Another day, and another chip cancellation at Intel Corp., the company which once defined corporate efficiency. Anyway they are canceling the liquid-crystal-on-silicon chips (LCOS) project because guess what, they can’t get it done. Oh no… isn’t this the chip which was going to kill DLP … Read More »
Archive for October 2004
Mary Hodder over at Napsterization went to see a highly complex and networked home of the future, and posed a very good question, the sort most sane people who don’t live in Silly Valley would ask. Also increasingly complex systems mean disasters will inevitablly come up … Read More »
Ultra-portable computers like the Sony U-50/70 and the OQO share one trait in common- the lack of an included bootable optical drive. This can be important when suddenly you have a hard disk or operating system problem and you realize you cannot boot from the … Read More »
My former boss at Forbes.com David Churbuck as joined the blog world, with his new offering, D.C. Churbuck Reports. As a former reporter – 13 years at Forbes, four at PC Week, four at daily newspapers, he still has the writing bug, and boy it … Read More »
First it was Project Pronto, then it was Project LightSpeed. Now after publicly dissing FTTH for years, SBC is dreaming of 18 million fiber homes within three years. I am not sure, what changed their mind. Maybe, the FCC gave them the cake, the bakery … Read More »
I have been following the EverNote web site for a few weeks now since first hearing about their revolutionary note-taking program EverNote. EverNote is a lot like OneNote from Microsoft but with the unique … Read More »
Intel has announced the latest entry in the Pentium M family that clocks in at an impressive 2.1 GHz. The Pentium M 765 is priced at $637 each in quantities of 1,000 and sports a hefty 2MB of L2 cache and 400MHz front side bus … Read More »
Everyone wants a WiFi, but even that is not enough to staunch the bleeding at Emeryville-based Netopia, which seems to be unravelling. The company which makes all sort of assorted broadband and WiFi gear, and has a nice little software portfolio of products like Timbuktu … Read More »
The noise and fury around broadband over powerline has started to resemble hype around WiMAX and VoIP. However, there seems to be some serious problems with this technology, which we have often talked about. Even those who are in the business are saying that it is … Read More »
European bandwidth provider, Colt Telecom, after getting its clocked cleaned in the most recent quarter, where losses totaled to about $57.8 million is now looking to accelerate its growth by getting into the WiMAX game, reports Unstrung. In a presentation to analysts and investors in London … Read More »
SBC Communications, finally, is getting its FTTP groove on. The company has started to formalize and pick vendors for its mega-billion dollar rollout. The big winner of this bonanza is Alcatel, which has built a sizeable portfolio of FTTP/C products. To drive fiber deeper into the … Read More »
Outsourcing: The Real Picture: See what outsourcing is really all about in this hard-hitting documentary. (It’s short and completely office appropriate.) Plus it is funny as all hell. [Via business2blog.] Read More »
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