Scott Ferguson

The 1 billionth PC is expected to roll off the assembly line and into use by the end of 2008, some 31 years after its introduction to the market, and that number will reach 2 billion just seven years later, according to new projections. Much of the growth during the PC’s first three decades has […]

Sun Microsystems expects its latest service feature to be the answer for IT managers lost in their own data center. Dubbed Inventory Channel, the latest offering of Sun Connection Services, the Santa Clara, Calif., company’s line of networked service offerings, is designed to inventory a data center’s assets—physical and virtual—from a single console. The inventory […]

NASA is preparing to take off with a new IBM supercomputer. IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., has entered into a four-year contract with National Aeronautics and Space Administration to build a supercomputer at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. This supercomputer, which will augment the “Columbia” systems already installed at the NASA facility, will […]

Increased competition and lower prices for dynamic RAM have led to Gartner to lower its forecast for the worldwide semiconductor market, the research firm announced May 31. In 2007, Gartner expects the semiconductor market to grow 2.5 percent with revenues of $269.2 billion. The Stamford, Conn., research firm had originally called for growth of 6.4 […]

Dell wants its enterprise customers thinking “green” when it comes to desktops. For the second time in a month, the Round Rock, Texas, company is offering PCs with updated configurations that will meet the new Energy Star 4.0 requirements developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Starting May 30, Dell will offer its OptiPlex 745 […]

The world might not be ready for a “Milan” coffee-table PC in every living room just yet, but that won’t stop Microsoft from trying. With the launch of its new surface computing product May 30, it appears that Microsoft is positioning its new technology for widespread use both in the enterprise as well as the […]

Hewlett-Packard announced May 23 that it has agreed to a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission concerning its handling of Tom Perkins’ resignation from its Board of Directors. Under the agreement, the Palo Alto, Calif., company agreed to a cease-and-desist order by the SEC in regards to the federal investigation of Perkins’ resignation from […]

Advanced Micro Devices is poised to unveil its next-generation microprocessor for notebooks along with a new laptop platform that looks to compete with Intel’s recently released Centrino offering. On May 18, AMD executives will detail its new mobile microprocessor, code-named Griffin, along with its “Puma” platform for laptops. Both the chip and the platform are […]

With virtualization fairly well established in the data center as a way to squeeze more out of x86 servers, top vendors, industry watchers and customers have started to turn more attention to getting that same type of potential out of the desktop. A little more than a year ago, desktop virtualization seemed more of a […]

Hewlett-Packard is moving to show its blade customers that there’s more to its service offerings than hardware repairs. Starting May 11, the Palo Alto, Calif., company will start offering blade customers a new set of services dubbed HP Proactive BladeSystem Services, which executives said will help customers address and solve problems in areas ranging from […]

VMware has added to the latest version of its workstation virtualization software support for Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system. The Workstation 6 desktop virtualization software, or hypervisor, which the Palo Alto, Calif., company officially launched May 9, allows multiple operating systems or other applications to run on the same physical machine. VMware, which is owned […]

Hewlett-Packard is expanding its line of business notebooks with an emphasis on greater mobility and security. At its Mobility Summit in Shanghai, China, which starts May 8, HP will roll out several new laptops geared toward business users. Included in this mix is a new tablet PC, the HP Compaq 2710p, which weighs 3.6 pounds […]