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AMD's latest roadmaps offer hope - if the company can stick to them!

Yesterday AMD released roadmaps outlining its plans for 2008 to 2011, and they look good. They give a company that seems to have been in a tailspin for several years a glimmer of much-needed hope - as long as it can stick to the roadmap and actually deliver the goods....

Tags: Roadmap, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, CPU, APU, Processors, Notebooks, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2008-11-14

>Captain Cyborg and the Problem of Evil

>Captain Cyborg and the Problem of Evila thought..Can't we plug ourselves into a mainframe and be done with our lives as in the MatrixHad something, but lost the pointCyborgs? Come on Murph. It's not the weekend quite yet.However, discussing the major buckets (you're "enabling" vs "replacing" at the...

Tags: Strategy, Operational accounting, worker, Captain Cyborg, APU

Discussion threads 2005-12-16

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AMD announces Puma laptop platform, Mobile Radeon 3800 GPU

Located in the PC component capital of the world, Computex has become the tradeshow for chipsets, so it's no surprise AMD chose to announce its new mobile platform here in Taiwan today. (You can watch the press conference here.) Known by its code-name Puma, the platform itself doesn't have a...

Tags: Mobile, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Laptop Computer, Radeon, GPU, Puma, Radeon 3200, Puma Platform, ATI XGP, Chipsets, Notebooks, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-06-04

Intel and AMD finalizing new notebook technology

Within the next couple of months, both Intel and AMD will be releasing new notebook platforms. Here's what we know so far. Details of Intel's new platform, called Montevina and due in June, have been slowly leaking out for months. But Daily Tech has filled in a...

Tags: AMD Turion, Dual-core, Platform, Roadmap, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Chip, Montevina, U3300, PM45, Puma, Griffin, Processors, Notebooks, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-03-04

Here are five of the reasons why tech customer support "sucks"

Here are five of the reasons why tech customer support "sucks"The census bureau asked if I worked on a form...Wait, that's not tech...RE: Here are five of the reasons why tech customer supportI upgraded to Vista.I was depressed. I thought about suicide. I called a help center.The Bangladeshi who answered...

Tags: E-mail, Outsourcing, Cable, tech customer, HERE ARE

Discussion threads 2008-01-20

Is Bangalore no longer a cost-saving location?

My good friend and former colleague at the Yankee Group, Arijit "Apu" Sengupta pictured - who is now CEO of outsourcing quality improvement software firm BeyondCore - alerted me to a startup that reverse-offshored its development team from Bangalore back to the US:  "Bangalore wages have just been growing like...

Tags: Bangalore, Salary, Benefits, Human Resources, Phil Fersht

Blog posts 2008-01-02

Indian doctors seek American standards

Are you upset when your doctor sounds like Apu from The Simpsons? Get used to it. India has taken the first step toward putting its medical education on a par with that of the U.S., enabling more Indian physicians to join the American profession....

Tags: Education, India, School, Standards, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-12-13

Captain Cyborg and the Problem of Evil

(This is a re-run, from Dec 16/05.)While looking at a problem related to archiving thousands of project proposals and reports for a large IT consulting firm I was struck by the ease with which these could be classified into two strongly differentiated groups: those based on clerical or other worker...

Tags: Unanswered questions, Government, General

Blog posts 2007-07-04

Digital privacy behind virtual walls

Ubiquitous computing was the only subject discussed at the 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on May 13-16, 2007. As reports the National Post, in the future, everything will be a computer. As ultra small computers can now embedded in virtually everything, pervasive computing applications...

Tags: Computers &, Internet, Leisure, Robotics, Social Sciences, Wireless &, Telecom

Blog posts 2007-05-27

Spyware isn't the answer to creating better games

Spyware isn't the answer to creating better gamescompete with FREEI will not pay for a game full of ads, but i whould play a ads supported game, if its free. This whould be the best way to curb piracy! because ads supported games can easlu compete with FREE (P2P)Great....So...who is...

Tags: Games, spyware, game, advertisement

Discussion threads 2007-05-16

AMD CTO: Core wars a mistake

AMD CTO: Core wars a mistakeAhh.... Some one has brains.When in the forums of George Ou's article on Multi-Core Computing, I stated that there will be a point when throwing cores at the problem will no longer be the solution, same as throwing more hertz at the problem. I...

Tags: Processors, Build-to-Order, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-12-14

Indian tutoring saves money, but an opportunity is being lost

In days of yore, a tutor was someone who was paid a hefty sum to actually sit down with a student and teach face to face. In an commentary in CNET News, Soumya Srinagesh writes that these days, a tutor is more likely to cost less than a tank...

Tags: tutor, INDIAN

Blog posts 2006-10-18

The one-chip computer at the heart of AMD-ATI deal

The one-chip computer at the heart of AMD-ATI dealI HOPE NOT!!!I HATE PCs with "built in" graphics chips!!!One chip to rule them allHey, look, I think I see the chipset shrinking.So anyone want to take a gander on how the upcoming APU/soundcard consolidation will go?Pay Attention To What The Article...

Tags: Video cards, Corporate communications, Chipsets, Games, Semiconductors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., video card, graphics, video, ATI Technologies Inc., Intel Corp., computer

Discussion threads 2006-07-24

APU (exe)

This program has shortcuts to many common utilities in Windows. The user can also view computer name, windows version, and network information. View and change registered owner & organization as well as IE & OE window title. Add folders to your Send To menu, generate directory contents, and automatically shut...

Tags: Window, Construction

Software downloads 2005-12-29

Captain Cyborg and the problem of evil

While looking at a problem related to archiving thousands of project proposals and reports for a large IT consulting firm I was struck by the ease with which these could be classified into two strongly differentiated groups: those based on clerical or other worker replacement, and those focused on enabling...

Tags: computer

Blog posts 2005-12-16

Indian call center worker arrested

Indian call center worker arrestedCompany's FaultWho in their right mind lets someone like a call center worker to have a CD-Burner in their workstation? That's just asking for it. Any call center should have little more than dummy terminals for their employees to use to avoid problems like...

Tags: Call centers, Customer relationship management (CRM), Cheap PC, PC, call-center, CD, worker, security, identity theft

Discussion threads 2005-09-07

Symantec eyes Thais with cut-rate antivirus software

Symantec eyes Thais with cut-rate antivirus softwareCheap PC + Norton Anti-virus = HourglassConsidering the way that Norton slows down even good pc's, this is not a real gift to Thai buyers of their special machines.And though I never would advocate replacing paid with volunteer labor, a few good anti-virus companies...

Tags: SECURITY, Viruses and worms, software, Norton Co., Symantec Corp., antivirus, antivirus software

Discussion threads 2004-05-28