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1. Intel would like to give AMD a Glaswegian kiss

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   Opinion Nothing's really changed When AMD and Intel held their journalist conference calls last week, the contrast between the two companies could not be greater. AMD talked as though the $1.25 billion ...

2. Microsoft: Windows 7 "looks and feels" like Mac OS X

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 11 November 2009

   ... and we've made it faster and slimmed down the code to make it more effective." See Also Opinion: Ditching Windows has never felt so good Windows 7 sales outpace Vista adoption Intel: Windows 7 offers ...

3. Unidentified bug causes massive CPU spike on 27-inch iMacs

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 30 October 2009

   ... card issue. I'm awaiting a fix," added Rhyceudique. See Also Windows 7 upgrades crash and burn Opinion: Ditching Windows has never felt so good Apple refreshes iMac lineup with 21.5 and 27-inch displays ...

4. Is Windows 7 too good for Apple to FUD?

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Tuesday, 27 October 2009

   Opinion: Apple was blindsided by Windows 7. It wasn’t the product which they saw coming, it was the sustaining marketing budget and positive reviews from Apple loyalists like Walt Mossberg they ...

5. TG Daily: A readers' Guide

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

   Monday, 26 October 2009

   Opinion: A few months back, we took the brave - some might say daft - decision to allow readers to post comments on TG Daily stories without an editor approving them first. Not many sites do this. OK, ...

6. How Microsoft blindsided vulnerable Apple with Windows 7

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 22 October 2009

   ... his services to most of the major technology and media companies. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer.  ...

7. Analysts spout crap, charge megabucks

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Friday, 16 October 2009

   Opinion: Analysts are just journalists in sharp suits who only have to write two stories a year for their $250K salaries. And just because you have to pay through the nose to read their words of wisdom ...

8. Windows, users, guns and stupidity

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Monday, 12 October 2009

   Opinion: Our earlier story on how fast or slow Windows 7 boots and shuts down has attracted some critical acclaim and some critical unacclaim from people who obviously didn’t bother to read the story ...

9. Windows 7 boots fast enough for normal people

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Sunday, 11 October 2009

   Opinion: Shock news reaches us from iolo Technologies claiming that Windows 7 takes ages to load. Our response: who gives a rat’s ass, especially as it doesn't... Opinion: Shock news reaches us from ...

10. Free Software Foundation goes mad

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Thursday, 08 October 2009

    Opinion: Most folks kinda like supporting the little guy up against The Man. But when the little guy sticks his shorts over his head, puts pencils up his nose and starts saying ‘wibble’, most normal ...

11. High tech won't save the economy this time

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Monday, 05 October 2009

    Opinion: In 1982-1983 the economy in the West was battered. Unemployment in the U.S. reached 9.7 percent. The United Nations pegged growth for developed nations around one percent. Stagnation and recession ...

12. What's at the heart of HP’s Laptops and Lenovo’s Best Student Tablet

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Tuesday, 15 September 2009

    Analyst Opinion This week begins the real wave of the PC refresh cycle for the non-Mac crowd and it will pick up to a major wave on October 22nd when Windows 7 launches. This week begins the real wave ...

13. Mainframe still refuses to die

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 20 August 2009

    ... each, giving each machine a total of 512K of memory. They were, however, ideal for keeping fish and chips warm. And, in my humble opinion, ICL's George 3 operating system still remains the finest OS ...

14. Dell’s mobile nightmare: The dumbest move yet?

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Tuesday, 18 August 2009

    Analyst Opinion - Some companies are gluttons for punishment. Dell, apparently, is one of them. Analyst Opinion - Some companies are gluttons for punishment. Dell, apparently, is one of them. In ...

15. Microhoo is not just about traffic. It’s about data. Period.

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Thursday, 30 July 2009

    Opinion – I am glad some deal between Microsoft and Yahoo finally got done. Despite its seemingly simple purpose to give Microsoft much more leverage in advertising through increased search market share, ...

16. Google Chrome OS: Gcrap reveals the next Netscape

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 20 July 2009

    Analyst Opinion - It can be entertaining to watch companies that have learned to manage expectations. They set low bars, generally fail at what they attempt, and yet the folks in charge of the programs ...

17. Analysis: Microsoft prepares to dominate global console market

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 17 July 2009

    ... Sony and Nintendo announced "some new updates" at the 2009 E3 conference, including the PSP Go and Wii Motion Plus. However, in Olausson's opinion, the two simply recycled "more of the same." Olausson ...

18. Steve Jobs, the unique artisan CEO

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Tuesday, 14 July 2009

    Analyst Opinion - This month I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and talking about Steve Jobs and his return.  What I keep coming back to is why there is only one CEO that is like him?  Granted each ...

19. The Great Netbook Ripoff

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Tuesday, 14 July 2009

    Analyst Opinion - Netbooks are the new cellphones. At least that’s what wireless carriers want you to believe. And as they try to convince us that we should buy them under the same terms we’ve been ...

20. Is Microsoft set up for failure with Windows 7 and Office 2010?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Monday, 13 July 2009

    Opinion – Ok, let’s be realistic. It can’t get much worse for Microsoft than Windows Vista, which exposed the vulnerability of Microsoft’s most important product. And it is easy to understand Microsoft’s ...

21. Google Chrome OS: Is Google finally jumping the shark?

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 09 July 2009

      Analyst Opinion - Every company reaches a point in its history where the bloom falls off the rose. I worry that Google has just hit that wall. Analyst Opinion - Every company reaches a point in ...

22. Google's a threat to you, not Microsoft

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Wednesday, 08 July 2009

    Opinion Google's upcoming Chrome operating system may be many things to many people, but one thing it certainly ain't is an operating system. Neither is it a threat to Microsoft. And it couldn't play ...

23. Meet your new boss: Google

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Wednesday, 08 July 2009

    Opinion – Ten years ago, when I first interviewed the founders of a 30-people strong company and was confronted with the claim that it had reinvented the search engine wheel, I had little reason to ...

24. The death of the netbook

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Wednesday, 01 July 2009

    Analyst Opinion - I’m traveling this week and noted that the guy traveling next to me, who owns his own company, is using an Acer netbook. It is his primary travel computer.  He purchased a 12-cell aftermarket ...

25. Update: Firefox 3.5 is fast, but still behind Chrome and Safari

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 30 June 2009

    ... 3.5, which was well behind the WebKit engine-based Chrome and Safari browsers. Now that we have the final version, we wondered: Did Firefox gain more speed? The opinions about Apple’s Safari browser may ...

26. End the iPhone exclusivity

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Monday, 29 June 2009

    Analyst Opinion - I live in the Great White North, which typically means I can buy new technology six months after it is first released in the U.S. I’ll also pay more for the privilege thanks to a weak ...

27. Windows 7 is a better Windows than Windows, yeah right

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 26 June 2009

    Opinion - Microsoft seems to have developed an astonishing ability to forget the past with its introduction of Windows 7, an amnesia that is matched only by its long time partner, Intel.Opinion - Microsoft ...

28. Microsoft does Reality TV with Jack and Suzy Welch

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 17 June 2009

    Analyst Opinion - This is an interesting idea.  Do a reality TV program on the web using Jack Welch, who is arguably a more famous success than Donald Trump and focus on a real problem. In this ...

29. Browser wars: When will the madness end?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Monday, 15 June 2009

    Opinion: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, when gas cost 25 cents a gallon, my good self and another venerable TGD writer working together on another mag coined the phrase Megahurtz Madness. ...

30. Apple: An apology

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 08 June 2009

    ... exactly as received. We leave it to our readers to form their own opinion. Watermelon Seed Spitting Reaches a Whole New Level Through Your iPhone! RIDGEWOOD (NJ) - Watermelon Seed Spitting has just ...

31. Wind River: Intel is aiming another big gun at Apple, ARM

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Thursday, 04 June 2009

    Opinion – Intel isn’t kidding about the embedded and mobile market. Today’s acquisition is yet another sign that the company isn’t playing for second place and is trying to replace ARM, MIPS and ...

32. Microsoft claims E3 victory as Nintendo stumbles

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 03 June 2009

    ... Go and Wii Motion Plus. However, in Olausson's opinion, both companies simply unveiled "more of the same." Olausson also noted that neither firm offered a "clear vision" for entertainment services beyond ...

33. Palm’s massive iTunes gamble: Are they nuts?

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Tuesday, 02 June 2009

    Analyst Opinion - No guts, no glory. And as Palm tries to regain a slice of what made it such a cool company in the 1990s, its latest move is an eyebrow-raiser. The company’s decision to enable Palm ...

34. Intel vs. AMD 6-core CPUs: Speed vs. power?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 01 June 2009

    Opinion – When Intel introduced its Dunnington 6-core processors back in September of 2008, we considered it a stunning achievement, but knew that it would be about as far as the Core architecture ...

35. The Gaming Renaissance Movement

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Friday, 08 May 2009

    Analyst Opinion - Making games differently – from production, to financing and distribution: Many have noted that the gaming industry seems to be recession-proof. Monthly sales figures continue to ...

36. AMD posts controversial virtualization value math

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Thursday, 07 May 2009

    Opinion – AMD has its hands full to counter Intel’s Xeon 5500 processor, which is considered the highest performing server processor these days. Intel’s chip has some obvious weaknesses which AMD could ...

37. Apple, Marvell and the promise of changing the world

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Opinion)

    Thursday, 07 May 2009

    Analyst Opinion - Early on in Apple's life, Steve Jobs had a now famous meeting with John Sculley to recruit him to run Apple. John was running the second most powerful beverage company in the world, ...

38. HP dv2: Better than a netbook?

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Sunday, 26 April 2009

    Opinion – Question: If you need a notebook for travel, and just don’t care for one of those 17” monsters that should not be called notebooks anyway, which one would you choose? I have been trying to ...

39. Oracle-Sun: A glass half full

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Monday, 20 April 2009

    Analyst Opinion - This morning, we found out that the Sun might rise again. Oracle has decided to spend approximately $7.4 billion to buy its long time neighbor down the highway. This combination of ...

40. Rethinking benchmarks for a new consumer

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Sunday, 19 April 2009

    Analyst Opinion - We have all seen the excellent work various web site and analysts like us have done over the years in comparing the latest graphics AIBs, and, more recently, the new graphics-enabled motherboards. ...

41. Time Warner shelves metered Internet plans - for now

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Thursday, 16 April 2009

    Opinion – The pressure on Time Warner Cable may have been too great, in the end: The company today announced that it would halt plans to run trials of consumption based billing for broadband access. ...

42. The netbook-killing HP DV2

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Tuesday, 14 April 2009

    Analyst Opinion - The concept of the Netbook was originally based on the idea of a connected device with a few gigabytes of flash memory, a screen in the 7" range, and a price target of $100.  ...

43. Acer Revo: The perfect desktop for an imperfect world

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Wednesday, 08 April 2009

    Analyst Opinion - The Acer Revo comes at a time of conflict.  It targets buyers who want low cost products that use little energy, do not accept any limitations in using their PC and look cool ...

44. Complexity kills the computer industry

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Thursday, 02 April 2009

    Analyst Opinion - AMD brought out Shanghai, their latest part in November, substantially ahead of when it was expected and it arrived in a market hungry for efficient performance but lacking in the ...

45. The next iPhone looms on the horizon

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 25 March 2009

    ... of the iPhone SDK are key software differentiators which set apart the iPhone platform from PSP and DS in terms of games development. Thanks to all of this combined, Apple will (in my opinion) own the ...

46. Will Apple lose its power to drive market trends?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Tuesday, 24 March 2009

    Analyst Opinion – Yesterday I was walked through how OpenCL, a relatively new programming approach that leverages the CPU and GPU, could not have happened without Apple and it reminded just how many ...

47. Dell's Adamo: A sign of hope for a better tomorrow

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Tuesday, 17 March 2009

    Analyst Opinion - We are surrounded by doom and gloom and folks frantically trying to bring out products that can exist at the bottom of the market.  The future that we seem to be anticipating ...

48. Is innovation enough for Cisco’s new servers to succeed?

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Monday, 16 March 2009

    Opinion – Like many of those interested in technology, I have been following Cisco’s integrated blade server announcement today. And there is no doubt that it is an enticing new approach that plays ...

49. Apple's App Store analysis: This Titanic is actually unsinkable

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 10 March 2009

    ... -- who cares, right? It's just a mobile phone after all. While we respect the opinions of those who have been irritated with the constant rave about mobile application stores and sales numbers, in reality ...

50. Apple tax on the latest Mac gear: 40 percent

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 05 March 2009

    ... at, in my opinion. IT ALL "JUST WORKS"Since Apple makes the hardware, the operating system and most applications which run on top of it, Macs deliver a unique integration that translates into ease of use. ...