For analyst Nathan Brookwood, Intel has no other choice than to start building discreet graphics chip in order to keep dominance in the chipset market. Even the old integrated ATI or Nvidia chipset provide a better graphical experience than...

Shortly after AMD showed us their latest chipset integrating ATI's graphics engine, we asked analyst Rob Enderle his thoughts on the announcement. It's a significant launch. Not only AMD now matches Intel where they were strong at i.e. in...

Yesterday at O'Reilly's Emerging Telephony conference we sat down with GrandCentral COO Vincent Paquet to talk about the latest features and functions added to the company's personal assistant service....

At an international media lunch briefing, Yahoo Mail (left) and Instant Messenger (right) execs confirmed the company exclusive focus on the consumer market, not the enterprise. A few years ago, Yahoo launched an enterprise version of it's Instant Messenger...

After his Churchill Club chat with Forbes Magazine's Sr. Editor, Elizabeth Corcoran, I sat down with Nathan Myhrvold to talk about his latest company. Intellectual Ventures started in 2000 and is likened to a private equity firm but for...

I caught SAP's chief intellectual property officer on his way out to get his thoughts on software patents. For Tim Crean, copyrights protect the "expression" of an idea whereas patents protect the idea itself. "Both copyrights and patents are...

I'm here sitting at the Tech Policy Summit at the beautiful Dolce Hayes Mansion in San Jose. The Summit was created to offer an independent, non partisan forum to examine and discuss policy issues impacting technology innovation and adoption....

At the Autodesk press conference last week, I met with Joe Palumbo, CEO of Palumbo Motorcar Company of America who designed a convertible sports car that is both fast and environmentally friendly. The M-80, which stands for “Mid-engine, 80...

Oooops... gaffe or not, Intel CEO conceded that the company's Digital Health Group revenues are in excess of a billion dollars annually. A drop in a bucket really, compared to the 35.4 billions dollars Intel made during fiscal year...

After unveiling of the first Mobile Clinical Assistant prototype, we sat down with Motion Computing CEO Scott Eckert to discuss trends in the enterprise-class tablet PC market which includes 2 form-factors: the convertibles (with an integrated keyboard) and the...

My conversation with Hjalmar Winbladh of Rebtel today was eye opening on how the EU mobile operators cartel (Vodaphone, Orange, T-Mobile...) are sucking money off of both their subscribers and the people/friends/family that are trying to reach them. For...

Today, I had the chance to catch up with Hjalmar, who's in the Bay Area for a 3 days visit from Sweden. Inspite Rebtel's CEO excitement about the upcoming news planned for next month, he was very "light" on...

During my dinner last night with both Microsoft’s interopability general managers Jean Paoli and Tom Robertson, the message was clear: Would we like to do the same deal with Red Hat, absolutely! and it gets even better, We would...

Last night, I had dinner in Palo Alto with Microsoft's general managers in charge of interoperability: Tom Robertson and frenchman Jean Paoli (pictured). They wanted to discuss what Microsoft has accomplished in the interoperability space over the past year,...

At Demo last month, Seagate showed off DAVE (Digital Audio Video Experience, sic!). The wireless device will be available this summer, between 150$ to 200$, and integrates Wi-Fi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0, a USB port as well as an 10...

At Autodesk's media summit, Carl Bass could not resist from ranting against PLM. Product Lifecycle Management solutions compete with Autodesk's simpler design process built around AutoCAD. Here's what Autodesk CEO had to say about it: There are only 3...

Last night, HP hosted a media preview for the launch of HP-UX 11i v3 (what an exciting name!). Here's in summary what virtualisation director Nick van der Zweep had to say about HP's Unix operating system new enterprise release:...

Everybody involved in designing and creating products know that building prototypes is costly and time consuming. To that point, vice-president "Buzz" Kross, citing an Autodesk sponsored report, stressed the need to move "beyond geometry" and into digital prototyping and...

At Autodesk's World Press Day event in San Francisco today, CEO Carl Bass detailed the company's future directions... think of it as Autodesk 3.0. At the core are the company's next generation 3D modeling tools: Inventor, Revit and Alias....

For Rob Pait, upcoming Hitachi's 1TB drive will be costlier, hotter, noiser, with higher power usage and have a greater chance to failure because of the number of components. Here's what Seagate's global marketing director for consumer products had...

As i sit here today and look at all of you in the eyes, there is nothing in my head that says this is a company or a section of the industry that I believe EMC must go into...

I'm sure such remarks would have created a total uproar in the security community if it was not coming from RSA's President himself. For Coviello, building a "perfect security" system is simply a waste of time and ressources, opting...

At the RSA Security Conference we sat down with Bret Hartman, CTO of Information Security at EMC/RSA to discuss the company's latest news including, it's relationship/integration with big brother EMC, the buzz around "Information Centric Security" and a quick...

For Art Coviello, it's time to spend less time securing the "perimeter" and focus instead on protecting the information. We have to protect the King. And information is the King In a nutshell, EMC's Security Vice-President and former CEO...

Nothing much to take away from Bill Gates and Chief Research Officer Craig Mundie chat on security that sounded like a "Mea Culpa" for Microsoft's founder last RSA Conference . "We haven't given great tools to manage [our customers]...

The world's largest conference dedicated to computer security opened its doors today at San Francisco's Moscone Center. Over 16,000 people are expected to show up. Among them, the CEOs of Computer Associates, EMC (the show's host), Oracle, Symantec, Verisign,...

The San Francisco start-up developed a video distribution platform with over 1,000 independent and international films as well as individual film makers through a self-service upload option. According to CEO Gaurav Dhillon, less than 1% of international films are distributed...

Lots of great products this morning. We liked DARTDevices, Whisher, Nuvoiz, Alcatel-Lucent, Boston-Power, Seagate, Inilex and TeleFlip... more on these companies to come....