AMD’s quad core is one die. Intel’s is two dice taped together.
Intel calls its Kentsfield chip a quad-core processor, and it is, in the sense that four cores execute inside one package you…
Halfway through the year, the scoreboard is upside down
Halfway through the year the console scoreboard reads almost exactly opposite to how everybody expected it to read, and the gap between…
Nobody advertises the number that matters
Every broadband advertisement is a download figure. Six megabits, ten, twenty if the fibre has reached you. Nobody puts the other number…
The iPhone is here and the carrier lost
People queued overnight outside shops for a telephone and I have been trying all week to decide whether that tells us something…
LinkedIn is profitable because it refuses to be fun
In the past three years, social networks have added various engaging features, while LinkedIn has maintained a simple professional focus, which is…
Motorola survived the proxy fight, not the problem
Motorola’s shareholders declined this month to put Carl Icahn on the board, which resolves the governance question and does nothing whatsoever about…
Facebook Launches Platform API Enabling Third-Party Apps, Transforming Social Network into Development Ecosystem
Facebook launched Facebook Platform on May 24, 2007 during f8 developer conference enabling third-party application development through open API framework allowing external…
Sony Ericsson wins by naming things properly
Sony Ericsson is having the best year of any handset maker nobody argues about, and the reason is a naming decision rather…
The mobile internet is limited by pricing, not speed
Apple’s phone ships next month and it does not have a 3G radio. It runs on EDGE, which is the slower data…
The Halo 3 beta is the best marketing of the year
Microsoft has put the Halo 3 multiplayer beta in front of a few hundred thousand people this month and it is the…
Six million residents and forty thousand people
Sweden opened an embassy in Second Life this year. Reuters has a bureau there with a correspondent who files stories. IBM has…
Apple’s laptops are now ordinary hardware, well assembled
Apple has refreshed the MacBook onto Intel’s new mobile platform this month, and the interesting part of that sentence is how boring…
MySpace has the accounts and Facebook has the returns
MySpace has several times as many accounts as Facebook and the gap is not closing quickly. If you go by the number…
Microsoft Launches Xbox 360 Elite with 120GB HDD, HDMI, Black Finish at Premium $479 Price
Microsoft launched Xbox 360 Elite model on April 29, 2007 introducing premium console variant featuring 120GB hard drive tripling standard 20GB model…
The new E3 arrives in July and nobody knows what it is for
The replacement for E3 happens in July, it is invitation only, it is being held partly in an airport hangar in Santa…