John G. Spooner

Long hours are legendary among Silicon Valley techies. But one Massachusetts technical support engineer has sued storage maker EMC, claiming he was fired for refusing to work an extended work week. The Boston Globe reports that Bay State resident Kevin Bujold has filed suit in Massachusetts Middlesex Superior Court, claiming he was fired by EMC […]

There is an updated version of this story available. For the most recent version, click here. Advanced Micro Devices, buoyed by the success of its Opteron server chip and rapidly growing market share, is beginning to win over more enterprise customers. The chip makers main goal for 2006, as it has been for most of […]

Advanced Micro Devices, buoyed by the success of its Opteron server chip and rapidly growing market share, is beginning to win over more enterprise customers. The chip makers main goal for 2006—as it has been for most of the past decade—is to expand its reach into the enterprise on both the desktop and server platforms. […]

Itanium supporters have pledged to put up $10 billion in an effort to make the server chip tops for mission critical servers. The funding will come from the collective backing of Bull, Fujitsu, Fujitsu-Siemens Computers, Hitachi, HP, Intel, NEC, SGI and Unisys, all members of the Itanium Solutions Alliance, a consortium of companies backing the […]

Intel said it has reached an important milestone on the path to rolling out the next generation of chip manufacturing in 2007. The chip giant said on Jan. 25 that it has completed a test chip using its forthcoming 45-nanometer process, dubbed P1266, which it expects to roll out in the second half of 2007. […]

Advanced Micro Devices says it picked up nearly four points of market share in the x86 chip market during the fourth quarter. The gain, which came as AMD posted strong fourth-quarter earnings, saw it pick up share in both PC and server processors, the chip maker said. Overall, it represents one of the largest single-quarter […]

Tello says it wants to be the single point of contact for businesses. The startup emerged on Jan. 23 with a software and service bundle designed to connect businesspeople, regardless of their location or connection, by aggregating wired, wireless and even VOIP (voice over IP) phones, with handhelds and instant messaging services. Tello, established in […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is exploring new types of onboard memory for its chips as a way to bump performance and squeeze more out of its manufacturing plants. The Sunnyvale, Calif., chip maker has licensed memory technology called Z-RAM, created by startup Innovative Silicon Inc., of Santa Clara, Calif., in an effort to look at […]

Business desktops are bringing up the rear in the dual-core processor transition. The deskbound business machines, which are usually architected to offer businesses stability versus providing them with new technology, wont move en masse to chips such as Intels new Pentium D 900 until at least the second half of this year, the chip maker […]

Salesforce.com Inc. is hosting a virtual software bazaar in hopes of encouraging more businesses to make use of software on demand. The San Francisco-based CRM (customer relationship management) software company on Tuesday expanded its horizons by launching the AppExchange service, which grants businesses the ability to access hundreds of different business software applications on an […]

The problem of chip-set sales haunted Intel Corp. during the fourth quarter. Despite putting out record shipments of desktop, notebook and server processors during the fourth quarter, the Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker said supply problems, something its been grappling with all year, affected its ability to get its desktop chips into PCs. The interruption, […]

Sony wants to rewrite the electronic book. The hardware and content giant aims to appeal to frequent travelers, students and consumers with its new Sony Reader. The e-book, which is about the size of a paperback novel, can store up to 100 tomes. Thus, for example, it would allow students who shoulder heavy backpacks to […]