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April 05, 2007

In the living room, HP shifting focus away from Media Center PCs to MediaSmart TVs and Apple TV look-alikes

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...

April 04, 2007

HP to launch new mainstream gaming PCs this year

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...

Comparing HewlettPackard to DaimlerChrysler... Rahul rules!

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...

HP to preserve the Voodoo DNA, says top strategist

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...

Gartner predicts Oracle to buy a search engine soon, blames Google's lacks of enterprise strategy

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...

[Embedded Systems Conference] eAsic platform to boost ASIC/ASSP innovation, cut development cost

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...

[Embedded Systems Conference] TimeSys' LinuxLink shrinks time of DIY embedded Linux projects up to 8 weeks

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...

April 03, 2007

[Embedded Systems Conference] AJAX security way over-blown, says Parasoft

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...