http://www.itworld.com/intel xx http://www.itworld.com/networking/84749/amd-and-intel-patch-things-hp-buys-3com We had a blockbuster deal this week, with Hewlett-Packard saying it plans to buy 3Com, and a blockbuster settlement, with Advanced Micro Devices and Intel ending a long-running legal dispute. By midnight tonight, Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers are supposed to file a revised book-search settlement proposal, which could add to our top stories list for the week. For now, though, what follows are our top IT headlines of the moment. http://www.itworld.com/networking/84749/amd-and-intel-patch-things-hp-buys-3com#comments Business Government Internet IT management/strategy Legal Networking Operating systems Personal tech Security Software Windows Opinion 3Com AMD Google HP Intel Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:09:55 -0500 ITworld staff 84749 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/hardware/82956/emc-teams-intel-power-efficient-cloud-storage EMC is working with Intel on a more energy-efficient version of EMC's Atmos cloud storage system that should be available in the second half of next year, the companies said Thursday. http://www.itworld.com/hardware/82956/emc-teams-intel-power-efficient-cloud-storage#comments Green IT Hardware Server and data center Storage News cloud storage EMC energy efficiency Intel Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:44:18 -0400 ITworld staff 82956 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/networking/82507/ten-signs-companies-point-upturn Some of the more interesting clues about what's ahead for tech many be in the results of companies with a specialized market focus. Here are 10 data points about the most recent third quarter. http://www.itworld.com/networking/82507/ten-signs-companies-point-upturn#comments Business Business intelligence Hardware Internet Networking SaaS Software News Apple economy environment IBM Intel Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:16:51 -0400 ITworld staff 82507 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/hardware/82463/intel-releases-windows-7-ssd-optimization-toolbox Intel today released a firmware upgrade and set of tools for Windows 7 operating systems to monitor and optimize performance on its X25-M consumer-class solid state disk drive. http://www.itworld.com/hardware/82463/intel-releases-windows-7-ssd-optimization-toolbox#comments Hardware Windows News disk drive Intel SSD Windows 7 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:05:24 -0400 ITworld staff 82463 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/hardware/81055/intel-cmu-add-muscle-wimpy-processors Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh have built an experimental energy-efficient computing cluster that combines flash memory and the sort of processors used in netbooks. Their name for it? Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes (FAWN). http://www.itworld.com/hardware/81055/intel-cmu-add-muscle-wimpy-processors#comments Green IT Hardware Storage News cluster flash memory Intel Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:29:19 -0400 ITworld staff 81055 at http://www.itworld.com