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- Disks: why size means performance
- OK, Smarty pants...How do I use only the outer-most sectors of my 500GB disk?Performance != reliabilitySeagate has progressively gotten worse with reliability - that's why they cut the 5-year warranty back down to 3 years. Western Digital has made great strides with reliability though. WD isn't focussing on...
- Tags: Serial ATA, SSD, SAS Institute, SAS Drives, performance, disk
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- From the ashes of Geode, AMD brings Bobcat with 1:1 possibilities
- OLPC's first laptop, the XO has been both praised and criticized for many things. Perhaps most significant was its incredibly low power consumption, critical for use in areas with very limited electrical capacity. Key to this power consumption was the AMD Geode processor, an utterly anemic piece of...
- Tags: Power Consumption, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., One Laptop Per Child Project, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-13
- What should open source do in a car?
- Engine Management...The owners should be able to tweak the engine management settings.There is no reason I should be forced to stick with the 'safe' mode settings from the factory. Other Ford enthusiasts could tweak their cars and post their engine profiles online and people could adjust their cars engine...
- Tags: car, Ford Motor Co., open source
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- Pink and Microsoft Tablet (Take 2): A couple of updates
- Microsoft should release a High end WM 7 PhoneIn fact a high end phone which will effectively show off all capabilities of WM7, because i don't think that Microsoft can rely on any of its partner to do that. Especially as its biggest partner for WM phones,HTC, is more and...
- Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, tablet, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- What do you want to know about the Zune HD?
- MCE & Zune 4.0It would be really great to know if the new Zune software will sync with Windows Media Center. In previous versions, any playlists, album art, etc. would not show up in Windows Media Center. I figured when I ditched my iPod for a Zune that...
- Tags: Media Center PCs, Digital media, Web browsers, Performance management, Digital music, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Zune, Media Center PC, Zune HD, Microsoft Windows Media Center, Windows Media, performance
- Discussion threads 2009-09-15
- News to know: Smartphones; Windows 7; Palm Pre; EU and Sun-Oracle
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: Smartphones to eclipse desktop PC sales by 2011 Sam Diaz: Facebook Mobile: Now 65 million strong...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Palm Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Andrew Nusca, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Smartphone, Sam Diaz, European Union, Microsoft Windows 7, Palm Pre, Microsoft Windows, Smart Phones, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales
- Blog posts 2009-09-04
- Tablet devices suck, so why does Apple want to make one?
- Tablet devices suck, so why does Apple want to make one?If portability was a key factorto the red hot success of "netbooks", then a tablet which can get rid of the keyboard and thus half the space when working with it makes a lot of sense.To succeed I belive it...
- Tags: Tablets, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, Keyboards, E-books, Current hybrid, tablet, netbook, Apple Inc., keyboard, e-book, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2009-08-04
- Intel discusses upcoming laptop and Atom chips, why we need more performance in mobile devices
- Intel discusses upcoming laptop and Atom chips, why we need more performance in mobile devicesheh"and 140 Facebook applications, he said"99% of them those stupid polls. About as much innovation as custom T-shirt designs - in the end, it's still a T-shirt."Chandrasekher talked about what Intel is doing to address these...
- Tags: Performance management, Notebooks, mobile device, Atom Chip, Intel Corp., performance, mobile, chip, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2009-07-15
- Intel discusses upcoming laptop and Atom chips, why we need more performance in mobile devices
- This week I'm at the Semicon West show in San Francisco. Most of this is inside baseball--the show is devoted to the companies that make the equipment used to manufacture chips--but in his opening keynote, Anand Chandrasekher, who heads up Intel's Ultra Mobility Group, discussed some details of the company's...
- Tags: Performance, Mobile, Power Consumption, Mobile Device, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Chip, Advertising & Promotion, Performance Management, Notebooks, Processors, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- Energy-Efficient Platforms: Designing Devices Using the New Power Management Extensions for Interconnects
- Ever since the Personal Computing PC platforms were launched in the 1980s, there has been a constant demand for increased performance. Computing performance has followed Moore's Law during the last three decades, allowing consumers to have the performance, capability and connectivity undreamt of just a few years ago. But these...
- Tags: Power Management, Performance, Mobile, Platform, Mobile Computing, Computing Performance, Performance Management, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing
- White papers 2009-07-01
- IBM to invest $100 million in mobile research
- IBM on Wednesday announced plans for a $100 million investment over the next five years into a major mobile research effort to create technology to bring services to people who have bypassed PCs for mobile phones as their primary method of accessing the Internet. There are three...
- Tags: Mobile, IBM Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Forget the iPhone: Palm targets RIM, business customers with Pre
- Forget the iPhone: Palm targets RIM, business customers with PreRE iPhone in Business Scenario.I agree with you that from an administrative standpoint the iPhone is a logistical nightmare. The reasoning, no administrative back end. The back end should allow you to decide what can be and what cannot be on...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPhone, Pre, Palm Inc., Research In Motion Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-08
- Low-power Bluetooth spec will be at heart of telehealth solutions
- Attention healthcare IT professionals. This post isn't about a technology that's green per se, but about a low-energy wireless transmission specification that is useful AND just happens to skimp on power consumption. Surprisingly, it involves Bluetooth. Yes, the thing controlling all those accessories that sap the battery...
- Tags: Wireless, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- Sorry Linux but the chicken came first
- Sorry Linux but the chicken came firstNot unassailableMS has defeated multiple monopolies in the past. Word Perfect, Lotus 123, Dbase II-IV, and yes, Netscape. Also Linux on netbooks. :)I might also mention the mighty Sony, the PS2 which roundly trounced both XBox and Nintendo the first round has a pitiful...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-03
- Third-gen iPhone only a "modest" upgrade?
- Third-gen iPhone only a "modest" upgrade?It's Flash Memory, not RAMRe: 16GB or 32GB of RAM This dilution of hard technical terms is getting ridiculous.Any tech writer worth their salt knows that flash is not RAM. You can't even read or run directly from it like ROM.Flash is indirectly read...
- Tags: Memory, Third-gen iPhone, Apple iPhone, camera, chip, RAM
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- Sony giving up on OLED TVs? Panasonic, Samsung push on.
- Everyone who's seen Sony's 11-inch XEL-1 TV based on OLED technology has fallen in love with it, but that's apparently not enough for the company to keep working to develop bigger sets. In fact, a Sony spokesman bluntly admitted that "We really made the XEL-1 just to prove that we...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Panasonic, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Organic Light-emitting Diode, TV, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-04-30
- IBM's chip gang touts 28-nanometer advancement
- An IBM consortium that includes chip manufacturing players Chartered, GlobalFoundries, Infineon, Samsung and STMicroelectronics said Thursday it is developing 28-nanometer low power semiconductors. The consortium also extended technology pacts between its members. The manufacturing processes for 28nm chips are in place for so-called "early risk production"---real early...
- Tags: Consortium, IBM Corp., Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- A single Windows platform for phones and PCs: Can it be done?
- Some see Android as the biggest looming competitor to Microsoft's Windows Mobile. In fact, Android is more than that: It is a potential threat to both the Windows Mobile and Windows client platforms. So does it stand to reason that Microsoft is planning a single line of...
- Tags: Windows Platform, Phone, ARM, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, PC, Microsoft Windows NT, Microsoft Corp., Android, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- The XO-2 is going Embedded RISC? So will everyone else!
- The XO-2 is going Embedded RISC? So will everyone else!At a minimum, Arm will cause big problems for BOTH Intel and Microsoft.No, x86 and Windows will not die any time soon, but, low power, lower cost Arm will be hot in the netbook segment starting this year, and that cuts...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Processors, netbook, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Intel x86, XO-2, RISC
- Discussion threads 2009-03-13
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