Tag: design

  • Microsoft Forms Interoperabilty Council

    Microsoft Forms Interoperabilty Council

    Peter Galli

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    BOSTON—Hot on the heels of revelations that it is reaching out to the open-source community to find ways of interoperating with software licensed under the GPL, Microsoft announced on June 14 that it has formed an Interoperability Customer Executive Council. The goal of the group is to identify areas for improved interoperability across not just… Read more

  • VARs Tap SmartSource for Technical Skills

    VARs Tap SmartSource for Technical Skills

    Pedro Pereira

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    Keeping people with the right technical skills on staff and having enough work to extract the full value out of those skills is a delicate balance for solution providers. Increasingly, VARs, integrators and IT service providers turn to independent contractors to temporarily hire workers with the skills as they need them, partnering with firms such… Read more

  • Gateway Sets Sights on Small Business

    Gateway Sets Sights on Small Business

    Jeffrey Burt

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    Computer maker Gateway Inc. wants to expand its commercial business by focusing on smaller businesses. Gateway, of Irvine, Calif., kicked off the initiative Thursday with the release of a low-end server and a new line of desktop and notebook PCs armed with features that officials say are needed by small businesses with little or no… Read more

  • Mobile GPU Slap-Down: GeForce Go 6800 vs. Mobility Radeon X800

    Dave Salvator

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    In the two-player GPU race, it should come as no surprise that ATI and nVidia throw rocks at each other—a lot of rocks. After all, who else are they going to throw rocks at, other than Intel’s underwhelming integrated cores? In the desktop GPU race, each company ultimately has to put its GPU where its… Read more

  • Intel CEO: Dual-Core Design Addresses Power Challenge

    Intel CEO: Dual-Core Design Addresses Power Challenge

    John Pallatto

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    ORLANDO, Fla.—Intel Corp.’s decision to move to a multicore architecture for its next-generation CPUs is a recognition that the computer industry is facing an increasing power-management challenge in its chip designs, Intel CEO Craig Barrett said Tuesday. However, Barrett said this challenge doesn’t indicate that the industry has run up against the technological limit of… Read more

  • Memory Glitch Spurs HP Recall

    Memory Glitch Spurs HP Recall

    Mark Hachman

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    Hewlett-Packard Corp. said Friday that it will replace memory modules in some of its notebooks with an “industrywide” design flaw that can cause system lockups. The problem is tied to the interaction of DRAM from several manufacturers and several chip sets, all designed by Intel Corp. The flaw, which could result in system lockups, is… Read more