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- Details of AMD's Phenom II desktop chips keep leaking out
- AMD will announce its second-generation Phenom quad-core chips at the big Consumer Electronics Show in January. But at the current rate at which the company is leaking information about its first 45nm desktop processors, there may not be much left to say by the time they get to Vegas. ...
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Beggars, and no longer choosers
- Detroit, its auto industry and its UAW find themselves facing a whole new era. A Congress that may NOT come across with dollars to keep the Detroit Dinosaurs (that's a management team not an NBA team) playing. And today a new powerful figure in charge of the House...
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Papermaster countersues; IBM to put up $3M
- In keeping up with the latest developments of the IBM-Papermaster-Apple legal saga, now comes word via Information Week that Mark Papermaster, the veteran IBM executive trying to defect to Apple, has filed a countersuit against Big Blue, alleging that non-compete clause he signed with IBM is irrelevant because Apple and...
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Is 'racetrack memory' at heart of IBM-Apple-Papermaster dispute?
- Could IBM's objections to Mark Papermaster's plans to join Apple be linked to so-called racetrack memory, a technology that would store a lot more content on an iPod? That leap was touted by Electronista, which makes its case based on an April story in the Times Online....
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- The IBM-Apple-Papermaster triangle: How far does a non-compete go?
- The courtroom tug-of-war between IBM and Mark Papermaster is getting nasty. Papermaster responded Friday to IBM's attempts to prevent him from taking over the iPod unit at Apple. Papermaster argued that IBM doesn't compete with Apple in consumer electronics. IBM reiterated that Papermaster violated a non-compete agreement. Now a judge...
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- America loses its moral technologist: Michael Crichton
- America loses its moral technologist: Michael CrichtonThank YouSeven years ago I was applying to colleges. A common essay prompt was "Write about a particular work of literature or author who has had an influence on your life and describe that influence."I wrote about Michael Crichton. I argued many...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-06
- Ballmer says Google is "way behind" in mobile
- Ballmer says Google is "way behind" in mobileBalmerToo bad he opens his mouth several years before his brain is operating!Yes, Google leap-frogged MS here, and about the only thing that Balmer cando is try to badmouth them. But, in the end, it makes him look like a fool!Also, the Microsoft...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-06
- Apple's top iPod gun to depart; Papermaster in; Jobs succession gets murkier
- Updated: Tony Fadell, the senior vice president in charge of Apple's iPod division, is leaving the company to be replaced by Mark Papermaster, a former Big Blue executive who is being sued by IBM over a non-compete clause. The move statement, first reported by the Wall Street...
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Intel Core i7-965 Extreme Edition
- In the last few months you may have seen previews and news stories regarding Intel's new Core i7 desktop processor family, formerly known as Nehalem. Today, we're able to publish our impressions of Intel's new chip and ultimately its new platform. We've selected the flagship, $999 Core i7-965 Extreme Edition...
- Product reviews 2008-11-03
- News to know: Black market zero days; Microsoft security; BlackBerry Bold; SAP
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Dancho Danchev: Black market for zero day vulnerabilities still thriving Spammers targeting Bebo, generate thousands of bogus accounts Larry Dignan: Microsoft: Third party apps...
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- A halloween challenge: Windows 7 vs MacOS X
- A halloween challenge: Windows 7 vs MacOS XThere is only one advantage of Windows over Mac OS XDirectX.RE: A halloween challenge: Windows 7 vs MacOS XThe challenge should be: what can you do on an exorbitantly expensive Mac that you can't do right now in Windows for a fraction of...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-01
- IBM sues brainiac looking to leap to Apple; Download the docs
- IBM sues brainiac looking to leap to Apple; Download the docsDid he work in or will he work in California?If so, the non-compete is unenforceable. Even if not, he can point to the recent court case in Cali that found non-competes to be unenforceable.RE: IBM sues brainiac looking to leap...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-31
- IBM sues brainiac looking to leap to Apple; Download the docs
- IBM is suing executive Mark Papermaster, vice president of the company's blade server development unit, to prevent his move to Apple. In a complaint, Big Blue says Papermaster "is in possession of significant and highly-confidential IBM trade secrets and know-how, as well as highly sensitive information regarding business strategy and...
- Blog posts 2008-10-31
- (Gallery: 10 Apple patents to watch )
- (Gallery: 10 Apple patents to watch )not so far fetchedthe capslock key on the MacBook has an led which turns on an off to let you know the capslock state. the PC keyboards with similar features put those LED's across the top of the keyboard. IMO, the MacBook...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-30
- eBooks get social, pose further threat to traditional publishers
- When most industry observers examine the impact of social media on traditional media industries, the focus inevitability turns to easily digitized media such as newspapers, magazines, radio, television and music. But what about books, and more specifically eBooks? To get a sense of where eBooks are...
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- The technologies which will change our lives
- The technologies which will change our livesThe real areas of change are nanorobotics and AI.Companies such as Zyvex and Novamente are working on nanomanufacturing and AI and they predict 5 or so years until products are available. Such products would allow for everyone to live disease and aging free,...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-25
- The technologies which will change our lives
- We are at a strange place in this world's history, where the Industrial Revolution is over, and we're in the new technological age. So many things have been discovered over the course of the last and this century, and we're still no closer to reaching a technological...
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- Apple MacBook Pro (Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M w/ 256MB)
- Of Apple's MacBook Pro lineup, only the two 15-inch models received the complete workup today. By now, you're probably aware of the design changes, which include a new "unibody" chassis, new buttonless multitouch trackpad, the addition of a mini DisplayPort, and the subtraction of the FireWire 400 port. Let's take...
- Product reviews 2008-10-15
- Apple MacBook Pro (Core 2 Duo 2.53GHz, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M w/ 512MB)
- Of Apple's MacBook Pro lineup, only the two 15-inch models received the complete workup today. By now, you're probably aware of the design changes, which include a new "unibody" chassis, new buttonless multitouch trackpad, the addition of a mini DisplayPort, and the subtraction of the FireWire 400 port. Let's take...
- Product reviews 2008-10-15
- Falcon Northwest FragBox 2 (Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650)
- With Intel's new processors just a few short weeks away, it's hard to get that excited about spending $4,000 or so on a high-end gaming PC now. That doesn't mean that we can't appreciate what Falcon Northwest has done with its highest-end FragBox 2. Thanks to a pair of Radeon...
- Product reviews 2008-10-14
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