Scott Ferguson

The BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone is coming to AT&T’s network in the “early summer” of 2009 and users who purchase an unlimited data plan from AT&T will be offered unlimited Wi-Fi access within the United States, according to the carrier. AT&T announced the availability of the BlackBerry Curve 8900 handset May 4, as Research In […]

Global sales of semiconductors fell 30 percent between the first quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009, as consumers and business users stopped buying laptops, enterprise hardware and other types of gadgets, according to a new report from the Semiconductor Industry Association. The May 1 report found that semiconductor sales fell from $62.8 […]

Intel continues to dominate a worldwide x86 microprocessor market that saw a year-over-year unit shipment decline of about 9 percent as consumers and business buyers cut back on laptop purchases. The world’s x86 chip market declined 9.1 percent from the first quarter of 2008 to the first quarter of 2009, according to an April 30 […]

While PC makers such as Hewlett-Packard and Acer have said they are looking to build netbooks that use Google’s Android operating system, a Chinese company says it plans in the next three months to release a mininotebook that uses the Android OS. Guangzhou Skytone Transmission Technologies plans to release a netbook later in 2009 called […]

Revenue from the sale of DRAM and NAND flash is expected to rebound a bit this year, but a full recovery of the worldwide memory chip market is not expected anytime soon, according to an April 23 report from the iSuppli research firm. In its latest report on the worldwide memory chip market, iSuppli found […]

Advanced Micro Devices has unveiled an ambitious microprocessor road map that has the chip company rolling out its six-core “Istanbul” processor for large-scale server systems in June, as well as new microprocessor and platform updates for 2010 and 2011. In addition to Istanbul, AMD plans in the next two years to offer a range of […]

Acer Taps Intel, Nvidia for New Line of Laptops, All-in-One PCs by Scott Ferguson The Acer AspireRevo This is Acer’s new nettop, which uses an Intel Atom 230 processor along with the Nvidia Ion platform for graphics. This small form-factor desktop also features a SATA (Serial ATA) hard disk drive or a solid-state drive along […]

Teradici, a 5-year-old Canadian startup that works with heavyweights such as IBM, Dell and VMware, is receiving an additional $17 million in funding from several venture capital firms. Teradici, founded in 2004 by Dave Hobbs and Dan Cordingley, a former Intel executive, is expected to officially announce the $17 million in series C funding on […]

The Apple iPhone and Apple’s App Store have become so popular that Stanford University is now offering a free online course for those developers interested in writing apps for the iconic smartphone. On April 1, Stanford announced that it will broadcast a free, 10-week class called “iPhone Application Programming,” which will be posted at the […]

The U.S. recession and the sluggish global economy mean that enterprises and smaller businesses are pulling back on their IT spending, especially hardware purchases, according to a new Gartner report. Gartner’s latest look at IT spending, which the research firm released March 31, shows that worldwide IT spending will decline 3.8 percent from 2008 to […]