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Trends have always come and gone, but when it comes to all-things-tech, the speed of change is faster than an Internet minute. It isn't that tech users are all that fickle; it's that the environment around them is constantly changing. Take the "smartphones vs. laptops war" for example. It isn't that...
Google's testing program for its open source Chrome operating system is no ordinary beta. The company is inviting applications to be one of the reportedly 60,000 users who will be part of the beta test and receive a Cr-48 netbook loaded with Chrome OS. Google reportedly is signing up beta testers by...
The VGA port, the connection that's bridged computers to their monitors almost from the birth of the PC industry, is on its way out. Chip manufacturers Intel and AMD, with backing from various computer vendors, have announced their support for the venerable technology will be phased out by 2015. The...
China has unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A, at a high-performance computing conference in Beijing. The Tianhe-1A has a Linpack benchmark performance of 2.507 petaflops, according to Nvidia, whose Tesla M2050 graphics processing units were used in the supercomputer. Linpack i...
Google has added new cloud capabilities to its rack-mounted Google Search Appliance. As of Monday, a new feature, Cloud Connect, lets users of Google Search Appliance 6.8 search content both within an enterprise's firewalls as well as content from Twitter, blogs and industry websites through Google ...
With U.S. citizens getting shot on U.S. borders -- and the folks investigating them literally losing their heads, with Facebook and Twitter friends using location information to determine when your home is vacant and available for looting, and with the U.S. being named as botnet capital of the world...
Intel plans to pull out all the stops to conquer the tablet PC market, CEO Paul Otellini announced this week. Intel will use all of the assets at its disposal to win this segment, he said. Intel will offer tablets running Meego, the operating system that's a melding of its and Nokia's technologies.
Competition in the keenly contested smartphone market is driving massive change in user interfaces. Mice and keyboards are so yesterday; touch, multitouch and gestures form the core of UIs today. Now, we have Google TV with apps on the TV set. The media of television, streaming video and the Interne...
Physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov of the University of Manchester in England have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 for what the committee described as "groundbreaking experiments" on graphene. A sheet of graphene is just one atom thick, works as a superb conductor of electri...
IBM researchers can now look into what's happening in individual atoms in close to real time, according to a paper published Friday in Science. "We're interested in what happens at the very end of semiconductor and the IT industries," Andreas Heinrich, one of the IBM researchers involved in the proj...
Here in Silicon Valley, otherwise known as drama central, we live for conspiracy theories, have vampire CEOs who are rewarded for bleeding their companies dry, and even have executives who have their own fighter planes and are at war with each other. You would think we would have a few good conspira...
Intel announced its latest processor, code-named "Sandy Bridge," at the Intel Developer Forum, being held in San Francisco through Wednesday. This has several new features, with a focus on providing a "rich visual experience," Intel said. The processor is scheduled to be in production this year, and...
Deploying, managing and maintaining the high availability of the Microsoft Exchange 2010 email platform in enterprise environments is no small feat. Given the increased complexity of this new Microsoft platform, there are numerous key decisions to be made as the precursor to keeping Exchange running...
At one time, HP was such a nice, quiet company. It was a relatively steady firm known for loyal employees, solid ethics, and products you could trust but not necessarily get excited about (unless you loved calculators and were part of the pocket protector set). While I think excitement is grand, I'm...
Intel on Monday announced that 12 new netbooks based on its dual-core mobile Intel Atom processors, code-named "Pine Trail," are now available. These are available from eight vendors, including Acer, Asus, Lenovo and Toshiba. Other vendors will announce their new netbooks running the N550 soon, Inte...
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