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• Buffalo Terastations push limits of Atom platform

  Buffalo Technology is bumping up against the limits of Intel's Atom platform with its forthcoming six- and eight-bay Terastation NAS (network attached storage) devices, on show at Cebit this week.

• Intel details new Atom N570 processor

  Intel on Tuesday provided further details about its Atom N570 chip and said netbooks with the processor will ship later this month.

• Archos launches color e-reader, Android tablet for €129

  French media player manufacturer Archos picked Cebit to launch a color e-reader with a 7-inch touch-sensitive screen, and also announced the first tablet devices in a new budget-priced range it will brand Arnova.

• Wireless tech saves energy - and makes better mousetrap

  Tucked in a dark corner of the Cebit trade show, in Hall 2, lies a mousetrap. Not just any old mousetrap, but a wireless-enabled one.

• RoboThespian sings, does impersonations

  It sings, acts and even does impersonations. Just don't ask this robot to vacuum the floor. One of the stars of Cebit 2011 is RoboThespian, an entertainment robot from the U.K.

• Look, no hands! G.tec uses brain interface to tweet

  Austrian company Guger Technologies (g.tec) has developed a brain-computer interface that can be used to "type" short text messages simply by staring at letters on a screen.

• More operators get behind HSPA at 42M bps

  Deutsche Telekom has joined the growing number of operators that will upgrade mobile networks to offer 42M bps (bits per second), it said on Tuesday at the Cebit trade show in Hanover.

• SAP readies Salesforce.com rival

  At the Cebit show on Tuesday SAP will show off an upcoming application called Sales OnDemand that could be a potential rival to the likes of Salesforce.com and Microsoft CRM Online.

• Cebit kicks off with talk of openness

  Open democracy, open borders and open standards were the themes to which speakers returned again and again at the opening ceremony for the Cebit trade show in Hanover, Germany, on Monday night.

• Asus' PC motion-sensing system coming in May

  Hoping to do for personal computers what Microsoft has done for gaming, Asus will soon offer a motion sensing device that looks and works like the Xbox Kinect.

• Software AG will make webMethods cloud-ready in Q3

  Software AG added a complex-event processing tool to its software portfolio on Monday, and said it will release cloud-enabled versions of webMethods and its Aris business process modeling tool in the third quarter.

• Vodafone Germany CEO: Nokia-Microsoft deal a good thing

  Nokia and Microsoft joining forces to better compete with Apple and Google's Android OS will be good for the smartphone market, Vodafone Germany's CEO Jan Geldmacher said in an <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr72zluB44g">interview</a> at the Cebit trade show in Hanover.

• Fujitsu Germany head jumps to Software AG as chairman

  Bernd Wagner, the managing director of Fujitsu's German subsidiary, has jumped to Software AG to become its chairman.

• Enterprise trade show welcomes back consumer tech

  Not only are consumer IT products finding their way into the enterprise, they're also finding their way back into Cebit, one of the world's biggest professional IT shows, which opens in Hanover, Germany, next week.

• Fujitsu to launch Windows 7 business tablet

  Japan's Fujitsu will soon launch a tablet PC for enterprise users that packs security features not available in most consumer machines.