It was a close race, but when Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) barely beat Intel Corp. to the finish line last week in the quest for a real-world 1-GHz processor, it marked a crowning achievement in what has been a very good month for AMD as the Intel giant-killer.
Falling hardware margins have become the main nemesis for builders of affordable, non-branded computing systems known as white boxes, according to industry conclusions released here Thursday at the System Builders Summit, a white-box manufacturer trade show.
Owners of Hewlett-Packard Co. DAT drives who had the backup hardware and accompanying software installed by a reseller over the course of the last year may not be aware of a feature called OBDR, or One Button Disaster Recovery, which HP officials attending the System Builder's Summit on Thursday admitted has often been overlooked.
Advanced Micro Devices unveiled its answer to Intel SpeedStep technology here yesterday at the Mobile Insights Conference. Still in development, the AMD process known as PowerNow matches CPU performance to the actual demands of the system.
IBM Corp. today took yet another step in its EON (Edge Of Network) Internet access appliance initiative via an agreement with two telecommunications companies and two Internet service providers. IBM will begin a trial roll-out of an appliance composed of a 10-inch color monitor and a keyboard with direct, broadband DSL access to the Internet, according to IBM.
Participants in this year's Mobile Insights show were given a sneak preview today of a Web portal called Portable Life, which will feed targeted and highly personalized content and technical support to connected or disconnected wireless devices.
When IBM Corp. this week released alpha code for Project Monterey, the company's 64-bit operating system, developers were given the green light to begin crafting applications for the OS before its official release.
IBM on Tuesday released preliminary code, called alpha, for Project Monterey, the company's 64-bit operating system, thus making it possible for developers to begin crafting applications for the OS before its official release.
In a big win for both Hewlett-Packard Co. and IBM Corp., Delta Air Lines Inc. on Tuesday announced that is has chosen the two computer makers to offer discounted PCs and laptop computers, as well as Internet connections, to its more than 72,000 worldwide employees, according to officials for the airline.
Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. last week became the latest vendor aiming to provide corporate environments with smaller, user-serviceable PCs that share interchangeable parts and break away from the traditional beige chassis design.
Seagate Technologies Inc. yesterday boasted that its Cheetah X15 disk drive operates at 15,000 RPMs and delivers a 3.9-millisecond average data seek time -- the equivalent of one person reading Shakespeare's entire works in less than 0.15 seconds.
Sun Microsystems Inc. revamped its Microelectronics Division last week, throwing out the idea of generic, pre-engineered communications systems offerings for its OEMs in favor of scalable, board-based components.
The IBM Corp. Edge of Network (EON) initiative took its first baby steps Wednesday on the news that Fidelity Investments Inc. has begun a trial run of a fledgling member of the EON family of products, an Internet appliance code-named iCruiser, to deliver broadband-enabled service to its investment customers.
REVEALING THE STRATEGY behind its "Build for the Dot.com Age" vision, Sun Microsystems today unveiled a program that will offer communication equipment providers a standards-based approach to rapidly developing scalable platforms to keep up with the enormous traffic generated by the Internet.
Hewlett-Packard Co. yesterday launched its e-Vectra PC, the first in a line of so-called "legacy free" PCs from HP.