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- AMD finally announces "asset-smart" plan; new Foundry Company created
- AMD and a technology investment company backed by the government of Abu Dhabi have established a new semiconductor company that will manufacture AMD's advanced processors. The new company--currently known as "The Foundry Company"--will take over all of AMD's existing manufacturing facilities, including the two leading-edge fabs in Dresden, Germany, and...
- Tags: Asset, Foundry Networks Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Manufacturing, Semiconductors, Government, Hardware, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capital
- AMD said Tuesday that it will split off its manufacturing operations in a deal with the Advanced Technology Investment Company of Abu Dhabi. AMD will also receive a capital infusion from Mubadala Development Company, which will wind up owning more than 19 percent of Intel's smaller rival. ...
- Tags: Asset, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., ATIC, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Did McCain invent the BlackBerry?
- Did John McCain invent the BlackBerry? Well, no one actually said he did, although the Telegraph headlined a story as such. As the LA Times reports the episode, here's what happened: Asked by reporters today about McCain's grasp of technological issues, senior policy...
- Tags: Technology Innovation, John McCain, RIM BlackBerry, Tech Policy, Handhelds, Hardware, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Report: AMD to challenge Nvidia's $60 graphics
- Report: AMD to challenge Nvidia's $60 graphicsAMD 4650 for 780G chipset?I don't think it will work well with Radeon HD 3200 chipset as a Hybrid Crossfire... :(i want...I want my discrete graphics card to turn itself off when not needed. Make sure it will be possible with your next integrated...
- Tags: Chipsets, Video cards, graphics, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., video card, NVidia Corp., chipset
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- Cisco buys PostPath: WebEx to compete with Exchange, Outlook, Office?
- Cisco on Wednesday bought email and calendar software maker PostPath for $215 million in a move that may signal bigger plans for WebEx. Simply put, Cisco and Microsoft are increasingly on a software collision course. Cisco said its latest acquisition will be used to "enhance the existing...
- Tags: Microsoft Outlook, WebEx Communications Inc., Microsoft Office, Cisco Systems Inc., PostPath, Groupware, Collaboration, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- SAP: Oracle price-gouges customers even more than we do
- Doug Merritt, SAP's EVP and GM of Business User Global Sales, predictably came up with quote of the day on day one of the BusinessObjects influencer summit. During a 'fireside chat' in a near freezing air conditioned room with fellow Irregulars Mike Krigsman, Sandy Kemsley and Brian Sommer and myself,...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Pricing, Strategy, Sales, Marketing, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Apple sued for ... slavery?!?!!
- Apple sued for ... slavery?!?!!You SUE for slavery?Huh.I did not know that. I would have thought criminal charges for such an act would be more appropriate.I have a question, though. If he disliked the arrangement so much...why didn't he just quit? Some people will sue over anything.RE:...
- Tags: Apple Inc., overtime
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- Did Woz cut the line for his iPhone 3G?
- A News.com post by Greg Sandoval alleges that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak may have cut the line to get his iPhone 3G at the Apple Store in Westfield Valley Fair Mall in San Jose. In fact, according to Doug and Patrice Broussard, Woz actually never waited in...
- Tags: 3G, Apple Inc., Cellular Phones, Co-founder, Consumer Electronics, Front, jason D. O'Grady, Personal Technology, Wireless, Apple iPhone
- Blog posts 2008-07-13
- Segway CTO to become Apple VP of product design
- A post by Über Administrator and Wise Segway Elder John Grohol on the SegwayChat message boards reveals that Doug Field is leaving Segway for Apple. Doug Field, the chief technology officer at Segway who heads their entire engineering team (and has since Day 1), is leaving Segway to become...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Doug, jason D. O'Grady, Management, Marketing, Product Marketing, Segway, Team Management, Product Design
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- If Brian likes it, it's gotta be good
- My Irregular colleague Brian Sommer waxes lyrical about the OpenAir/NetSuite deal. Brian has more years' experience implementing and analyzing business applications than most others I know. If he says something is good, then that's high praise and well worth a buyer's attention. Condensing Brian's analysis: We believe this deal...
- Tags: NetSuite Inc., OpenAir Inc., Back-office, Brian Sommer, Operational Accounting, Product Development, Finance, Research & Development, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Is SAP's weakness its real strength?
- Conversations with Doug Merritt, a member of SAP's executive council and the person driving Business Objects as a platform for intelligence are always entertaining. Merritt represents the unconventional, disruptive element within SAP that was in evidence during Shai Agassi's tenure. For me, Merritt charaterizes the public face of fracture I...
- Tags: SAP AG, Merritt, Phil, Corporate Governance, Strategy, Leadership, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Human Resources, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Microsoft's ODF support looks good ... but on paper only
- Microsoft's pledge to support ODF as a native file format in Office 2007 SP2 is good news for OpenOffice – but on paper only. The devil is in the details – and Microsoft hasn't spelled out precisely how or if its ODF 1.1 implementation will support macros...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Office to support ODF, PDF as 'first-class citizens'
- Big news on the open document format front: Microsoft announced press release minutes ago (actually about 18 hours early, since someone broke PCWorld scooped their embargo) that Office SP2 will include native, "first-class citizen" support for the open source Open Document Format, as well as Adobe's PDF and the...
- Tags: Adobe PDF, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Office, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- What's cooking at Xerox's PARC labs?
- What's cooking at Xerox's PARC labs?PARC InventionsThere's no controversy about who invented the mouse. It was Doug Englebart, in the early 60's. I saw one on his desk in 1968. PARC was founded in 1970.There's also no controversy about PARC inventing the inkjet printer; they didn't. It may have...
- Tags: Printers, Xerox PARC
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Why Client-server fails
- Why Client-server failsControlling the what happens on the client.You control what happens on the client by requiring of it the least possible functionality ("fill this form in"), and placing no application logic there.If you do validation on the client, this is only as a convenience to the user, and all...
- Tags: Servers, Nothing, client-server
- Discussion threads 2008-04-29
- Vista Hands On
- Vista Hands OnManage Wireless Networks priority display issueHello,I am having an odd issue connected to the Manage Wireless Networks folder.Here is what I think has happened. I forced all folders to be the same using the Tools>Folder Options>View Tab>Apply to all folders. At the time I had everything sorted...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Manage Wireless Network, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-04-26
- Yahoo vs. Microsoft: Thanks for the letter Steve; Now give us more money or get lost
- Yahoo vs. Microsoft: Thanks for the letter Steve; Now give us more money or get lostI'd rather see Apple buy them out...At least with Apple, they would be guaranteed to be infused with some true innovation on top of what they already have. Microsoft would suck the life force right...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Investment, Financial accounting, MICROSOFT TODAY, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-07
- (Photos: PARC prints green tech)
- (Photos: PARC prints green tech)PARC Exaggerations[i]PARC is like the Stonehenge of Silicon Valley. The mouse, the PC, Ethernet, and a lot of printer technology came out of its labs.[/i]The mouse was invented by Doug Englebart at Stanford Research Institute. The laser printer was invented by Xerox in NY, before...
- Tags: Ethernet, Mice, Printers, photograph, Edison, Xerox PARC, green technology
- Discussion threads 2008-04-04
- Sparks fly over copyright at Tech Policy Summit
- The group of copyright scholars and advocates gathered Wednesday at the Tech Policy Summit in Hollywood demonstrated that while copyright must function in a converged world, opinions on how it should function are as divergent as ever. The panel pictured from left to right consisted...
- Tags: Innovation, Lawsuit, Patent, Harbor, TiVo Inc., Fred, Lohmann, Copyrights, Copyright System, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
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