Scott Ferguson

Despite posting an upbeat fourth-quarter financial report, Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd warned that company will face a “challenging” PC market in 2009, leaving the door open for more cost cutting in the coming year. HP, the world’s largest PC vendor, officially posted its fourth-quarter financial results Nov. 24. The company had already released preliminary numbers […]

While a computer with artificial intelligence such as HAL of “2001: A Space Odyssey” remains the stuff of science fiction, IBM researchers are looking to develop technologies that will bring cognitive abilities to a new class of computers. IBM researchers, along with scientists from several major universities, have been awarded a $4.9 million grant from […]

Dell, which remains the world’s second largest PC vendor, beat Wall Street estimates and posted a third-quarter net income of $727 million thanks to a number of aggressive cost-cutting measures and a reduction in operating expenses. Dell released its third-quarter financial results Nov. 20. The company posted a net income of $727 million, or 37 […]

When Citigroup announced Nov. 17 that it will eliminate another 52,000 jobs, the news marked the latest in a growing string of moves by companies big and small to pare jobs as a way of cutting expenses in hopes of surviving the financial crisis that has engulfed the economy. A result of the massive numbers […]

Transmeta, which once pursued Intel and Advanced Micro Devices with low-power processors for notebooks and desktops, has agreed to sell its remaining intellectual property and assets for $255.6 million. On Nov. 17, Transmeta announced that it had agreed to sell its intellectual property to Novafora, a fabless, privately held semiconductor company that is developing digital […]

Hewlett-Packard offered some good news for the technology sector when it released preliminary fourth quarter numbers that beat Wall Street expectations despite the sagging economy and financial crisis. On Nov. 18, HP reported that its revenue for the fourth financial quarter stood at $33.6 billion, an increase of 19 percent from a year ago. HP […]

Nvidia is looking to bring the power of a supercomputer cluster to the desktop. At the 2008 Supercomputing Conference in Austin, Texas, Nvidia will demonstrate a new HPC (high-performance computer) design that will allow OEMs to pack between two and four Nvidia GP-GPUs (general purpose graphics processing units) with a workstation form factor. Nvidia executives […]

IBM is planning to increase the virtualization capabilities of its Power Systems by acquiring Transitive, a company that has developed software that allows applications written for a specific microprocessor and operating system to run on different platforms. IBM and Transitive announced the acquisition agreement Nov. 18. The two companies did not disclose financial terms or […]

IBM’s Roadrunner supercomputer narrowly beat out a revamped Cray XT Jaguar high-performance computer system to hold onto the No. 1 spot on the latest version of the Top 500 Supercomputer list. According to the Top 500 list, which was released Nov. 17, the IBM Roadrunner system held onto the top spot with a performance of […]

It’s official: Intel is releasing the first of its Core i7 processors today. During an event in San Francisco Nov. 17, Intel will release the first three processors in its Core i7 family. The three Core i7 processors are based on an updated microarchitecture code-named Nehalem. The launch will allow Intel and its PC vendor […]