Scott Ferguson

AUSTIN, Texas-While some in the IT industry may still think of Dell as a low-cost PC maker, CEO Michael Dell remains on a mission to change those perceptions. In a free-flowing conversation the day before his company’s annual investor and financial investor conference here, Dell on June 28 held forth on a numbers of subjects, […]

NEW YORK – Ricoh is looking to bolster its managed-print-services division with a three-year, $300 million investment aimed at adding more employees to its U.S. operation and bolstering the company’s IT infrastructure. The announcement comes as Hewlett-Packard and Xerox also look to offer more print services to their customers. Ricoh announced its plans to invest […]

NEW YORK – If you’re a man or woman, young or old, a runner, a soccer player or just a casual sports fan, Intel and Adidas have the perfect pair of shoes for you. As long as you don’t mind that you’re looking at a pair of virtual shoes. The real ones are probably somewhere […]

Dell is rolling out several new printers, including two multifunction machines, that target small businesses and home office workers. These new printers also allow Dell to expand its small business portfolio beyond the company’s line of Vostro PCs and mobile devices like the Streak. The new Dell printers, which the company officially announced Sept. 29, […]

NEW YORK-Hewlett-Packard is looking to reinvigorate its line of printers by rolling out 10 new devices that allow users to print documents from the Web or their smartphones. HP is also partnering with Apple and Yahoo to provide new functionality for the company’s printer line. At a Sept. 20 event here, Vyomesh Joshi, executive vice […]

IBM Research Facilities: From Watson to Analytics to Health Care by Scott Ferguson Answer: Watson The question is, What supercomputer is coming to “Jeopardy”? While not the main focus of IBM’s analytics research, Watson is one of the more popular projects that IBM has taken on in recent years. During a recent visit, IBM engineers […]

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y.-“Watson” isn’t brushing up on any trivia today. Watson, now maybe the world’s most well-known supercomputer (with its ownNew York Times Magazine profile to prove it), is half hidden behind a black curtain and stationed in the mock “Jeopardy” studio that IBM has built inside its massive T.J. Watson Research Facility here. During […]

Advanced Micro Devices is unveiling the technical details of two new microprocessors, “Bulldozer” and “Bobcat,” during the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University. It’s the first time in nearly seven years that AMD has updated the microarchitecture of processing cores. At Hot Chips, which starts Aug. 24, AMD engineers plan to detail the design of […]

Dell has inked a $5.1 million deal with NASA to provide the space agency with PowerEdge C6100 servers to revamp one of its high-performance computer facilities, which is dedicated to examining the impact of climate change on the planet. The July 15 deal calls for Dell to provide the NASA Center for Climate Simulation, which […]

Dell Streak, Smartphones Show PC Companys New Mobile Direction by Scott Ferguson The Dell Streak The Dell Streak is a mobile Internet device with a 5-inch screen that runs a customized version of Google Android 1.6. It’s currently available in the U.K. on the O2 wireless network, but the Streak should land in the states […]