David Needle

Cray said it plans to take high performance computing to a higher level via adaptive supercomputing. The Seattle-based company announced plans to develop supercomputers that integrate a range of processing technologies in a single platform. These “adaptive supercomputing” systems, Cray said, will be able to solve scientific and engineering problems more quickly and make programmers […]

Sun announced the open source release of specifications to its UltraSparc T1 processor under the General Public License or GPL , making it free to developers. Sun has dubbed the new open source version of the UltraSparc T1 design “OpenSPARC T1.” T1 is a 64-bit, 32 threaded processor design, which Sun called Niagara during its […]

In a late Friday ruling, which is not subject to appeal, Judge James Ware of U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif. said Google would have to turn over the log of 50,000 URLs to the Department of Justice, but not any of the data on 5,000 search queries the DoJ requested. Google could rightly […]

HP dominates the printer market, but that’s not the only kind of output the multi-billion-dollar computer giant has a serious stake in. As director of HP’s Digital Imaging and Printing Lab, John Meyer oversees research into digital photography, advanced thermal ink-jet technology, ink research, color science, scanning, display technology and more. Some of this research […]

Lenovo announced an ambitious restructuring plan the company said could save as much as $250 million on an annual basis when its completed over the next six to twelve months. The China-based maker of the ThinkPad and ThinkCentre notebook and PC line formerly owned by IBM, said it will plans to lay off approximately 1,000 […]

John Kish wants it all. The CEO of San Jose, Calif.-based Wyse Technology doesn’t see thin clients as a niche, or a poor cousin to the PC, but rather its inevitable desktop successor. “Most corporations have been able to move 60 to 70 percent of their desktop applications to servers, but a large number have […]

Just a week after saluting the virtues of Intel, Hewlett Packard is returning to the praises of its other partner, AMD. HP  is marking the ten year anniversary of selling systems with AMD  processors by introducing new ProLiantservers today. They are based on the latest AMD chips as well as the first HP thin client […]

Blog-hosting service Six Apart today purchased mobile photo blogging service SplashBlog in a move that reaffirms the blogosphere’s direction toward richer content and newer delivery platforms. The SplashBlog service allows users to instantly publish photos from a camera phone to a blog. “We’ve always thought it was incredibly important to have good integration with mobile […]

Research In Motion (RIM) has made an acquisition in what might be considered a positive change of pace for the maker of the popular Blackberry. The company bought Ascendent Systems, a provider of voice mobility solutions for the enterprise. Terms of the purchase were not disclosed. Ascendent makes the Ascendent Voice Mobility Suite (AVMS), standards-based […]

SAN FRANCISCO — With all the hubbub over multi-core and the digital home and chip architecture roadmaps at the Intel Developer Forum this week, an interesting storage announcement by the chip giant was largely overlooked. Targeting the growing storage needs of SMBs and consumers, Intel unveiled the Entry Storage System SS4000-E, a small box system […]

SAN FRANCISCO — The Itanium Solutions Alliance still won’t say much about its plans to spend a $10 billion kitty announced in January, but it did identify one project it’s spending a tiny fraction of that money on. In a collaboration with Gelato, the ISA said it’s giving money to help optimize open source compilers […]

SAN FRANCISCO — If there were any doubt that AMD has Intel’s attention, it was dashed in a technical session at the Intel Developers Conference here today. AMD, which uses a direct connect architecture, regularly harps on Intel’s use of the front side bus in its processors. Steve Pawlowski, an Intel veteran of some 24 […]