Investment bankers and market analysts who attended the recent Optical Fibers in Communications conference were unanimous in warning optocomponent vendors that if they did not consolidate soon, the market would...

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Posted by Loring Wirbel on Feb 28, 2008 09:49 PM in

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Bill Gates is going back to school to encourage young people to pursue technology careers....

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Posted by Nic Mokhoff on Feb 28, 2008 10:43 AM in Consumer

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Rick Merritt's call for a massive effort to solve the multicore parallel-programing model is right on target....

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Posted on Feb 25, 2008 04:49 PM in Crosstalk

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Intel Corp. is getting itself sucked into a public relations mess over its business dispute with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Unfortunately, it seems top executives at the semiconductor company aren’t...

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Posted by Bolaji Ojo on Feb 25, 2008 10:51 AM in OJO-Mojo Tech Report

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When Mediterranean fiber-optic cables were disrupted a couple weeks ago, I weighed in on the fact that wireless links are considered far too universal a panacea these days, while...

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Posted by Loring Wirbel on Feb 22, 2008 03:35 PM in Communications

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Rumors that NVidia is considering a purchase of AMD swirled around the industry this week as one news outlet reported on a new x86 startup. Both companies are clearly suffering...

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Posted by Rick Merritt on Feb 15, 2008 06:56 PM in Computing

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The advance and spread of new enabling technologies across a diverse range of information-driven businesses around the world exerts powerful pressures not just on existing markets, but on the very...

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Posted by Richard Wallace on Feb 15, 2008 02:31 PM in Going Global

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Andy Bechtolsheim made a brief appearance at a Sun event yesterday and quickly became surrounded by tech journalists wanting to know the valley veteran's views on the issues of the...

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Posted by Rick Merritt on Feb 14, 2008 03:58 PM in Computing

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The key to India's success in the IT industry most certainly lies in 'building a knowledge economy for growth', which was the theme of this afternoon's India at 60: session...

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Posted by Richard Wallace on Feb 13, 2008 01:42 PM in Going Global

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To be perfectly honest, I'm not horribly concerned that the Senate's vote on a revamp of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act includes virtual full indemnity for phone companies working with...

Posted by Loring Wirbel on Feb 13, 2008 11:18 AM in Communications

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Yes, industry darling Google is the monopolist of Web search and the advertising business it generates. With its $45 billion bid for Yahoo, Microsoft hopes to devour and kill off...

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Posted by Rick Merritt on Feb 13, 2008 08:15 AM in Computing

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India's ambition to catch the 'third wave' of growth in its IT industry emerged as a key theme at the Nasscom India Leadership Forum here in Mumbai this morning. And...

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Posted by Richard Wallace on Feb 13, 2008 03:34 AM in Going Global

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Our sister publication, Information Week, is putting together a series of videos about innovative startups. A couple of their recent offerings talk with executives in semiconductor design....

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Posted by Rick Merritt on Feb 10, 2008 10:13 PM in EDA Software

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Since Jeanette Symons had left the telecom world for kid-oriented Internet sites, and had left the Bay Area for Steamboat Springs in Colorado, it took a while for me (and...

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Posted by Loring Wirbel on Feb 7, 2008 05:34 PM in Communications

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It’s an old trick in the semiconductor game, shrinking costs with silicon integration to compete taking products to mass market. Kudos to Atheros, SMSC and STMicro who gave examples in...

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Posted by Rick Merritt on Feb 7, 2008 10:45 AM in Computing

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The Feb. 4 DesignCon panel discussion on high-speed Ethernet revealed some shocking disconnects between the immediate demand for bandwidth by software developers working in the network core, and the fundamentally...

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Posted by Loring Wirbel on Feb 5, 2008 10:28 AM in Communications

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Among other renewable technologies photovoltaic energy has emerged as an alternative, amid a surge in oil prices and climate changes....

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Posted by Nic Mokhoff on Feb 2, 2008 10:58 AM in Consumer

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That’s what at least one attendee was wondering after the first industry review of the draft USB 3.0 spec. A group of as many as 300 came to the two-day,...

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Posted by Rick Merritt on Feb 1, 2008 07:56 PM in Computing

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That’s what IMS Research believes forecasting that the market for cameras with integrated Global Positioning Systems capabilities will grow 200 percent on a compound annual basis over the next five...

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Posted by Rick Merritt on Feb 1, 2008 02:07 PM in Computing

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Yahoo Inc.’s annual revenue is less than $7 billion. Yet, Microsoft wants to pay $45 billion or so for the web search company on the argument that the combination “would...

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Posted by Bolaji Ojo on Feb 1, 2008 10:57 AM in OJO-Mojo Tech Report

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