David Needle

HP is laying claim to an industry first – a workstation in a blade format. The HP ProLiant Blade Workstation Solution is designed to give the same benefits as other so-called thin client systems, namely that it moves the processing and storage components off the desktop and into the data center. Users can access files […]

A few weeks ago, Intel wrested bragging rights for performance from AMD by shipping the first x86 quad-core processor, the Xeon 5300. AMD won’t have a competitive offering until mid-2007, but the company showed it’s on track at an analyst event today in Berkeley, Calif. The quad-core AMD Opteron, code-named Barcelona, was shown running a […]

UPDATED: Microsoft’s PC partners aren’t likely to upstage Microsoft  at the big rollout in New York today of Vista. But an interesting side note is the effort PC companies are making to supplement the new Microsoft OS and simplify the transition for enterprise customers. Vista officially launches today for corporations and other large organizations, while […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. – HP previewed a new energy management system the company said could save corporations as much as $1 million per data center per year, or up to 20 percent to 45 percent of the cost to keep those datacenters cool. At a press event here at HP Labs, company officials said it […]

Dell is on a mission it said will make systems management easier for network administrators and IT in general to manage their computing infrastructures. Dell on Tuesday, along with long-time collaborator and systems management solutions provider Altiris  , unveiled a new console architecture and standardized approach to infrastructure management. The two companies also announced they […]

Internet content acceleration firm Akamai is buying Nine Systems, a provider of rich media management tools, in a deal valued at about $169 million. Akamai said it plans to integrate Nine Systems’ Stream OS, which is a suite of configurable rich media management tools for publishing content online, into Akamai’s global network. The Cambridge, Mass-based […]

Opti announced it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit on Friday against AMD over three patents under the umbrella name of “Predictive Snooping of Cache Memory for Master-Initiated Accesses.” In a release, Opti said AMD  infringes the patents by making, selling, and offering for sale CPUs and core logic products based on and incorporating Predictive […]

Camera-enabled cell phones are a great gimmick. You can snap funny pictures to send to friends, or record a special family moment on the fly. There’s even a college course in how to use camera phones to produce short movies. However, the inferior picture quality and less than convenient print options give digital still cameras […]

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced today that a former executive of Elpida Memory, a large Japanese manufacturer of DRAM chips, agreed to plead guilty for his participation in a global conspiracy to fix prices. The DoJ said that D. James Sogas will pay a $250,000 criminal fine and serve prison time in the […]

An unlikely trio of companies has joined forces to improve and help standardize the way information is crawled or searched on the Web. Google,  Yahoo  and Microsoft  today announced support for Sitemaps 0.90 (www.sitemaps.org), a free, unified format for publishers and Webmasters to submit their content. Google said Sitemap provides an easy way for Webmasters […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Intel’s rapid transition to quad-core won’t be duplicated in the next year. “Quad-Core will be the sweet spot for the next few years,” Boyd Davis, general manager of Intel’s server platform marketing group, told internetnews.com. The industry has plenty to chew on. Intel made several big architectural moves over the past year, […]

Patricia Dunn, who resigned as chairman of Hewlett-Packard  in the midst of a pretexting scandal, pleaded not guilty to four felony counts at an arraignment today in San Jose, Calif. California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, said in the criminal complaint filed Oct. 4 that Dunn and four other defendants were charged with: fraudulent wire communications; […]