ZDNet Resources
- embedded microprocessors to grow 6% in 2005
- The worldwide market for embedded controllers/processors (MCUs/MPUs) will grow 6% in 2005 on top of 22% growth in 2004 to $18 bln, according to The Information Network. In 2008, 8-bit MCUs will hold a 39% share of the $18 bln MCU market. In 2008, the market for 8-bit MPUs will...
- Tags: MCU, 8-Bit
- Blog posts 2005-06-07
Additional Resources
- AMD rejiggers management; Forms central engineering group
- AMD on Monday named a new head of its computing solutions group and created a central engineering unit to improve execution at the chipmaker. Among the moving parts: Randy Allen was promoted to lead the computing solutions group at AMD, which focuses on the...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Workstations, Processors, Human Resources, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Is anyone ready to process a trillion events per day?
- What is event processing and how could it make a difference? Here is one example of where it could take us: Scientists are talking about the possibility of an in-body network that could detect heart attacks or diabetic collapses and alert emergency services. A typical company deals...
- Tags: Event, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Sales Strategy, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-05-11
- Minimizing XP SP3 woes - UPDATED
- I'm getting sporadic reports of Windows XP users having problems installing XP SP3 on some systems. Here are some tips to help make the install process a little smoother. Disable AV software It seems that some antivirus (AV) software causes the SP3 install to hang, while...
- Tags: Service Pack, Microsoft Corp., AV, Service Pack 3 Setup, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- A new must-read for math/science teachers
- I stumbled across an extraordinary children's book at our local library (for a town of 600, we somehow manage to have a great library). The book, though published in 1995, is still available new on Amazon. Called Math Curse, it was written by John Scieszca, and answers that fundamental...
- Tags: Cereal, Teacher, Math Curse, Fibonacci, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- HP Officejet J6480
- The Officejet J6480 is Hewlett-Packard's newest all-in-one printer with a host of features designed to appeal to small-to-midsize businesses that want a low-cost, feature-rich device capable of handling projects across the board. This $200 multifunction printer certainly delivers everything you want in an AIO: Autoduplexing, photo finishing, one-touch faxing, a...
- Tags: Printers, Fax, Officejet J6480, printer, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Product reviews 2008-05-08
- KVM and Xen cofounders engage in war of words
- Xen cofounder and project lead Ian Pratt said predictions about his virtualization hypervisor's demise to the newer kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) technology are unfounded, a by-product of his competitors' imaginations. "There's no evidence for it. The Xen community is alive and well. Xen is a true...
- Tags: Linux, Hypervisor, Linux Kernel, Xen, KVM, Xen Community, Virtualization, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- AMD's new roadmap: Can it execute?
- AMD has revamped its server processor roadmap with plans to jump to six and then 12 cores in the first half of 2010, but the larger question is whether the company can actually deliver. Given that AMD has had a hard time delivering its quad-core chips and...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Asset Management, Manufacturing, Processors, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Free software great and small
- Free software great and smallFree software great and small[i]In brief, it's a kinder, gentler version of Linus Torvald's quote that Linux is headed for "world domination, fast". [/i]BWAHHAHAHAHAHA! I had to laugh at that quote.Blah blah blah, Are you linux users really that dillusional? We've been hearing about how...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, Face it Linux, Linux, Free Software, LINUX IS
- Discussion threads 2008-05-07
- Free software great and small
- They envision a world with Linux running on the smallest embedded devices to the largest supercomputer clusters, and all possible devices in between. It's only a matter of time before even desktop Linux becomes the mass market. [The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those...
- Tags: Samba, Conference, Jeremy, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Jeremy Allison, free software, open source
- News items 2008-05-07
- JavaFX's day in the Sun
- Dan Farber has some information about JavaFX from the JavaOne keynote today. It sounds like it wasn't a great day for demos but that we're starting to get a better picture of JavaFX and what the plans are. Michael Coté has some additional information about Sun's plans around Java as...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Rich Internet Application, JavaOne, JavaFX, Dan Farber, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- UltraButton (zip)
- UltraButton is a Web button maker. With its help, you can create image buttons or Flash buttons for Web pages even without any Web development experience. 80 categories, over 600 types of various popular-style button templates are embedded within UltraButton for you to choose from. You can output the buttons...
- Tags: Web, Web Page, AntsSoft, UltraButton, Channel Management, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-05-07
- RIM's Balsillie: 'Not religious' about form factors; B2B the company's core
- The Research in Motion vs. Apple smartphone face-off makes for a good story, but the companies present an interesting business strategy question: Is it better to start in the enterprise and then go consumer or vice versa? In an interview with me at SAP Sapphire (all resources)...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., SAP AG, Wireless, B2C, B2B, Smart Phones, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- New Zune incoming?
- Blogger Long Zheng has been digging through the latest Zune software package 2.5 to be released a few hours ago and found an image in the resource files which suggests that a new Zune might be incoming. Embedded in the resource files is an interesting image of a new...
- Tags: Microsoft Zune, Blogger Long Zheng, Tools & Techniques, Management, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- 'In 2008, Vista will make mobile internet fun.'
- 'In 2008, Vista will make mobile internet fun.'Just saying something is true...doesn't make it so!RE: 'In 2008, Vista will make mobile internet fun.'I'm really excited! Not since Windows ME have I had such a great OS, then I got the great Windows Vista and everything is awesome. It's got a...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, mobile, Microsoft Corp., mobile Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-05-06
- SAP aims to make upgrades easier; Rolls out enhancement packages; Touts analytics
- Henning Kagermann, co-CEO of SAP, wants to do away with the upgrade-go-round with its upcoming Business Suite 7.0 with "enhancement packages," small optional updates designed to add functionality to enterprise resource planning applications. Enhancement packages are small SOA-enabled packs that can add new functionality to SAP's Business...
- Tags: Analytics, SAP NetWeaver, SAP AG, Enhancement Package, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Sothink Photo Album Maker (zip)
- Sothink Photo Album Maker provides step-by-step wizard which enables you to get eye-catching album within minutes. After that there are three ways to publish your album: upload it on the internet to share with your friends, put the album on blog sites such as MySpace, or set the album as...
- Tags: Album, SourceTec Software, Blogging, Internet
- Software downloads 2008-05-06
- Dell Crystal - 22 inch (wide-screen)
- Priced at $1,199, this 22-inch LCD is clearly not aimed at the general consumer. For the money, you could pick up four SP2208WFP Editors' Choice award winning 22-inch Dell LCDs. Aside from the price, there's a lot to like about the Crystal, but even a perfectly outfitted 22-inch would...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Monitors & displays, Cable, cord, OSD, Dell Crystal, Dell Computer Corp., HDMI, speaker, DVI, display, video
- Product reviews 2008-05-02
- Questioning IT
- This is the 16th excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. This section is concerned with things you should talk to your CIO about - informally, but with attention. Topic Two: Maintaining Information Integrity Mainframe and Client-Server Architectures...
- Tags: CIO, PC, Information Technology, Malware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Mainframes, Security, Desktops, Viruses And Worms, Servers, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- New approach gives Purdue serious computing power
- Purdue University will be replacing its current research computing clusters on May 5th with one of the world's largest supercomputers. While this isn't especially surprising at a school known for its computer science expertise, the funding model and installation are far more novel. Interestingly, the supercomputer,...
- Tags: Purdue University, Supercomputer, Computing, Computer, Productivity, Research & Development, Business Operations, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
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