David Needle

SAN FRANCISCO — Intel is getting down to business. Business branding that is. With its new vPro brand, unveiled at an event here, Intel hopes to establish a business desktop brand distinguished by its built-in management and security features. Today’s event was a step in a long process. The first systems to use vPro will […]

Just in time for Earth Day, April 22, the world’s biggest software company is laying claim to running the largest solar electric system in Silicon Valley. The location is in Mountain View, Calif., where Microsoft maintains a key research facility. The Silicon Valley campus (SVC) will now be better able to guard against rolling blackouts […]

IBM has seen the future and it’s deeply rooted in technology from its legacy of mainframes: virtualization. Citing what it called an unprecedented demand for large scale x86-based virtualization technologies, Big Blue has announced the System x series of scaleable servers. Essentially a re-branding and extension of IBM’s xSeries, System x includes three high performance, […]

HP plans to capitalize on its purchase of RLX last fall by announcing its first release of the server blade management software for Linux. HP Control Tower, designed for HP’s BladeSystem environment, is scheduled for release next month and will cost $199 per license. HP Control Tower is a part of HP’s unified infrastructure management […]

Intel has big news planned for next week, but yesterday had to defend its lower than expected sales and gross margin figures for the quarter. The company also hinted at a major reorganization. To be sure, Intel met analyst’s estimates with earnings of 23 cents a share on sales of $8.93 billion, but admitted its […]

Energy costs aren’t just rising at the gas pump, they’re rising in the data center, too. Enter The Green Grid, a non-profit organization funded by AMD , HP Sun Microsystems and IBM . The Green Grid (TGG), endorsed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the non-profit Alliance to Save Energy, is designed to help […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Fujitsu previewed a new notebook line, the LifeBook Q Series, which sports a larger display and other features the company says is a breakthrough for portable computers in its class. So-called sub-notebook portables have proved to be a more of a niche product than their makers had hoped. “The category has done […]

AMD’s high-profile antitrust case against Intel now includes a subpoena served on Microsoft. According to the document, dated April 13 and filed with the U.S. District Court in Delaware, AMD requested from Microsoft information related to: “…Microsoft’s actual or planned participation in and support of any AMD product launch or promotion; or …Intel’s reaction or […]

Not much is known about the ingredients in Magic Nano, a household glass and tile sealant, but its recent recall may have been a first for the nanotechnology industry, a key player in future computer-related innovations. “We still don’t know if Magic Nano actually used nanotechnology particles or a really thin layer of particles it […]

Here’s one way to mitigate Itanium’s bumpy ride — change the discussion. In a conference call with reporters today, HP executive Rich Marcello emphasized its Itanium-based Integrity servers are about more than the microprocessor. “Integrity is an all-encompassing brand that includes the overall system, the software, vertical [operating systems]. It’s more than just a microprocessor, […]

Riding an increase among the three key market segments, desktop, mobile and servers, AMD reported today that its year-over-year sales increased in the first quarter of 2006 by 71 percent. The biggest part of the increase was on the server side where AMD says sales of its Opteron microprocessor had triple digit growth from a […]

Sun’s latest product offerings confirm its belief, which also serves as its marketing slogan: “The network is the computer.” The Sun Ray 2 and Sun Ray 2FS, priced at $249 and $499 respectively, are compact, book-sized units with integrated Java Card slots for security, as well as 2 USB and printer ports. The Sun Ray […]