Scott Ferguson

Intel is considering job cuts at one of its fabs in Rio Rancho, N.M. as the company looks to move away from some of its older microprocessor technology. On May 1, Intel executives met with employees at the Rio Rancho facility, known as Fab 11, and told the staff there that the Santa Clara, Calif., […]

Sun Microsystems is shining some new light on its “Rock” processor. On May 2, the Santa Clara, Calif., company is announcing that its new UltraSPARC multicore processor, called Rock, successfully booted Suns own Solaris 10 operating system for the first time. “This is the most complex thing we have ever built at Sun,” said Jeff […]

IBM wants to take client computing back to the data center. Along with Devon IT, IBM is developing a new BladeCenter system that will allow IT administrators to control and manage a fleet of thin client PCs from a back-end data center—a concept that several other vendors have begun proposing as a more secure alternative […]

Dell is looking to increase its ties to LANDesk, a provider of desktop, server and patch management software, as a way of offering more comprehensive enterprise administration tools for the vendors line of PCs and servers. Dell, based in Round Rock, Texas, already offers LANDesks Server Manager software with a few select models from its […]

The news coming from Dell headquarters is clear: Its time to forget the past and start reinventing the company before its too late. Since returning to the CEOs chair on Jan. 31, Michael Dell has made no secret of trying to push his struggling Round Rock, Texas, company in a new direction to help stop […]

A group of investors is looking for Apple to be a little greener. In a letter sent to fellow shareholders April 26, Shelley Alpern, vice president of Trillium Asset Management, in Boston, is urging Apple to adopt greener policies in the manufacturing of its Macintosh line and other products. “Apple has been at the forefront […]

IBMs System z mainframes are about to get a microprocessor makeover. The company is announcing April 25 that it will begin integrating its Cell Broadband Engine Architecture microprocessors into the companys line of mainframe servers. The Cell processor, which IBM began developing in 2001 along with Toshiba and Sony, has been mainly used to power […]

It was on Aug. 14, 2006 that Dell first announced it would recall more than 4 million laptops notebook battery packs after reports of fires and property damage. Now, nine months after those first voluntary recalls of Sony-made notebook battery packs, Acer will recall some 27,000 notebooks that also contained those same lithium-ion batteries. Acer, […]

On April 24, Dell began offering a 1.8-inch, 32GB solid state drive option on its ultraportable Latitude D420 and its semi-rugged D620 ATG model. In a written statement, Chief Technology Officer Kevin Kettler said that the SSD option on these two notebooks was just the beginning and the company would start offering more SSDs “across […]

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged Apples former top attorney April 24 with fraudulently backdating millions of stock options to the companys top executives, including CEO Steve Jobs, in 2001. After months of speculation following an internal review by Apple, the SEC filed civil charges against Nancy Heinen, the companys former general counsel, accusing […]