Week in review: A human virus
As the deadly SARS virus spreads around the world claiming more than one hundred lives, the tech industry finds that it's not immune.
As the deadly SARS virus spreads around the world claiming more than one hundred lives, the tech industry finds that it's not immune.
This week on the Dan & David Show, David and I are both in the same place (San Francisco) at the same time for a change. We hook up in the ZDNet broadcast studio in our nice suits, the professional look, for a video version of the show, thanks to our chief cinematographer Charlie Wagner, chief director and editor Kelly Hendricks, chief podcast engineer Jason Howell and the boss, executive producer Marianne Wilman.
Intel's CEO addresses execution problems, looks ahead to WiMax explosion.
Coop's Scoop: The week ahead the week that was: High noon for Microsoft, the Napster fiasco and Intel's chip fest.
At a recent bankers' conference, David Berlind found Intel's Wi-Fi presentation to be so misleading that he added two new slides to my own PowerPoint show: one for the truths and another for the untruths that continue to populate Intel's pitch of Centrino
Intel will get valuable intellectual property from Compaq for use in its chips, while eliminating a competitive threat to its Itanium processor.
The first public discussions of its fastest chips will headline the semiannual Intel Developer Forum. AMD plans to chip in, too.
After grabbing a larger share of the personal-computer market, Advanced Micro Devices is next aiming to take on rival Intel in the all-important corporate PC market.
A deal with Reuters may serve as a Trojan horse in a drive to dethrone Sun Microsystems in the financial services industry.
The Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) library was released this week as open source under the GPLv2 (plus runtime exception) license. The library makes it much easier for programmers to take advantage of all those multiple-core CPUs on the market now (and in the future), including non-Intel machines!