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January 31, 2007

Demo crowd "jamming"

The first day of presentations, demos and business networking is over. Ouf! Time to head to relax a bit at the traditional Demo Jam Session where Don Clark (WSJ, on the picture) played his wonder on stage, singing, playing and...

Demo, a pricey but useful launchpad for early start-ups

Not much to say about this media only dinner where the discussion circled around how important Demo is to launch a new company/products. On stage, Chris of course and executives from IronPort, Seagate, Sun Microsystems and Symantec. But as...

eJamming is MySpace for musicians

Los Angeles start-up eJamming ended this afternoon presentations session. Their software for PC and Mac enables musicians and singers to virtually get together and start a Jam... all synchronously. "Synchronicity is the difficult part inspite of the distance between the...

Dell is back!

Michael Dell that is. The PC company's founder is back at CEO after firing Kevin Rollins. Dell is just the latest founder to return at the helm of their company after Steve Jobs return at Apple and Ted Waitt...

Demo's morning top picks: Zink, EyeJot, Ceelox, Jaman and Total Immersion

The morning session is over.... we really liked the presentations from Zink, EyeJot, Ceelox, Jaman and Total Immersion. More to come on these companies after our first look at the Demo's pavillion....

ÜberPulse launches at Demo '07

Here we are... after a month of hard work (and a short night!), ÜberPulse is launching at über tech conference Demo '07, along with 68 other companies... Thanks to Guidewire founders Chris and Mike (below) for their support... expect to...

January 30, 2007

Demo.. through the night

After the reception at the hotel, we headed to the city of Indio to attend a journalists gathering at mexican restaurant Macario's... Most of the reporters covering Demo were there: from Dan Farber (ZDNet) to Walt Mossberg (WSJ), Michael Copeland...

Demo Mob set free

Here we are, Eliane (from UberGizmo) and I, in Palm Desert at the Demo über conference. We took the "Demo" flight from SFO this afternoon... with the Who's Who in media and tech from the Silicon Valley... check it out:...

January 29, 2007

Intel pushing dry lithography to the limit

We caught up with analyst Rob Enderle after the media pre-brief (you probably saw the other footage we did earlier) and asked him what he thought of Intel's "breakthrough". He said that Intel was able to extend a manufacturing process...

Intel's 45nm chips, over 2 years lead...

On Saturday, Intel unveiled a series of chips built with its latest 45nm technology process using a new material combination of high-k gate dielectrics and metal gates. Both technologies will enable Intel to build smaller and faster transistors (at the...

January 26, 2007

Rob Enderle: "Apple will not benefit from iPhone"

The iPhone is the Ultra Mobile PC done right according to analyst Rob Enderle who gives credit to Apple for starting this new revolution. "But they will not benefit from it", says the analyst. Here are some of his reasons:...

January 25, 2007

Foreign reporters set loose at Intel's cafeteria

After the Intel secret meeting (see post below), I was part of a group of Bay Area's foreign reporters from France, Germany, Holland and Japan set loose at the chip maker's cafeteria. Well... almost... we were under the vigilant eyes...

Paul Otellini bullish on "Quads"

During a secret meeting (will tell you everything we know when the embargo lifts tomorrow at 10pm PDT) at Intel's RNB (Robert Noyce Building) headquarters in Santa Clara, we had the opportunity to ask Intel's chief his views on quad-core's...

January 24, 2007

AMD/Microsoft collaboration, off the record

I thought I'll share this short video of the AMD/Microsoft evening that, aside from the short intro from the corporate suits, also included a full-bar, appetizers and dinner. Unsurprisingly, the whole thing ended before 8PM... i guess to let the...

CFO's "faux-pas" root of AMD's bad rep!

There was one juicy part that came out from last night's AMD/Microsoft dinner: we learned that at the company's financial analyst meeting in NYC last month, the management knew exactly the devastating effect that the price war with Intel...

AMD, Microsoft celebrates entente

Last night, AMD and Microsoft organised an informal media dinner, at the Carnelian Room, to celebrate the collaboration between the two companies on the eve of Windows Vista launch next week. The "cream" of the Bay Area's business and high-tech...

January 23, 2007

Rob Enderle: "benchmarkable" Quads wanted

Inspite of AMD's claim of achieving more than a 40% performance over Intel's current quad-core chip, analyst Rob Enderle remains cautious and has adopted a wait-and-see attitude until both chips are "benchmarkable". Rob does a fantastic job in using the...

AMD's quad-core chip to outperform Intel's by over 40%

AMD's quad-core processor "Barcelona", expected to ship this summer, will outperform Intel's current Xeon 5300 "Clovertown by "over 40% ". That is, according to Randy Allen, Corporate Vice-President of AMD's Server and Workstation Business. During his interview with UberPulse's editor-in-chief,...

January 22, 2007

Sun to build Intel-based servers, but keeps AMD

At a press conference held today at the St Regis Hotel in San Francisco, Sun's CEO Jonathan Schwartz confirmed that the company will be adopting Intel Xeon server processors for an upcoming line of x86 machines (1, 2 and...