Scott Ferguson

Whats New in Data Storage from CES by Scott Ferguson No Title At Toshiba’s booth, the electronics giant showed off its latest NAND-based solid-state drive. This 2.5-inch SSD offers 512GB of data storage and is based on the company’s 43-nanometer technology. This SSD also offers 240MB per second of maximum reading speed and 200MB per […]

LAS VEGAS – Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage at the beginning of the annual International CES expo and announced that the company would release the beta version of it upcoming Windows 7 operating system by the end of the week. In his Jan. 7 keynote at CES, Ballmer announced that the beta version […]

Advanced Micro Devices is preparing to officially roll out its first 45-nanometer processors for desktop PCs at the 2009 CES along with a new platform for gaming machines called “Dragon.” On Jan. 8, AMD is expected to roll out two new processors that are part of its Phenom II family of chips. These processors are […]

First Images of the Palm Pre Smart Phone for the 2009 CES by Scott Ferguson No Title The Palm Pre smart phone debuted at the 2009 International CES show and is seen as the companys answer to both the Apple iPhone and the RIM BlackBerry. No Title When the Palm Pre goes on sale later […]

HP to Launch New Laptops, Mini Notebook, Gaming PC at CES HP to Launch New Laptops, Mini Notebook, Gaming PC at CES Photos courtesy of Hewlett-Packard. No Title The Hewlett-Packard Pavilion dv2 laptop is the first laptop to use AMD’s “Yukon” platform for ultraportable, lightweight notebooks. The HP notebook uses the new AMD Athlon Neo […]

At the CES expo, it’s all about laptops, ultraportables and mininotebooks. When this year’s CES officially kicks off Jan. 7 in Las Vegas with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer delivering the opening keynote address, PC makers such as Lenovo and Hewlett-Packard along with companies such as Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, Freescale Semiconductor and Qualcomm are offering […]

Advanced Micro Devices is preparing to launch its much anticipated “Yukon” platform for lower-cost, ultraportable laptops at the 2009 CES, and the chip maker has lined up Hewlett-Packard as the first PC vendor to offer a consumer laptop based on the new platform. The AMD Yukon platform, which the company plans to officially announce Jan. […]

Lenovo, which entered the consumer market in 2008 with its IdeaPad line, is previewing three new mainstream laptops at CES in Las Vegas, and the company also plans to refresh its IdeaPad S10 mininotebook. In addition to the new laptops, Lenovo is also planning to launch the IdeaCentre A600 all-in-one desktop at CES, which kicks […]

Freescale Seminconductor is planning to enter the “netbook” market later this year with a system-on-a-chip design that uses the next-generation ARM Cortex-A8 processor, which should lower the cost and reduce the power consumption of these laptops. At the 2009 CES expo, which starts the week of Jan. 5 in Las Vegas, Freescale will show off […]

The processor competition and advances in both low-cost, ultraportable laptops and HPC illustrated that in 2008, the best developments in IT hardware came in two sizes: big and small. On the small side, low-cost netbooks and mini-notebooks came into their own, despite the fact that these types of laptops were initially expected to have the […]

Jack Kuehler, the former president of IBM who helped bring the company into the PC era in the 1980s and who also forged strategic alliances with Intel, Apple and other IT companies at that time, died Dec. 20 at the age of 76, according to several media reports. Kuehler, who also served as vice chairman […]

Intel is now shipping a 160GB version of its solid-state Serial ATA drives for mainstream laptops, and the chip giant is preparing to launch a different version for ultraportable notebooks in January. Intel announced that it had begun shipping a 160GB version of its 2.5-inch X25-M SSD (solid-state drive) for mainstream laptops on Dec. 22. […]