Jim Louderback

Up until now, gamers looking for a solid system to play on the road would have to either settle for a 10 pound wonder-brick with a battery life sufficient only for a flight from San Francisco to Oakland, or severely compromised on graphics performance and power. Well now, with VoodooPCs launch of the first Centrino-based […]

My latest trip to Europe, with my father, was less Innocents than Irritated Abroad. I packed away some neat new technology, designed to ease the little vicissitudes of traveling. As I mentioned last week, the Garmin GPS V worked out just great—I never had to experience the heartbreak of asking for directions in French. That […]

What happened to all the risk takers? I have spent most of my career either implementing corporate systems, or testing and writing about them for eWEEK and other publications. However, I took the last five years off and helped launch a 24-hour cable network—called TechTV—all about technology. Back in the late nineties, IT departments were […]

The last time I traveled to Europe, I felt like I had just stepped from the pages of Mark Twains Innocents Abroad. I couldnt speak the language, hadnt a clue where I was, and couldnt even figure out how to call anyone back home. Needless to say, I had a blast. But this time, on […]

I really like the Nextel service. Its direct connect feature—basically a walkie-talkie on steroids—is just so darn useful. But coverage problems limit its effectiveness—dead cells inside buildings and outside metropolitan areas can make connecting hit-or-miss. But help is coming from a new direction. Wi-Fi, the panacea for just about everything, may well help solve cell-phone […]

ExtremeTech had a chance recently to sit down with Brian Halla, CEO of National Semiconductor to get an idea of how National is approaching the future. Since we conducted this interview, things have gotten dicey for the Silicon Valley chip company. The company announced that it was shedding its system-on-a-chip Geode business, and then late […]

ExtremeTech recently had a chance to sit down with Brian Halla, CEO of National Semiconductor to get an idea of how National is approaching the future. Since the interview, things have gotten dicey for the Silicon Valley chip company. The company announced that it was shedding its system-on-a-chip Geode business, and then late last week […]

Oh boy, do we ever have the goods on Intel. Our crack reporter, Mark Hachman, got his hands on some killer information – basically Intels entire roadmap for the next few years. Its way too much for just one article, so weve got him slaving over the keyboard, banging out the information as fast as […]

As more and more systems and users get hooked up to public networks, and as more and more wireless networks come online, IT managers are faced with a dual threat. How do I provide ready access to all my systems and data wherever my users might be, while still protecting vital corporate access? Security: Two […]

The more pervasive email is in business, the bigger a problem we have with spam How do we keep nasty stuff out of our users systems, while not bringing too much hassle into the workday routine? To date, most anti-Spam solutions have operated on the desktop. PC Magazine recently ran an exhaustive round-up of desktop […]

As more and more systems and users get hooked up to public networks, and as more and more wireless networks come on-line, IT managers are faced with a dual threat. How do I provide ready access to all my systems and data wherever my users might be, while still protecting vital corporate access? Two of […]

Like many of you, Ive been avidly following the DRM dust-up between Intuit and unhappy TurboTax customers. And because I edit ExtremeTech, Ive had a professional as well as a personal interest in the outcome. While I shared the outrage of ExtremeTech members, I knew it was important that we do a thorough and impartial […]