Another factor Intel mentioned: Companies building out on the back-end to take advantage of so-called cloud computing. Maybe Facebook isn’t the only young outfit planning to spend big this year to improve its data centers. Like I said, selling shovels (or servers) is a great business during a boom.
“What we’re seeing is growing strength [...]

The X300 ThinkPad, which starts at $2,900, is one of the hottest–and most expensive–notebooks on the market now. The Apple MacBook Air is another. They both come with solid-state drives (SSDs) that perform better than standard magnetic hard-disk drives. And the X300’s outpaces a 7200rpm hard drive by a long shot, according to review site [...]

Hitachi's 1.5 LCDs are just that thick.

If you’ve been eagerly awaiting the opportunity to own the thinnest flat-panel LCD TV, now’s your chance.

One of the secrets, by the way, of how Hitachi managed to slim down the TVs so much is that they took out the ATSC tuner. And although it is definitely the thinnest [...]

In addition, NebuAd has hired at least five employees from Gator, which changed its name to Claria five years ago to distance itself from associations with spyware. Symantec offers a Windows application that removes Claria’s Gain software.

Dorgan said that he had invited a selection of unnamed broadband providers–presumably including Charter and CenturyTel–to testify at [...]

This part might require you to be on hold for a while, but it could be potentially very interesting: please call up an AT&T customer service representative and ask them if the primary 3G tower near your home or that your phone is currently using runs on the 1900MHz frequency or the 850MHz frequency. [...]

On Tuesday, the Rural Cellular Association, a group of more than 80 small and rural wireless providers, filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission to investigate and adopt rules that would prohibit exclusivity arrangements between wireless carriers and cell phone manufacturers. In its petition the group said that these arrangements were unfair and stifled [...]

It seems as if only yesterday we were marveling at Asus’ new 9-inch Eee PC 900 (actually, it wasn’t yesterday, it was Monday). About the only thing we didn’t love about this pocket-sized marvel was its dated Celeron processor–especially since the fine folks at Intel have been talking up this whole Atom thing for so [...]

There is another argument that says that internet is really not Microsoft’s ball of wax, and instead the company should try to acquire SAP in more of an Oracle-style of leveraging assets across the same customer base. Unfortunately, that argument doesn’t fly as it seems that Microsoft has finally realized there is a very real [...]

Music video slideshow tool Animoto is venturing into new territory Tuesday night with an upgraded tool that supports video clips. Alongside photos, users can now upload videos up to 200MB in size, including segments that are in high definition. These exist seamlessly beside the photo content, and get the same Animoto treatment with transparency effects, [...]

The price and performance of open source solutions are discontinuous with that of commercial software solutions. Thus we have always found that savvy IT executives are willing to go out of their way to ensure that open source is considered as an alternative in most major acquisition decisions.
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It’s just more exacerbation of the hand-to-mouth existence [...]