After almost 2 years operating inside Dell and HP, high-end PC brands Alienware and Voodoo seem to finally find their "sweetspot" inside those 2 huge organisations. In recent weeks, I've interviewed both Voodoo Chief Rahul Sood (pictured is the...

Today I'm in San Diego visiting data-warehousing specialist Teradata (meeting with CTO Todd Walter pictured). But don't think I'm at the beach blogging this: the R&D facility is situated in Rancho Bernardo, north of the city, in an unappealing...

With Bill Gates leaving Microsoft and Steve Jobs' health in question, Michael Dell is the only other founder left of a big multi-billion dollars IT company. So naturally, the question of his succession came up during our visit to...

I'm today in sunny but humid Round Rock, TX, at Dell's corporate headquarters with reporters from Latin America and Western Europe. Of course, we are scheduled to meet with Michael Dell (pictured), later this afternoon, but earlier we'll be...

At the Facebook f8 conference in San Francisco (like in 8 hours of non-stop hack-a-thon), CEO Mark Zuckenberg gave more details on the start-up Connect platform, a direct rival to the OpenID standard already adopted by Google, Yahoo... In...

At the Plug-In conference today, General Motors Hybrid Czar Larry Nitz (pictured) detailed the car maker's hybrid (fuel+electric) and PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle) strategy and its goal of displacing petroleum with energy coming from the electrical grid. GM's...

At the Plug-In show today, Efficient Drivetrains CEO, Prof. Andy Frank, 74, a.k.a. the 'Father' of the plug-in hybrid concept, brought his converted 200 MPG Chevy Equinox. What's interesting about this SUV is that it can run about 40...

At the Plug-In show today I met with Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technologieshttp://hevt.com/ (HEVT) President, Dr. Ali Emadi who's company converted a Ford F-150 pick-up truck to a plug-in hybrid vehicle. HEVT is a start-up located on the Illinois Institute...

I'm here this morning at the Plug-In 2008 Conference & Exposition. This is actually my first stop of a very long day that will take me from downtown San Jose to MemCon in Santa Clara and finally the AlwaysOn...

During his keynote presentation at the MemCon 2008 conference, Denali Software analyst Lane Mason summed up the $58 billion memory market in just one word: Stinks! "The years 2004-06 were good for the memory (both Flash and DRAM) makers....

I was today in Palo Alto visiting fabless chip company DisplayLink CEO, Hamid Farzaneh (pictured) before his presentation tomorrow at UBS Bank's Technology Forum hosted at the Four Seasons. DisplayLink has been around for 6 years raising so far...

Yesterday I've met shortly with France Telecom/Orange CEO, Didier Lombard (pictured), at Cafe de la Presse in San Francisco. The French operator was hosting a book signing event for "The Second Life of Networks", a book written by Lombard...

This is just getting out of hand. Can you believe there are still people (i've counted about a 100) waiting in line for the iPhone 3G at the San Francisco Apple Store this afternoon? 6 days after the launch!!!...

[Updated] We were invited this evening to attend the "Bastille Day" reception hosted by the new French Consul General of San Francisco and his wife - Mr and Mrs Mourier (pictured) arrived 11 months ago - at the San...

[Updated] Whenever Mooly Eden, Intel's Corporate vice-president and general manager of the company's Mobile Platforms Group, speaks it's sure to be entertaining. And today was no exception. Check out some of his "jokes" after the jump, although some are...

On the eve of the iPhone 3G launch, I wanted to see if there'll actually be some people lining up at 3 of the Bay Area's Apple stores: on University avenue in Palo Alto (pictured), at San Jose Valley...

Where did all the iPhone 3G Palo Alto fans/customers go? I remember last year at the same spot, people were even camping out inspite the cooler nights and then Steve Jobs himself showed up! This picture has been taken...