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,...