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  • Quantum shares plunge after results

    Turning the corner

    Revenues for the third quarter of fy2012 were $173m, 2 per cent down on the $176m of a year ago. Net income was $3.94m, down from the $5.8m recorded a year ago. These earnings exceeded the Street's expectations so why did investors decide to sell the shares?…

  • Juniper stalled by jittery service providers, product transitions

    Switch hitting

    Juniper Networks warned Wall Street earlier this month that the fourth quarter was going to be rough because key service provider customers are cutting back on spending at the same time that the company is putting the finishing touches on some new switches and routers.…

  • Apple Italy throws up ruling on its store site

    We accept that they think we were wrong

    UPDATE:  Apple Italy has posted details of the ruling against it, as required by the Italian courts, though we don't yet know if Cupertino will be coughing up the €1.2m fine too.…

  • Apple: Yes there are horrendous accidents, but we CARE

    Tim Cook sends letter after Chinese factory horror exposé

    Tim Cook has sent a letter to all Apple employees stressing how much the company cares about industrial accidents in its Chinese factories.…

  • Galaxy drives up profits for Samsung

    Smartphone sales fuel massive multi-billion dollar investments

    Samsung's smartphones have helped drive the company to an operating profit of ₩5.3 trillion ($4.7bn) in the fourth quarter of last year.…

  • IBM demos new nanotech

    Carbon nanotube, graphene research boost transistors' future

    Somehow, we still manage to inch-out the limits of Moore’s Law: in a double-whammy to end the week, IBM has demonstrated the smallest carbon nanotube transistor, and has claimed the world’s fastest graphene transistor.…

  • Mellanox shrugs off Intel's InfiniBand buy

    Turns in good Q4, will grow in 2012 despite price cuts

    Having bought rival Voltaire, Mellanox Technologies has pretty much ruled the InfiniBand adapter and switching roost for the past several years. But this week Intel shelled out $125m to acquire the InfiniBand chip, adapter, and switch businesses from QLogic, and the big question now is: what does this mean for Mellanox?…

  • Intel bags $120m patent hoard from RealNetworks

    190 patents, 170 applications, and 'next-generation' video codec

    In the latest maneuver of the tech industry's ongoing patent wars, Intel has struck a $120m deal with RealNetworks to purchase 190 patents and 170 patent applications, along with what both companies define as "next-generation video codec software".…

  • WD's MyBook takes a Thunderbolt to the chest

    2-drive external storage system for mega-fast read/writes

    WD has announced its new Thunderbolt-bolstered MyBook, telling us that we can soon eyeball the super speeded-up gear at a demo at the Macworld/iWorld show.…

  • Apple dishes out cheap, tasty Macs 'n slabs to staff

    Employees sink teeth into hefty $500 Macbook discounts

    As if the joy of working for Apple wasn't reward enough, all Apple employees will now get a $500 discount off Macs and $250 off iPads.…

  • EMC moves into LSI WarpDrive

    Mister Sulu, stand by to make your manoeuvres ...

    LSI WarpDrive solid state drives will be used by EMC in its Project Lightning server flash product.…

  • Symantec's profits up in calm third quarter

    Growth in security and compliance keeps ship steady

    CEO Enrique Salem stands crisp and smart on the poop deck of the good ship Symantec, looking back at a straight course and ahead to more growth. It's a pretty unexciting third quarter story really.…

  • Apple and Google ramp up proxy war

    Motorola flings another 6 patent suits at the Fruity One

    Apple and Google might not be facing each other across a courtroom, but they're fighting just the same, with the Chocolate Factory wielding Motorola against the fondleslab-maker.…

  • Ten exabytes wedged into a rather large box by Cleversafe

    But with 4,500,000 drives, it's gonna cost ya

    It must surely be some sort of landmark? Object storage supplier Cleversafe now has a 10-exabyte system customers can buy.…

  • Red Hat juices speed freak MRG Linux

    Shadowman gets the message

    Red Hat updated its core Enterprise Linux operating system stack to 6.2 in December and its Enterprise Virtualization commercial-grade KVM server hypervisor to 3.0 last week. Now Shadowman has polished up a new release of a special stack of Linux and systems software called MRG aimed at hard-core messaging, real-time, and high performance computing workloads where generic Linux just don't cut it.…

  • Citrix rides the virty desktop wave

    Thanks for Windows 7, Microsoft – can I have another?

    The maturation of desktop virtualization was coincidentally, and fortunately in the case of the Wednesday's financial results from Citrix Systems, timed more or less with the launch of Windows 7 desktops two years ago. The results show Citrix has been steadily capitalizing on its $500m acquisition of XenSource and others.…

  • Fusion-io revenues flash upwards

    Market punishes Fusion for margin fall

    Server flash array vendor Fusion-io saw stonking quarterly revenues but disappointed with a loss despite unexpected higher sales. Did it under-price its ioDrive 2 products?…

  • Intel issues dividend, Apple sits on $97.6bn

    A tale of two companies

    Intel has quietly announced that it will pay a quarterly dividend of 21 cents per share on March 1, just as they did last September and December, and in earlier quarters at lower rates.…

  • Nekkid Tech: Pricey frocks, Duran Duran and VMware power users

    Live from New England VMUG

    Podcast  Greg Knieriemen fought through a 1,000-strong crowd at the New England Area VMware User Group (VMUG) to bring El Reg readers a piping hot dose of Nekkid Tech.…

  • Super Micro awaits the Xeon E5 launch

    Disk shortage bites box shipments

    The shortages of disk drives due to flooding in Thailand continues to take its toll on IT suppliers, with motherboard and whitebox system maker Super Micro joining the club of companies adversely impacted by the shortages.…

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     The skills and expertise offered by professional contractors is highly valued by a wealth of organisations and many of them see the engagement of short-term expertise as a key element of their recruitment strategy.

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