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AMD Unleashes Kaveri APUs

"In essence, Kaveri contains four CPU cores and eight GPU cores which can be programmed individually and all share common memory resources," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "That's in contrast to traditional environments in which CPUs and GPUs ...

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Will ARM Get a Cold Shoulder from Data Center Owners?

The past couple of years have seen rising interest in and considerable promotion of servers and appliances based on the ARM microprocessor architecture ...

Microsoft’s Next Windows May Be Dressed to the 9

"Windows 8 really shines on touchscreen devices, including tablets and all-in-ones, but arrived at market months before those products became widely available," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "It's a bit like manufacturing a hot new sports car but delivering it to market while the roads are still riddled with potholes."

The CES 2014 Hotties List

"The Internet of Things will probably have the broadest impact, since it includes quickly evolving, increasingly intelligent and highly mobile technologies of every kind," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "That means we'll see sensors providing interfaces and collecting information in a broad range of home and office products."

New Case Lets iPhones See the Heat

"With the Flir and other products, including the wearables that dominated much of the news at CES, we seem to have entered what might be called the age of companion's companions," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. ...

Intel Leaps Out of the Box

"Wearables are a very hot topic at CES 2014, and the sector fits well in Intel's Internet of Things strategy," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "It also offered the company an opportunity to spotlight three new and unusual development/channel p...

Amazon’s Cloud Drifts to China

"By partnering rather than going by itself, Amazon could provide the implementation of AWS while minimizing its own costs and risks," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "That could be a very viable way for the company to move forward." Gove...

Google Glass Just Got Creepier

"Given past history, it's virtually inevitable that privacy issues will be raised," remarked Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT Light at the End of the Tunnel?...

IBM’s Insights 2013 and ‘Restless Reinvention’

For IT industry analysts, autumn is a migratory time filled with trips to vendor conferences and summits. While their forms and locations tend to differ, most vendors use the time to delineate how their strategies, solutions and sales have progressed during the past calendar year and to discuss where they will be heading in the months and years ahead...

Corporate Boards Quake as Microsoft Scours for CEO

Microsoft "needs to find someone with world-class management skills and knowledge of numerous, often disparate, markets who is also a rock star executive with past success that will make the markets believe he or she is the right choice to run the world's largest software vendor," Charles King, principal at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times...

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IT at Home: Nexus 5, Mohu Leaf, Toyota RAV4 EV

My regular job involves writing and talking almost exclusively about business IT, but every once in a while I like to consider how personal technology impacts my day-to-day life. ...

The Sky Is Falling – No, Wait, It’s Just a Package From Amazon

"Keeping in mind that IT market predictions beyond 18 to 24 months are liberally sprinkled with fairy dust, the obstacles Amazon faces are pretty severe," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "First and foremost, the device and infrastructure techno...

Intel Chief Lays Out the Game Plan

"Obviously, some of the company's core PC market has been under increasing pressure recently and it doesn't appear that pressure is going to let up anytime soon," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "So I think it's critical for Intel to broaden its market focus. Smartphones and tablets are areas where I think, over time, the company should be able to capture sales volumes it needs to continue moving forward." ...

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Pivotal Delivers on Promises

A bit more than six months ago, EMC and VMware celebrated the launch of Pivotal, a new company led by former VMware CEO Paul Maritz. Pivotal's team included IP and personnel from EMC's Greenplum and Pivotal Labs organizations, and VMware's vFabric (including Spring and Gemfire), Cloud Foundry and Cetas organizations. ...

iRobot’s New Roomba Leaves Older Models in the Dust

"The improvements iRobot promises -- higher quality cleaning, less maintenance, better battery life and more capacity -- are all features that should appeal to consumers," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "The last thing anyone wants is a 'labor...

Netflix, YouTube Hog Half the Internet

There is "an ongoing decline in TV viewing, especially among younger folks and cable subscribers," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "Many or perhaps even most of those folks are switching to a blend of over the air broadcasts and online offerings from Netflix YouTube, Amazon and others."

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The Latest Big Blue Sea Change

IBM's recent Enterprise 2013 conference in Orlando, Fla., was the Systems and Technology Group's inaugural event focusing on high-end business solutions. So it was no surprise that the CIOs, partners and IT practitioners -- data center admins and managers -- who work with IBM's System z mainframe and Power Systems platforms were thick on the ground.

HGST’s New Hard-Drive Isn’t Full of Hot Air

"I think that in large deployments, the savings could be considerable," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "Not only could it impact [total cost of ownership], cloud, and other large-scale environments, but it could make the HGST solution attractive in archive and other applications where tape is more commonly used."

Mystery Barge Could Be Floating Google Showroom

"It'll be interesting to see what, if anything, Google's up to," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "On the plus side, I doubt it'll be used to promote a new smartphone or tablet." However, given that the ante is continually upped when it co...

New Relic Analytics Aims to Speed IT Problem Solving

"New Relic's approach differs from conventional business intelligence and Web analytics primarily in size and scope," Charles King, principal at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld Other companies appear to be planning or attempting similar projects to collect data spanning multiple p...

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