John G. Spooner

Advanced Micro Devices is considering a 2008 trial date for its antitrust lawsuit against rival Intel—a suit that claims Intel used its position to influence PC makers to limit their purchases of AMD chips. Intel, which was served with the suit on June 28, 2005, has other ideas. During the companies initial conference or first […]

Four computer industry heavyweights are joining an alliance designed to help cut the use of one of the computer industrys most precious resources: Electricity. Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices, computer makers IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems as well as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Washington D.C.-based Alliance to Save Energy on April 19, […]

Intel is hitting the reset button, following a lackluster first quarter. The chip giant, which on April 19 reported first-quarter 2006 revenue of $8.9 billion and earnings per share of 23 cents, down 5 percent and 44 percent, respectively, from the first quarter of 2005, after warning that it would deliver lower than expected earnings […]

Several top computer industry companies are on the road to creating a universal set of measurements for server power consumption—something they hope will become the equivalent of a server miles per gallon—in an effort to help businesses grapple with rising data center energy bills. The group, dubbed Eco Forum, includes representatives from Advanced Micro Devices, […]

The minitower, the most common type of desktop PC seen today, is a dying breed, researchers say. After several fits and starts in the past, the minitower is expected to cede its most favored status to small PCs during this decade, based on changes in technology as well as buyers tastes as the PC market […]

Salesforce.com is going mobile with the acquisition of Sendia. Salesforce.com, whose AppExchange service offers CRM (customer relationship management) software on demand, said on April 11 that it had created a new AppExchange Mobile service via the purchase of Sendia for $15 million in cash. AppExchange Mobile will allow Salesforce.com customers to access more than 60 […]

Lenovo is setting up shop with Best Buy. The PC maker has struck a deal to allow Best Buy For Business, which are business-oriented annexes inside 135 Best Buy stores, to offer customers the ability to order from its entire Lenovo U.S. PC product line. Lenovo is aiming to continue expanding its scope with small […]

Apple Computer is offering to help manage corporate Macs. The computer maker on April 11 rolled out Remote Desktop Control 3, which includes provisions for installing several types of software, tracking hardware assets and health and even providing remote assistance to end users for IT departments who aim to streamline the administration of Mac fleets. […]

Microsofts Windows Vista will run on just about any PC available today, but it will only show its true colors on about half of them, according to a new report from Gartner. Whereas todays mainstream processors and hard drives offer plenty of performance and capacity to keep up with the new OS—now scheduled to arrive […]

Apple is opening some Windows. The computer maker has begun offering software that will allow its latest Macs to run Microsofts Windows XP, in addition to the Apple Mac OS X. Apple on April 5 began offering a public beta of Boot Camp, software that allows Intel-processor Macs—which now include the iMac and Mac Mini […]

Apple Computers Boot Camp software might help the company gain some new recruits from the business world. The Mac maker on April 5 made available a beta version of Boot Camp, software that allows Intel-processor Macs—which now include the latest iMac and Mac Mini desktops and MacBook Pro notebook—to boot either Mac OS X or […]

BOSTON—The $100 laptop is coming together, its founder says, but without the famous crank. Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of One Laptop Per Child, said in a keynote at LinuxWorld here that OLPC is preparing to deliver its first 5 million to 10 million machines late this year or early in 2007. The machines will come with […]