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AMD Phenom gets (a little) faster
AMD has rounded out both the high and low ends of its desktop processor line with three new Phenoms. Though the chips have the same basic design, they are targeted at very different audiences by virtue of frequency, power consumption and price. The Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition--now AMD's fastest...
Tags: Desktop, AMD Phenom, Quad-core, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., HotHardware, 9950BE, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris
Blog posts 2008-07-01
Intense (and really thoughtful) ranting from the OLPC front
Ivan Krstić has made his way into this blog before. As OLPC's former director of security architecture and one closely involved with their Peru rollout, his posts offered great insights into just how the XO worked or was supposed to work on the backend. Now he,...
Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Ivan Krstić, Nicholas, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
Blog posts 2008-05-13
Next up for Salesforce: A Windows-like browser-based desktop user interface?
We've already seen Web-based desktops from the likes of Laszlo with its Webtop see video and from Sapotek with its Desktoptwo see video -- both of which pursue different models (the former, you must host behind your firewall; the latter is hosted multitenant style by Sapotek) and both of which...
Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Desktop, Web, User Interface, Sales Force, Microsoft Windows, Web Browser, User Experience, Sales Force Management, Desktops, Sales, Hardware, David Berlind
Blog posts 2007-11-14
AMD: Is it getting off the carpet after Intel knockdown?
AMD: Is it getting off the carpet after Intel knockdown?Anyone surprised?ATI/AMD screwing over *NIX users, its good to see just deserts happening to them - maybe one day they'll realise not to piss of those of use who make decisions and influence others. We maybe small in number but our...
Tags: Semiconductors, UNIX, Operating systems, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., ATI Technologies Inc.
Discussion threads 2007-07-20
ATI / AMD Grief
ATI / AMD GriefYour own faultHa Ha to bad, you shouldn't have upgraded to Vista. At this point Vista practically has very little to offer over XP, and you end up losing big time as you have already found out!Look for more of thisThe simple fact is that the vast...
Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Advanced Micro Devices Inc., ATI Technologies Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista
Discussion threads 2007-04-19
Sticky Windows for Mac - elegant simplicity
Sticky Windows for Mac - elegant simplicityGrow up.He wasn't being the least bit "snarky". He simply pointed out something that few people know about – Expose. He didn't say anything else "stunk". Your article failed to mention Expose. It was logical for DoctorSpoc to assume that you...
Tags: Construction, Desktops, Apple Macintosh
Discussion threads 2007-04-09
As Yahoo, Google, etc. cater to elusive small businesses, Microsoft's hand could be forced
As Yahoo, Google, etc. cater to elusive small businesses, Microsoft's hand could be forcedDavid, you still don't "get it".You start off talking about small business' selling product and then get lost in bashing MS Office. Believe it or not, one has little of nothing to do with the other.We...
Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., small business, outlay, SuSE Linux, SuSE, Linux, Microsoft Corp.
Discussion threads 2006-10-16
Google vs. Microsoft: Do you want Google to be your 'librarian'?
"Even before we started Google, we dreamed of making the incredible breadth of information that librarians so lovingly organize searchable online," said Larry Page, Google co-founder and president of Products, in announcing Google’s aim to digitally scan libraries’ book holdings two years ago.In "Google Library’ to world: give us ‘all...
Tags: Google Inc.
Blog posts 2006-10-03
JavaDB: An idea whose time has finally come?
Last year, at ApacheCon, according to Sun Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps, Sun senior staff engineer Francois Orsini apparently gave a demonstration of JavaDB -- Sun's version of Apache Derby. Apache Derby is basically a full blown relational database management system RDBMS that's based on pure Java. ...
Tags: JavaDB
Blog posts 2006-05-01
In a world of virtualization, should Windows host Linux or should Linux host Windows?
This is actually a question that I was giving a lot of thought to while recovering from back surgery? Why? As you may know, I'm an insanely huge proponent of using virtual machine technology like VMWare's VMWare Workstation 5.5 on desktop and notebook computers. I've covered the reasons why,...
Tags: bare metal, VMware Inc., Microsoft Windows, Linux
Blog posts 2006-04-03
Microsoft ECMA/ISO move could give Office formats new lease on life
I'm trying to grab a few vacation days here during the short week. But the news that Microsoft is looking to establish its Office XML Reference Schema (the new file format for it's Office productivity suite) as an International Organization of Standardization ISO ratified standard has pulled me out of...
Tags: ISO, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format
Blog posts 2005-11-22
Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos on Google's soft underbelly, Microsoft, HP and other topics
Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos shed some light on a number of topics, including Google’s soft underbelly, Microsoft, HP, Dell and IBM in an interview at the Vortex 2005 conference. Papadopoulos "speculated" on the where the Google/Sun relationship might end up: "If you look at what is possible now in the...
Tags: Google Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Greg Papadopoulos
Blog posts 2005-10-26
Is your laptop a pain in the neck?
Is your laptop a pain in the neck?Stop typing, start writingOne solution is to go for a Tablet PC form factor. I've had colleagues with RSI which cleared up when they started writing on the tablet instead of typing. It has some limitations, but it's much more ergonomic.I frequently use...
Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer
Discussion threads 2005-05-31
With wireless, CheckPoint adds to its security portfolio. Can it remain a pure play?
In 1993, the founders of a small, scrappy company known as Check Point Software Technologies were visionary enough to anticipate the explosion in demand for a way to secure the perimeters of corporate networks. By 1994, armed with a key patent, the company launched one of the industry's first--if not the...
Tags: Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
Blog posts 2005-04-06
Could recent Microsoft clamp-downs, missteps accelerate Linux adoption?
Is it me, or has there been a recent wave of headlines from Redmond that add up to a Microsoft clamp-down of the sort that could easily drive people away from destkop Windows? The most recent of these, which not surprisingly has drawn a very vocal reaction from some ZDNet...
Tags: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Operating systems, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, reseller, Service Pack 2, software
Blog posts 2005-02-28
Fiorina's fuzzy vision
Fiorina's fuzzy visionPCServers ?????
Tags: Leadership, Strategy, vision, Dilbert, Hewlett-Packard Co., Scott Adams, Dreamers
Discussion threads 2005-02-09
Dell plays price card with Novell Linux
Dell plays price card with Novell LinuxSuch a deal175.00 for full support? Sounds low doesn't it?You get what you pay for...For $175 a year you are probably getting very poor support I would imagine. I have my MCSE's on the phone all day with Dell to perform mission crticial...
Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Novell Linux, Novell Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Linux, SuSE, Steve Jobs
Discussion threads 2004-10-27
Microsoft needs geek appeal
Microsoft needs geek appealThey've lost their wayIn the beginning, the geeks were all there was. Geeks like Jobs and Wozniak and Gates and Allen. The PC was invented because geeks wanted access to computing that wasn't defined and controlled by some large corporate entity (read IBM, or for that matter,...
Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Recruitment & Selection, OSS, philanthropist, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp.
Discussion threads 2004-04-26
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