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...
July 25, 2008
Michael Dell To Its Board: "I'm Staying Away From Trucks and Generally Living a Clean Life!" (video)
July 24, 2008
Dell To Shy Away From the Low Cost PC Maker Image. To Focus More on Doing the Right Thing for the Customer/Consumer. Finally!
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...
July 23, 2008
[f8 Conference] Facebook To Provide Identity Platform for Web Applications. Competes with OpenID Standard
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...
July 22, 2008
[Plug-In 2008] GM Details Plug-In Hybrid Plans. Focused on VUE and Volt Projects (video)
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...
[Plug-In 2008] At 100,000 Units A Year, Plug-In Hybrids Cost No More Than Conventional Cars (video)
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...
[Plug-In 2008] HEVT Prepares Plug-In Hybrid Kit For Pick-Ups, SUVs and Vans (video)
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...
[Plug-In 2008] Young Industry To Electrify All Vehicles (video)
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...
[MemCon] In 2008, DRAM and Flash Memory Markets Stinks!, Denali analyst says. Intel May Exit in 2009, DDR3 Still Not Catching Up (video)
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....
July 21, 2008
DisplayLink: Silicon Valley's Next Billion Dollar Company? Start-Up Touts USB Display Everywhere (video)
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...
