Scott Ferguson

Amid all the consumer products that will be on display at the International CES expo, Intel is planning to offer something new for its enterprise customers as well. The Santa Clara, Calif. chip maker, in addition to rolling out its Core 2 Quad for consumer PCs, will also officially launch two additional quad-core Xeon processors […]

Each year, in the weeks leading to Apple Computers Macworld Expo in San Francisco, the rumors and speculation begin circulating about what CEO Steve Jobs and his team will unveil during the major keynote address. This year is no exception. Many industry watchers predict that Jobs will dedicate a large portion of his Jan. 9 […]

Looking to capitalize on its first-to-market quad-core processors, Intel plans to announce its Core 2 Quad for commercial PCs at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week, an industry source told eWEEK. The latest quad-core offering from the Santa Clara, Calif., company will join five other quad-core chips that Intel has already […]

The OpenVZ Projects operating system-level server virtualization software is now available for users of Sun Microsystems UltraSPARC T1 processors. The Herndon, Va. organization announced Jan. 2 that it would start offering its virtualization software for servers, such as the Sun Fire T2000, that use this processor, formally code-named Niagara. On Feb. 14, 2006, Sun announced […]

After a two-week delay, Apple Computer filed its third-quarter and annual financial reports with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and announced it will adjust some of earnings due to stock options grants. In its Dec. 29 filing with the SEC, the company wrote that CEO Steve Jobs had been aware of some of the […]

It has been a decade since IBM showed up at the Consumer Electronics Show. That 10-year absence will come to an end in a few weeks, after Big Blue opens its booth on the showroom floor at the 2007 CES show in Las Vegas. Since last showing up at the CES in 1997, a lot […]

IBMs Lotus Software division is taking a bigger bite of Apples Mac OS X. The Armonk, N.Y. company on Dec. 28 formally rolled out the latest version of its Lotus messaging software package, dubbed Notes 7.0.2, which will include e-mail, calendar management tools and instant messaging that is specifically designed for Mac OS X users. […]

VMware, a virtualization software maker, has released the beta version of its desktop product, which will allow Microsofts Windows operating system to run on a Macintosh. The Palo Alto, Calif., company first announced it would offer a desktop version of its virtualization software for Macs at Apple Computers Worldwide Developers Conference in August. The actual […]

Next year will be a busy one in the server industry with a host of new products and innovations, thanks in large part to the increasing importance of multicore computing and virtualization technology. However, it looks like 2007 will prove lackluster in the PC space, as enterprise users and consumers decide whether to immediately adopt […]

Just a few days before the Christmas holidays, Dell has issued a reminder to its customers to check their notebooks and return any lithium-ion battery packs that were listed under the voluntary Aug. 14 recall. On Dec. 21, a spokesperson confirmed that the Round Rock, Texas, PC maker had issued the reminder to its customers […]