Rick Bergman is the senior vice president and general manager of the graphics products group at chip company Advanced Micro Devices. His team of graphics chip designers –- formerly known as ATI Technologies until AMD acquired the company in 2006 — has scored well with the recent launch of the ATI Radeon HD 4800 series [...]
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When the chief executives of the Big Three automakers went to Washington, D.C. with tin cups in hand asking for a $25 billion government bailout, they triggered public outrage when it was revealed they’d flown in on luxury private jets. With shareholder and taxpayer frustration growing, companies are starting to see corporate jets as [...]
Virtual goods sales are starting to look better than real world goods sales these days. PlaySpan announced today that it has raised $16.8 million for its virtual goods platform and online payments business for online games.
Karl Mehta, chief executive of the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said PlaySpan will use the money to expand into new [...]
Hewlett-Packard reported its fourth fiscal quarter earnings this afternoon for the quarter ended Oct. 31 that were consistent with the company’s upbeat preliminary results. The surprising thing is that the world’s biggest information technology company left its guidance for the first quarter and the coming fiscal year unchanged, in spite of the economic doldrums.
Mark Hurd, [...]
Web learning is taking a leap forward today as Cerego releases a social learning platform that lets people learn languages together. The iKnow! platform, unveiled in September at the DEMOfall conference, goes live today with 188 languages.
It’s one of a number of Web 2.0 meets distance-learning concepts that have been funded in the past few [...]
As game publishers look for more ways to pull in revenues, in-game advertising is catching on. Today, game publisher THQ is announcing that Microsoft’s Massive division will become the exclusive provider of in-game ads for THQ’s Xbox 360 and PC games.
The multi-year, multi-game deal means that Massive has landed a big account and that its [...]
Microsoft is getting heat this week as emails surface as a result of a lawsuit over the “Vista Capable” marketing campaign of 2006. When Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system fell behind schedule, Microsoft decided to launch a campaign that said PCs on sale during the holidays were capable of running Vista.
But the lawsuit alleges [...]
Nokia Research showed off a bunch of next-generation technologies today at its research lab in Palo Alto, Calif. Among the goodies coming our way are real-time traffic updates, phones that can tell us what we’re looking at, and devices that morph their forms from watch to tablet to phone as needed.
This show-and-tell comes at an [...]
I guess they should rename the company Blizzard Activision. In any case, Activision Blizzard scored big time with the launch of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. Published by Activision Blizzard’s Blizzard Entertainment division, the online game expansion for WoW players sold 2.8 million copies in its first 24 hours.
That’s a big chunk [...]
Games have come of age on the iPhone, and they’re about to get a lot better. The holiday line-up of game titles being released on Apple’s phone shows that developers consider it a solid platform for games alongside other dedicated gaming devices. Nintendo will have to look over its shoulder.
The iPhone 3G’s stunning success in the [...]
Artificial intelligence has been a dismal failure over many decades of research. But scientists say they’re closer to understanding how the brain works and want to build a computer modeled on the human brain.
We can all have a good laugh at this, but it’s a serious effort. IBM Research and five universities have teamed up [...]
Worldwide semiconductor sales will decline in 2009 for the first time since 2001, the chip industry trade group reported this morning. The Semiconductor Industry Association predicted that worldwide semiconductor sales will fall 5.6 percent to $246.7 billion.
For 2008, sales are expected to rise 2.2 percent from 2007 to $261.2 billion, but fourth-quarter sales are expected [...]
Sony has started setting the stage for the launch of its Home virtual world. The company has been running beta tests with thousands of users for weeks now, and the formal launch is still expected to be this fall on the PlayStation Network.
About 18 months in the making, Home is Sony’s “Hail Mary” play in [...]
The Internet has fueled the rise of corporate data centers, which will be full of something like 6.8 million computer servers by the year 2010. Each data center consumes the energy of about 25,000 homes.
That’s why the new EcoRAM computer architecture described today by flash memory chip maker Spansion and Silicon Valley firm Virident Systems [...]
High-speed data networks on cell phones, such as the iPhone, are anything but high speed. But Quantance, a chip maker that has just raised $12 million in funding, has a solution that could triple data speeds in future phones at very little cost. If this works out, our cell phones could wind up being faster [...]
Apple has enjoyed a good run as the innovator with multi-touch displays on its iPhones. But multi-touch is a fundamental technology that any computer maker can use. And we can expect that there will be a lot more of it to come.
Hewlett-Packard is announcing today a convertible notebook PC with multi-touch technology for consumers. The [...]
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IBM buys Transitive Technologies: Transitive has come up with a way to translate code from one hardware platform to another on the fly. Companies such as Apple used it to transition to new operating systems without breaking compatibility with old software. Now IBM has purchased Transitive for an undisclosed price, and [...]
As Nvidia’s graphics chips are enlisted to handle computational tasks in supercomputers, the chip maker is finding there is a new class of machines emerging: the personal supercomputer.
Scientists have been using workstations for years to make calculations or share a slice of a multimillion-dollar supercomputer. But Nvidia says that the era of personal supercomputing has [...]
Ditech Networks is launching software for cell phone companies today that will allow them to build Bluetooth headsets and hands-free cell phone car kits with much better call quality.
The company says it has created mathematical formulas, or algorithms, that make it much easier to remove the noise and sharpen quality in a cell phone call [...]
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