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• HP's butterfly design to shake up data centres

  Computer vendors are keen to build on the growing pressures growing on organisations to keep their data centre costs low. HP has launched a new modular approach to designing data centres that it claimed

• Intel wins key ruling in class-action suit

  A court-appointed special master has rejected class-action status in an antitrust lawsuit against Intel, determining that the plaintiffs failed to show that PC buyers were harmed by discounts Intel offered to manufacturers.

• LG says Android tablet due out in Q4

  LG Electronics plans to launch its first tablet device in the fourth quarter, running Google's Android mobile software, it said Thursday.

• How to migrate to Energy Efficient Ethernet

  The IEEE's 802.3az standard for Energy Efficient Ethernet is expected to be finalized by next year, but it's not too soon to think about how your IT organization can migrate to EEE.

• Dell, HP to resell Oracle's operating systems

  Oracle said Thursday that rival hardware vendors Dell and Hewlett-Packard intend to certify and resell its Solaris and Enterprise Linux operating systems as well as Oracle VM on their x86 servers.

• Amazon launches two new Kindles, one with Wi-Fi only

  Amazon launched two new Kindle e-readers priced at $139 and $189 late Wednesday, with the cheaper version a Wi-Fi-only e-reader and $10 less than the Wi-Fi-only Nook.

• Ballmer pushes slates but reveals few details

  Microsoft's chief executive on Thursday sought to address some common questions raised by analysts, but his answers may not have been exactly what they were looking for.

• ATM hack gives cash on demand

  Barnaby Jack hit the jackpot at Black Hat on Wednesday. Twice.

• HP's McKinney lays out dual tablet plans

  Hewlett-Packard will use Windows 7 in a tablet exclusively for enterprises, while making a consumer-oriented unit based on WebOS, Personal Systems Group executive Phil McKinney confirmed Wednesday at the annual AlwaysOn Stanford Summit.

• Set Up a Virtualization Server

  If there's one technology that can greatly improve computing environments of any size, it's virtualization. By using a single physical server to run many virtual servers, you can decrease operational costs and get far more bang for your buck. Whether your company is a 2-server or 2000-server shop, you can <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/187391/how_a_virtualized_server_saved_one_small_business.html">benefit from server virtualization</a> in a variety of ways. The best part? You can do it cheaply and easily.

• HP unveils prefab data centers

  HP is bringing prefab building construction to the data center world.

• Nvidia tunes 3D offerings for businesses

  Nvidia is extending its 3D offerings from homes to businesses, announcing new 3D glasses and transmitters for use in meetings and presentations.

• Online sales of Dell Streak could begin Wednesday

  Online sales of the Dell Streak wireless tablet, with a five-inch screen that many say makes it look like an Android smartphone, could begin as soon as tomorrow, according to online speculation.

• Apple shifts to newest Intel CPUs in iMac refresh

  Apple today refreshed its iMac line for the first time since October 2009 by adopting Intel's Core i3, i5 and i7 processors across the board and abandoning NVidia's integrated graphics chipset for ATI-branded graphics processors.

• No Dell Streak sale in July, spokesman says

  The 5-inch Dell Streak tablet won't go on sale by the end of July, a spokesman said late Tuesday. That announcement came after Dell earlier in the day mistakenly posted an online message on its Web site that customers could return to the site Wednesday to purchase the device.