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- The code name for AMD's quad-core chip introduced in 2007. With many enhancements for virtualization, instruction execution and memory bandwidth, the Barcelona has four separate processors, each having its...
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- News to know: Cisco; Azure; Smartphones; Twitter lists; Facebook; Skype; Twitter device
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Cisco unveils collaboration, e-mail and social tools for the enterprise Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft puts more...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Twitter Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Skype Technologies S.A., Cisco Systems Inc., Smartphone, Sam Diaz, E-mail, Web Browsers, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Online Communications, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
- Pre-Copenhagen climate talks end in Barcelona
- Copehagen is in one month. Talks in Barcelona produce verbal emissions. by Harry Fuller
- Tags: Barcelona, Copehagen, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-11-06
- Gauging our future
- As long as there has been digital tech, it's GIGO. Without data or faulty data, well, you get what you start with. Digital tech does not take cow manure and return tasty tomatoes. So even if your grandchildren are still powering this planet with coal...
- Tags: Grid, Teridian, Manufacturing, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- AMD, Intel battle for the mainstream - how low can quad-core go?
- Two stories about AMD jumped out at me this week. First, market researcher iSuppli reported that Intel had increased its share of the worldwide PC processor market, by revenues, to more than 80 percent--a level it hasn't reach in nearly four years. AMD lost share not because it is selling...
- Tags: AMD Athlon, Quad-core, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Chip, Athlon II X4, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2009-09-17
- Re: Re: Winning the Battle but Losing the War
- Larry Dignan wrote here about the reality that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 & 7 are the official, formal web browsers for 78% of companies, a figure arrived at by Forrester research. The simple reason for this is basically security and software compatibility. Many...
- Tags: Firewall, Collaboration, Information Technology, IT Department Budget, Strategy, E-mail, Security, Management, Online Communications, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-04-30
- The new railroad era?
- Will Americans become train trained? Europe and Japan have long had high-speed rail systems linking major metro areas. Can America rediscover rails or are we too much in love with the shoeless security probes and two-hour waits at the local airport? President Obama wants to...
- Tags: Barack Obama, Mph, Health Care, Speed, Rail, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- How Nokia Ovi Store will trump Apple on global stage
- It may not be the most high-profile announcement around, but Nokia's Ovi Store may affect millions more mobile phone users than Apple's App Store ever will, 25,000 apps be damned. At least that's the impression that I got last week after sitting down with Nokia's VP for...
- Tags: Nokia Corp., Apple Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- Push for universal mobile phone charger gains momentum
- OK, I'll admit it. I am NOT in Barcelona, Spain. Which is why I won't even try to pseudo-report the green tech news that came out of the Mobile World Congress that was held there over the past week. What I WILL do is point to this trend piece from...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, Cell Phone, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-02-20
- News to know: Google antitrust; Bin Laden; Yelp Mafia; HP pay
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Garett Rogers: Will Google be targeted by new Attorney General for Antitrust? Sam Diaz: Where's Bin Laden? New theory,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Osama Bin Laden, Hewlett-Packard Co., Antitrust, Dana Blankenhorn, Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Law, Pricing, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Public Relations, Marketing, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Corporate Communications
- Blog posts 2009-02-20
- The message from GSMA Barcelona: fragmentation
- The GSMA World Congress was this week in Barcelona. Though its difficult to identify themes in a conference as large as the GMSA extravaganza, the sense I got from four days wandering its halls was that fragmentation will rule the smartphone market for many, many years to come. by...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, Palm Inc., Smart Phone, Conference, Telecom & Utilities, Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2009-02-19
- Gmail for iPhone goes offline, as in airplane mode
- Google demoed an offline version of Gmail for the iPhone and Android that works in airplane mode at Mobile World Congress MWC 2009 in Barcelona, Spain. The app does its magic by implementing several features found in HTML5, including: Database (W3C HTML5) App Cache (W3C HTML5)...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Gmail, W3C, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- Verizon Wireless: 4G LTE trials showing 50 to 60 Mbps download rates
- Verizon Wireless said Wednesday that it is testing 4G Long Term Evolution LTE service with the aim of launching commercial service in 2010. Verizon Wireless said the 4G LTE network in field trials has demonstrated download rates of 50 to 60 megabits per second, but the final speeds are to...
- Tags: 4G, Verizon Communications Inc., Verizon Wireless, 4G LTE, 4G LTE Trial, Cellular Phones, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- ARM shows possible iPhone-bound multicore mobile processor
- ARM is demonstrating the first working example of a multicore processor that may dramatically speed up smartphones while Apple is searching for iPhone engineers that can write multithreaded code, perhaps to take advantage of ARM's breakthrough, AppleInsider reports. The chip designer along with ST-Ericsson is reportedly running...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, ARM, Mobile, Multi-core, Chip, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- Universal mobile phone charger promises 50% less draw
- The mobile phone industry plans to introduce a universal charger as part of a drive to improve its previously patchy environmental record, The Guardian UK reports. In addition to universal appeal -- yuk, yuk -- specifications for the new device include a 50 percent reduction in standby...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Andrew Nusca, Cell Phone, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Mobile, Personal Technology, Phone
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- Microsoft's mobile strategy: Can it thread the prosumer needle?
- Microsoft unveiled Windows Mobile 6.5 with a prettier user interface that will play well with touch devices, a Web synchronization service dubbed My Phone and an applications marketplace. But questions hover even as Microsoft rolls out these new services: Can Microsoft move fast enough to keep Windows Mobile fresh and...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Hardware, Larry Dignan, Marketing, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Operating Systems, Phone, Software, Strategy, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless And Mobility
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- Adobe: Full-featured Flash 10 coming to a smartphone near you; Apple stand-off continues
- Adobe will roll out a full-blown version of Flash on smartphones running Windows Mobile, Android, Nokia S60/Symbian and Palm beginning in 2010. The big omission remains Apple's iPhone, which remains in a stand-off with Adobe over Flash. Maggie Reardon reports from Barcelona at the GSMA Mobile World...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Mobile, Smart Phone, Apple Inc., Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-16
- Flash 10 coming to most mobiles; except iPhone
- Adobe announced that Flash Player 10, a full-fledged version of the Adobe Flash player is coming soon to a whole slew of smartphones at the GSMA Mobile World Congress which opened Monday in Barcelona, Spain. Unfortunately, the iPhone isn't one of them. The full Flash Player...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Mobile, Macromedia Flash Player, Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Palm OS, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Operating Systems, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Software, Hardware, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-02-15
- Garmin and Asus to show off nuvifones; Will anyone buy them?
- Garmin and Asus next week will show off two nuvifones, a smartphone with a GPSÂ twist, but the larger question is whether proconsumers will buy it. Garmin-Asus is a co-branded partnership with Garmin and Asus parent ASUSTek Computer. The duo will show off the nuvifone G60 and M20...
- Tags: ASUS, Garmin Ltd., Garmin Nuvifone, M20, Smart Phones, GPS, Handhelds, Keyboards, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-12
- Android-based tablet PC has smartphone capabilities
- An Android-based collaboration between Texas Instruments and multimedia device manufacturer ARCHOS has yielded an Internet tablet based on Google Android. The companies jointly announced the ultrathin Internet Media Tablet yesterday, a handheld computer with smartphone capabilities, they said. The device utilizes Google's Android telephony stack, ARCHOS' multimedia...
- Tags: Google Android, Archos, PC, Smart Phone, Tablet PC, Wireless Connectivity, Smart Phones, Tablets, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Media Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- In Apple's footsteps: Google licenses Microsoft ActiveSync
- Microsoft's ActiveSync licensing program is continuing full-steam ahead. Last year, Apple acknowledged it had licensed ActiveSync to enable better synchronization between Exchange Server and the iPhone. ActiveSync, as explained on Microsoft's Web site, is "a communication protocol that enables mobile, 'over-the-air' access to your e-mail messages, schedules,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft ActiveSync, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advertising & Promotion, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
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