Scott Ferguson

As consumers wait for the latest version of Microsofts Windows Vista operating system to hit the shelves, Hewlett-Packard and Gateway are each angling for the best way to sell the new OS to their customers. On Jan. 29, one day before the official launch, both companies announced that they would offer support and products that […]

Dell says its ready to start taking Vista orders—now. The Round Rock, Texas, PC maker will start taking orders for the consumer version of Microsofts Windows Vista operating system starting on Jan. 27, the company announced in a statement. Microsoft released the enterprise version of Vista on Nov. 30, and the software giant said it […]

Lenovo Group believes that less can be more. The Raleigh, N.C., PC maker is scheduled to roll out its latest small form factor desktop on Jan. 29—the ThinkCentre A55—which company officials said is 64 percent smaller than its traditional desktop offering. The new PC will also offer a range of new features that Lenovo hopes […]

Hewlett-Packard won a small legal victory earlier this week, when a federal judge in Texas dismissed a lawsuit filed by a former executive with the IT giant. In his ruling, which was released late on Jan. 25, U.S. District Court Judge Michale Schneider ordered that Karl Kamb, a former HP executive, withdraw his counterclaim against […]

Hewlett-Packard believes thinner is better, and is rolling out two new thin-client PCs on Jan. 26, as well as offering new features for its blade PC architecture. With the additional investments in thin clients and blades, the Palo Alto, Calif., PC maker is aiming for vertical markets, such as health care, where it can make […]

Sales of Apples professional line of Macintosh desktops and notebooks could get a boost after Adobe releases the full version of its new Photoshop CS3 digital imaging software later in 2007, according to one analyst. In a Jan. 24 report to investors, Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray in Minneapolis, wrote that the feedback […]

Advanced Micro Devices is looking to expand its reach into the embedded chip market. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company announced Jan. 24 that its expanding the number of chips it will offer to designers in the high-end embedded market. The company will now include the Sempron 3500+ processor and the Turion 64 X2 dual-core TL-52 processor […]

IBM and Freescale Semiconductor are working together to research and develop 45-nanomter chip technology that will find its first practical applications in consumer devices, such as cell phones and other handheld devices. The two companies will develop this 45-nanometer manufacturing process with an eye toward chips that will have low power consumption but yield high […]

Advanced Micro Devices, the worlds second largest maker of processors, rolled to a loss in the fourth quarter as the $5.4 billion acquisition of ATI Technologies and sluggish sales of server chips took their toll on the companys bottom line. For the financial quarter that ended Dec. 31, AMD, which is based in Sunnyvale, Calif., […]

Unisys is rolling out two additional infrastructure offerings as part of its Real Time Infrastructure product line, and the two products are designed to help with both virtualization and automation within a data center. As with several previous products the Blue Bell, Pa., company started selling in 2005, these two new tools look to help […]

After spending years apart, Sun Microsystems and Intel have agreed to team up. In an announcement just a day before its due to release it latest quarterly results, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz told an audience in San Francisco on Jan. 22 that his company would produce new Xeon-based x86 servers and workstation by later in […]

Claiming a milestone for symmetric multiprocessing server systems, Sun Microsystems is readying the release of its latest SPARC model multiprocessor, called “Rock,” for a 2008 release. While a firm date for an actual release has not been set, Fadi Azhari, director of outbound marketing at Sun, said the Santa Clara, Calif., company plans to start […]