Scott Ferguson

Lenovo is joining the low-cost notebook parade with a $399 laptop. On Aug. 4, Lenovo released its first low-cost notebook, or “netbook,” called the IdeaPad S10, which will have a 10.2-inch wide display and use Intel’s Atom processor. Lenovo, best known for its business-class ThinkPad notebooks, first introduced the IdeaPad line in January as a […]

IBM is investing $360 million to build a new cloud computing center in North Carolina that promises to deliver cloud services and infrastructure to a new range of customers. The Aug. 1 announcement comes on the same day that IBM plans to officially open a cloud computing facility in Tokyo that will offer cloud services […]

Blade servers will lead the server market in terms of growth in the next four to five years, but a lack of universal standards and the proprietary architecture used for blades are still drawbacks. In a Gartner blade market study released July 31, the research firm’s analysts believe while the importance and benefits of blades […]

Facebook is turning to Intel for the processing power needed to expand its data center infrastructure. In a joint agreement announced July 31, Facebook will use “thousands” of Intel-based servers to expand its business operations and build out its data center infrastructure to meet the needs of customers who are using new media applications, such […]

Intel is poised to announce an agreement with Portugal that will bring 500,000 of the Intel-designed Classmate PC notebooks into the hands of thousands of elementary school children. Intel Chairman Craig Barrett and Portuguese Prime Minister Jos??« S??crates are expected to announce the agreement July 30 in Lisbon. The Classmate PC laptops will be distributed […]

AMD Previews New Notebooks, Consumer Products AMD Previews New Notebooks, Consumer Products – HP Pavilion tx2500 Hewlett-Packard offers a wide range of AMD-based laptops, as well as tablets. The Pavilion tx2500, which has a 12.1-inch screen, uses the newer AMD “Puma” mobile platform, which includes a dual-core Turion X2 Ultra processor and an ATI Radeon […]

Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Yahoo have entered into a pact to create new research and development centers that will test the limits of cloud computing.The three IT giants announced plans July 29 to create what they are calling Cloud Computing Test Beds that will allow enterprises, universities and government entities to test the software, data center […]

IBM and Rackable Systems have inked a new agreement that will allow Rackable to pack IBM’s BladeCenter systems in its modular data center for the first time. The agreement, which the two companies are expected to announce July 28, will allow Rackable to offer IBM’s BladeCenter T and HT blade chassis within its own ICE […]

VMware is positioning itself to provide a layer of virtualization technology needed to create a cloud computing infrastructure. When newly minted CEO Paul Maritz spoke to analysts July 22 following the release of VMware’s 2008 second-quarter financial results, he told the audience that the virtualization company is moving into a new stage of its development […]

Intel is gearing up to offer a new line of embedded microprocessors for a future generation of gadgets that include mobile Internet devices, high-definition televisions and even large systems that power telecommunications infrastructure. On July 24, Intel will debut the first of eight new SOC (system on a chip) processors under the name of Intel […]