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Is this a 3D touchdown?: IBM prototype for inexpensive 3D home systemJim Santoro, a program manager at IBM, shows CNET News.com reporter Michael Singer Big Blue's prototype for home 3D using Texas Instruments' DLP system. Santoro's especially excited about what this could mean for sports fans.; Tags: 3D, IBM Corp.; Videos 2005-11-09
Intel's Otellini in the hot seat as AMD gains share: According to a report published today by Current Analysis, AMD sold more desktop and notebook systems sold through domestic retail outlets in October than Intel. The margin was 49.8 percent of PCs to 48.5 percent of the market, but it's a sign that AMD's technology bets and Intel's missteps over...; Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.; Blog posts 2005-11-08
Is it time to boycott the JPEG graphics file format?: News.com's Michael Singer has a report that reminds us of why there can be a hidden toll of patents on standards. Already reeling from a Supreme Court setback in one patent case, Singer reports that BlackBerry maker Research in Motion RIM has inked a royalty-payment structure deal with alleged JPEG...; Tags: Forgent, patent; Blog posts 2005-10-28
Motorola's Ed Zander on leadership: As part of the Churchill Club's 20th anniversary event, entitled "Leadership Defined," at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, Motorola CEO Ed Zander was interviewed [podcast here] by Elizabeth Corcoran, senior editor at Forbes Magazine. Zander talked about how he came into the struggling 75-year-old company about two...; Tags: Leadership, Ed Zander, Motorola Inc., Podcasts, Digital Music, Internet, Personal Technology, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2005-09-26
Motorola's Ed Zander unplugged: After nearly two years at the helm at 75-year-old Motorola, Ed Zander is feeling pretty good. The company has grown its share of the handset/mobile device market, garnered attention for its slick Razr phone and Rokr iTunes phone, and its enterprise business is thriving. Michael Singer of news.com and...; Tags: Motorola Inc., podcast, Ed Zander; Blog posts 2005-09-26

Self defeating desktop Linux strategies: Back on August 9th Michael Singer had a very interesting analysis piece called "Linux on the desktop--almost there again?" focused around the observation that "even with all the hoopla last year about Linux progress, the buzz over breaking the Windows stronghold has died down considerably." The article drew 155 talkback...; Tags: old way, systems implementation, desktop, Fortran; Blog posts 2005-08-30
The Windows week that was: The last seven days have been, well, quite a week -at least for cheerful "I told you so"s. Most visibly, Windows 2000 users had a problem. Here's a bit from Daniel J. Chacón's write up in yesterday's San Diego Union-Tribune: An Internet worm that crashed computer systems nationwide wreaked...; Tags: county government, computer; Blog posts 2005-08-18
Oops. That DVD should have caused the toilet to flush.: Today, while driving my 15 year-old home from a doctor's appointment, I asked him what he thought should happen when you stick a DVD into a computer. "That's obvious Dad. It should give me the option to play it" he said. It's obvious to me to and millions...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., InterVideo; Blog posts 2005-08-16
HP exchanges 15K jobs for new $15.3M CIO: HP exchanges 15K jobs for new $15.3M CIONotice the contradiction?HP wants to "extract big success out of more than just its digital imaging and printing group", so that means selling more of their other products and services.The focus of the layoffs: "The hardest hit of HP's ranks, according to...; Tags: Operating systems, Document management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Unix, more-expensive; Discussion threads 2005-07-18
HP exchanges 15K jobs for new $15.3M CIO: I couldn't help but spot the irony in the fact that in the same week that HP announced it would be laying off approximately 15,000 employees, it also announced it would be taking on one new employee who will be getting a compensation package with an estimated worth of $15.3...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co.; Blog posts 2005-07-18
Will Intel's sycophants start singing like canaries?: News.com's Michael Singer has blogged that AMD has managed to silence the paper shredders at some 30 companies including the biggest PC makers in the business. Wrote Singer, the companies "will be keeping all of their documents handy for the time being thanks to a court order issued this...; Tags: allocation, Intel Corp., chip; Blog posts 2005-07-07
HP's new AMD notebook shouldn't rattle Dell: News.com's Michael Singer has published a story with the headline Could HP's AMD laptop sway Dell. Earlier this week, HP introduced an AMD Turion 64-based notebook that targets the SMB market. But based on my audio interview of AMD and HP officials, I wrote that HP shipped an...; Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., notebook; Blog posts 2005-06-24