Two years ago, the world was asking when Apple would produce a netbook. Why? Because Cupertino clearly couldn’t survive without one. Famously, Steve Jobs mocked the underpowered devices as good for nothing and then stood the industry on its head with the first real tablet.
Who gets big bailouts and even bigger subsidies? America’s biggest corporations, that’s who. Surprisingly or not, a list of the biggest scumbags includes Google, Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo, Wells Fargo and — you just keep laughing, Jeff — Amazon. Of course, it’s all perfectly “legal,” but galling nonetheless.
Designed to replace USB, FireWire and traditional display ports, the only computers equipped with this cool and under appreciated I/O technology have to date been Apple’s Macintosh. However, Intel’s building support into its upcoming Ivy Bridge chipsets and top computer and peripheral makers are getting onboard.
What’s on your laptop? If you’ve got an Apple, all smack talk about whether OS X Lion or Windows whatever is better has been obviated — today’s MacBooks can run either operating system equally well so you get the exact services, apps, etc. needed for every task. Still, some people still gotta ask the question — a.k.a. troll for page views.
Back in 2005, eBay purchased the Internet telephony leader for billions and some folks scratched their heads while others snickered at Skype’s apparent slight of hand. Fast forward six years, Redmond’s paid $8.5 billion for the company and odd things are happening again.
The likes of Adobe, Google and Apple don’t usually agree on much. But claims of a secret deal between them and three other firms have led to a lawsuit over alleged fixing of employee wages.
Intel and AMD have long held the lion’s share of PC CPU chip manufacturing, with Intel being the clear winner and AMD being the also-ran. Apple’s entry has not changed that, but it has piqued a lot of interest.
It looks as if the problem with Intel’s Sandy Bridge processor, which has kept it from shipping for a short period, is fixed. Now that they have the chip ready to do it with, when will Apple’s MacBooks be updated?
If the supply chain is any indication, Apple may be getting ready to update its high-end MacBooks, the MacBook Pro, very soon. The new Mac laptops are rumored to be coming with much faster Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs.
Will.i.am named ‘Director of creative innovation’ at Intel. That’s a joke, surely. Please tell me it’s a joke.
You would have to be a fly on the wall to know how the companies really feel about it, but Intel and Nvidia have finally settled all of their joint lawsuits and Pax Processora now reigns supreme.
2010 has been a year during which the ARM chip took the world by storm, primarily in the Apple iPad and iPhone, but later followed by mobile device makers everywhere, threatening to disrupt the world chip order.
Things get stranger by the day at Google, where the hiring pedal is down, money is flowing like water, and you can quit to form a startup, then wind up back at Google two years later $50 million richer via acquisition.
Giant chipmaker Intel had made more moves which show their commitment to the idea and practice of flash memory devices, this time in the context of use of the technology by major corporate systems.
Cluster designs have become the de facto standard for supercomputers, so it is news when a big tech builder comes up with a new supercomputer and it is a shared-memory system.
The long-awaited Google TV product hit the streets this week and it seems that they are trying to charge more than most of the competition. Is what Google TV has good enough to warrant the higher price?
Intel and Infineon have announced a deal that will have the giant U.S. chipmaker buying Germany-based Infineon’s wireless design and production unit at a reported price of $1.4 billion.
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