A day after Hewlett-Packard Co. announced a big drop in profits, H-P Chief Executive Meg Whitman said that the technology giant is at the beginning of a multi-year transforma [...]
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Motorola The Motorola Xoom tablet To the list of woes buffeting Motorola Mobility’s little-loved Xoom tablet, add this: the company sold a batch of used ones without first w [...]
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By Venture Capital Dispatch (The following post comes from sister blog Venture Capital Dispatch.) Immigrants have started nearly half of America’s 50 top venture-funded compa [...]
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David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Talking about Apple’s work on integrated televisions before his death in October, Steve Jobs, pictured above, told biographer Walter Isaacson tha [...]
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Intel’s stock price, and image, have suffered from the fact that its chips are not widely used in smartphones and tablet PCs. But it turns out that the Silicon Valley giant h [...]
Read moreA day after Hewlett-Packard Co. announced a big drop in profits, H-P Chief Executive Meg Whitman said that the technology giant is at the beginning of a multi-year transformation. Reuters Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman: “What H-P needs is a steady hand on the tiller.” Ms. Whitman, speaking at a Wall Street Journal event in Menlo [...]
READ MORE »Everyone wants their gadgets to cost less and store more data. Chip makers keep trying to oblige, with Silicon Valley’s SanDisk the latest to raise the bar. Manufacturers have long competed by trying to shrink the size of the tiny cells that store bits of data on memory chips. Major advances in miniaturization can help [...]
READ MORE »Intel regards its costly factory network as a key competitive weapon, built to churn out chips that are designed by its own engineers. But there has been a relaxation of that policy lately, one that some much smaller companies are starting to exploit. The latest is Tabula, an amply financed startup that has developed an [...]
READ MORE »Motorola The Motorola Xoom tablet To the list of woes buffeting Motorola Mobility’s little-loved Xoom tablet, add this: the company sold a batch of used ones without first wiping out all the prior owners’ personal data. Motorola Mobility said 100 of about 6,200 it sold through Woot.com from October to December still may have contained [...]
READ MORE »Microsoft Corp. expanded its gorilla marketing against Google Inc. with a YouTube video spoofing changes to Gmail privacy policies. The “Gmail Man” video pokes fun at the changes at Google with a fictional snooping mailman who misinterprets an email that mentions a cat named Danny as complaints about scratching dander and sends the user an [...]
READ MORE »By Venture Capital Dispatch (The following post comes from sister blog Venture Capital Dispatch.) Immigrants have started nearly half of America’s 50 top venture-funded companies and are key members of management or product development teams in almost 75 percent of those companies. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg News New Dehli, India-raised Samir Arora is the chairman and chief [...]
READ MORE »David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Talking about Apple’s work on integrated televisions before his death in October, Steve Jobs, pictured above, told biographer Walter Isaacson that he had “finally cracked it,” according to Mr. Isaacson’s book. Apple Shares TV Vision with Media Executives: Apple has been meeting with media executives, sharing its vision for the future of [...]
READ MORE »A race to take cellphone-style data-storage technology into computers keeps accelerating, and chip maker LSI is laying out cash for a pole position. LSI said Wednesday it will shell out $322 million for SandForce, one of many startups betting on a shift to the chips known as flash memory. It’s just the latest in a [...]
READ MORE »NFC, or near-field communication, is getting, um, nearer, to acceptance. Yesterday France-based NFC chipmaker Inside Secure announced that it has shipped 10 million chips, the majority for smartphones, so far this year. The company’s NFC chips are present in Research in Motion’s new BlackBerry Bold and BlackBerry Curve launched last summer. Last year, by comparison, [...]
READ MORE »Intel’s stock price, and image, have suffered from the fact that its chips are not widely used in smartphones and tablet PCs. But it turns out that the Silicon Valley giant had an inside track when it came to Apple’s iconic iPad, lost after Steve Jobs faced an impassioned plea from a top lieutenant. The [...]
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