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November 15, 2007

Under The Radar Conference Tracks Mobile Start-Ups

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,...

November 14, 2007

AT&T Brings IPTV To ALL 3 Screens, All Audiences

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...

Dell To Make Money On Solaris, Leaves Sun Naked!

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...

November 13, 2007

Intel On Track With Nehalem and 32-nm Successor, Westmere (video)

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...

Intel To Launch 25 Watts Penryn For 1" Ultra Thin Laptops (video)

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...

Intel Manufacturing Boss Warns of Competitors "Less Performance Minded Technology" (video)

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...

November 11, 2007

Last Week's Über Silicon Valley Insider Trader: Intel's Chief Administration Officer For $22.7 million

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...