Scott Ferguson

Gateway has moved a step closer to buying Packard Bell. Gateway, based in Irvine, Calif., is offering approximately $44 million for Packard Bell shares, according to an Oct. 9 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Gateway executives had confirmed on Oct. 8 that they would move ahead with an offer to buy Packard Bell, […]

The first of Sun Microsystems UltraSPARC T2 systems are ready to hit the market. At its Customer Engineering Conference in Las Vegas Oct. 9, Sun, based in Santa Clara, Calif., will introduce a pair of rack-mount systems, along with a new blade server, that will be the first to use Suns new UltraSPARC T2 or […]

VMware is preparing several updates to its Virtual Infrastructure 3 suite, including a laundry list of additional features to its ESX hypervisor designed to offer the companys customers greater flexibility when it comes to networking and memory-intense workloads. The Palo Alto, Calif. virtualization company unveiled details on Oct. 8 of the latest version of ESX […]

IBM is gearing up to take on Hewlett-Packard in the small and midsize business market. The Armonk, N.Y., IT giant is preparing to release in December the new BladeCenter S enclosure, which it first announced in June. IBM plans to target many of the same SMB customers and enterprises with remote sites that HP has […]

Intel is confirming that it plans on changing some, but not all, of its product names by the beginning of 2008 in order to help streamline and simplify its platform and processor portfolios. At its 2007 Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel executives introduced a myriad of new code names for the companys future platforms […]

MPC has completed its acquisition of Gateways professional division. The deal was originally announced about a week after Acer said Aug. 27 that it would buy the majority of Gateways business for $710 million. On Oct. 2, Reuters reported that Acer, headquartered in Taiwan, would extend its offer until Oct. 10 to allow U.S. regulators […]

SAN FRANCISCO—By the time the 2007 Intel Developer Forum ended here Sept. 20, two things were certain: Intel has no shortage of code names for its upcoming product lines, and the company kept any future surprises under wraps. That seems to be the way Intel wanted it. This years show had plenty of technology updates […]

Mark Barrenechea stood outside the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco Sept. 18 next to a 40-foot-long trailer, which represents one of a growing number of ways vendors are making the tech industry more environmentally friendly. The president and CEO of Rackable Systems brought the trailer—the latest model of the Fremont, Calif., companys mobile data […]

Advanced Micro Devices is looking to jump back into the embedded chip market. At the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston Sept. 19, the Sunnyvale, Calif., company will announce the addition of three single-core Athlon 64 processors to its embedded chip portfolio. All three chips, the Athlon 64 2000+, 2600+ and the 3100+, will have low […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Rackable Systems wants to deliver mobile computing on ice. At the 2007 Intel Developer Forum here Sept. 18, the Fremont, Calif., company-best known for its high-density X86 storage and server products-rolled up its latest mobile data center right next to the convention halls doors. The ICE (Integrated Concentro Environment) Cube is Rackables second attempt […]