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May 18, 2007

Dell CTO unveils ultra-thin LCD monitor, available by year-end

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...

XPS 720 H2C: Dell's ultimate gaming machine

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...

May 17, 2007

Going retail is part of Dell 2.0 strategy, says CTO Kevin Kettler

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...

Dell's Project Hybrid: half vapor, half blades

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...

[SCOOP] Google to kill Google Video for YouTube

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...

May 16, 2007

[Searchology] A letter to Elise... Ackerman of the Mercury News: speak for yourself!

It took me awhile to decide to post this diatribe about the lack of professionalism of a fellow journalist. But I think this can not go untold for it must not repeat itself. Of course, mistakes can happen but...

[Searchology] Chaos is cool, says Google co-founder

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...

[Searchology] Google Search becomes Universal

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...

[Searchology] Google looks at cross-language search

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...

[Searchology] Google reflects on the past and present of Search... boring!

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...

May 15, 2007

[Searchology] Google co-founder married!

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...

May 14, 2007

Phenom: AMD's quad-core processor

May 13, 2007

Honey: hardest thing to animate in Jerry Seinfeld's Bee Movie

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....

The Perfect 10: ATI's latest high-end graphics chips with DirectX 10 support

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...