Opera mini has been around for about 2.5 years, passing the mark of 40 million users, a billion Web pages downloaded per month and 32 languages. The mini browser goal is to bring the full Web to virtually any...

Zagg's flagship product is a thin transparent protective film that was developed by the military to protect the leading edge of helicopter blades from debris, etc. Over 1 million of these "invisible shields" were shipped for more than 2,000...

At Showstoppers, I met again with David Leong, PR manager at memory maker Kingston who was showing a 1 GB microSD kit (card+reader) with 2 songs, wallpapers and videos from latin singer Ricky Martin. The kit is exclusively available...

I finally arrived at the Wynn hotel (pictured) where ShowStoppers is hosted. You'll find here the list of the 50 or so companies exhibiting. We'll try our best to stop at most of them but my experience is that...

Here we are again in Las Vegas... 4 months after CES. Actually, I could come every month here for a tech conference. Later this month is NAB for the broadcasting industry and networking show Interop. In April is the...

Like many of us in the Bay Area, next week we will be heading for CTIA Wireless, one of largest show for the wireless industry. The main one being Mobile World Congress that happened just last month in Barcelona,...

As we mentioned earlier this week, AMD is refreshing its desktop CPU line this week with 7 new Phenoms: 5 new quad-core a.k.a Phenom X4 9550 (2.2GHz), 9650 (2.3GHz), 9750 (2.4GHz), 9850 Black Edition (2.5GHz) and a low power...

After Microsoft's top lawyer, Brad Smith, keynote I hang out with some Microsofties to get a sense of their thoughts on open source, software patents, etc... To my surprise they were very much vocal about their anti-open source feelings....

I think Brad Smith (picured) had all the good reasons to complain about "Who the heck signed me up for 60 minutes of Q&A (at OSBC)?" Microsoft's top lawyer was not in friendly territory to say the least when...

During the Q&A session, Ubunto founder Mark Shuttleworth (pictured) joked with Microsoft's top lawyer on his experience downloading and installing Windows Vista's service pack 1 last week. "I got excited in downloading SP1 for Vista last week. So I...

In his keynote this evening, Microsoft's top lawyer, Brad Smith, made a resounding call to the open source community to "work together", to "build bridges", to dialogue and "discussion about hard issues" i.e. intellectual properties/patents. Great speech but really...

I'll be attending an AMD webcast this morning giving details of the chipmaker's new chips coming up this week. Make sure to check this site later this week for all the details and the video of the launch. Last...

This evening, I was attending a dinner hosted by Sun Microsystems on the business and computing demands of Web 2.0. It was held at the Town Hall Restaurant in San Francisco. The event enjoyed a surprisingly good turn out...

It probably won't surprise you if I tell you that SlideRocket is my choice for the best company's presentation award of the Under the Radar conference as SlideRocket is all/just about... presentation! The San Francisco start-up built a Web-based...

It's the second time I've crossed path with PageOnce and its CEO Guy Goldstein. The Palo Alto-based startup presented here at Silicon Valley's Microsoft campus a few weeks ago during the Israel Web Tour event....

For many, Kwiry (pronounced "queery") could be just a feature of a larger service: it just turns text and audio messages (and soon videos) into email reminders. That's it! OK... there's a social network component through the Kwiry homepage...

I just attended today at Von.x a panel on Femtocells with execs from 2Wire, Kineto Wireless and NextPoint. A femtocell is basically a wireless home gateway that boosts the cellular signal in your home. There are 2 ways at...

VON is back in San Jose this week. It originally started as a Voice over IP (VOIP) conference -VON stands for Voice on the Net- but now stands for anything on the Net: voice, video, etc. Thus its new...

After yesterday's Intel briefing, it became clear to me that Intel is rushing out to market its 6 cores Dunnington in order to stay competitive, now that AMD is finally shipping its quad-core server chip, Barcelona, delayed at least...

At the upcoming Intel Developer Forum next month, the chip maker will provide details on its next set of graphics instruction extensions, dubbed AVX (Advanced Vector Extension). It will not replace SSE. On the contrary it will add to...

This is not the first time that Intel is entering the high-end graphics market, and it would not be the first time if it decides to call it quits. So is the computing industry ready to take another leap...

At the Intel briefing, Intel's Sr VP Pat Gelsinger (pictured) set/"clarified" Nehalem's "production" date at Q4 of this year. But last November, Intel's Sr VP of the technology and manufacturing group, William Holt, told the media that Nehalem was...

In 2008, Tukwila will be the first shipping Intel microprocessor to make use of the QuickPath low latency interconnect bus and integrated memory controller, à la AMD's Direct Connect Architecture but 5 years later! The Quad-core Itanium also supports...

I'm here this morning at an Intel's "Multicore Architecture" press briefing in San Francisco with Pat Gelsinger (yep it's St Patrick's Day!!!), Sr VP of Intel's Digital Enterprise group and Stephen Smith, VP of the group's operations. Inspite having...

It's only Day 2 of eComm and I'm already exhausted! As Dryburgh promised, this is a really fast paced event: 15-mns sessions, followed by 5-mns lightning talks and a few 30-mns keynotes... and this all day long! This afternoon...

During the lunch break at eComm, I sat down with Blaine Cook, the lead architect at micro-blogging site Twitter for a quick chat. Twitter has now about 6 developers in-house for a service that supposedly serves millions of users...

Twitter's lead architect Blaine Cook (pictured, copyright James Duncan Davidson) didn't have much luck during his presentation: no WiFi and no electrical power! His session was interrupted several times, switching back and forth from impromptu Q&As and back to...

I'm today at the eComm conference (main hall pictured, copyright James Duncan Davidson) being held in Mountain View's Computer History Museum. The show is focused on emerging communications and promise to give attendees an eye on the future of...

Last week, after the formal part of HP Labs event, I sat down with Labs' director Prith Banerjee (pictured, courtesy Raija Rapo) and talked in more details about the latest changes inside HP's corporate research arm. I actually met...

I recently caught up with Lee Dryburgh, the organiser and chairperson of the upcoming Emerging Communications (eComm) conference that starts tomorrow, to talk more in depth about the event. Like why he decided to organise an event centered on...

After last week's iPhone announcement, It seems quite clear now who's in control in the Apple-AT&T relationship. Not only Apple perceives a cut off the carrier's iPhone subscribers bill (that's why Apple is accounting the iPhone revenues differently from...

I do believe so. At the iPhone SDK launch, the kind of game EA and Sega both demonstrated blew me away (to use one of Jobs' favourite expression), knowing they were produced with only a couple developers and in...

During the Q&A session at the HP Labs event, both HP's CTO Shane Robison and Lab director Prith Banerjee shed a bit more light on the latest change. First, HP Labs will be more keen than before to "kill"...

At the HP Labs conference today, Lab director Prith Banerjee presented in his keynote this new "blueprint" for HP's coporate research arm. HP Labs is now going to focus on "big bets" all linked to 5 main areas: Information...

After the Apple event in Cupertino, I drove about 15 minutes up highway 280 to HP's headquarters in Palo Alto, to attend a media event hosted by HP Labs. HP actually flew in dozens of reporters from around the...

Today's iPhone software update roadmap was dedicated to the company's push into the enterprise market. But what about the consumer? iPhone Software VP Scott Forstall quickly mentioned during the Q&A session an upcoming parental control feature which sounds quite similar...

So once developers' iPhone apps are up and running, what do they do? Well according to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the deal is simple and of course it's great! - Developers upload their applications onto the App Store that...

Today, there's no more doubt, Apple is positioning the iPhone as a direct competitor to RIM's Blackberry. In his presentation, SVP of WW Product Marketing Phil Schiller compared RIM's corporate messaging solution, the "old way" with Apple's "new way"...

During the Q&A session, Apple CEO Steve Jobs was asked why Apple has been charging iPod touch users to receive exactly the same software updates than for its smartphone, while iPhone users get it free! "The way we account...

According to Apple's VP of iPhone software, Scott Forstall, migrating from blackberries to iPhone is now "dirt simple". And this thanks to enterprise configuration tools that will be available through the iPhone enterprise programme and that will let IT administrators...

Today, Apple invited the media to its Cupertino headquarters in California to witness the launch of the iPhone SDK and its new enterprise features. We'll be updating this page during and after the end of the presentation with more...

After the end of the formal executives presentations at the Intel Investor conference, I wandered around the demo area set up in the same building, looking for some cool new technologies. To me the most interesting one was, "news...

Today I'm at Intel's financial analyst meeting, that is hosted for the first time, in the company's 40 year history, at its corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Whereas in the past, meetings with analysts from major financial institutions...

Tonight I was having dinner with some "otaku"/geek friends and after the foie gras, champagne, etc... the dining experience could not have been complete without showing some of the latest gadgets. Among them, I was really impressed by the...

Next Thursday is going to be Tech's Super Thursday! In the morning, Steve Jobs will be unveiling news around the Apple iPhone, its SDK and some enterprise features. And just after lunch, it'll be HP's CEO Mark Hurd turn,...