The degree of consensus regarding the Federal Communications Commission's July 31 ruling on 700-MHz spectrum is pleasantly surprising. Even though AT&T and Verizon did a lot of whining about...

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Posted by Loring Wirbel on Jul 31, 2007 07:27 PM in Communications

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Proponents of near field communications want to make NFC the fifth or sixth radio in your phone, and they made a step toward that goal today by launching four tag...

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Posted by Rick Merritt on Jul 31, 2007 11:14 AM in Computing

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The Sunday talk shows were buzzing July 29 with reactions to a New York Times front-page article on a second aspect to the National Security Agency's warrantless interception program:...

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Posted by Loring Wirbel on Jul 29, 2007 03:39 PM in Communications

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James J. Lydon, longtime editor of Electronic News and mentor and editorial role model for many of the most influential people in high technology business journalism, died due to complications...

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Posted by Richard Wallace on Jul 28, 2007 05:03 PM in Going Global

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I'll belatedly tip my hat to the 802.3 Higher Speed Study Group for reaching the most reasonable of conclusions, reported recently by Rick Merritt: allowing next-generation Ethernet at both 40...

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Posted by Loring Wirbel on Jul 27, 2007 04:24 PM in Communications

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When the final saga of the rivalry between Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is written, neither company could ever say they didn’t receive enough counsel as to how...

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Posted by Bolaji Ojo on Jul 27, 2007 11:23 AM in OJO-Mojo Tech Report

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At Siggraph next month David Merrill of MIT's Media Lab will demonstrate "The sound of touch", a new instrument for real-time capture and sensitive physical stimulation of sound samples using...

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Posted by Nic Mokhoff on Jul 26, 2007 01:56 PM in Consumer

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The semiconductor market is awash in fabs for sale these days, making some people in China, India or some other emerging technology country really happy at the thought of picking...

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Posted by Bolaji Ojo on Jul 25, 2007 12:17 PM in OJO-Mojo Tech Report

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John Walko's excellent story on the founding of a "Femto Forum" for residential femto base stations certainly was no surprise. While wireless operators still are struggling to develop a...

Continue reading "Femto Forum: Remember the ATM25 NIC"

Posted by Loring Wirbel on Jul 25, 2007 08:56 AM in Communications

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Someday we may look back and say 2007 was the zenith for Apple. The iPhone is a hit, the iPod dominates digital music and the company is on the forefront...

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Posted by Rick Merritt on Jul 23, 2007 11:35 AM in Computing

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Here I've gone and harped in both the EET blog and the July 16 print edition about the problem of device fetishes, and Ooma emerges as the quintissential example...

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Posted by Loring Wirbel on Jul 20, 2007 12:13 PM in Communications

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T.J. Rodgers, founder and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor and chairman of Sunpower said at Semicon that “we are going to turn Silicon Valley into Energy Valley. Photovoltaics is just another...

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Posted by Nic Mokhoff on Jul 19, 2007 12:09 PM in Consumer

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It’s amazing the crazy stuff executives put up with in the course of fulfilling their fiducial duties to stockholders. I am reminded of this at the end of every quarter...

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Posted by Bolaji Ojo on Jul 19, 2007 12:05 PM in OJO-Mojo Tech Report

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OK, this is all just pure unvarnished speculation, the stuff that blogs are made on. That said, I think I know why the crazies in Cupertino called their sleek and...

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Posted by Rick Merritt on Jul 18, 2007 01:27 AM in Computing

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Notice of the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting 14,000 crossed the wire just as I was studying a map of the upgrade of Qwest Communications International's QWave ultra long haul...

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Posted by Loring Wirbel on Jul 17, 2007 11:38 AM in Communications

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I see peace broke out in the battle for emerging market computers while I was away late last week. Intel joined the board of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC)...

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Posted by Rick Merritt on Jul 16, 2007 01:28 PM in Computing

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Is mighty Samsung a takeover target? I find this unlikely. Wait until the corporate raiders look under the hood. The family-run company is a bit of a mess. On the...

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Posted by Mark LaPedus on Jul 13, 2007 11:18 AM in Semiconductors

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Satya Chillara, an analyst with Pacific Growth Equities LLC, on RF Micro Devices: Look out below!...

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Posted by Mark LaPedus on Jul 12, 2007 04:15 PM in Semiconductors

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Gary Silcott, one of the best PR guys in the semi business, is moving from Texas Instruments to Advanced Micro Devices. He will manage Technology and Manufacturing communications for AMD....

Posted by Mark LaPedus on Jul 12, 2007 04:08 PM in Semiconductors

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Sometimes, maybe even more often than not, Microsoft does things right....

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Posted by Nic Mokhoff on Jul 12, 2007 02:28 PM in Consumer

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Who will win the video game console war? Nintendo? Microsoft? Sony? Or perhaps a lurking potential player? Let me suggest a company that might or might not be thinking about...

Continue reading "I offer you the Apple iGame"

Posted by Bolaji Ojo on Jul 12, 2007 12:00 PM in OJO-Mojo Tech Report

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When Andrew Rickman launched Bookham Technology Ltd. in the mid-1990s, Intel, Scientific-Atlanta, and Cisco thought enough of his "Application Specific Optical Component" concept to invest in dedicated development facilities...

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Posted by Loring Wirbel on Jul 12, 2007 11:29 AM in Communications

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The registration statement for Infiniband switch maker Voltaire makes for some interesting reading. I did not know, for instance, the company had to defer nearly an entire quarter's revenue ($7.3...

Continue reading "Plugging into Infiniband"

Posted by Rick Merritt on Jul 12, 2007 10:45 AM in Computing

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OK, I have to confess right up front I have no special knowledge on why Dave Orton resigned from AMD this week. But I got a gut feeling there is...

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Posted by Rick Merritt on Jul 11, 2007 10:55 AM in Computing

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Micron Technology is running into a lot of trouble amid falling memory prices. To cut costs, the company is mulling over a plan to spin-off its CMOS sensor business, according...

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Posted by Mark LaPedus on Jul 9, 2007 06:45 PM in Semiconductors

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Analyst Doug Freedman of American Technology Research on AMD's upcoming and long-awaited server processor, dubbed Barcelona: ''Recent media attention surrounding the launch date of Barcelona and its early performance results...

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Posted by Mark LaPedus on Jul 9, 2007 12:53 PM in Semiconductors

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It's up -- and down -- for SigmaTel. The chip maker raised its forecast, but it may soon run out of money, says analyst Craig Berger of Wedbush Morgan Securities....

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Posted by Mark LaPedus on Jul 9, 2007 12:22 PM in Semiconductors

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I was sharing a lamentation with a research director at a components market-analysis firm, trading notes on the shrinking of staff that is endemic to technology journalism these days,...

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Posted by Loring Wirbel on Jul 6, 2007 02:04 PM in Industry

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The news from the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden last week looked pretty rosy for Infiniband. In its core application area of high-end technical computing clusters, Infiniband is still strongly...

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Posted by Rick Merritt on Jul 6, 2007 10:29 AM in Computing

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Clearly, as consumer electronics gadget users, we have become lazy, dumb and arrogant. Take the latest rants and raves on many blogs about having to part with your iPhone in...

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Posted by Nic Mokhoff on Jul 6, 2007 07:58 AM in Consumer

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Light Reading Europe had some interesting questions to ask Spirent Communications about its frantic bargain-basement sale of SwissQual assets July 5, and Spirent didn't seem to have any executives...

Continue reading "Why Does Spirent Seem So Desperate on Profitability?"

Posted by Loring Wirbel on Jul 5, 2007 03:56 PM in Communications

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Broadcom Corp. released one of those standard pleadings one would expect when the president of the United States has to rule on trade issues. The International Trade Commission ruled...

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Posted by Loring Wirbel on Jul 5, 2007 12:31 PM in Communications

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Derek Lidow gives the electronics industry kudos for understanding the role of an effective and efficient supply chain system. In an interview last year, the iSuppli Corp. CEO noted, however,...

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Posted by Bolaji Ojo on Jul 3, 2007 10:05 AM in OJO-Mojo Tech Report

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Organizers of the annual Hot Interconnects conference know that on-chip interconnects will be one of the keys to the multi-core microprocessor battles between AMD, IBM, Intel and Sun, a point...

Continue reading "Supercomputing on silicon"

Posted by Rick Merritt on Jul 2, 2007 06:00 PM in Computing

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It takes a global geek village to espouse the virtues and failings of the new kid on the block. Much too much has been written about the iPhone. No doubt...

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Posted by Nic Mokhoff on Jul 2, 2007 11:03 AM in Consumer

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