Here are some of the events in our calendar, coming up this week:- Monday: AMD will be launching version 2.0 of their virtual expo this Tue. I'll be chatting with them ahead of time to see what's new. - Tuesday:...

I was yesterday at Seagate's CEO, Bill Watkins, gorgeous beach "mansion" in Aptos, for the company's second "Annual Media Dinner". As usual the who's who of the media tech/business world showed up including the WSJ, the Financial Times, TheStreet.com, the...

Early this morning (7AM PDT!), I received this Stalinian I-never-heard-of-the-freedom-of-the-press email from Adobe pointing that US-based correspondents were not welcome to attend its Max conference held next week in Chicago. The lame excuse behind that "retrograde" decision is... well... just...

I was shocked Chris Shipley actually selected Ncursion to participate at DEMOfall. As they say... where's the beef? And in Ncursion case: where's the innovation? The start-up presented MyGladiator, an online video game for the Facebook platform with a "faux-air"...

The morning session went by quickly. A good thing actually as I found only two companies, out of the 18 presenting, that really picked my curiosity: Splash from Digital Fountain and FixMyMovie from MotionDSP. Both start-ups are in the...

Demo's executive producer Chris Shipley started this year's programme by saying that DEMOfall 07 is about "everything 2.0". I guess that in the current Web 2.0 craze, it's an easy enough notion to grasp that anyone can pretend they...

Another busy week! Later this afternoon, I'll be flying to San Diego to attend DEMOfall's 2007 welcoming reception as well as the media dinner organised by PR Goddess Renee Blodgett. About 70 companies are expected to attend this year's DEMOfall...

In the last part of our conversation at last year's VMworld, I asked VMware CEO about her views on how women are perceived in high-tech companies and if she felt any gender bias in her career. A year earlier...

At VMworld yesterday, Cisco launched a version of their server provisioning platform compatible with VMWare's ESX hypervisor. What VFrame Data Centre does is that it configures remotely and dynamically a bare-metal server with images of OSes (Windows, Linux and now...

I left the VMworld party early to watch/listen Don Clark of the Wall Street Journal and his band "Off the Record" at the Rockit Room bar in San Francisco. The concert was hosted by PR firm Voce Communications to...

Lots of people, food, alcohol, music and fun at last night's VMworld party hosted at Treasure Island, just across San Francisco. The weather was nice so you could enjoy the outside concert, food and games. Inside one of the...

At his Q&A session, right after the public presentation of his company new storage offering for the mid-market, Michael Dell stressed that his company was only one in the technology space, in the last 5 or 6 years, to actually...

So the VESO (pictured) is a two-sockets virtualisation optimised server, available in November. Dell believes that a 2 sockets server is the appropriate "envelope" for virtualisation because with quad-core processors "you don't really need more processors". Veso will also...

CEO Hector Ruiz attracted a nice crowd for AMD's Barcelona red carpet launch event at Lucasfilm San Francisco campus, including Diane Greene (VMWare CEO), Jonathan Schwartz (Sun CEO), Mark Jarvis (Dell CMO) and Star Wars Producer, Rick McCallum....

If virtualisation is your world then you can't miss VMworld. The largest conference/tradeshow on computer virtualisation is happening this week in San Francisco and gather more than 10,000 "techies" (not much suits but they are coming!). I thought I'll...

After the lengthy and "boring" presentation of Dell's new storage area network device aimed at smaller businesses, I sat down with Darren Thomas, the general manager and vice president of storage at Dell. Thomas questioned HP's commitment to that space...

Inspite of mounting financial pressure and the loss of several key executives, AMD will host a sumptuous party next Monday at the Letterman Digital Arts Center Theater located on Lucasfilm's Presidio campus in San Francisco. This will be the official...

TGIF... Time for a little break after a week fueled by announcements from Apple, Seagate, Intel and HP! Half-Italian, half-Korean, Lucia is both a classical violinist and a fan of "rock 'n roll". She was on stage for the "After...

Prior to the big show, I spoke with Todd Bradley (pictured), the general manager of HP's PC division to discuss some of the current issues including: the need for HP to increase its direct sales channel, the favourable components pricing...

So what's wrong with my white MacBook? Well... it looked quite dull compared to the laptop skins presented at last night show hosted by HP (and not the models holding 'em) and created by such design legends as Vladimir Kagan,...

What a show! Surrounded by top models (Petra was there!), tennis player Serena Williams and more (check video here), it was hard to get through the various stations where HP was presenting its new handhelds, PCs and workstations. But...

The "Avengers" is so last century... now, at least for this week!, let's make room for the... "Achievers". Like tennis champion Serena Williams and supermodel Petra Nemcova (pictured), as well as snowboarder and skateboarder Shaun White and the Orange County...