Scott Ferguson

Advanced Micro Devices is preparing to cut an additional 1,100 jobs as the chip maker struggles in an economy that has seen both business buyers and consumers cut down on their purchases of desktops, laptops and other hardware in the last three months. In addition to the latest round of job cuts, AMD announced Jan. […]

Intel, the world’s largest supplier of microprocessors for PCs and servers, watched its 2008 fourth-quarter revenue and profits drop dramatically as the U.S. recession and the larger global economy continues to have a major impact within the IT industry, especially on PC and server sales. During its fourth-quarter sales period, which ended Dec. 27, Intel […]

Cisco Systems is looking to bring 802.11 Draft-n WLAN standards into the enterprise with a new wireless access point that it says can deliver nine times the throughput of more established 802.11a/g wireless networks. On Jan. 13, Cisco rolled out the Aironet 1140 wireless access point device, a dual-radio platform that uses the technology found […]

Hewlett-Packard continues to reign as the world’s top supplier of desktops and notebooks, but the global market for PCs sank in the last few months of 2008, due to the U.S. recession and its impact on the worldwide economy, according to new surveys by IDC and Gartner. Although the fourth quarter showed that the economy […]

Intel is slated to release its fourth-quarter financial numbers later this week and the chip giant’s results could offer a significant guide to how business IT and consumer spending are weathering the U.S. recession and the global economic slowdown. Intel, which remains the world’s largest producer of microprocessors, plans to officially release its fourth-quarter numbers […]

While PC vendors spent most of the 2009 International CES trying to outdo themselves when it comes to offering the latest and greatest “netbook” or mininotebook with an Intel Atom processor, rarely did these same companies talk about plans for low-cost desktops using the same chip. Now, Lenovo seems to have come up with at […]

A slowing global economy along with a strengthening U.S. dollar means that IT spending will decline about 3 percent in 2009, as companies cut back on their purchases of desktops, notebooks, servers systems and other hardware, according to a Jan. 13 report from Forrester Research. While a weak U.S. dollar helped to boost IT spending […]

Intel is looking to bring its newer 45-nanometer Core 2 Duo processors along with its vPro management technology into the retail space with a new point-of-sale design that looks to expand the base for the chip giant’s embedded portfolio. At the National Retail Federation Convention in New York, which kicked off Jan. 12, Intel displayed […]

Notebooks and Netbooks Take Center Stage at the 2009 CES by Scott Ferguson No Title The Toshiba Portege R600 is an ultraportable, lightweight laptop for enterprise users and SMBs. The Portege R600 offers a 12.1-inch display and an ultra-low-volt Intel processor. The laptop weighs about 2.4 pound and measures less than 1 inch thick. Pricing […]

10 Killer Phones Spotted at the 2009 CES The Palm Pre A major announcement from the 2009 CES came from Palm when the company announced its Pre smartphone. The Palm Pre looks to compete against the Apple iPhone and other touch-screen devices that have come into the handset market in the last year. The RIM […]

LAS VEGAS-Dell offered a sneak peak at its latest high-end laptop, called the “Adamo,” at the International CES expo here, confirming rumors that the company had engineered a notebook that could rival the Apple MacBook Air. During a Jan. 9 press conference to announce a mininotebook called the Dell Mini 10, Dell executives gave the […]