Meg Whitman

HP lifts itself by its own bootstraps

It looks like whatever its new CEO Meg Whitman is doing at HP to turn the outfit around is starting to work.
Albert Einstein

Italian offers cold fusion promise

A panel of researchers has released a paper confirming that a device made by a secretive Italian might be cold fusion.

Video: Agent smartwatch hits over $336,000 on Kickstarter

The Agent smart watch - which went live on Kickstarter just a few short days ago - has already managed to raise over $336,000 from close to 2,000 backers.

Eric Schmidt says Google is a country, not a company

Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Go Ogle, was in Oxford yesterday, speaking at the Sheldonian about goodness knows what. It was probably attended by ass lickers, big time.

Global semiconductor sales down

Revenues for the global semiconductor market dropped two percent year on year to $295 billion in 2012, IDC's latest semiconductor application forecast reports.

Video: Texas Instruments debuts $329 OMAP5432 EVM dev board

Texas Instruments (TI) recently launched a $329 OMAP5432 EVM dev board based on ARM's Cortex-A15 architecture.

Beware geeks bearing GIFs. Or jifs

Steve Wilhite, the inventor of the GIF file format, caused controversy by declaring the file format should properly be pronounced 'jif' - but this has been refuted by the chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Graphene inks are on the way

A team of researchers at Northwestern Engineering has come up with a new way of producing graphene, which could eventually lead to printable graphene ink.
HTC chairman Cher Wang

HTC management gets shaken up

It is no secret that HTC is trying to reinvent itself and transform its somewhat geeky brand image. It's off to a good start, as its flagship HTC One handset is getting very positive reviews and giving Samsung’s Galaxy S4 a run for its money, but all is not going well.

Google Chrome gets a revamp

Google has released a new version of its Chrome browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Dadi Perlmutter gets a shift

Intel CEO spring cleans his staff

Intel's new chief executive, Brian Krzanich, has surprised analysts by ordering a sweeping company reorganisation.

AMD lags behind Samsung, Qualcomm

AMD has fallen behind rivals Qualcomm and Samsung on IC Insights' list of microprocessor vendors.

GloFo blows whistle on staff shortage

Talk of immigration reform in the US has been halted by partisan bickering for years, and it might be about to start taking its toll on the economy, coupled with less than stellar high school education.

Who needs drones when you've got satellites?

The belief that the US government will be using drones to spy on its citizens might not have any basis, as its security forces move towards satellite spying instead.

US power grid vulnerable to attack

It seems that the US government’s belief in the efficiency of its private sector to run its power infrastructure is proving completely bogus.

Devon Ceptor is a $99 Linux-powered HDMI stick

Devon IT is currently prepping a $99 Linux-powered HDMI stick dubbed the "Ceptor" for a July launch. 

Iron-platinum alloys could be new-generation hard drives

Meeting the demand for more data storage in smaller volumes means using materials made up of ever-smaller magnets, or nanomagnets.

IBM will diagnose your ills

IBM is packing off its Watson software to the health industry where it is going to be telling people what is wrong with them.
Justin Rattner, Intel CTO

Intel says Haswell will save its X86 bacon

The PC will be saved from its much predicted doom by the glorious power-saving ability of the Haswell chip, at least according to the prophecy of Intel's chief technology officer Justin Rattner.

LG showcases flexible OLED panel at SID 2013

LG appears to be on a roll when it comes to organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). First, they wow’ed us with a giant flat screen that uses OLEDs to up efficiency.