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Microsoft has announced plans to support four academic research projects focused on energy-efficient computing as part of its Sustainable Computing Program. The initiatives focus on data centre power efficiency, power management and the creation of parallel computing architectures with decreased energy demands.VNUNET

IBM Expands Express Advantage Line With Security, Data Backup

IBM (NYSE:IBM) is expanding its Express Advantage portfolio with new business continuity and security service packages targeting mid-size companies, the vendor announced Monday. Express Advantage is IBM’s line of products and services pre-configured for mid-size customers, a $253 billion market, according to IBM estimates, and largely sold through channel partners. IBM, which earlier this year announced a major push to expand midmarket sales through the channel, unveiled the new services just days before the start of the vendor’s Business Partner Leadership Conference this week in Los Angeles.

Here’s a lenovo Ad comparing itself to macbook Air that has been getting passed around a lot.

3Com Announces Senior Leadership Changes to Accelerate Global Business Plan: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

-3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS - News) today announced that the company rof Directors has appointed Robert Mao as the new Chief Executive Officer, replacing Edgar Masri who is leaving the company. Mao will continue to serve on the Directors. The company also announced that it hired Ronald Sege as President and Chief Operating Officer and appointed him to the Board of Directors effective upon his joining the company on April 30, 2008.

In today’s news, Intel has released a new sibling of the 45nm family of Core 2 Quad processors: the Q9300 “Yorkfield” processor, which comes in at 2.5 GHz with a 1333 MHzfront side bus. The new chip breaks down like this: You get a faster front side bus, lower operating temperatures, and new SSE4.1 instruction sets. On the other hand, the L2 cache has been halved (6MB vs. the 12MB of higher-end quad-core CPUs). The gentlemen over at the End User blog, a new Amazon.com gadgets blog by its employees, report that testing proves that the smaller L2 cache still doesn’t hold the Q9300 back from beating its predecessor, the 65nm 2.4 GHz Q6600.ZDNET

Britain is home to 75 billionaires, up fom 68 in 2007.

Of these 40 were born abroad. Of the top 10, only three were born in Britain.

It takes 70 million pounds to be in the richest 1,000.

Of the richest 1,000, 762 were self made.

Queen elizabeth at 320 million pounds was only number 264.

AFP: Indian tycoon stays top as Britain’s rich get richer

Indian-born steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal remains the wealthiest person in Britain, The Sunday Times newspaper’s 2008 annual Rich List said.

His 27.7 billion pounds (54.9 billion dollars, 35.1 billion euros), up 8.5 billion pounds on last year, keeps him topping the pile for the fourth year running.

NGenius first humor book, the eNGy Business Cartoon Book is now on selling in Amazon.com .

IBM has unveiled a new water-cooled server which it claims will convince Web 2.0 companies to ditch their army of commodity boxes.

The IBM System x iDataplex may sound like a throwback to the mainframe days: it can be fitted with water-cooling systems. But IBM claim the design is ideal for today’s internet pioneers. Those water coolers can eliminate the need for additional, energy-hungry, air-cooling boxes. Read the rest of this entry.

Intel provdes big market with smaller PC hardware.

Intel, the biggest provider of computer processors, is
definitely going small. The chip company announcedon Thursday new
motherboards for small form factor computers called Nettops, in line
with the upcoming launched of Atom, Intel’s latest and smallest
CPU to cater the growing demand for ultra-portable mobile Internet
devices.

A must-read posts from last week:

Asus to Launch Eee PC With Intel’s Atom in June
Ng Khai receives Special Recognition from FairChild SemiConductor

Neo eXplore X1 Review
HP’s ultra-slim PC
Three New Motherboards from Intel

NK bagged 5 awards from Microsoft South
NK Educ Summit 2008: Sustaining IT Solutions Through Education

Microsoft’s revenue for the
third quarter of fiscal 2008 was $14.454 billion (U.S.), an increase
over the previous year’s quarterly revenue of $14.398 billion. While
some business categories fared well with double-digit growth, it was
Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division that led the way in
revenue growth.echanneline.com

Microsoft Southern Philippines recognizes Ng Khai as its partner in Southern Region and hereby gave the following awards for Quarter 3 Fiscal Year’08 during the Microsoft Heroes Happen {here} Launch Wave Dinner Event at Laguna Garden Café, April 24, 2008.

(Ms. Melanie Ng (center), received the award assisted by Ms Rovie Codiñera(left), Microsoft Product Manager for Academics and Ms. Julie Cristie Infiesto(2nd from the right), Microsoft Product Manager for Corporate) given by Mr. Boy Bawal, Director, Microsoft for Southern Philippines and Mr. Eric Olavedes, Microsoft Sales Manager for Southern Philippines.)

The following are the awards received by Ng Khai: 
• Excellence in COEM Sales
• Excellence in Academic Sales
• Exemplary Deal
• Most Outstanding Overall performance and
• Excellence in Open Sales

Another success story that Ng Khai could provide the best solutions to its customers. 

Intel Corporation today launched three new motherboards: the Desktop Board DX48BT2 Extreme Series (formerly codenamed Bone Trail 2); Desktop Board DG35EC Classic Series (formerly codenamed Eva Cove); and Desktop Board D945GCLF Essential Series (formerly codenamed Little Falls). The boards are individually aimed at the extreme gamer, mainstream multi-media user, and entry-level PC user respectively. Tom Rampone, vice president (Sales and Marketing Group) and general manager (Channel Platforms Group) of Intel, said, "From ultimate gaming bliss, to crisp high definition, to the most-affordable Internet-centric desktop, Intel continues to push the boundaries of world-class desktop offerings. As the demand for desktops across the board moves from strength to strength, we are also quickly moving towards more feature differentiation and innovation down our product roadmap."More

Hewlett Packard (HP) has launched ‘Compaq dc7800’, an ultra-slim desktop personal computer, in the Indian market.  The company claims that the ultra-thin ‘Compaq dc7800’ is the industry’s first PC to feature a solid-state hard drive (SSD) which is considered more reliable than SATA and SCSI drives.  Powered by 80 Plus power supply, Compaq dc7800 consumes nearly 15 per cent less energy compared to standard models. The model also offers dual display ports or supporting multiple monitors. Designed for business purposes, the PC comes with 8 USB ports. Read the rest of this entry.