figuratively be doing a backflip Thursday with news that AT&T will, for the first time, offer a mobile device based on the software and search giant's open-source Android mobile operating system. Appropriately, the device is Motorola's Backflip smartphone.

Some owners of Windows 7 machines are complaining that the newest Microsoft operating system may be causing battery problems. Microsoft said it's investigating the issue.

On the Microsoft support site and elsewhere, there are a variety of battery-related complaints, and many commenters believe the cause is Windows 7.

'Related to System Firmware'

The problems include batteries that are prematurely drained or reported to be so, batteries unable to hold a charge, warning lights indicating a battery needs to be replaced before it should need to, and more.

Magnum, la mítica agencia de fotografía creada en 1947 por Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, David Seymour Chim, Georges Rodger y William Vandivert a modo de cooperativa para gestionar directamente sus fotografías, y así romper con el monopolio y la intermediación de las grandes agencias, ha vendido su colección de 185.000 fotografías impresas a la empresa de inversiones MSD Capital, perteneciente al multimillonario Michael S.Dell, propietario del fa

Magnum, la mítica agencia de fotografía creada en 1947 por Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, David Seymour Chim, Georges Rodger y William Vandivert a modo de cooperativa para gestionar directamente sus fotografías, y así romper con el monopolio y la intermediación de las grandes agencias, ha vendido su colección de 185.000 fotografías impresas a la empresa de inversiones MSD Capital, perteneciente al multimillonario Michael S.Dell, propietario del fa

Social networks have infiltrated themselves into the lives of millions of Internet users. While some businesses have embraced the phenomenon, others are being negatively impacted by the use of social networks at the office.

Aside from distracting individuals from their everyday work and affecting companies' bottom lines, they are also negatively impacting their security.

Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft said Wednesday they will jointly spend $250 million to develop hardware and software products that are designed to work together smoothly in their customers' data centers and in cloud computing facilities.

"This is all about integrating technology and making things as close to 'plug and play' as we can," HP CEO Mark Hurd said during a telephone conference call with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and other executives, in which they announced a partnership that appears to represent another move toward consolidation in the commercial tech industry.