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- PC makers are lying to you about battery life
- ...well not exactly, but they're certainly not giving you an accurate picture of how long it will take for your laptop battery to run down next time you're using it. A post on the Bits blog yesterday asks a great question: "Why can't we get an accurate...
- Tags: Battery, Battery Life, Engineering, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Via gets helping server hand from Dell
- Dell will reportedly use Via Technologies chips in select low power servers. According to the New York Times' Ashlee Vance Dell will unveil a system that has 12 full servers running on Via's Nano chip. Each server will consumer 15 watts of power. Dell...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., VIA Technologies Inc., Chip, Vance, Servers, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-15
- Thinner, lighter, cheaper: Will Dell's Adamo out-air the Macbook Air?
- New York Times Bits blogger Ashlee Vance noted today that a recent dig through Dell’s trademarks revealed the names "Adamo" and "Adamo by Dell," which cover computer hardware, including possibly desktops and laptops. Not to mention an ominous placeholder website for the product-to-be: ...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Apple MacBook, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- You know a trend has gotten broad when..
- The New York Times, a well-known font of information in the area of information technology, published Revived Fervor for Smart Monitors Linked to a Server, an article by Ashlee Vance October 13th. If the NY Times gets around to saying something about technology, it's pretty well known by those in...
- Tags: New York Times Co., Virtualization, Strategy, Desktops, Hardware, Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Has Google become evil in the eyes of open source?
- An exchange of e-mails between Bill Hilf of Microsoft and Chris DiBona of Google concerning Microsoft's OSI license application has drawn an interesting reaction in the press.They're taking Microsoft's side. (Harold Perrineau Jr. played Mercutio in a 1996 film production of Romeo & Juliet. Wha? Read on.)This is a major...
- Tags: Software, Google Inc., Open Source, Microsoft Corp., Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-08-21
- Solaris on IBM Power7?
- Sometimes the dog to watch is the one that doesnt bark. In this case that could be the effort to get Solaris running on 64bit PPC hardware. Solaris 2.5.1 ran on 32bit PPC, and there are people working on bringing the software forward, but its one of the...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., PPC, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris
- Blog posts 2007-02-13
- Did Microsoft want to 'whack' Dell over its Linux dealings?
- Did Microsoft want to 'whack' Dell over its Linux dealings?Why the abuse was found to be continuing in the EC case[quote]"While this may sound provocative, what counts at the end of the day is what actually happened," he said. "Looking at subsequent portions of this e-mail thread, which the plaintiffs...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Dell Computer Corp., Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-01-26
- Larry's "Ellisonix" on the way?
- According to Ashlee Vance, Oracles own distribution of Linux isnt too far off: Wall Street continues to drool over the idea of Oracle producing its own line of Linux software for reasons unclear to us....Last week, Jeffries & Co analyst Katherine Egbert fired off a research note,...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Linux
- Blog posts 2006-10-16
- A new war between Sun and HP?
- This time, the two computer companies are not fighting for market share, but about a wooden sculpture of Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, the HP founders. As wrote 'The Register' in Sun buys Hewlett and Packard, HP refused to put a Hewlett and Packard sculpture in its lobby. So Sun...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-08-20
- And then there's Mactel
- And then there's MactelHit the nail on the headMy own pet theory was for Apple to use the Alpha chip. InHell had the dies and the fab from DEC, and Alpha "users" were as chauvinistic over their chip as any mac user was with PPC (i.e. Loyalty). This would have...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Desktops, Apple Inc., chip
- Discussion threads 2006-05-18
- Stranger than IT fiction
- Over the holiday break, Ashlee Vance reported: [Overstock CEO Patrick] Byrne held an August conference call with financial analysts about this cabal that has since gone down in Wall Street history as perhaps the single most bizarre CEO moment of all time....During the session, Byrne admitted...
- Tags: information technology
- Blog posts 2006-01-04
- Intel's intro of virtualization hardware for PCs should herald new era
- Intel has announced the arrival of the first desktop chips to include its hardware-based virtualization technology known as VT codenamed Vanderpool. This could very well signal a new era in desktop/notebook computing and I would think long and hard before buying a new system that doesn't include...
- Tags: VMware Inc., virtual machine
- Blog posts 2005-11-14
- Counting Dollars and Xen
- A theregister.co.uk headline Xen grows up with SMP server slicer caught my eye last week. Written by Ashlee Vance, part of the story said: First off, the new software will let customers dedicate a number of processors to a single guest operating system. This means that you...
- Tags: Server, Xen, Intel Xeon, IBM Corp., X460, Way Box, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2005-06-27
- Counting Dollars and Xen
- A theregister.co.uk headline Xen grows up with SMP server slicer caught my eye last week. Written by Ashlee Vance, part of the story said: First off, the new software will let customers dedicate a number of processors to a single guest operating system. This means that you...
- Tags: Servers, Processors, x460, Xen, server, Intel Xeon
- Blog posts 2005-06-27
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