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• QR Code Grocery Shopping Renders Shopping Carts Obsolete

  Global grocery retailer Tesco has been testing a new virtual way to shop, making use of the increasingly popular QR code. Their experiment allowed South Korean customers to shop at Tesco's Home Plus supermarket, without the need for them to actually enter any store at all. »

• Grow your data center with colocation

  Brian Burch knew the moment had arrived. Two of his data center's key services -- availability and business continuity -- needed fast and dramatic improvement. Design and location limitations meant that his company's existing data center couldn't be upgraded to the levels necessary to provide the required function and performance gains. »

• Cisco to pay up to $112 million in Power-over-Ethernet patent case

  Power-over-Ethernet    patent infringement case against Cisco and five other companies. »

• AMD fast on Fusion, but hesitant with tablets

  Advanced Micro Devices is ahead of schedule with its upcoming Fusion chips, which will appear first in netbooks and low-end laptops early next year, but not in tablets, the company said on Thursday. »

• Desktop virtualization vs. PCs

  Proponents of desktop virtualization have many reasons to advocate the technology over traditional PCs, including opportunities for reducing energy costs, centralizing desktop administration, increasing security and providing flexible work environments for end users. »

• Asus first to put Intel's AppUp store on netbooks

  Asustek Computer will be the first computer maker to put Intel's AppUp Center application store on netbooks, the chip maker said Tuesday. »

• IT should pay the power bill, reasons eBay exec

  While not a common practice in most organizations, having IT departments pay their power bills would lead to far more efficient data centers, argued Dean Nelson, senior director of global data center services for eBay. »

• Intel execs give lukewarm predictions for tablets

  Netbooks have become a big business for Intel, but company executives seem less bullish on tablet PCs even as Apple's iPad boosts interest in the device category. »

• Desktops re-emerge as PC shipments grow in Q1, IDC says

  Worldwide PC shipments increased by 24.2 percent during the first quarter of 2010 compared to the same period last year, with desktop PC shipments growing for the first time in more than a year, IDC said in a survey released on Wednesday. »

• IBM systems signal shift toward tighter integration

  IBM shot back at Oracle's Exadata platform this week with new server products that combine IBM hardware and software in preconfigured systems for companies doing large-scale data analytics and transaction processing. »