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James Niccolai

IDG News Service

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<div class="rxbodyfield"> <p>James Niccolai&nbsp;is a reporter for the IDG News Service.</p> </div>

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Recent articles by James Niccolai

HP profit falls 32 percent as PC and server sales decline

May 22, 2013

Hewlett-Packard reported a 32 percent drop in profit for its second fiscal quarter, due partly to slower sales of PCs and servers.

Bitcoin developer talks regulation, open source and the elusive Satoshi Nakamoto

May 19, 2013

With Bitcoin all the rage and startups popping up left and right, it's hard to know who's an expert in the virtual currency and who just has an opinion. Most people would put Jeff Garzik in the former camp.

Bitcoin finding its feet at first Silicon Valley conference

May 18, 2013

Bitcoin is growing up. The virtual currency that caught the public's attention last month when its value zoomed briefly past US$200 kicked off its first Silicon Valley conference Friday evening and shows no sign of losing momentum.

Yahoo calls press conference amid Tumblr acquisition rumors

May 17, 2013

Yahoo has called a mystery press event in New York City on Monday afternoon, hot on the heels of rumors that it plans to buy Tumblr for US$1 billion.

Swedish data center saves $1 million a year using seawater for cooling

May 16, 2013

A data center in Sweden has cut its energy bills by a million dollars a year using seawater to cool its servers, though jellyfish are an occasional hazard.

Dell profit dives 79 percent on falling PC sales

May 16, 2013

Dell reported another quarter of declining profits and revenue Thursday as CEO Michael Dell continues his fight to take the company private.

Data centers show signs of 'green fatigue'

May 14, 2013

A new survey from the Uptime Institute suggests fatigue is setting in when it comes to making data centers greener, and it may be partly due to overachievers like Google and Microsoft.

Syria 'disappears' from the Internet, security firm says

May 07, 2013

Internet traffic to and from Syria, which is in the midst of a civil war, appears to have dried up.

Interview: Dell software chief talks transformation

April 25, 2013

John Swainson has one of the more challenging jobs in the tech industry right now. As president of Dell's software division, he's charged with sorting through all the software Dell has acquired and organizing it into coherent offerings that can further its effort to become a more profitable, software- and services-driven company.

Dell corrals acquired products for BYOD market

April 24, 2013

Dell has pulled together products it gained from its recent acquisitions into a series of BYOD offerings, though it faces the challenge of selling them at a time when the company's ownership hangs in the balance.