AMD on rebound, says CEO
AMD may have fallen behind Intel in manufacturing efficiencies, but product innovations will help it rebound, Hector Ruiz, AMD’s chairman and CEO, said at the company’s recent annual shareholder meeting.
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Sun's Rock rolls further towards release
Sun Microsystems has taken another step in the development of its 16-core Rock microprocessor after successfully booting up its own Solaris 10 operating system on a computer with Rock installed.
Selling software without services doesn't hold promise
The days of selling shrink-wrapped software without also selling services are over, according to speakers at a Silicon Valley event.
Apple's board defends Jobs in stock options case
The same day the company posted strong financials, the board of Apple Wednesday publicly defended CEO Steve Jobs against allegations by a former executive about Jobs' involvement in stock options backdating.
Sun: 160,000 channels, should be somethin' on
Sun Microsystems is introducing a new platform for streaming on-demand video over IP networks, to put movies into the hands of customers more efficiently than cable, DVDs-by-mail or the corner video store.
SAAS is hitting its stride
Delivering software as a service (SAAS), accessed from the Internet rather than installed on a computer, is rapidly becoming the way for businesses to use software, said experts attending a conference Tuesday called SaaScon.
Shareholders want change in Apple's stock options rules
Shareholders of Apple Inc., one of more than 100 U.S. companies being investigated for stock options accounting irregularities, will vote at their May 10 annual meeting on whether to change the rules on how options are granted.
Microsoft, Google trade barbs on enterprise search
Officials of Microsoft and Google have traded comparisons of their enterprise search products to their rival's during a technology conference in San Francisco.
Silicon Valley backers predict tech winners and losers
In what has become an annual Silicon Valley ritual, leading venture capitalists have made their predictions about which technologies will thrive and which will take a dive in the near future.
XenSource expands its virtualisation capabilities
A new version of the XenSource virtualisation hypervisor, released on Monday, now works on servers running the Windows 2000 operating system from Microsoft.
IT spending growth forecast to slow in 2007
IT spending is expected to rise 4 percent to 6 percent in 2007, down from 8 percent last year, as companies seek to rein in the expense of running their computer systems, according to a consensus of industry forecasts.
New Red Hat OS features modular design
The newly launched Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system features a modular design that counters the argument by critics that operating systems are becoming too large and complex, a Red Hat executive said at launch ceremonies in San Francisco.
USB drive storage allows desktop virtualisation
VMware is testing a desktop virtualisation program that can be stored on a USB drive and moved from one computer to another.
Red Hat unaffected by Oracle and Novell: CTO
IDGNS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) comes out this month. What are some of the features that will move virtualisation forward and keep Red Hat competitive?
War of words erupts between figures in HP scandal
The attorney for ousted Hewlett-Packard chairman Patricia Dunn fired back Wednesday at public comments made by board rival Thomas Perkins about the HP pretexting scandal.