Dell acquires data center networking specialist Force10 Networks as an investment to further broaden its networking portfolio. 

Force10 is a global leader in data center networking for service provider and enterprise customers, and the creator of Open Cloud Networking technology. 

Dell will combine Force1o's technologies with the current PowerConnect portfolio, in a bid to offer a comprehensive switching strategy for data center, enterprise and campus/branch use. 

It will also continue maintaining existing Force10 customers, which include leading Read more...

Virtualised network services provider Masergy expands its global partner program with Platinum and Gold partner levels, providing additional incentives and program rewards to vendors. 

The company says its 2010 partner channel revenues show over 35% Y-o-Y growth, which it attributes to efforts in building its partner program. 

It already has a list of 20 partners (from IT solution providers, equipment resellers and independent consultants) with Platinum or Gold partner status for fiscal 2011-- including Avant, BT Conferences, LinkSource, Intellisys Read more...

It had to come. If not now, later, but the end always comes. Steve Jobs resigns, handing Apple over to Tim Cook. You can read Steve's own short resignation letter here.

The computer world, the consumer electronics world...aye, the whole world...is less better off for the resignation of Steve Jobs.

You know he wouldn't resign if it wasn't for his health. The body gives out long before the spirit and that just drenches this news with a rain of sadness.

Across the world, an outpouring of emotion washes across the internet--much of it on the famed devices that Steve built.

It was 1976 actually on April Fools' Day, that the two Steves-- Wozniak and Jobs-- created a new computer circuit board in a Silicon Valley garage. I actually remember their first press release later that year...and I discarded it as insignificant at the time. How little do you know at the time? The electronics trade press that year were full of the rise of Betamax, boomboxes, and personal computers were not yet.

Why do we love Steve Jobs so much?

HP bosses rush out in defense of the company's Garage Sale following alarm from shareholders, the Financial Times reports.

As one will recall, HP wants out of the PC business-- putting HP Personal Systems Group on sale and killing off the webOS device business.

Non-executive chairman Ray Lane describes the PC business as dragging on the company's profits, having to "compete with one arm behind their back."

Meanwhile CEO Léo Apotheker, confirming his lack of love for hardware, wants "strategic transformation" towards business software, with p Read more...