Over a thousand Google developers showed up at the search engine's Developer conference held today at the San Jose convention centre. At first, it was planned to be hosted at the Googleplex in Mountain View, but surprised by the flood...

We were today at Google's Developer Day held at the San Jose Convention Centre and attended by over 1,000 developers. There were 9 other such Developer Days around the world, in Americas (North and South), Asia, Australia and Europe, which...

Steve Jobs proudly announced yesterday at the D conference that Apple TV users will soon, in June, be able to watch YouTube videos on their TVs. But they'll have to wait until Fall to access all of YouTube's catalog. Firstly,...

Palm has just released a Linux-based 2.5lbs "mobile companion" called Foleo. It is capable of running basic productivity applications such as email, web browser, word processing and so on... It is an "instant-on" (no boot) device with a full keyboard,...

Today was my first lunch i.e. as in lunch 2.0. I guess I was a virgin so far, just having regular "power lunches"... now I've seen the light! On the menu (it's important for a Frenchman!) for the 100 or...

At the Where 2.0 conference here in San Jose, Where (a product from uLocate) showed their widget platform enabling developers to rapidly create location-based widgets for GPS-enabled cell phones. At this point, the Where widget-browser only works with 18...

With its new ultra-fast video server, Sun plans to revolutionise the IP TV world and by the same token, put Blockbuster and Netflix out of business, said Andy Bechtolsheim, Sun's co-founder and Google's early investor. Subscribers to service providers,...

Our visit ended with a private tour of the museum side of Classic Centre, with detailed explanations of some the most gorgeous classic vehicules the Centre has in stock. I've also posted all the pictures I've taken during the...

Recentely, I visited Mercedes-Benz' Classic Center in Irvine, California, during a tour organised by the US State Department for the Foreign Press. As its manager, Mike Kunz, explained in the video, the 28,000-square-foot "garage" is both a museum, with...

Well isn't that a nice thought? According to Dell, if all the 400 million PCs and notebooks in the world would consume 30% less energy, the 56 billion kWh saved would be enough to power Switzerland for a year....

I was this morning at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View to see Condie Rice taking a fast and furious ride (up to 160 MPH) on board of the all-electric Tesla Roadster. There will be more than 400 of...

"You missed the point", told me Nvidia's Kevin Krewell yesterday at MPF Spring, about my coverage of ATI 's Radeon HD 2000 graphics chips launch two weeks ago. And he's absolutely right. Mea Culpa. Indeed, during AMD's head of the...

At MPF today, Nvidia presented it's CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) programming model that let programs written in C language to take advantage of the power of Nvidia's latest Series 8 graphics chip family. The goal is to use the...

This morning I received a response from AMD on the 16 cores Barcelona system lackluster performance versus Intel's Clovertown V8 machine (8 cores) running the same POV-Ray benchmark. I'm still not convinced and until we actually can see/try out the...

At the Microprocessor Forum, Intel demoed its V8 workstation running the POV-Ray benchmark. The machine is equipped with Intel's Workstation Board S5000XVN, 2 quad-core Xeons 5365, clocked at 3GHz and 16GB RAM. And the results are simply impressive: Intel scored...

Day 1 of the Microprocessor Forum is now over. Well... I'll be heading to the Expo for some "refreshments"! My overall sentiment, as I know you care? Way too much of Intel in the morning: a keynote from Intel fellow...

Here is a short summary of Objective Analysis' analyst Jim Handy report on Intel and STMicroelectronics joint-venture deal in the flash memory space. What this deal means for the Flash memory Industry Spansion pulled ahead of Intel into a leading...

I had a chance to chat with Hideaki Ishihara, a senior manager at Japanese auto supplier Denso, after his (boring, I must say) keynote on automotive electronics. Denso is the world's second largest automobile parts maker behind Stuttgart, Germany-based, Bosch...

I just got off the phone with Spansion's marketing and sales chief Tom Eby who was more than happy to share his thoughts on today's Intel/ST Microelectronics announcement of combining their respective NOR flash memory divisions. Spansion competes with...

AMD execs closed yesterday's Barcelona "update" meeting with some interesting comments:...

At the same AMD press update, director of manufacturing technology Tom Sonderman hit on several myths that are circulating around AMD's capacity to ship its quad core Barcelona chip in volume to OEMs on time (this summer) and on the...

This morning AMD held a press briefing at the unassuming Clift hotel in San Francisco (cheaper than the "W" hotel where the company used to held such meetings... cost cuttings I guess) about its upcoming Barcelona processor. Despite rumours, AMD...

During our conversation last Friday with Dell's desktop product manager Ketan Pandya on the upcoming XPS 720 H2C, we had a question on how Dell's XPS and Alienware gaming systems are competing with one another. Here's what he had to...

OK. This was just a mock up, but Dell CTO Kevin Kettler promised yesterday that this "clean and sleek display" will be available later this year. The monitor has I/Os and speakers integrated into the display itself and a...

Just got off the call with Dell's desktop marketing manager, Ketan Pandya, who gave me the low down on the next iteration of Dell's XPS family of "extreme" PCs, the XPS 720 H2C available next week. The H2C moniker...

There's no more doubt Dell is going retail for its consumer PC business and indirect/through the VAR channel for the enterprise products (about 85% of Dell's business). Today, Dell CTO Kevin Kettler confirmed what Michael Dell said Monday on...

Big on superlatives but short on details... that's how I will sum up this morning's meeting with Dell's CTO Kevin Kettler and Jay Parker, director of the company's PowerEdge servers. So after many questions from dubitative fellow journalists, here's...

Google Video as we know it is dying slowly but surely... i.e. as a video store a la iTunes where you can buy copyrighted content like TV shows... Well... I guess the writing was in wall since Google acquired YouTube...

During the Q&A session at the end of the event, I've asked Google co-founder Sergey Brin (who just came back from a bicycle ride) a question about some of the changes that occured over time in the company's innovation process...

As expected the event really kicked off when Google VP of Search Products & User Experience Marissa Mayer came on stage. Her presentation was the most noteworthy of Google's Searchology event... definitely worth waiting for and suffering through the previous...

Udi Manber, Google’s VP Engineering, announced at the Searchology event that Google will soon launch a cross language search. Users will be able to search a word in their own language and get results in another one. They are currently...

Here's the link to watch the live webcast of Google's Search Day that's happening now at the company's GooglePlex. Will post a "best of" of the event here. Really sad to miss the opening night at Cannes though ;-) You...

I know it's everywhere and I was just told about it by a friend last night... now you can have a pretty good idea of my interest in the life of the Rich & Famous! Anyway, here's an excerpt of...

Stephen di Franco, AMD's corporate VP of Consumer Sales and Marketing reveals that "honey" was the most difficult thing to animate in the upcoming Bee Movie produced and written by comedian Jerry Seinfeld and presented by DreamWorks Animation S.K.G....

Last Friday, at a press conference in San Francisco, ATI announced 10 new graphics chips under the Radeon HD 2000 family moniker: 5 for desktops, 5 for laptops. Most of the chips will ship in the June time frame...

Believe it or not but the latest Centrino plateform will not support DirectX 10... at least not at launch. "Although the majority of the hardware stuff is already there [to support DirectX 10], we are not going to introduce it...

At the "Santa Rosa" (Intel's latest notebook plateform unveiled last March) press conference here in San Francisco, I had confirmation of upcoming fanless notebooks... and perhaps HP/Voodoo will not be alone in this (can't say the other OEMs just right...

Daily, feeds from website Techmeme (pronounce it tech-meem) find there way to my Google RSS reader. I useTechmeme as I would Google News (to which I also subscribe), although it seems it has a better coverage of the blogosphere. Prior...

This is an exerpt of our dialogue with EMC's CTO Jeff Nick about innovation, and how it can still happen inside a large corporation and the challenges to stay agile and nimble inspite layers of coordination and management it requires...

So now we know (at least we think we have a pretty good idea) what Voodoo co-founder Rahul Sood (in the picture), and now CTO for HP's Gaming Business, is working on so hard for the past few months...

Kara Swisher confirmed the presence of Philippe Dauman, Viacom's chief, at the upcoming D: All Things Digital conference she co-produces with Wall Street Journal's columnist Walt Mossberg. "We had in fact the head of Viacom called us for our...

Just after the panel on "Can copyright and DRM be Fair and Balanced" [i think not personally!], I chatted with Fenwick & West's copyright litigation group attorney about the Viacom vs Google/YouTube case. Laurence Pulgram predicted that both sides...

Things were heating up a bit at last night's OnHollywood Conference intro panel here in... Hollywood (where else!)... .. no names calling but we came close... really close... thanks to spirited Michael Robertson, founder of MP3.com, Lindows/Linspire, SIPphone, MP3tunes,...