Marvell will win mobile business in China!
October 19, 2009
Will Marvell win the mobile business in China? | www.mobileburn.com
Top management at Marvell is focused directly to this objective.
Oracle's Acquisitions Continue to Roll On
October 8, 2009
Oracle To Acquire HyperRoll | www.informationweek.com
o Oracle's acquisition of HyperRoll provides it with innovative technology that complements its Hyperion business intelligence offerings as well as the Oracle Database.o It increases the competitive appeal of Oracle's BI offerings in several markets including the installed base of some of its competitors. o It provides further evidence of Oracle's willingness to acquire niche technology that adds new functionality and/or improves the performance of its current offerings.
Nvidia leaps into supercomputers
October 5, 2009
Nvidia and "Starting the Next Age of Personal Computing" | www.tgdaily.com
Nvidia is in the test of its life with big stakes, big investments, and big risks – Fermi is a hail Mary pass if ever there was one. It’s not as reactionary or impulsive as some have suggested and a plan I think has been in the process for the past three years. Nvidia has been putting the pieces in place for the Fermi product through acquisition, industry initiatives and setting up the platform. One of Jen Hsun Hung’s strengths is his long range vision and I think you can see it at work here.
Microsoft launches competition for Google Apps.????
September 20, 2009
Will You Use Microsoft's Office Web Apps? | www.microsoft-watch.com
1. Will Microsoft's launch of a web-based office suite undermine their current office products?2. Does Microsoft know how to deliver web applications?3. Can Google reach the enterprise?
Cisco's advantages and challenges. Comparisons to Juniper, ProCurve, Brocade.
August 5, 2009
Cisco’s Sales Will Drop as Much as 17%, Chambers Says | www.bloomberg.com
Cisco's strengths and challenges for their first fiscal quarter and beyond can be further defined when we compare them to their competition. Juniper, HP ProCurve, Avaya, Brocade (Foundry), Nortel, 3COM are vendors that can help us define and understand Cisco. Cisco's success may very well be due to the weakness of their competition versus the strengths of Cisco. In addition, with $30 plus billion of cash they are better positioned than most.
July 30, 2009
Digitimes Insight: Intel Pine Trail launch to delay | www.digitimes.com
In a meeting yesterday with Intel excutives I learned that Pineview, Intel's Atom CPU intgrated with a graphics processor and memory manger, is not delayed as has been reported elsewhere.
Continued growth in all segements in computer graphics industry
July 28, 2009
The Compute Graphics market will have a CAGR of 8% to 2013 | www.jonpeddie.com
The computer graphics industry has enjoyed almost non-stop growth since it was established the late 1970s. Today, computer graphics hardware and software (not counting services, maintenance and other aspects) are worth $68 billion – that’s a mind boggling average growth rate of 16.5% for 28 years! (Charts available: email jon@jonpeddie.com)
IBM To Acquire SPSS and its Data Mining Capabilities
July 28, 2009
IBM Buys A Profitable Prophet | www.forbes.com
o IBM and SPSS are certainly not strangers and IBM's pending acquisition of SPSS will further enhance IBM's analytic capabilities.o SPSS has an OEM agreement with IBM Cognos' rival SAP BusinessObjects for the data mining component of the BusinessObjects XI platform. This partnership will likely now be tested.o The software industry continues to consolidate as giants acquire complementary technology. This trend will likely accelerate as the economy recovers.
Microsoft - One Disappointing Quarter is Not a Disaster
July 28, 2009
Update: Microsoft Revenue Declines 17% in Fiscal Q4 | www.computerworld.com
o Microsoft's earnings disappointment was influenced by product release dates, in particular the Windows 7 operating system.o The pending release of Windows 7 caused the many PC and associated software sales to be delayed. o The home market will quickly respond once Windows 7 starts shipping with new PCs; businesses will remain cautious until PC software applications have proved to be compatible and Windows 7 tested in pilot implementations.
The convergence of CG computing and visualization has arrived.
July 28, 2009
How does the world change when you can see what you’re thinking? | jonpeddie.com
Today, with GPU compute the researcher launches the computation in his or her own lab with his or her local supercomputer and with the same machine does the visualizations the way he or she wants them done. Depending on the complexity of the task jobs that took weeks now takes days, jobs that took days can be done in minutes and the time scales are further compressing. Productivity goes up, quality of research goes up, humanity benefits - it is the convergence of compute and viz.
Switzerland sues Google over Street View privacy concerns
November 13, 2009
Here Come the Droids! A brief review of Verizon Wireless' new Droid line-up.
November 11, 2009
October 30, 2009
Vodafone Orange Iphone Deal Ends Two Years Exclusivity Of O2 In UK
October 5, 2009
IPhone Coma Mode puts Apple in the ICU
September 19, 2009