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- AMD's New Roadmap: Can It Execute?
- AMD has revamped its server processor roadmap with plans to jump to six and then 12 cores in the first half of 2010, but the larger question is whether the company can actually deliver. Given that AMD has had a hard time delivering its quad-core chips and...
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- More on RIM’s Moat: Launches BlackBerry Bold; App Developer Fund
- Business people can be hip too. That appears to be the message from Research in Motion and its motives behind its new BlackBerry Bold smartphone. There’s definitely a hint of some iPhone envy here, but the device isn’t a direct competitor. by Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Dell: We're Greener Than HP
- Dell said Wednesday that it is designing its laptops and desktops to consume up to 25 percent less energy by 2010 compared to today. Welcome to the latest in the “we’re greener than you” game where green technology intersects with marketing-speak. Green IT is fashionable, but increasingly...
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- AU Optronics Unveils Curved LCD
- New display technologies often precede innovations like the iPhone, Microsoft’s Surface and other new toys. With that in mind, it’s worth noting that AU Optronics has unveiled a curved LCD display. On Monday, AU Optronics, a leading LCD component manufacturer based in Taiwan, said it will showcase...
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- HP's Hurd on the U.S. Economy, Data-Center Consolidation
- HP CEO Mark Hurd was inevitably asked about the U.S. economy during the company’s earnings conference call and the message was clear: It's hard to chart tech spending right now. HP reported a strong second quarter due to sales abroad, but analysts spent a good chunk of...
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- In Search Of Relevance, Via Open-Sources Laptop Designs
- Via has open sourced a laptopâ€"computer assisted design documents, 3D models and all of the specificationsâ€"but let’s be clear about the motives. Via wants to sell more chips and motherboards to power this device with hopes to become a little more relevant. Via calls this contraption the...
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- IBM to Cool Chips With Nano-Waterfalls
- IBM Labs is taking water cooling to another levelâ€"and pumping water into each layer of a semiconductor via pipes as thin as a human hair. On Thursday, IBM said that its researchersâ€"along with Fraunhofer Institute in Berlinâ€"demonstrated a prototype that integrates a water cooling system direction into...
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Apple Launching a New Platform War With the Mac
- Apple CEO Steve Jobs will deliver another sermon to the Mac faithful at the Worldwide Developer Conference WWDC, but amid all the pyrotechnics about the iPhone, App Store and third party software goodies keep in mind the big picture: There’s a platform war about to start. It’s...
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Palm Places Centro With Verizon
- Palm got a nice distribution boost Thursday in a deal with Verizon Wireless. The companies said statement that Palm’s Centroâ€"the one bright spot for Palm in a landscape of bleak newsâ€"will hit Verizon Wireless stores June 13. The Centro has been a big hit...
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Will Microsoft Cast Its Eye Upon eBay?
- Microsoft has $44 billion or so burning a hole in its pocket, but there’s one little hitch: There are few companies that the software giant could buy to get scale quickly. Enter eBay. Enter speculation. Enter eBay as the acquisition target. Sure, eBay has opened up its...
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Dell's Product Design Improves, But PC Notebooks Are Still Blah
- Dell CEO Michael Dell mentioned the product lust mantra last year and has come back to it repeatedly in conference calls and analyst meetings. Dell’s message: The company needs to improve design and inspire a few ‘gotta have that’ moments from technology buyers. How is Dell doing?...
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Microsoft and Yahoo Should Head For the Altar
- The patience over Microsoft and Yahoo’s never-ending deal dance is wearing thin among the chattering classâ€"bloggers, analysts and folks sick of following this dysfunctional courtshipâ€"and the consensus is right. The time to do a Microsoft-Yahoo deal is now and it’s time to put aside the bad boardroom blood and hook...
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- Microsoft May Edge Out Google In Verizon Search Deal
- Microsoft is reportedly close to landing Verizon Wireless in a search deal at the expense of Google. Why? Money. The Wall Street Journal reports Verizon Wireless is now favoring Microsoft over Google. The money paragraph literally: Under the terms now being considered, Microsoft would share revenue...
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- AMD Is Actually Targeting the Netbook Market After All
- AMD is targeting what Intel calls the netbook market, but not completely. Here’s a tale of semantic fun on Friday night. When I read Brooke Crothers report on how AMD wasn’t entering the netbook market I was shocked. After all, I was one of those people that...
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Amazon Puts the Human Genome, Economic Stats in the Data Cloud
- Amazon Web Services AWS on Thursday said it will publish data sets such as the Human Genome, U.S. Census and labor statistics to its cloud to make the information easier to access for researchers. For starters, Amazon will publish various U.S. Census databases from the U.S. Census...
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- PC Sales Slow, But Haven't Tanked... Yet
- November PC sales slowed in November, but haven’t fallen off a cliff due to strong notebook and netbook unit growth, according to NPD data. NPD has released its PC sell-through stats and November unit growth was 6 percent from a year ago compared to 10 percent in...
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- IBM and Syracuse Team Up to Build Green Data Center
- Larry Dignan ZDNet submits: [[IBM]], Syracuse and New York State are planning to build a 6,000 square foot, $12.4 million data center that will be one of the greenest around and serve as a lab of sorts. The aim: Make the upstate New York data center...
- External links 2009-05-31
- EMC Hopes Iomega Will Be Your Home's Data Center
- Larry Dignan ZDNet submits: A little more than a year ago, [[EMC]] acquired Iomega for $213 million. Today EMC’s master plan is coming into focus. Iomega is to EMC what Linksys is to Cisco CSCO: An avenue to become ubiquitous in your home. EMC thinks the consumer...
- External links 2009-06-10
- Dell Aims to Diversify Away from PCs, But How?
- Larry Dignan ZDNet submits: Dell DELL chief Michael Dell said that the company will pursue acquisitions, alter its business mix upstream away from PCs and be an innovator in the data center. The exact game plan, however, was unclear. Dell’s analyst day on Tuesday was designed to...
- External links 2009-07-14
- IBM Delivers Strong Q2, Ups 2009 Earnings Outlook
- Larry Dignan ZDNet submits: IBM delivered a strong second quarter and upped its earnings outlook for 2009. Big Blue reported second quarter net income of $3.1 billion, or $2.32 a share, up from $2.8 billion, or $1.97 a share, a year ago. Revenue was $23.3 billion, down...
- External links 2009-07-16
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