Scott Ferguson

It’s official: Verizon Wireless will begin selling a $199.99 HP Mini netbook starting May 17. Several Web sites and publications had written that Verizon was ready to offer a netbook tied to a data plan and service agreement, and the carrier officially announced May 14 that it would begin selling Hewlett-Packard‘s HP Mini 1151NR netbook […]

Dell Adamo, Studio, Inspiron Laptops on Display in New York by Scott Ferguson The Dell Adamo The Adamo laptop, which weighs about 4 pounds and is about 0.65 inches thick, debuted in March and showed that Dell is interested in design as well as in more traditional laptops. The Dell Adamo The Adamo is milled […]

Intel is investing up to $12 million to create a research center that will focus on developing new graphics and visual computing technology at a time when the entire PC industry is trying to create new types of graphics-intense applications. Intel Senior Fellow and CTO Justin Rattner announced the $12 million investment May 12. Intel […]

Nokia is launching its latest E-Series smartphone-the Nokia S52-which offers business users the ability to talk up to 8 hours without recharging the handset, as well as support for both Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes Traveler for e-mail use. On May 6, Nokia announced that it will launch the S52 smartphone in the second […]

The BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone is coming to AT&T’s network in the “early summer” of 2009 and users who purchase an unlimited data plan from AT&T will be offered unlimited Wi-Fi access within the United States, according to the carrier. AT&T announced the availability of the BlackBerry Curve 8900 handset May 4, as Research In […]

Global sales of semiconductors fell 30 percent between the first quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009, as consumers and business users stopped buying laptops, enterprise hardware and other types of gadgets, according to a new report from the Semiconductor Industry Association. The May 1 report found that semiconductor sales fell from $62.8 […]

Intel continues to dominate a worldwide x86 microprocessor market that saw a year-over-year unit shipment decline of about 9 percent as consumers and business buyers cut back on laptop purchases. The world’s x86 chip market declined 9.1 percent from the first quarter of 2008 to the first quarter of 2009, according to an April 30 […]

While PC makers such as Hewlett-Packard and Acer have said they are looking to build netbooks that use Google’s Android operating system, a Chinese company says it plans in the next three months to release a mininotebook that uses the Android OS. Guangzhou Skytone Transmission Technologies plans to release a netbook later in 2009 called […]

Revenue from the sale of DRAM and NAND flash is expected to rebound a bit this year, but a full recovery of the worldwide memory chip market is not expected anytime soon, according to an April 23 report from the iSuppli research firm. In its latest report on the worldwide memory chip market, iSuppli found […]

Advanced Micro Devices has unveiled an ambitious microprocessor road map that has the chip company rolling out its six-core “Istanbul” processor for large-scale server systems in June, as well as new microprocessor and platform updates for 2010 and 2011. In addition to Istanbul, AMD plans in the next two years to offer a range of […]

Acer Taps Intel, Nvidia for New Line of Laptops, All-in-One PCs by Scott Ferguson The Acer AspireRevo This is Acer’s new nettop, which uses an Intel Atom 230 processor along with the Nvidia Ion platform for graphics. This small form-factor desktop also features a SATA (Serial ATA) hard disk drive or a solid-state drive along […]

Teradici, a 5-year-old Canadian startup that works with heavyweights such as IBM, Dell and VMware, is receiving an additional $17 million in funding from several venture capital firms. Teradici, founded in 2004 by Dave Hobbs and Dan Cordingley, a former Intel executive, is expected to officially announce the $17 million in series C funding on […]