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Samsung says it is no longer interested in SanDisk

Samsung has abruptly dropped its $5.8 billion bid for the memory card-maker SanDisk. In a letter to SanDisk's board, Samsung Electronics CEO Yoon Woo Lee wrote that the recent quarterly results heightened concerns about SanDisk's ability to weather a protracted downturn in the memory industry and the...

Tags: SanDisk Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Memory Industry, EE Times, Flash Memory, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-10-22

Analyst: here come the specialty VoIP product-makers

EE Times reports on an Info-Tech Research study that says 50 percent of small to mid-size enterprises will rely on VoIP by 2008.The study found that 23 percent of those types of companies are already using VoIP.What's even more interesting than those numbers is Info-Tech analyst George Goodall's assertion that...

Tags: George Goodall, EE Times, VoIP, Info-Tech Research

Blog posts 2005-06-08

53% of large businesses run Linux for mission-critical apps

EE Times quotes the results of Forrester Research study on Linux usage in mission-critical applications. Some 53% of 140 companies surveyed by Forrester are running mission-critical applications on Linux, and 52% choose Linux for new applications. Some 44% of respondents said they are using Linux to port older applications to...

Tags: Linux

Blog posts 2004-06-01

Additional Resources

Salat 0.3.0.29 (Windows)

Salat calculates the prayer times for your location. If your city is not in the database (unlikely, since it has 36,000 cities in it), just feed it the latitude and longitude of your place Get that from Google Earth and it will calculate the times of Namaz. Options for calculating...

Tags: Earth, Consultant, Salat, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-10-22

WebSphere versus .NET: battle royale!

You must have worked your fingers to the bone!Wow, what's this? A 79 word blog, of which 56 of those words are quotes from elsewhere!!!!Well, you've certainly earned your money today!Websphere really doesn't want...to get into an "either/or" battle with .NET because it's an unwinnable battle for the forseeable future....

Tags: Application servers, .NET, Middleware, Enterprise software, Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft .NET, IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, IBM AIX

Discussion threads 2009-08-19

Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit List' for Jul/Aug 09

Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit List' for Jul/Aug 09Adrian:Use Intel much?I appreciated your lineup, but noticed one glaring fact: while I can agree that Intel offers the best extreme processor in the i7 965 EE (for $1000), I noticed the glaring omission of any AMD parts. I think that if...

Tags: Processors, Virtualization, RAID, Jul/Aug 09, Hardware 2.0, Intel Corp., CPU, HyperThreading, hardware

Discussion threads 2009-07-02

Shutting down your PC: Frugal fact, or financial fiction?

Shutting down your PC: Frugal fact, or financial fiction?Dave's is closerHowever 10 minutes and 5 minutes are a bit of an exaggeration unless you are using 5+ year old equipment. Which most workers do not. The actual number of minutes is probably half that, maybe less. However that still puts...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Shutting Down, Frugal fact, financial fiction, Frugal, computer, PC, financial, Dave

Discussion threads 2009-04-13

CES 2009: Toshiba's Cell TV prototype can record six HD streams at once

Toshiba's leaning TV concept is pretty slick, but it probably won't ever see the light of day in living rooms. Instead, the company is showing off an equally cool TV concept around the Cell processor. The Cell CPU is best known for being the computing guts inside...

Tags: TV, Toshiba Corp., Cell, Cell CPU, Tv & Home Theater, Home Entertainment, Processors, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-01-09

What will -- and won't -- Microsoft do in 2009?

What will -- and won't -- Microsoft do in 2009?11. Produce a substantial profit...... without making the web more than an adjunct to desktop software.If Windows 7 and Office 14 do appear, it's possible Microsoft will continue its double-digit year-to-year profit increase.Is this too easy a prediction?RE: What will...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft development tools, Operating systems, Collaboration, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Do

Discussion threads 2008-12-30

AMD rolls out 45nm desktop CPUs ... maybe ... or not

According to EE Times, AMD has announced the 45nm Phenom II processors. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Desktop, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., CPU, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-12-08

New MacBook Pro performance degrades with the battery removed

New MacBook Pro performance degrades with the battery removedActually......the batteries degrade faster if they are not used. I have an HP Laptop about 2 years old, when I stored it last December it had a battery life of about 2-2.5 hours. When I took it out in August the...

Tags: Engineering, New MacBook Pro performance, battery, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2008-11-23

Whatever happened to CMP?

When this decade dawned, the big three technology news publishers were International Data Group, Ziff-Davis and CMP Media. Now, Ziff-Davis has been split into multiple pieces, including this site owned ultimately by CBS. And the initials “CMP” are nowhere to be found. The business that brings you...

Tags: Acquisition, Information Week, CMP Media, United Business Media, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Thin Clients, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Hardware, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-09-09

UK CS graduates more likely to be unemployed

UK CS graduates more likely to be unemployedIf you're any good, I wouldn't worry about itMy first question is whether that study takes into account whether people were employed in their actual field of study?Ie, does a job at McDonalds classify as being 'employed' or does every psychology major actually...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Development tools, C/C++, job, hardware

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

Intel launches new chip for consumer electronics

In its latest bid to expand beyond PCs and servers into industrial and consumer electronics applications, Intel has announced a new family of embedded processors. These chips are not based on the Atom processor already used in netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices MIDs--those versions won't arrive until...

Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Intel Corp., Chip, Atom, SoCs, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Wi-Fi in cable set-top boxes coming (not so soon)

Cable TV providers are planning to add wireless to their set-top boxes, according to panelists at a recent Connect event sponsored by Park Associates and the CEA. A report in EE Times say cable companies like Cox Communications are planning to...

Tags: Set-top Box, Set-top, Cox Communications Inc., Wireless LANs, Ultrawideband (UWB), Wi-Fi, Cable, Wireless, Tv & Home Theater, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Rik Fairlie

Blog posts 2008-06-30

U.S. tech sector jobs show strong growth, but lack of engineers could hurt in future

U.S. tech sector jobs show strong growth, but lack of engineers could hurt in futureIn other news...IBM, AMD, Intel, Boeing..announce job cutsThese "shortage of engineer" articles are starting to smell fishy when balanced against job cuts and outsourcing news from the same companies that complain about shortages.Why not just cut...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Brother-In-Law, U.S. tech sector job, sector job, U.S. Tech, job, strong growth, H1B

Discussion threads 2008-06-26

iSuppli: iPhone 3G costs about $173 to build

iSuppli: iPhone 3G costs about $173 to buildiPhone 3G costs as litle as $100 to make....http://www.eetimes.com/rss/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208403011The raw cost of materials to build the iPhone 3G could be nearly half that of the original model, according to Portelligent Inc. Austin that conducted a teardown analysis of the first handset. The first...

Tags: Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, iPhone 3G, 3G, Apple Inc., iSuppli Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

iSuppli: iPhone 3G costs $173 to make

iSuppli: iPhone 3G costs $173 to makeUnlikely we'll see unlocked iPhonesSince Apple is depending on mobile phone networks selling the phone at a loss which is recovered by selling services, it is unlikely that unlocked iPhones will be available in all the new countries touted by the Steve.iPhone 3G costs...

Tags: Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, iPhone 3G, 3G, iSuppli Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

DOD gunning to nix Apple-PA Semi deal?

According to EE Times, the Department of Defense is reviewing Apple's reported acquisition of a PowerPC processor maker. The concern is over an embedded chip, the PA Semi 1682, which is used by the military. "The [PA Semi] 1682 is a very important and unique component required to meet...

Tags: Apple Inc., IBM PowerPC, U.S. Department Of Defense, Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-05-21

Nanotechnology-based clean hydrogen for cars

According to EE Times, a California-based company called QuantumSphere has developed nanoparticles that could make hydrogen cheaper than gasoline. The company says its reactive catalytic nanoparticle coatings can boost the efficiency of electrolysis the technique that generates hydrogen from water to 85% today, exceeding the Department of Energy's goal for...

Tags: Fuel Cell, Electrode, Hydrogen Fuel Cell, Nanotechnology, Hydrogen, QuantumSphere, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-02-27