Intel has teamed up with Asustek Computer, the Taiwanese circuitboard maker, to mass market a $199 notebook computer. This competes squarely with the “XO” made by OLPC (One Laptop Per Child Foundation), which runs on Linux and uses an AMD processor. You can read more about the XO here. Subscribe to the Innovation Insider Newsletter ...
Microsoft has announced that the next version of Visual Studio, previously known by the code name “Orcas,” will now be formally known as Visual Studio 2008. Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008 will become available later this summer and will include a new feature known as the Visual Studio Shell. Subscribe to the Developer Insider ...
Hot on the heels of news that quad-core processors could be appearing on laptops as early as the year 2008, Ars Technica recently published an article on future versions of Windows. They interviewed Microsoft executive Ty Carlson, who is the director of technical strategy at Microsoft. According to Carlson, future versions of Windows will be ...
According to PC World, at the recent Intel Developer Forum conference in Beijing, Intel revealed that it is working on quad-core processing for laptops. Set for release in 2008, the quad-core mobile processor is aimed at high-level gaming and mobie computers, where users will trade battery life for more performance. Mooly Eden, vice president and ...
Shrugging off the previous uproar in the open-source community, Microsoft has just signed a set of broad agreements with Linux provider Xandros that includes patent protection for Xandros customers. The five-year deal for joint development is similar to the one Microsoft signed with Novell Inc. last year and where Microsoft said it wanted to enter ...
Further to my hardware roundup last week on Gb networking gear and falling prices of DRAM, it appears that the glut was caused by DRAM makers ramping up to meet the anticipated huge demand for DRAM that Vista was supposed to fuel, and which never did materialize. According to MarketWatch: Suppliers of DRAM chips “overforecasted ...
If the sky is looking particularly blue this Monday, do hop down over to Yoggie Security Systems and check out their latest USB-powered hardware firewall, the Yoggie Pico, a newly released and spectacularly miniaturized version of the company’s original Gatekeeper product. Basically, what both products do is by offloading firewall functions onto a separate hardware ...
It is a lovely Sunday morning over here in Singapore. Yes, the fact that I am GMT +8 does play a pivotal part in me seeing the new day already when most of you folks in the UK or the US are still sleeping or having a late night. (I suspect it would be the ...
Amazing stuffs just in time for the weekend. Parallels, the makers of their flagship virtualization product Parallels Workstation has just announced an RC of Parallels for Mac 3.0, with the final to be available in just a few weeks. The really jaw-dropping thing is that it will feature full 3D support for your favorite Windows-only ...
Call it passion, or call it an occupational addiction, but I have always kept a firm eye on the movements in the hardware arena. I have found that the IT field, despite being an industry where changes are constantly afoot, is still, on the most part, evolutionary in nature. Revolutionary leaps in technology, especially of ...