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AMD’s Tale of Woe

It'd be difficult to imagine a more stark contrast in financial numbers between industry rivals than what we saw this week with Intel and...

Earnings Reports Show Scant Signs of IT Slowdown

There is no sign of an IT recession in the latest quarterly reports from some of the biggest names in the industry. But it's...

IT Report Card Week: Why It Matters

report%20card.jpg It's report card week in Silicon Valley (also in Armonk, N.Y., and Redmond, Wash.) and Google, Microsoft, IBM, Intel and AMD, all bellweather tech...

Attack on the Psystar Mac Clones

Mac%20Clone.jpg Apple has sued Psystar, a White Box maker that began selling a $399 Mac clone in April, for copyright and software licensing violations. Apple is...

Why I Won’t be Reporting from the iPhone Queue

Friday was a dark day for reporters at newspapers and local television stations nationwide.The iPhone 3G launch meant editors sent them in droves to...

Oracle iPhone Apps Leverage Web Services

Enterprises have gained new incentive to adopt the iPhone with the release of the first Oracle application on the iPhone, Oracle Business Indicators, which...

iPhone, AT&T Activation Swamped by Long Lines

There is no shortage of live coverage of the iPhone. Almost all reports indicate long lines made worse by slow service. All fingers point...

Oracle, Salesforce and a Free iPhone

Oracle and Salesforce.com might be your ticket to a free iPhone?How? Make your boss pay for it.Oracle, the enterprise application giant, and Salesforce.com, the...

Rating the Bug Trackers

It sounds like a water-cooler sort of discussion that you'd hear in any high-tech company. According to Tim Bray, one of the founders of...

Data Breach Hits Google Employees

Reports have been trickling out of Silicon Valley of a potentially major personal data breach affecting Google employees.But the data breach didn't result from...