Hardware

VMware on Monday unveiled the latest version in its ESX Server line at its VMworld 2007 conference, held this week in San Francisco. The next-generation thin hypervisor, VMware ESX Server 3i, has the backing of industry heavyweights such as Dell, HP, IBM and NEC, all of whom have committed to integr...

Advanced Micro Devices has launched its long-awaited quad-core addition to its groundbreaking Opteron x86 processor lineup -- the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, a.k.a. "Barcelona," which AMD is billing as the world's first native x86 processor to go quad-core. There are several iterations of Barce...

SanDisk on Monday announced a new, pencil-thin video MP3 player that appears likely to go head-to-head with Apple's newly upgraded iPod nano. The new Sansa View combines MP3 playback capabilities with full-motion video support, a large screen, long battery life and generous capacity. Perhaps even mo...

Microsoft has upped the ante in the server virtualization space, which has thus far been primarily dominated by VMware. The Redmond, Wash., software giant has released its System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 solution, which the company has been working on for the last two years. While SCVMM c...

Intel released its new lineup of Quad-Core Xeon 7300 series processors Wednesday, throwing a punch at rival Advanced Micro Devices, which plans to release its own quad-core processor line, dubbed "Barcelona," early next week. The new 7300 series from Intel can deliver more than twice the performance...

Just in time for the start of the holiday shopping season, HP has introduced a slew of new products, including a PC specially designed for gaming. Called the HP Blackbird 002, it is the first HP personal computer bearing VoodooPC's distinctive stamp after HP purchased the high-end gaming PC maker la...

There is no rest for the wicked, or anyone else this summer, as last week had a number of big events. One of the largest is that Acer moved around Lenovo and Apple -- which is also coming up fast -- to become the No. 3 PC manufacturer by buying Gateway. For those who wanted an iPhone but couldn't af...

Pano Logic announced Tuesday an all-hardware, no-software desktop device designed specifically for server-based desktop virtualization. The device connects keyboard, mouse, display, audio and USB peripherals over an existing IP network to a copy of Microsoft Windows Vista or Windows XP running on a ...

Sony has created a personal computer that can work as the core of a high-definition, multimedia system. The Sony Vaio LT HD PC/TV is designed to serve as a "computer entertainment center," said Sony. In addition to powerful computing capability, the new unit can serve as a high-definition television...

The State of the Desktop

The laptop computer has been gaining on traditional desktop PCs for some time. Replacing one's desktop completely with a portable computer that has enough power to handle any common task is now a feasible option for consumers, and more are heading that direction. Laptops are siphoning off sales of d...

Intel has upgraded its vPro processor technology for desktop PCs with a host of new security features that protect against viruses, hacker attacks and other threats, the company announced Monday. The upgraded vPro, formerly code-named "Weybridge," combines an Intel Core 2 Duo processor with an Intel...

I think that, for all of us, the battle for the next generation of DVD technology has gotten really old. This week, we'll look at why DreamWorks and Paramount backed HD-DVD, effectively assuring that Blu-ray will lose whether HD-DVD wins or not -- and it may still not win either. Rhapsody picked up ...

Microsoft this week unveiled its SideWinder Mouse during the 2007 Games Convention held in Leipzig, Germany. Designed for the hardcore PC gaming crowd, the mouse marks the revitalization of the SideWinder brand and Microsoft's reentry into the PC gaming hardware market. The button-studded, black and...

Tilera Corporation, a startup semiconductor company, has launched its first product -- what it's calling the "world's highest performance embedded processor" -- at the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University. The product is the TILE64 processor, a 64-core processor with an architecture that Tile...

Sony Talks Trash

Sony has partnered with a U.S. waste management company to provide customers with an easy way to recycle their old TV sets and other Sony-branded products. The Japanese firm has tapped WM Recycle America, a wholly owned subsidiary of Waste Management, for the Sony Take Back Recycling Program. The tw...

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