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July 28, 2007

AMD: Apple helps ending Intel's lock on PC industry (video)

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...

July 27, 2007

PC industry hooked on Intel's drug money, says AMD exec (video)

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...

July 26, 2007

AMD unveils 3GHz Phenom desktop quad core (video)

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...

July 25, 2007

Cisco kills Linksys brand, plans agressive move into consumer markets (video)

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...

July 24, 2007

China Inc., closest competitor, says Cisco CEO (video)

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...

July 23, 2007

New "Cisco Live!" conference attracts 10K: still technical but a lot more business focus

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...

July 22, 2007

Belkin iPod FM transmitter: tells you which FM channel to turn to (video)

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...