Scott Ferguson

NEW YORK—Intel is planning to use the 2008 Internal CES to highlight its efforts to dominate the emerging mobile market. At a briefing for reporters Dec. 14, the Santa Clara, Calif., company announced that the first devices to use its new “Menlow” mobile platform will be on display at CES and then hit the market […]

Ed Coleman, who came to Gateway as the CEO in 2006 and tried to steer the ailing PC company toward offering more server and storage products for the professional market, is leaving the company. Coleman’s department, which was announced Dec. 14, comes after Gateway was acquired by Taiwan’s Acer for $710 million in August. The […]

NEW YORK—Advanced Micro Devices is looking for redemption in 2008. After a year that saw a disappointing reception for its quad-core server and desktop microprocessors, and delays in delivering the chips these chips to its OEM partners, AMD stood before Wall Street analysts Dec. 13 with promises of refreshing a large portion of its lineup […]

NEW YORK—Advanced Micro Devices stumbled in bringing quad-core chips to the market this year, executives said while speaking with Wall Street analysts here Dec. 13. However, CEO Hector Ruiz and other company officials said AMD will return to profitability next year while refreshing its product portfolio. During its annual meeting with financial analysts, Ruiz and […]

SWsoft, a virtualization company that has labored in the shadow of VMware and other vendors for years, is changing its corporate name and plans to make a bigger push into this fast-growing market in 2008. In January, SWsoft will officially rechristen itself as Parallels—the original name of the virtualization company that SWsoft acquired several years […]

Dell and Toshiba are each bringing tablet PCs into the enterprise market this week, with both vendors offering their users touch-screen capabilities with the new models. The Dell Latitude XT tablet PC marks the first time the OEM has offered its own tablet PC for customers. Before this model rolled out Dec. 11, Dell had […]

Sun Microsystems is releasing the specifications of its new UltraSPARC T2 processor, formally code named Niagara 2, to the open-source community Dec. 12, as part of the company’s ongoing effort to build more of a community around its signature chip. When Sun announced the release of the eight-core UltraSPARC T2 chip in August 2007, company […]

SAP applications are now officially certified to run on VMware’s ESX Server. The two industry giants were expected to announce the new certification Dec. 12. This pact allows SAP applications to run on the ESX Server hypervisor in both 64-bit Microsoft Windows and Linux production environments. The two companies also announced that several server vendors—Dell, […]

IBM is moving a step closer delivering the first of its first 32-nanometer microprocessors with an announcement that it has developed a high-k metal gate manufacturing technology, which promises to reduce the power that leaks from a chip’s transistors while reducing the overall size of its chips. The first of the 32-nanometer chips—a nanometer is […]

Virtual Iron, which has been trying carve out a place for itself in a virtualization market that continues to grow in scope and importance, is updating its namesake software suite to better address disaster recovery and high availability concerns. Virtual Iron 4.2, which becomes available Dec. 10, adds several new features to the company’s virtualization […]

Dell is being sued by a couple of smaller companies that claim the PC vendor violated several patents regarding technology related to tablet PCs. The lawsuit, which was filed with the U.S. District Court of Eastern District of Texas Dec. 6, also names Motion Computing, an Austin, Texas, company that makes tablet PCs for a […]

These are tough times for Advanced Micro Devices. A year ago, AMD executives spoke confidently about the company’s future with the anticipation it had created around the release of its new Opteron processor—”Barcelona”—and the company’s approach to quad-core design. Now, as 2007 comes to a close, the company finds itself struggling financially, partly due to […]