Scott Ferguson

Lenovo Acknowledges Delays in ThinkPad Tablet Shipments

If you wanted to be one of the first to try out Lenovos new ThinkPad X60 Tablet PC, you might have to wait a little longer. The Raleigh, N.C., PC maker disclosed on its official company blog that due to shortages of the panels used in the X60s display, the new tablet will not start […]

Sun Rolls Out New Blade, Services

Sun Microsystems is looking to grow its foothold in the blade market and entice new and current customers to stay with its products by offering a unique hardware replacement and upgrade service. On Jan. 9, the Santa Clara, Calif., company is scheduled to roll out its latest blade offering, the Sun Blade X8420, and detail […]

AMD Looks to Be Better

Advance Micro Devices is looking to make PCs “better.” The Sunnyvale, Calif. company is launching its “Better by Design” program at the CES expo in Las Vegas on Jan. 9. The program, according to AMD officials, will allow users to take full advantage of the features and applications that come with the new Microsoft Windows […]

Finally, Apple Rolls Out the iPhone

SAN FRANCISCO—Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs has rarely failed to dazzle loyal customers during a keynote address. And, at the 2007 Macworld Expo, Jobs even managed to go one better. During his nearly two-hour address in San Francisco on Jan. 9, Jobs finally pulled back the curtain on the much-rumored, long-awaited iPhone. Rumors had been […]

D-Link Builds Digital Home with Pandora Networks

D-Link, a maker of networking, broadband, voice and data communication products, is teaming up with a number of partners, including Pandora Networks, as part of a new digital home strategy. D-Link announced these partnerships at the International CES in Las Vegas, which is running from Jan. 8-11. The partnerships will be combined in an offering […]

AMDs Live Comes to Notebooks

Advanced Micro Devices is about to bring its Live multimedia platform to notebooks. The Sunnyvale, Calif., chip maker will launch its latest Live offering at the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in mid-January. The PC makers that will begin to offer these AMDs Live platform in notebooks by late January. AMD, which […]

IBM Returns to the CES Show

IBM, which shed its PC business two years ago and has seen Apple Computer turn away from its Power-PC chips in favor of Intel technology, wants to prove that it still has a role in the consumer marketplace. It has been a decade since IBM showed up at the International CES show. However, that 10-year […]

OpenVZ Project Comes to Niagara

The OpenVZ Projects OpenVZ operating system-level server virtualization software is now available for users of Sun Microsystems UltraSPARC T1 processors. SWsoft, which supports the OpenVZ Project, announced Jan. 2 that it would start offering its virtualization software for servers, such as the Sun Fire T2000, that use the multicore processor, formerly code-named Niagara. On Feb. […]

Intel Adds 3 Quad-core Chips to the Mix

Taking advantage of the attention lavished on the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Intel is scheduled to roll out three new quad-core processors on Jan. 8. Although CES, which will run from Jan. 8 to Jan. 11, is a showcase for consumer electronics, Intel is using the showroom floor to launch two quad-core […]

HP Debuts Tablet PC, Storage System at CES

Hewlett-Packard wants to be in every corner of the digital home. The Palo Alto, Calif., company plans to roll out a number of new products that offer what company officials hope is a complete package of offerings for the digital home. All these various hardware components will be on display at the International CES in […]