At last week's Networkers conference, John Chambers told a group of EU reporters (well... there was one Japanese journalist in Cisco's EU roundtable... what's wrong with that?) his enterprise is the only "real" Web 2.0 company... in the whole world...

According to Henri Richard, AMD's sales and marketing chief, Apple's entry in the x86 market space is responsible for the sea change in the PC industry as they were not "obliged to bastardise their brand", as all the other PC...

After Japan's decision to punish Intel for unfair competition, it's now Europe's turn to accuse the chip maker of infringing the EC Treaty rules on abuse of a dominant position by excluding AMD, from the x86 market. This is obviously...

Since early this morning I'm attending AMD's Analyst day at the company's headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA. So far I was surprised by Rick Bergman's (the graphics guy in the picture!) demo of a PC with a 3GHz Phenom desktop...

In a roundtable with the European press, John Chambers confirmed the "end of life" of the Linksys name, being replaced by the new and redesigned Cisco branding. This decision follows Cisco's move last April to make it easier for...

Inspite what Cisco's CEO says, on him not being focus on what his competition does, John Chambers sees "China Inc." as the closest rival to his company model. The San Jose company seems not to worry about the new...

I just arrived at Cisco's Networkers user/partner conference. The San Jose company is expecting 10,000 attendees, making this event the largest single networking vendor conference... and second only to Interop which gathered 20,000 last May in Las Vegas. But...

This Fall, Belkin will be shipping it's next generation FM transmitter for iPods. It'll be the smallest the California maker released so far and includes the "ClearScan" feature that tells what is the best and clearest FM station to...

At chic Vessel night club in San Francisco, network and accessory maker Belkin showed last night it’s latest line up of networking devices and accessories. I really liked the new N1 Vision Wi-Fi router (802.11n draft MIMO) featuring a...

Not much to say on this $130 SD card apart from the really cool design: the USB connector is actually embedded/hidden on the card itself, making a card reader obsolete. Again, the SD Plus card is the fastest offered by...

Despite the quite unique design, the Sandisk Extreme Ducati edition 4GB USB flash drive was a disappointment both performance and price-wise. Indeed at $125 you would expect more of this Ducati drive than the advertised 20 megabytes per second (MB/s)...

Believe it or not, at least for the ones, like me, who are not totally familiar with motorcycle racing, the Ducati race team dubbed Ducati Corse is a very small one compared to the "Japanese" like Honda or Yamaha. Inspite...

What a great line up!!!! I'm talking of course of Sandisk's "best in class" Extreme Ducati edition line of memory cards and USB flash drive. Frankly I was a bit surprised (but definitely not shocked!) of this very sexy...

If Senator John McCain gets elected President next year, forget about being close to Russia... that is, unless there's a regime change there: Putin is supposed to leave office at the same time as Bush... unless he unilaterally decides to...

In his "unprepared" or "spontaneous", whatever your mood is, remarks today for the launch of his company Ducati line, Sandisk CEO, Eli Harari had an interesting, to say the least, analogy of today's consumer electronics marketplace with Italy's Renaissance era....

At the iHollywood Forum conference, CEO Colleen Nystedt presented her latest company, MovieSet, that puts "behind the scene footage of movies" on the Web. She hopes her new site will attract fans of blockbuster movies interested in live on-set videos,...

At a somptuous event (we'll have more photos and videos coming) in its Silicon Valley headquarters, Sandisk unveiled a new line of Ducati branded memory products, including a sleek USB Flash drive that ressembles the red chassis of a...

Newly appointed 60Frames Entertainment CEO, Brent Weinstein, was present today at iHollywwod Forum's VCDemo event in Mountain View. 60Frames Entertainment is a new company that provides financing to professional artists to produce initially short-form comedies on the Web. The...

For Senator McCain, the U.S. Government "out of control" spending spree was the main reason for the Republican party loss of the 2006 elections! "We presided on the largest increase in size of the government since the Great Society......

Today, Senator John McCain came to Silicon Valley for a town hall luncheon meeting hosted by the Churchill Club at Santa Clara's Marriott hotel. The Presidential hopeful started his remarks on climate change quoting Tony Blair and sees the...

Yesterday, Logitech unveiled it's wireless MX Air dubbed the "Air Mouse". It's a sleek rechargeable laser mouse that, when you pick it up turns off the laser sensor and uses the dual embedded MEMs gyroscopes inside it to detect angular...

At the Vostro launch earlier this week in San Francisco, Dell showed a $299 desktop colour laser printer it claims outperforms competing printers from HP and Samsung (the 300 series). "Samsung's 300 series printer uses a caroussel or a multi-path...

At yesterday's press launch of Dell's new line of PCs for small businesses (25 or less) in San Francisco, the company execs confirmed that they will not rule out shipping the Vostro PCs with Linux. A similar answer before their...

After the initial "rush" to cover the iPhone launch at Apple's Palo Alto store, the UberPulse team had a chance to play with the phone. Here are our first impressions one the device: We liked: - the beautiful design/screen;...

At the iPhone launch, inside the Apple stores felt a little bit like Las Vegas casinos! Money, credit cards and cash, are flowing to Apple registers like... water, hot cakes... pick your own! But the most amazing is that shoppers...

This is was the $600 question to San Francisco programmer Leah Culver... but I'm sure she'll find a good way to amortise her investment... perhaps hacking the phone and create some cool un-authorised apps, to start with... and perhaps...

This lady at the Palo Alto store brought cash to pay for her iPhone... hope that was not the month's rent ;-)...

It was quite fun to see how the Apple staff "managed" the media crowd, both the "broadcasts"/TVs, the "stills"/photographers and the rest of us (video bloggers and traditional pen-based reporters!). We were lucky to get in with the "stills"....

This is another look, this time from outside the Palo Alto Apple store, of Steve Jobs talking to some of his old co-workers/friends of the first Macintosh era....

Hooray! The first customers in line are now out the Palo Alto Apple store door... Patrick of course... his dad Robert Scobble and San Francisco programmer Leah Culver (picture)....

So here we are... the final countdown... think of it as the New Year countdown but in the middle of Summer! Well, now is the moment that hundreds of Apple fans in Palo Alto were waiting for... and for...

The weather in Palo Alto is warm and nice... but in front of the Apple store, it's really really hot... And just to kick up the adrenaline a notch two Apple store staff decided to face the crowd to...

Early customers are getting themselves ready for the "grand" opening. The small space near the store entrance was so crowded with media people (TV, newspaper and bloggers) and, which is funny enough to be mentioned, the chair and pouch...

It's Friday afternoon (June 29th, 2007) and there are about 150-200 people waiting in line outside Apple's Palo Alto store. Not much considering all the hype though....