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...