Our friends from the Nikkei's Silicon Valley office in Palo Alto bought the iPhone to try it out even if Apple's phone won't be available in Japan until next year. They actually queued since 10 on Friday morning to...

I knew Steve Jobs was coming to Palo Alto when I saw an Apple PR friend of mine (Hi, Kirstin!) who's usually there when he is! How lucky though, as he could have gone to Valley Fair in Cupertino...

We were this afternoon at the Apple store in Palo Alto, along with a couple hundred people, waiting in line to buy the iPhone. Surprisingly, this was much less than I expected. At least compared to game consoles launches for...

I'm sure you always wanted to know how HP really felt about people asking them questions... say... about pretexting, for example ;-) Well, according to HP VP Gonzalez this is exactly the kind of a "poor poor" question! But just...

So let's imagine for a second that Mobile TV takes off, which was the premise of last week's Churchill Club event. We'll receive TV and video content on our cell phone through Wi-Fi, the carriers' DVB-H/MediaFLO networks (broadcast) or...

At this week's "Sneak Peek" event, Logitech unveiled 2 high-definition (HD) Web cameras: one for desktops (the QuickCam 9000) and one for laptops (QuickCam Pro for notebooks). Both have an MSRP of $99.99 each but you can get them for...

In the US, Qualcomm is pushing hard to establish it's MediaFLO mobile TV network as the de-facto standard. The demo by MediaFLO's VP Product Development, Jason Kenagy was actually pretty lame: "let me show a short video"... the service...

So GoTV Networks believes the cell phone will be the next mega TV marker. The mobile TV provider creates and distributes video content on-demand television programming customised for the cell phone experience, across carriers like AT&T, Sprint Nextel, BoostMobile...

At the HP Tech Forum last week, product manager Brian Allen gave a quick rundown to HP's top enterprise customers of the upcoming 2710p business tablet PC....

At the Churchill Club event last week on the future of the Mobile TV market, Yoram Solomon (picture) demoed a cell phone that was playing a movie through a projector. However, Texas Instruments' marketing director of Mobile Connectivity Solutions...

Last week, friendly HP product manager Brian Allen explained the new naming for HP's 2007 line of commercial notebooks. The good news is that the Palo Alto company reduced its number of platforms from 9 to 3 this year:...

Today, at Logitech's "sneak peek" preview event in San Francisco, the Swiss company showed its latest line of notebook accessories announced last week in Europe, including 2 notebook stands, the Alto Connect ($80) and Alto Express ($30) as well as...

You wonder how an opportunist looks like? Well, look no further... we found one perfect example for you... Here's a short video of HP's VP of Americas for servers and storage sales, Mark Gonzalez... it's self-explanatory... no, I promise ;-)Tape...

This week at the Clift hotel in San Francisco, Logitech is presenting its Fall line up (under NDA) of keyboards, mouses, web cameras, universal remote control and audio products (speakers, iPod docking station, home system), Internet phone headsets and their...

So, I guess, the Itanium server chip is not dead after all. Well... actually HP is probably "the" sole reason why Intel has not shelved the moribund processor. The server company is slowly transitioning all its enterprise customers using...

At last week's HP Tech Forum, VP Americas of storage and servers sales, Mark Gonzalez, noted that this year, HP will recycle over a billion pounds of material. We've actually been to HP's recycling facility in Roseville, CA, this...

After Hitachi and Samsung, Seagate announces today their 3.5-inch 1 tera-byte Barracuda 7200.11 drive with a 105MB/s sustained transfer rate – the highest ever. The drive has a low power rating of 8 watts at idle and acoustics, as low...

During the last Dec to March fiscal quarter, prices of hard disk drive prices dropped over 10%, sparking an industry-wide panic. "It was the worst price drop we've seen in our history", said Bill Watkins, Seagate CEO. So who...

I spoke today with product manager Brian Allen about the latest HP tablet PC scheduled to ship next month and did a short video (after the jump). "The HP Compaq 2710p is using the upcoming Intel's low-voltage processor and...

According to McAfee research lab, phishing is on the rise with a 784% increase in web sites in the first quarter of 2007. Durning the presentation of this morning, we had a very instructive demo that showed how a password...

I guess that after the expected titanesque market failure of the PS3 game console, some heads at Sony had to roll. Unfortunately, Kutaragi's public apologies earlier this year did not suffice to save his. The real surprise is the quick...

I thought I'll squash a rumour once and for all about Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, not having an iPhone. He actually does have one that he showed me during Apple developer's conference last week in San Francisco. The phone...

So Sun is the last poney in the race for speedy servers' chips, HP and IBM being way ahead. Well at least that's how HP sees it! "Nobody thinks that SPARC is any good performance-wise. So the only comparison we...

Old habits tend to die hard! And here's an interesting one... The dying PA-RISC business is still big business for HP. Even today, revenue wise, the old 9000 series are pretty much on par with the latest Itanium Integrity servers....

I'm here in Las Vegas for a few days attending HP's Technology Forum where the company and its partners show off to about 7,000+ attendees (inluding HP employees) their latest enterprise solutions. The conference is also HP's largest ever...

Apple came out today with new specs on the iPhone: longer battery life (8 hours of talk time vs 5 hours initially, 250 hours of standby time) and an optical screen surface vs plastic. Compare this with the 3...

In October 2000, with no money, worse with $60K in debts and a prospect of paying $100,000 a month just for bandwidth, the founders of HotorNot.com were about to give up. But they gave it a last shot. Got a...

Karen Northup reached the "top of her career" at age 26 after being CFOs at companies like Scout Media, Equitex, Telesuite, Rivals.com and Telocity (now directv). The big question after that is what to do next? Start a new venture,...

So now Apple chief is going after the Firefox browser/open source community with it's minimalist Safari browser. I just can't think of a reason why a Mac user will use it, so even less a Windows one! Quickly after receiving...

One of the critical component in lowering the power consumption of a computer is the power supply, insists Lakshmi Mandyam. According to ColdWatt's marketing director, the company's power supplies already exceeds the 2008 level set at 90% efficiency per power...

"People forget that we are actually a pretty young company. And for example, although our internal energy programme goes back 5-7 years, the company's focus on this problem is only about 2-2.5 years old. And until recently our organisation wasn't...

For the first time, Google showed some current design of custom power supplies used in their server farms. The search company has a team of hardware engineers dedicated to the design of motherboards and other electronic components that go into...

Bill Weihl (photo) and a couple of other people work on understanding and managing Google's carbon footprint, working on renewable energy and energy efficiency. "Employees incentives for high mileage cars are very important actually, and can have an impact...

Just after the end of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative conference at the Googleplex, I've talked with Microsoft VP of "Special Projects", Michael Rawding, about what the company in Redmond is doing to reduce carbon emissions, etc. And so...

Google and Intel programme was inspired by an existing WWF's Climate Savers, that started in 1999 on the challenge to reduce green gas emissions and fighting climate change through measurable specific commitments to reduce participating companies own carbon footprint. "We...

So Apple opened up the iPhone to developers? Well... not really. At least, not for MAC developers! Sad, isn't it, especially as they are reaching the million mark, according to Steve Jobs yesterday. However, the fact that AJAX apps, running...

So now Steve Jobs wants to eat FireFox for breakfast with a Windows version of Safari, Apple's own web browser. Well, that's an interesting thought at least in Steve Jobs' distorted reality.. which I obviously do not subscribe... and that's...

Not much news about Leopard, Apple's next version of the Mac OS X operating system. During his keynote, Steve Jobs talked about 10 out of the 300+ new features. You'll find more details on Apple's web site on Leopard, here...

At Apple's developer confab today in San Francisco, Phil Schiller decided to pick on Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO. Apple's vice-president of marketing was demonstrating the Photo Booth effect feature in Apple's instant messenging application, iChat, that allows you to choose...

I've arrived this morning at San Francisco's Moscone West where Apple is hosting it's annual World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) along with several other thousands Apple developers/fans. We are all waiting for Sir Jobs to deliver his keynote and enlighten...

Here are some advice Ray Wu of HP 's New Business Ventures shared at SDForum's event on corporate venture investment, for entrepreneurs wanting to get funded by his group. - obviously, you'll have to go through him or his partners....

According to Steve Bengston, who runs the Emerging Company Services group at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and who I met at an SDForum event about the role of corporate venture capital in the tech ecosystem, China will catch up the US in VC...

Google's online payment service, Google Checkout, looks more and more like a deadly rival to eBay's Paypal... so we learned, after chatting with Patrick Chanezon, a Google API evangelist, at yesterday's Salesforce.com/Google event. Google Checkout and AdWords: a virtuous...

Apparently not today... but maybe?! Yesterday, Salesforce.com's CEO Marc Benioff squashed once and for all, any rumours that his company is currently seeking an alliance, a-la Google, with Big brother Microsoft... It would have been funny though ;-)...

During the Q&A session at the Salesforce/Google event yesterday in San Francisco, Google's vice president of global online sales and operations, Sheryl Sandberg was on the spotlight regarding how Google is tracking users behaviour using AdWords. So if you...

Well, after all the rumours about Google taking over Salesforce, which to me was smartly instrumented by the willing "acquiree" (and certainly not by the unwilling acquirer), the reality... well... fell short off the clift! The announcement today at...

A bit of nostalgia here. During his presentation yesterday at the Computer History Museum event on Former Apple Industrial Designers, Robert Brunner was quite prolific about his former employee and the current "iconic" Apple designer, at the origin of the...

I have been using LapWorks' laptop desk 2.0 since last January's MacWorld and now I find hard to separate it from my MacBook, especially in bed! The laptop desk has two "modes": desk and laptop. The video also shows the...

At Google's developer day last week, we talked to VP of engineering Jeff Huber and product manager Sundar Pichai about Google Gears. With this browser extension, Google aims to add offline capabilities to all the world's Web 2.0/AJAX applications,...

At the Google roundtable yesterday, we asked Google's head of its developer program, Bret Taylor (photo of him cooking?), if there was any restrictions for commercial mashups to using Google's APIs. Apparently... not at all :-) "For most of our...