Giant PC outsourcer throws in the towel
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Sanmina-SCI sells business to Foxconn and Lenovo Sanmina-SCI, the US electronics contract manufacturing company, has sold its PC business to Foxconn, a major Taiwanese competitor, for between $80m-$90m. It is also selling its Mexican PC plant to Lenovo, for an undisclosed sum.â¦
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Eat your Meat Casts Site News I have an apology for all the hardware geniuses and open source software experts out there.â¦
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What Redmond giveth, Redmond taketh away. Barely a week after settling an anti-trust suit with Novell over unfair practices designed to drive Netware out of the Enterprise and a few days since Novell slapped
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Bankrupt customer leaves powered equipment maker to choke on unpaid bills.
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LONDON -- PC World, Britain's largest chain of computer superstores, will say goodbye to floppy disks once the current stash is gone.
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In which our correspondent endures great travail in search of a sub-$300 laptop. In Gear Factor.
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In a security analysts' conference this morning, Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd's message did not exactly follow the holiday spirit. Another round of cost-cutting at what can now be called the world's #1 PC manufacturer will be under way. During the first stage, which began in July 2005, the company let go of 15,300 employees; thus far, layoffs have not been mentioned for the next round, though it's not unlikely.
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PCS hits the ropes Exclusive: Productivity Computer Solutions, an IBM and Sun reseller based in Wakefield, has gone into administration.â¦
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The work may have been subcontracted to another firm.
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A tiny, sliced PC Marry the renewed thin client/blade PC rage with the uproar around virtualization software, and you get Pano Logic.â¦
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IBM (IBM:NYSE - news - research) is reportedly ready to exit the PC business, having long lost its dominance in the arena. The report said Lenovo Group, China&#39;s top PC company, is among the interested bidders.
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JP Morgan Chase is cancelling a $5bn IT outsourcing deal with IBM and bringing the service back in-house. IBM will hand over the running of the investment bank&#39;s data centres, help desks, distributed computing, data and voice networks from January 2005.
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IBM has quit the personal computer market 23 years after legitimising the PC revolution that changed everything - from the way we work to the fortunes of Microsoft&#39;s Bill Gates.
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The most painful kind of generosity are the promises you cannot fulfill. The people who were once so grateful then turn on you, and your self-esteem is sure to take a beating.  Many years ago, in a fit of generosity, Dave Winer offered to host all early-bird adopters of editthispage.com free hosting of their weblogs. This included php.weblogs.com. Well Dave Winer recently announced that he was closing down the weblogs.com and editthispage.com websites. He no longer runs a company that can support these sites and they are a personal and financial strain on him.   I was disappointed, but I had no expectations that Dave would do this in perpetuity.  My momma taught me to keep my expectations low when it comes to free things. After all, Dave and I have never met, and I've only exchanged a couple of emails with him.   I had a feeling that something like this was going to happen because the site has suffering from poor performance this past month. So my contingency plan was to ship the weblog to a commercial hosting service like weblogger if need be. During the weekend, just before the site was cut off, and before any announcement by Dave, I moved my most important open source project to sourceforge, to http://adodb.sourceforge.net/.  Today I got an email from Lawrence, Userland's webmaster:  Subject:   php.weblogs.com  From:      "Lawrence Lee" deleted#userland.com Date:      Wed, June 16, 2004 1:46 am  To:        jlim#natsoft.com Priority:  Normal  Mailer:    Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510   We'll be continuing to host php.weblogs.com, we made special arrangements with Dave to keep it running.  Lawrence   I didn't ask for special treatment, so this is a pleasant surprise. Apparently the people at Userland decided to host this weblog and Dave emailed me, saying he had nothing to do with this decision. Of course I don't expect this offer to be permanent either, and I will deal with that when the time comes. The website's performance is still terrible though, and I have no expectations about this either.  For those who ever wondered what the icon below each post means, it's a graphic emoticon of how i feel. I think the jazz singer Billie Holiday is an appropriate image for this post; her songs are always bitter-sweet. It sure feels like Stormy Weather or Come Rain or Shine.  I would also like to thank those of you who emailed me privately about this issue. RSS seems the best  way to access this web-site at the moment, as it continues to go down at random times.
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The inexorable march of outsourcing took an abrupt about face Wednesday, when JPMorgan Chase bank canceled its $5-billion outsourcing deal with IBM and said it would take back the 4,000 employees working at IBM on the bank&#39;s IT programs.
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Kerrie Keeling realised she needed to upgrade her technology when her computer crashed, wiping out all her files. "I started back in April 2003, just me decorating. I ran the business from home with a land line and a PC and a mobile," the former banker recalls.
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An IT director reports on problems associated with a move to Linux.