Many-core chips are the great hope for more performance but Sandia National Lab simulations show they are about to hit a memory wall. How bad is it? Some background Memory bandwidth is the limiting performance factor in CPUs. If you

The worries about Microsoft's fiscal second quarter and fiscal 2009 are starting to pile up. While Microsoft is viewed as one of those recession resistant companies--no company is recession proof--the headwinds to the software giant's quarter are becoming clear. On

Is Microsoft poised to join other tech vendors in announcing dismal second quarter earnings or is the company going to yet again manage to meet or beat its traditionally conservative guidance this time against seemingly impossible odds? by Mary Jo

A series of Apple patent filings published this week reveal Apple's new possible multi-dimensional interface for Mac OS X that could make "better use of screen real estate by increasing the number of virtual surfaces capable of housing application and

Research In Motion, maker of the Blackberry, announced that it will acquire Chalk Media, a Vancouver company behind a technology that allows multimedia files such as video, audio and presentations to be pushed to Blackberry devices similarly to how e-mail

Virtualization became a buzz word last year - and since then some things have grown beyond our wildest dreams while others have fallen short. Here's what to expect in 2009. Commentary--At VMWorld 2007, it felt like the dawn of a

Industry observers say virtualization will enable staff to use their own devices at work, while keeping corporate data safe. Virtualization promises to usher in a new era of consumer technology in the workplace — potentially satisfying the demands of new

I consider why students should change from an ordinary, boring Vista computer, to a server operating system instead. by Zack Whittaker

Effective from January 3, 2009, Seagate will be cutting the warranty period from 5 years to 3 years on selected bare drives. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

The lines of features, functionality, and price are blurring between cellphones and smartphones, but there are still many cellphones check out my free phones and feature phones Holiday Guides that are very good at serving as a phone that the

A company named EFi-X USA plans to offer a desktop PC that could allow customers to create their own Mac systems with the help of an internal adapter that allows many generic PCs to run Mac OS X. The EFi-X

A reporter picked up a used Blackberry in the massive liquidation of the McCain campaign holdings. It turns out that someone forgot to wipe the contents of the Blackberry's memory. When we charged them up in the newsroom, we found

Watching an operating system evolve from a small, worthless lump of Vista, to becoming a unique, beautiful chrysalis of Sevenness, will probably be nothing like watching my godchildren grow up to be young adults, but probably a lot more fun.

James Hamilton, an architect on Microsoft's Data Center Futures team, has decided to leave Microsoft for Amazon.com, as TechFlash first reported. Hamilton will be a Vice President on the Amazon Web Services team. by Mary Jo Foley

Fellow ZDNet blogger, Paul Murphy, warned recently against using virtualization technologies to really max out CPU utilization. The temptation, of course, is to assume that a server running at only 30% of capacity is being wasted. The reality is that

There is a load of digital music players on the market see my Holiday Guide that offer consumers quite a bit of choice. However, there is not much competition in the way of touch screen players like the iPod touch.

OK, I'm SURE all of data center equipment vendor Verari Systems' competitors MUST offer leasing as a transaction option, but I haven't heard anyone else appeal so blatantly to green budgets or corporate mandates. The company has introduced what it

RadioShack will put an Acer Aspire One 3G Netbook on sale Sunday for $99. But there's a catch. You also have to buy a two-year AT&T DataConnect contract. RadioShack will put an Acer Aspire One 3G Netbook on sale Sunday

I met Clinton Fitch a few years ago at a Mobius event and just had the pleasure of hanging out with him this last week in Seattle. Clinton puts together some of the most comprehensive reviews you can find online

Here's one of those good ideas that makes you wonder why it took so long for someone to come up with it. Addonics has introduced its Network Attached Storage NAS adapter, which is a $55 device that lets you plug