During the Microsoft press event lunch break, I wandered at the company's employee store and was like in "software heaven". Well, if only I needed some Microsoft software of hardware for my Mac :-) Check it out for yourself....

I arrived around midnight this morning in Redmond, WA (my Alaska Airlines flight was nearly 2 hours late!) to attend a Microsoft press briefing focused on the company's top business priorities and share its Software + Services strategy and...

For those who think that Scott McNealy (pictured) is out of the daily busy business life since he resigned his CEO position at Sun Microsystems, almost 2 years ago and after 22 years on the job .. well... think...

In a Q&A session at the Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium in Las Vegas, Apple COO Tim Cook gave an update on Apple's future plans for the Mac, iPhone and iPod businesses as well as Jobs' "hobby", the Apple...

We just received this morning an invite from Apple to attend an event next week to learn about the "iPhone software roadmap, including the iPhone SDK and some exciting new enterprise features". The event will be held next Thursday...

Last night, I attended the International Press Club dinner hosted by MySpace at San Francisco French restaurant Frisson. Food was good and conversations were even better! MySpace was of course well represented, with CEO Chris DeWolfe, VP of Strategy...

At the end of yesterday's Adobe event, CTO Kevin Lynch engaged (apologies for the pun!) in an open Q&A session where he covered various issues and trends including his views on the competitive landscape, open source, Sun's JavaFX platform,...

So here you have it, another misconception finally cleared. First, AIR is not a bus and according to Kevin Lynch, Adobe's CTO, Microsoft Silverlight is not a competitor to AIR either, but rather to Flash. I know the, the...

At Adobe's Engage, I tried to get Salesforce.com CEO, Marc Benioff, to talk about some business issues during his Q&A, but to no avail. Questions like: does he still feels optimistic for his company's financial call coming up on...

AIR has launched, so what's next? In his presentation this morning Adobe's new CTO, Kevin Lynch actually shared some ideas/trends that he thinks are coming up. One of the idea that I thought was quite interesting was the shift...

For Adobe CEO, Shantanu Narayan, AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) is the 25 years old company 4th platform, after Postscript, PDF and Flash. "But what's most exciting about AIR frankly is that the more that gets unleashed, the creativity of...

I'm here this morning at Dogpatch Studios in San Francisco for Adobe's Engage event... the official launch event for AIR, the company's new runtime that runs Web/Flash applications offline on Windows, Mac and Linux. AIR 1.0 launched today. You...

Tim Draper, a prominent Silicon Valley VC, was on a mission this morning during his panel about Silicon Valley's future at Joint Venture's State of the Valley. With him on the panel was also San Jose mayor, Chuck Reed....

This morning I'm attending Joint Venture's State of the Valley annual “town meeting” in downtown San Jose. I'll be attending most of the session and particularly the Silicon Valley Index, a good indicator of Silicon Valley's economy strength and...

Remember S3 Graphics, makers of graphics chips (GPUs)? No? Well, it may seem hard to believe now, but over 10 years ago, S3 was the market leader for 2D-only GPUs. But then lost market dominance to ATI and nVidia...

During my tour of duty at GDC, I've stopped today to see my friends at Intel. Dan Snyder, George Alfs and of course Sr. performance analyst François Piednoël (pictured) were all at the booth to show off Skulltrail, Intel's...

Today I talked with David Geller (pictured), co-founder of EyeJot about a version of the startup's Flash-based 1-to-1 video email service for small and medium businesses (SMBs), as well as the very competitive landscape and more. EyeJot is a...

We're surely living in a very interesting era. I just finished a Skype video interview with VIA's marketing vice-president, Richard Brown (pictured holding the latest Isaiah processor, increasing current C7-M processor performance by 2-4 times for the same low...

Sun just announced this week the acquisition of German desktop virtualisation company, Innotek. At Sun's Global Media Summit, I asked Sun Executive VP of software, Rich Green, to explain how Innotek's Virtualbox is different from the other "type 2"...

If there's one thing to remember of my meeting today with the folks at Seagate's Recovery Services is, to BACKUP our data! Obviously, it's not the first (and the last) time you hear a hard disk drive company recommend...

Privacy and Start-ups were the highlights for this last day of Sun's global media summit. On the privacy front, I met again with Michelle Dennedy, Sun's Chief Privacy Officer or CPO. Contrary to some companies, where both roles of...

On Monday, Yahoo rejected Microsoft buyout offer of $31 a share for being too low. So what would be the right price for the Internet portal? $35, $40, $50? Well for Sun CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, the magic number for...

During the Q&A sessions at Sun Microsystems' Global Media Summit, CEO Jonathan Schwartz shed a light on the *arduous* process of acquiring open source database company MySQL for $1 billion. Schwartz said he offered to acquire MySQL 5 years...

This morning, Sun CEO, Jonathan Schwartz (pictured) is kicking off his company's Global Media Summit hosted at its Menlo Park campus. Although one would think that with the economy slowing down, the first thing companies would do is to...

Autodesk CEO Carl Bass (pictured) kicked off his company's Press Day event today with a little joke... a way to get everybody in the right mood before a long CAD day! Bass was remembering the worst day of his...

Today, Silicon Valley blog TechCrunch is reporting that dating web site HotOrNot has been sold to Canadian company Avid Life Media, "a network of targeted niche brands with highly engaged users", for around $20M. According to Markus Frind, CEO...

This week, two large Silicon Valley companies, Autodesk and Sun Microsystems, are hosting their "Media Days". Expect live and after the fact coverage for both events. - Tuesday: Autodesk's executive management, including CEO Carl Bass and CTO Jeff Kowalski, will...

At this week's DesignCon panel on the future of the semiconductor/electronics industry, the "esteem" group of industry panelists, including executives from Cadence, ARM, AMD and HP, the consensus was that the slower growth is proof that the industry is...

So what's going on with Moore's Law, which states that transistor density on integrated circuits doubles every 18 months? For Gordon Moore, as in... Moore's law... we have another 10 to 20 years before we reach a fundamental limit....

At the DesignCon conference today, I've attended the Text 100 sponsored panel on the "Future of the Electronics Industry” with representatives from AMD, ARM, Cadence, HP and The MathWorks and moderated by Gartner’s Research vice-president, Bryan Lewis (pictured). In...

WooMe kept up the momentum after launching (check out our video) at Techcrunch40 last September and their European investors responded by giving them more money! "We're on the same pace Facebook was after 3 months. Not to say that...

If you're the CEO of a "hot" consumer Web 2.0 start-up, your next move is to relocate to Silicon Valley! At least that's according to 2 experts in this area: Metacafe CEO, Eyal Hertzog, and Danny Cohen, a partner...

It just doesn't seem to stop in Silicon Valley. January went by so fast that I almost missed having the traditional French "galette des Rois". Luckily, the last evening of the month, my wife surprised me with one... Ouf! Traditionally,...

And if you are fluent in French, check the video of Cataphora's engineer (and formerly at Societe General), Pascal Marcellini, that explains in his native language how the French bank could have been saved by his solution. At Societe...