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The former chief executive of ATI Technologies has resigned from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) just nine months after the two companies combined in a?$5.4 billion merger.
Every living thing knows about iPhone. Apple and AT&T saw to that in their unprecedented campaign to prime demand for a mobile device that has been dubbed "revolutionary" and "game changing." After nine days doing nothing but living, breathing, and dissecting a 4GB iPhone, I am captivated by it. I'd challenge any gadget hound to find a more satisfying, status-elevating way to blow half a grand.
Apple and AT&T deliver plenty of great features in the iPhone, but the list of shortcomings is too extensive to ignore. The following is a list of pros and cons for the iPhone I observed in my extensive testing of the device (see also InfoWorld's iPhone Test Center Review).
A pair of Taiwanese companies signed a technology agreement to develop 3G (third-generation telecommunications) and 3.5G smartphones around the Windows Mobile OS, adding to the growing pool of companies developing mobile phones around the Microsoft software.
Dell plans to sell computers with preinstalled Linux outside the United States as well as offer the Ubuntu Linux distribution to small business customers.
Hackers may successfully unlock an iPhone in as soon as three to seven days, according to a representative of one effort that aims to unlock?Apple's new handset.
No longer tied to a monolithic enterprise price tag, many of the sophisticated storage management capabilities outlined below can now be found in affordable SAN midrange systems from Compellent, iQstor, Xiotech, and other vendors.
SAN storage systems continue to evolve quickly, with features trickling down from market leaders such as EMC and Hitachi Data Systems to midtier players. The three systems reviewed here, from Compellent, iQstor, and Xiotech, offer a surprising array of functionality including nearly every feature one might find in $250,000 enterprise-class systems except CAS (content addressed storage). Their impressive feature sets include 4Gbps FC (Fibre Channel) connectivity, iSCSI support, tiered storage, local and remote replication and snapshots, and even thin provisioning, boot from SAN, virtualization, and automatic expansion of volumes. Compellent even provides automatic migration of data from first- to second- or third-tier storage -- an ILM (information lifecycle management) tool that is usable without requiring a complex setup. Both Compellent and Xiotech offer monitoring and support services similar to those the tier-one storage vendors provide to large enterprises, allowing customers to respond proactively to projected failures.
If you've seen my column photo, you know I like the occasional spoon of sugar in my coffee. (OK, four spoons, so bite me.) Point is, since Brian Chee keeps me well stocked in Hawaiian Kona coffee, I make sure to keep a box of Domino instant-dissolve sugar in the kitchen. Tear off plastic, open little metal spout on side of box, pour sugar, reactivate synaptic functionality ? simple. Then some product marketing management wizard apparently decided to fix it. Now the spout is cardboard, no longer firmly attached to the box, and inexplicably blocked by another slab of cardboard that serves no discernable purpose, yet must somehow be removed without dislodging the spout.
Complaints about the speed of the network that?Apple's new iPhone?connects to points to the need for a new broadband wireless network in the U.S., said a businessman proposing one.
Ten years ago this week Sony launched its first Vaio laptop computers. The PCG-705 and 707 went on sale in Japan on July 1 and were followed quickly by a desktop PC, as Sony tried to show the world that a consumer electronics company could make computers.
Apple's?iPhone launch?has been marred by delays in AT&T's phone activation system, leaving some people unable to use their new toy throughout the weekend.
Now that Apple's iPhone is finally on sale, the race is on to see who can unlock it.
A Brooklyn, New York-based charity is using its position as first in line for the iPhone at the SoHo Apple Store to drum up more support for its plans to auction the gadget on eBay and use the money for charitable purposes.
Advanced Micro Devices?(AMD) is?getting ready to launch Barcelona, its first quad-core server chip.
I'll never get it. Of any industry, save perhaps the stock market, you'd think the tech market would have become inured to hype. Yet every souped-up calculator that comes along seems to create ripples far in excess of its true weight in the universe. This week, it's the iPhone. Hey, I bought a MacBook Pro, so I'm certainly not immune to Apple's marketing (though I do blame the lucidity lapse on Parallels and Paul "Sasquatch" Venezia's overbearing Orchard fetish), but from an IT manager's perspective, you can sum up the iPhone in two words: Who cares?
Yes, the iPhone is sleek and sexy, and it has a slick interface that performs so many techno-tricks, even confirmed Luddites are salivating. But there's no reason to junk your current handset -- in fact, your Phone is more than ready to meet the iPhone challenge head on.
Intel plans to lay off 800 workers from a chip-making plant in Colorado by August, after Marvell Semiconductor began ordering those parts from another supplier, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC).
Want an iPhone? Of course you do. It looks sexy, it's innovative, and -- for a while at least -- it'll be the ultimate status symbol. But in the fog of iPhone hype, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that the latest Apple sensation will still have its share of disadvantages. We don't have the king of gadgets in our mitts yet, but judging from the information that has already been released, clearly some folks could have problems with the iPhone. So before you dump your current cell phone, consider these issues.
How badly do you want an?iPhone? Would you pay $1,500 to buy one? How about $300 for someone to wait on line for you?
Toshiba has disclosed details of a?new range of laptop computers?based on processors from Advanced Micro Devices?-- the first AMD-based machines the company has sold in about seven years.
Taiwanese electronics maker Asustek Computer launched a Windows Mobile 6 smartphone with a touch-sensitive screen on Wednesday, just days ahead of the launch of?Apple's iPhone.
IBM still operates the fastest supercomputer in the industry, but rival Hewlett-Packard?has more of them in operation, according to a closely watched global survey released Wednesday.
Underlining its expansion from online to retail sales, Dell launched desktop and notebook PCs Tuesday at Macy's department store in New York.
Mario Apicella is on vacation, so in his absence we present two classic Storage Insider columns for your reading pleasure. This week, the spotlight is on SANs: their protocols and standards, and how they could affect you.
Gartner, IDC, and 451 Group research analysts, this week warned IT administrators to keep iPhones away from their businesses. "We're telling IT executives to not support it because Apple has no intentions of supporting [iPhone use in] the enterprise," Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney said. "This is basically a cellular iPod with some other capabilities, and it's important that it be recognized as such."
A war is clearly shaping up between gadget-loving users, who want to use Apple's iPhone, and the IT people at work, responsible for company data security.
Samsung Electronics' upcoming SGH-E950 phone has a feature that stands out from other models: a 1.2-inch OLED (organic light-emitting diode) keypad that can display different icons depending on how the phone is being used.
The official Palm blog has added an audio interview with Palm's founder in what appears to be a new attempt to justify the?recently announced Foleo.
Gateway Inc. is recalling 14,000 batteries used in its notebook PCs after four customers reported that their computers had overheated, a similar condition to the massive battery recall that swept the industry in 2006.
No longer capable of remaining on the sidelines as a separate administrative domain, today's networked storage must be managed with a deeper awareness of business objectives.
A reader that identifies himself as "Layman" suggests that all the fuss I made in my blog about the reliability of disk drives is somewhat old school.
The global chip market is suffering from falling prices in microprocessors and memory chips, bad news for companies but great for users.
A group of some of the biggest technology companies said they've committed to a plan to improve the power efficiency of equipment they make and use.
Hewlett-Packard Co. is sticking with processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) in a new family of blade PCs designed to compete with offerings from IBM Corp.
Dr. Marc Willebeek-LeMair, CTO of 3Com, is used to wrestling with weighty problems. After all, the man spent a decade at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center working on so-called intelligent infrastructure technologies and has done research on everything from distributed computing and high-speed networking technologies to network processors and management systems. So when Willebeek-LeMair talks about the problems facing the enterprise networking industry, people tend to listen.
To anyone with a base level of computer knowledge, the concept of a single system with 48 hard drives seems insane. To IT folks, it?s even more outrageous; most disk arrays are limited to 15 drives per shelf and certainly aren?t mounted in a server chassis. To Sun, 48 drives in 4U of space is just the newest entry in its line of x64 servers.
Two Taiwanese companies are making laptop PCs users can hook up to their high definition (HD) TVs to make more use of the laptops' internal high definition optical drives, either Blu-ray Disc or HD DVD.
The?iPhone?is about to do for smartphones what the iPod did for digital music players: put one in everyone's pocket.
In the race to make ever lighter laptop computers, Toshiba?is poised to take the lead in the 12-inch screen class with new models coming from June.
