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• Windows 8 touchscreen devices to be priced higher: Dell

  Touchscreen laptops and tablets with the upcoming Windows 8 OS will be priced higher than their non-touchscreen counterparts, according to Dell's CEO, Michael Dell.

• Dell's profit shrinks in the first quarter

  Dell has reported a drop in profits for the first quarter, weighed down by a revenue decrease and slower sales of consumer products.

• Microsoft reprises free Xbox back-to-school PC promo

  Microsoft will repeat last year's back-to-school promotion, kicking off the deal Sunday with an offer of a free Xbox 360 game console to eligible U.S. students who buy a new Windows 7 PC.

• Ethernet switching gets specialized

  Growth in the Ethernet switch market is now being driven by specialized devices for specific applications, rather than evenly across all customer deployments.

• China's Baidu unveils new low-end smartphone with latest cloud platform

  Baidu, which runs China's most popular search engine, has unveiled its newest smartphone, featuring the company's own mobile platform and priced to target the country's low-end handset segment.

• SAP lays out cloud strategy post-SuccessFactors deal

  SAP announced a broad set of plans to become a player in cloud computing, spanning from a "loosely coupled suite" of business applications to data integration and PaaS (platform as a service) Tuesday during the Sapphire conference in Orlando.

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  Dell, IBM announce servers with new Intel Xeon chips

  Dell and IBM announced servers with Intel's latest Xeon server chips, which will bring faster throughput and memory allowing servers to take on more complex workloads while reducing data center costs.

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  Google shares Codie award for best cloud application/service

  This evening's annual Codie awards for business software features a three-way tie in cloud computing, with Google, Keynote Systems, and Scribe Software all winning in the Best Cloud Application/Service category.

• Apple's e-store satisfaction score jumps, thumps Microsoft's

  Apple's online store scored the highest satisfaction rating of any computer-related company, and handily beat rival Microsoft, a consumer pollster said today.

• Red Hat, Dell announce OEM partnership

  The announcement Tuesday of a new partnership between Dell and Red Hat could mark a further expansion of open-source software use in the enterprise.

• Dell announces first server with Intel's Ivy Bridge Xeon chips

  Dell on Tuesday announced a new microserver with Intel's first Xeon server processors based on the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture, which has not been officially announced by the chip maker yet.

• IBM on oath to cut internal apps by 85 per cent

  IBM has reduced the number of applications it uses internally by 70%, but that's not enough for CIO Jeanette Horan.

• Extreme Networks adds heavy dose of copper to 10G switches

  Extreme Networks Monday unveiled 10G Ethernet copper modules for its BlackDiamond X8 core switch and new fixed copper versions of its Summit X670 top-of-rack switch.

• Dell XPS 13: Gray with MacBook Air envy

  Lately I've been changing things up a bit. For several months I used a little Lenovo ThinkPad X220 running Windows 7 and had a great experience -- it felt rock solid and responsive, with fantastic battery life. Then I switched to a MacBook Pro, and now that I've gotten used to it, I actually find it more or less a wash between the two (sorry, Apple fanboys).

• Facebook's open-source data-center project gains strength

  Facebook's year-old project to develop open-source hardware designs with the aim to build efficient data centers gained momentum on Wednesday, with some top technology companies joining the effort and introducing server designs.