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June 21, 2007

Disk drive makers are just nuts, complains Seagate CEO

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...

June 20, 2007

HP's 5th generation tablet PC to ship in July (video)

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...

June 19, 2007

McAfee Avert Labs Day: the new trends of Internet security

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...

The father of the PlayStation quits... sayonara Ken!

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...

Stop the rumours: Google CEO has an iPhone... I saw it!

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...

[HP Technology Forum] The fact that customers still buy SPARC shows that performance must not matter, says HP

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...

[HP Technology Forum] Large enterprise customers are still buying "end-of-life" PA-RISC servers... just because it's easier!

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....

June 18, 2007

[HP Technology Forum] Dell upcoming blades are pale knock-offs, says HP exec

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's iPhone blows away the LG Prada

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...