I was last night at HP's SmartHome in Cupertino where the PC division was hosting a pre-CES NDA briefing reception. Of course, I can't say anything about the new devices I've seen there but what I can say is...

One of the keynote speaker today at Dow Jones' Venturewire Consumer Tech conference today is no less than Nintendo America President, Reggie Fils-Aime himself. The other one is Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg! During the Q&A session, Fils-Aime predicted...

I was today at Dow Jones' Venturewire Consumer Tech conference at the revovated hotel Sofitel (I hate the "robinets") in Redwood Shores. Lots of interesting start-ups and keynoters like Nintendo America President Reggie FIls-Aime and Wall Street Journal star reporter,...

I'm now attending the Under the Radar conference focused on Mobility startups at Microsoft Campus in Mountain View. The morning sessions were focused on Publishing platforms, Search & Discovery, Messaging/Sharing and Voice Services. There I met with project manager,...

Oracle is not the only one having it's big show in San Francisco. Our colleagues at Ubergizmo are covering Om's NeeTeeVee conference on everything TV 2.0. This morning AT&T Group President Ralph de la Vega was on stage pushing...

Michael Dell and Sun's Jonathan Schwartz will be together on stage here at Oracle Open World in San Francisco to announce an historical partnership: the Texas-based company will resell and offer support for Sun's free/open-source operating system Solaris. Sun already...

At yesterday's launch event, Intel's manufacturing boss confirmed next Summer introduction of Nehalem, an architecture enhancement over Penryn which notably integrates a memory controller "a la" AMD Opteron. Holt also said Intel is on track to deliver the first 32-nm...

During his comments at yesterday's Penryn launch, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intel's Mobility Group, David Perlmutter, mentioned the upcoming 25 watts mobile Penryn chip targeting the 1 inch thick and below, mobile computers as well as a...

At the Intel Penryn launch in San Francisco's Ritz-Carlton hotel last night, Sr. VP of Technology and Manufacturing, William Holt, explained the "goodness" of moving to a 45-nm process (from 65-nm) and to hafnium-based High-k and Metal Gate transistors. The...

This is getting actually more fun than I thought i.e. keeping an eye on Silicon Valley's multi-millionnaires! So much that last week I've "preempt" the Merc by pointing out Apple's retail chief $129 million stock sale, although his net gain...

At the 6Sight Imaging conference in Monterey today, French legend Philippe Kahn unveiled his latest start-up after three years in stealth mode. Fullpower created a software that turns raw information gathered from sensors such as motion, imaging, proximity, ambient...

I wish I came up with this headline but the credit goes to Stephen Smith, an Intel VP that I saw at the Tech Museum Awards ceremony. Intel was actually very well represented there with the company's top management including...

Conference season in the Silicon Valley never stops, almost like sunshine or gasoline price increases! So here are some of the events will be attending this week: - Tuesday: We'll be heading to San Jose's convention centre for the...

$129.5 million and change... WOW!!! That's what Apple's retail store boss made last month in selling some of its stock. Enough to set up an Apple store at the Wynn hotel in Las Vegas! That would be the first and...

What a great way to spend the week-end: shopping for an external hard drive! And that's because we are running out of disk space to store all the videos we are producing. Currently attached to our Macs are a multitudes...

I met yesterday with Fake Steve Jobs a.k.a Forbes' senior editor Dan Lyons during his book signing event at Kepler's bookstore in Menlo Park. Lyons created his Fake Steve Jobs blog out of frustration, after Apple repeatedly refuse to answer...