Next week, Hewlett-Packard’s PC division will host a product launch extravaganza in New York, featuring new desktop PCs, notebooks, handhelds, digital entertainment devices and new gaming products. The event will be held at Skylight Studios and is expected to...

At Sun Microsystems' event on emerging countries yesterday, Qualcomm's CIO did not shy away from criticising the current US immigration policy, that makes it hard to hire and keep foreign nationals. "It seems crazy to me that we allow people...

It's official now. Apple will be launching new iPods next Wednesday and we'll be at the Moscone West in San Francisco at 10AM sharp to report it on. My guesstimate is that the 6th generation full-sized iPods will finally...

At Sun Microsystems' summit on Emerging Countries (BRICA=Brasil, Russia, India, China, Africa) today, the company's Chief Privacy Officer, Michelle Dennedy admitted that although "the industry has failed in protecting the log-in process", *real* user privacy is achievable. However, for Dennedy,...

For Google's search goddess (aka Marissa Mayer), Google's Gadgets provide an opportunity to build a deeper relationship with the users, get more distribution (to many more websites) and most important of all [for advertisers], a new efficient/deeper way to...

I was this morning at the Churchill Club event with futurist Paul Saffo. His talk was about the art of forecasting the future in order to make better decisions in the present. For Saffo, the bottom line of good forecasting...

Last Friday, Intel hosted a launch event at San Francisco's Palace Hotel for the upgrade, code named "Waybridge", of its vPro technologies (virtualisation, security and remote administration): a platform for business desktop PCs that includes a CPU, a chipset,...

Google Sky is a new service launched last week that allows you to virtually tour the Cosmos in 3D and watch constellations, stars, galaxies and more, from any point on Earth. Google Sky was developed (and still in beta!)...

I just came back from a nice dinner hosted by Dell at Masa's, one of the fine restaurant in San Francisco. The goal was to set the stage for today's Intel press event launching the next-generation of vPro technology, code-named...

Summer is usually a slower period for Google. At least in terms of traffic and across all its online properties. Well, *except* this year, where for the very first time Google engineers saw a surge in traffic for the company's...

At her Search Engine Strategies session, Marissa Mayer was particularly lucid on how approximative Google's keyword auction is versus a CPA (Cost per Action) model, which she referred as the "holy" grail for targeted advertising. CPA is the amount an...

In an interview, on the sidelines of the Flash Memory Summit earlier this month, Sandisk CEO (pictured) confirmed that his company was not interested to ship a 16 GB MP3 player anytime soon. "16 GB is not going to be...

For Ask.com CEO, Jim Lanzone, collective search is more important than personalisation. A radical opposite view from its competitors, like Google and Yahoo, which are trying to push personalisation to its limits by "collecting" more and more personal information...

When I met Thomas Kroll (pictured), the CEO of Laplink, yesterday, it felt like I was "Back to the Future"! I haven't heard from Laplink since 2001 when, then CEO and founder, Mark Eppley launched PDASync at Demo Mobile....

On Tuesday, Adobe is shipping the beta of the new Flash "in-browser" player 9, code name Moviestar, with support of the H.264 video codec compression standard, the same used in Blu-ray systems, HD-DVD players and TV set-top boxes, plus...

I just talked this morning with Fred Knight, the general manager for VoiceCon. The 17th edition of the conference is starting this week in San Francisco. It focuses on the corporate buyers (Fortune 1000 companies, State or local governments,...

At the last Apple event, Steve Jobs' unveiled a completely new and redesigned iMovie. The creation of the new Apple movie editor started serendipituously ... at least according to Prophet Jobs who mentioned a "brilliant" Apple engineer who couldn't...

On the sidelines of the Flash Memory Summit today, I met with iFixIt CEO, Kyle Wien, to talk about his San Luis Obispo company (about 2 hours South of Silicon Valley).iFixIt helps consumers repair their own Apple laptops, iPods...

I thought, I'd take on Steve Jobs challenge, when last Monday while unveiling the new iMacs, the Apple chief suggested Apple's computers were not necessarily the pricier alternatives they are generally perceive to be. It took me a while to...

At the Flash Memory Summit today in Santa Clara, Sandisk CEO, Eli Harari, denied plans to set up a flash-memory-chip factory with South Korean Hynix Semiconductor. Contradicting an earlier report from the Wall Street Journal published last Monday and on...

At the Apple launch today, Steve Jobs showed Numbers, the company's new spreadsheet application and part of the iWork 08 office suite. Although Numbers does not support Excel macros (which I don't use anyway), it does a good enough job...

At the iMac launch today, I found Steve Jobs more aggressive than usual towards his PC competitors like Dell or HP. The most virulent comments of his diatribe I thought were: "There's some stuff in our industry that we wouldn't...