At Sun Labs' open house today, we talked to Nicole Yankelovich who's working on research project MPK20: Sun's 3D Virtual Workplace. MPK20 (which includes Wonderland's 3D graphics engine and the the demo world) is available as open source and built...

We just uploaded a short video of Ben Barnes, HP's VP & GM of Business Intelligence. Here are some of the highlights of his presentation:...

At the digital marketing conference this morning, Wired Digital's general manager revealed that the site will adopt the Creative Commons license for its content in a couple weeks. "Our readers will be able to take our content, modify it and...

At the HP Business Intelligence meeting today, a journalist colleague mentioned that MySQL and IBM are about to announce a reselling deal. I don't have any more details than that, especially if it involves only Big Blue' services arm and/or...

This morning HP is hosting a "Business Intelligence Chalk Talk" for the media. There, Ben Barnes, the head of HP's Business Intelligence group, part of what he calls, the company's "new" (sic!) software group presented Neoview. The data-warehouse software is...

Today at the Four Seasons hotel in San Francisco, Salesforce.com CEO used a luncheon to launch an online content management service competing with Microsoft's Sharepoint, EMC's Documentum and the likes. "85% of business information is unstructured (i.e. documents, spreadsheets, videos...)....

This morning Dell hosted a media breakfast Q&A at the St Regis hotel in San Francisco with Jay Parker (left on the photo), who heads the PowerEdge server team, and Stori Waugh, the group's marketing manager. "We want to renew...

At the Conector Showcase this evening, Plantronics showed the CS70N, the second generation of its wireless office and contact centre headset range that now adds noise-canceling microphones. Nothing news really: the headset was announced at CEBIT last month. The new...

This evening I swinged by the Connector Showcase: a small forum organised by the Connector Group for companies to introduce/show their products and services to Silicon Valley’s elite. This time, eight companies were presenting: blinkx , iControl Pando , Pay...

After HP's yesterday gaming summit event I've asked the CTO of HP's PC group, Phil McKinney about his company's recent decision to can their Digital Entertainment Center (DEC), a living-room form factor Media Center PC (picture). Furthermore, there's also an...

Rahul Sood was tight lipped on HP's new gaming PCs his team is working on. The new mainstream machines will leverage some of the technologies developed at HP Labs and fill the gap between the high-end, "extremely personable" and...

At HP's gaming summit, Rahul Sood, founder of Voodoo and now CTO of HP's global gaming business, did not hesitate to compare the Palo Alto company's PC brands with the German automaker cars. Compaq is like Chrysler. We got Smart...

At Dogpatch Studios, a movie studio in San Francisco, HP unveiled it's strategy in the PC gaming area. "You might not now it, but we are the leading provider of workstations to game content developers and the leading provider of...

At the Autonomy media lunch held earlier today at the luxurious Campton Place in downtown San Francisco, I had a fairly long conversation with Debra Logan. Based in London, she's the Gartner vice president covering enterprise content management, knowledge management...

At the "Disruptive Zone" media breakfast, eAsic CEO explained how his company will help solve the "ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit)/ASSP (application-specific standard product) design start dilemma". "We are faced with this Darwinian struggle. While the demand for differentiated silicon is...

The organisers of the Embedded Systems Conference held a "Disruption Zone" media breakfast today to showcase some of the disruptive companies presented at the show. The 7 year old start-up TimeSys was one of them. "What we do is to...

At Parasoft's very intimate cocktail reception today, I talked to the company's chief strategist about the latest AJAX security alerts. For Wayne Ariola, it's nothing news. We keep hearing that AJAX increases the attack vectors with multiple different ways...