David Needle

SAN FRANCISCO – Hail, hail the GPU. At least that seems to be rallying cry of competitors ATI (owned by AMD) and nVidia, two of the leading purveyors of graphics processors. At a media event here today, AMD previewed its next generation Radeon 4000 chip capable of up to a teraflop performance. “This chip can […]

When it comes to the NBA finals there’s no shortage of trash talk. Of course, the cries of “Kobe’s a crybaby” and “Pierce is a faker” extend far beyond the arenas where the games are played to pubs, dorms, offices and the vast number of online getaways across the Web.  Basketball fans love their teams. […]

Intel had its big Research Day yesterday at the Computer History Museum. I expected CTO Justin Rattner to set the table by highlighting some of the futuristic developments in the nearby exhibit hall. Eventually he got around to some of that, but first, it seemed to me, Rattner wanted to get a few things off […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Intel showed off 70 different research projects at its “Research Day” here at the Computer History Museum. In the past, the annual event was held at the chip giant’s headquarters in nearby Santa Clara, but the new venue offered more space. Justin Rattner, Intel’s Chief Technology Officer, kicked off the event […]

A year after vowing to invest $1 billion in Green Tech, IBM is shifting into higher gear today with new products that emphasize modularity and standardization. The company is rolling out three new members to its Project Big Green line: the Enterprise Modular Data Center (EMDC); Portable Modular Data Center (PMDC) and Modular High Density […]

UPDATED: SAN FRANCISCO — Not every company would risk blasting Jerry Lee Lewis’ “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On” to a packed crowd in earthquake-prone Northern California, but Apple likes to live on edge. The Moscone Center here was the scene for Apple’s much-anticipated rollout of its newest iPhone, kicking off its weeklong Worldwide Developer Conference […]

Apple will unveil a new iPhone at its sold-out developers conference Monday in San Francisco; at least that’s the consensus among the numerous rumor sites, developers and media outlets speculating in the days leading up to the event. Once again, Apple’s done an exceptional job of building expectations for an announcement it’s never publicly confirmed. […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Enterprise software vendors take notice: Slick doesn’t sell anymore. That was one of the comments made at the Consumerization of Software conference here Thursday, co-sponsored by the nonprofit SD Forum tech industry association. During one panel, corporate software vendors and venture capitalists described the radical shift in the way software is […]

RoamAbout Business pack provides access to Wikipedia. Source: Vysr RoamAbout, a browser extension designed to streamline access to Web sites, has been further customized with today’s release of prebundled “packs” or collections of Web services. Vysr’s RoamAbout Business and RoamAbout Social Packs are available for download. Released in April in beta, RoamAbout is designed to […]

A portable computer priced way lower than the competition makes headlines with its small screen and bundled applications for instant productivity. Sounds like a great marketing plan for the latest generation of Netbook and Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). But if it seems familiar to long-time techies, it should; it’s the same plan that worked in […]

Forget any talk of chronically underutilized servers in the datacenter: Here’s a project that requires some serious number crunching. The University of California San Diego (UCSD), with help from several tech heavyweights, announced it’s begun a three-year research study to quantify how much information is being produced worldwide by businesses and consumers. The “How Much […]

Google announced new features and a new name for its former Custom Search Business Edition service. The rechristened Google Site Search (GSS) includes a supplemental index the search giant said reaches more of a company’s content and also provides more customization options of search results. Hosted by Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), the GSS service is available […]