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Server sales in the second quarter of 2011 grew 17.9 per cent in revenue terms to $13.2bn, reckons IDC.
This is the sixth quarter of growth and unit sales also grew 8.5 per cent to 2.1 million boxes.
The IDC abacus-botherers classify servers as either volume, midrange enterprise or high-end enterprise. Volume and midrange grew by 16.6 and 16.7 per cent respectively, while high-end boxes saw sales grow 22.6 per cent.
Blade sales grew 26.9 per cent year on year in cash terms. Linux-based systems grew 47.5 per cent, thanks to Fujitsu’s K-computer HPC system. Windows-based machines also grew: 12.4 per cent year on year.
IBM and HP are almost tied for top spot with 30.5 per cent and 29.8 per cent market shares respectively.
Latest figures out of the social networking giant, Facebook, show an absolutely mind-blowing 1 trillion hits a month. For those who don’t quite grasp just how large that number is, 1 trillion is 1,000,000,000,000… wow. In comparison, YouTube only takes 100 million hits a month. 
Behind both of those giants, Yahoo.com receives 78 million page views per month on average. As Facebook continutes to grow, more and more people are joining, young and old. PC, Mac, mobile, tablets, everywhere. < Read more…
From Japan Real Time:
Today’s flat-panel television sets look drastically different from old cathode-ray models. But where a TV set sits, often in the living room facing a couch, hasn’t changed as drastically. One factor that confines TVs to only certain parts of a home is the need to connect the TV to an aerial plug so it can receive broadcast signals.
As it becomes more and more difficult to sell TVs at premium prices, manufacturers are coming up with new features they hope will entice customers.
- Juro Osawa/The Wall Street Journal
- Sharp unveiled its new TV line in Tokyo on Thursday.
Sharp Corp. say
Communications networks took a hit from Hurricane Irene with 1,400 cell towers and cell sites damaged or disrupted mainly in Virginia, New Jersey, New York and North Carolina, the Federal Communications Commission said Monday.
In addition to cell site disruptions from power outages or other problems, 132,000 wired voice subscribers lost service as of Sunday, while 500,000 cable customers lost service, mostly in Virginia, an FCC spokesman said in an email early Monday. Three broadcast radio stations were also down for at least part of the storm, he said. The FCC didn’t say what percentage of the thousands of cell towers along the East Cost were affected.