HP launches trade-in promotion to poach Cisco customers

From ZD Net: Hewlett-Packard on Monday launched its most aggressive assault on networking giant Cisco: A trade-in promotion to rip and replace existing gear.

HP’s promotion, dubbed “A Catalyst for Change” to play off the brand name for Cisco’s switches, is aimed at networking gear...

Sony to be little bit short of 25 million TV goal

From CNET News.com: Sony may not be able to meet its goal of selling 25 million TVs during its current fiscal year, the question apparently now being how far off the mark it will be.

Hiroshi Yoshioka, a Sony vice president, said today that the company would fall short of the 25...

Google Surprises Hardware Partners With Google TV Delay

From DailyTech: Google's Android operating system has reportedly put its bid to conquer the world of television on hold. At the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show Toshiba, LG Electronics and Sharp planned to wow visitors with a portfolio of products powered by Google TV, the Android...

Microsoft Working to Quadruple Kinect Resolution

From DailyTech: Microsoft rolled out the Kinect accessory for the Xbox 360 back in November to rather lukewarm reviews. However, sales for the accessory have shot through the roof. The billions the company spent in ads for the console have wooed many gamers to try the device and the...

IBM to Build 3PetaFLOPS Supercomputer on Next-Generation Intel Xeon

From X-bit Labs: The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in Garching, Germany has signed a contract with IBM to develop and build a new general purpose supercomputer with next generation Intel Xeon processors to support advanced scientific research. The system will use innovative hot...

Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 & Premiere Elements 9 | Reports

It has been a while since our last software report here at APH Networks, with the most recent being the Photoshop and Premiere Elements 8 article back in January of this year. With Christmas just around the corner, students are finishing up their exams for their respective courses, and of course, people in the workforce getting a well deserved break from our daily routine. From Christmas shopping to family dinners, this is going...

Dropbox Updated to 1.0, Brings Selective Sync to Masses

From PC World: Dropbox has been one of the easiest ways to sync files across multiple computers since its initial release in 2008. On Thursday evening, the company officially rolled out version 1.0 of the program, bringing with it a whole host of improvements, including--to the joy...

Microsoft releases free Security Essentials 2.0

From CNET News.com: Microsoft yesterday quietly released the latest version of its Security Essentials anti-malware software.

Security Essentials 2.0 is available as a free download with several changes over its predecessor. A Microsoft representative today confirmed the release...

Photos Emerge of Super-bright, Super-slim LG Android Phone

From DailyTech: LG appears to be really upping its ante in the high-end smartphone market in 2011. First, we have the announcement of the world's first dual-core smartphone, the Optimus 2X. Now, Phandroid has gotten their hands on some shots of an ultra-bright, ultra-slim Android...

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