David Needle

IBM has won a bid to supply the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) with its latest supercomputer.. IBM  said its aim is to build a system capable of a sustained speed of up to 1,000 trillion calculations per second, or one petaflop . Codenamed “Roadrunner,” the hybrid system will be the […]

Sybase significantly expanded its mobile portfolio with today’s announcement that it plans to buy Mobile 365 for approximately $400 million. With the addition of Mobile 365, Sybase  is laying claim to being the number one provider of mobile messaging and content delivery. Mobile 365 delivers mobile data and messaging, premium content, and value-added services for […]

Intel’s restructuring announcement today included specifics on its plans to reduce headcount and expenses. Earlier this year, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said he was on a mission to cut at least $1 billion in expenses from the chip giant’s budget, though no major staff cuts were expected at that time. Today, Intel said it expects […]

Singing a different tune than market leader Apple, Samsung’s latest MP3 player is designed for sharing music. The K5 Digital Audio Player from Samsung is a Flash memory-based MP3 player with slide out speakers. Standard ear buds for solo listening are also included in the package, which is set for release September 10. A 2GB […]

PC makers are ready to start showing off business desktops outfitted with the vPro technology Intel unveiled back in April. Desktop vPro systems will be shown at two events in New York next week. Essentially, vPro is a bundle of management, virtualization and security technologies (Intel Active Management and Virtualization Technology, AMT and VT respectively). […]

Those new notebook computers you bought for the sales department are working great, but what to do with the dozens of old ones they turned in? If you think that question has an easy answer, think again. Many of the once-standard options for disposing of old computers include considerable risk, both financially and legally. First […]

UPDATED: Intel Corp.  today unveiled eight new dual-core Xeon 7100 series processors designed to offer computer servers considerable performance and reliability boosts. As part of what Intel is calling a “summer of servers” push, HP , Dell , IBM  all upgraded their Intel chip-based servers with the 7100 series chips, previously code-named Tulsa. The Xeon […]

The other shoe dropped in Intel’s rollout of Core 2 Duo, its most powerful client processor. Last month, Core 2 Duo debuted for desktop systems. Today, it announced notebooks based on “Merom,” the mobile version of Core 2 Duo,by several vendors. In all, Intel  said over 200 mobile designs from various PC makers and system […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Jim Stallings is excited. The general manager of IBM’s System z business is warming to his favorite topic, the advantages of the mainframe. In a briefing here with internetnews.com, Stallings said IBM  is determined to overcome what he said are misconceptions about the mainframe (e.g. it’s too expensive and hard to maintain) […]

The recent recall of millions of notebook computer batteries by Dell and Apple is a necessary and welcome first step. But the notebook safety issue hasn’t necessarily been resolved, according to Info-Tech Research Group, a Canada-based IT research firm. “While it’s good to see companies like Apple  and Dell  taking direct action, computer companies need […]

Apple Computer  became the latest company to announce a recall of over a million notebook computer batteries. Like Dell last week, Apple announced a voluntary recall in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission of lithium ion battery packs made by Sony. The Apple recall covers about 1.1 million battery packs in the U.S. […]

Apple and Creative Technology announced they have settled a patent infringement lawsuit that had threatened to drag out for years. The suit, brought by Creative in May, charged Apple’s market-leading iPod had infringed on a U.S. patent Creative held for its Zen MP3 player, which describes how users navigate digital music devices. “This settlement resolves […]