After my "client" briefing with AMD's Pat Moorhead, I left his nice suite at the top floor of the W hotel for a tiny room several floors below where the server roadmap update was being held. Funny when you...

For those interested, below is our Picasa album with all the photos taken at IDF this week. Enjoy!...

Moorhead's (pictured) purpose for the AMD briefings at IDF is to "educate" (another word for spin I guess!) the reporters/bloggers that inspite of AMD's desktop/mobile slower chips versus Intel's, consumers actually can hope having a better user experience on...

Earlier this week, I checked out AMD "client and server" briefing held at the W hotel, just a few steps away from the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Unfortunately, this year, no air balloons, no limousines, no Intel...

The economic slowdown hasn't yet scuttled the server market, according the Gartner researchers. The market-monitoring firm said Thursday that global server shipments rose 12.2% in the second quarter and revenue climbed 5.7% to $13.8 billion. Companies continue to build out...

IPhone owners have sharply increased their use of location-based phone applications since the opening of Apple's App Store, says one industry executive. The number of location "look-ups" has increased to an "unbelievable" number, said Ryan Sarver, founder and vice president...

Intel is maybe celebrating its 40 year's birthday but during his IDF keynote, Intel CTO Justin Rattner (pictured) preferred to take us back to the future, looking at some of the technology advancements that we could see in the...

This morning at the Intel Developer Forum, uber-geek Steve Wozniak is interviewed on-stage by Moira Gunn, host of Tech Nation and Bio Tech Nation on NPR (pictured). My take is that Wozniak will remain an engineer 'for life'. The...

Winning the top spot on a search page is more valuable than you might imagine. That is according to research from Bill Barnes (pictured), co-founder or Enquiro Search Solutions. Barnes says that people using a generic search term, such...

Social networks and other interactive sites where people share information will become integral parts of corporate marketing campaigns in the next several years. While this observation may not seem startling, it suggests a powerful transformation in how people buy...

After their keynotes at IDF, both Pat Gelsinger (Intel's desktop and server boss) and David Perlmutter (the mobile boss), stayed for a short media Q&A session (pictured). Three main items were covered: 1- How Intel "dealt" with the Viiv...

During a press briefing this morning, HP product marketing manager for business notebooks, Sarah Bussell (pictured), confirmed that HP "re-tested" its EliteBook 6930P notebook introduced last June using this time Intel's latest SSD and an LED flat panel display...

Intel's foot-to-the-floor push into consumer electronics is still at an early stage. But already the critical expansion is showing some success, said Senior Vice President Patrick Gelsinger (pictured). The Santa Clara, CA, chip maker has more than 700 "design...

Intel unveiled its first flash memory drives for personal computers and servers Tuesday, boasting the products would eliminate worries about performance and power savings when they begin shipping in 30 days. No pricing was available during a presentation at...

Search engine giant Google is beta testing a plan that would allow creators of YouTube videos to promote their material by purchasing keywords, one search engine expert said. The system would display the videos on a YouTube search results...

During AMD's pre-IDF conference call, CPU boss Randy Allen (pictured), recognised Phenom's lack-luster performance versus Intel's Core 2 chips. "It's absolutely true that there's certainly a deficit that we have in terms of some of the performance benchmarks for...

Slow economic conditions are cutting into corporate profits. But IT spending doesn't appear headed for a recession as businesses around the globe continue to buy new gear, according to Gartner researchers. Worldwide IT spending should climb 8% this year...