On June 27th Bill Gates will officially retire from Microsoft and I will turn 51. No connection, except we will both have the day off....

Continue reading "Gates and me"

Posted by Rick Merritt on Jun 26, 2008 06:27 PM in Computing

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One would think that after the bruising battle over Carly Fiorina and the subsequent "spy scandal" over snooping on journalists, the one lesson Hewlett-Packard would take away was the necessity...

Continue reading "Business as usual at HP"

Posted by Loring Wirbel on Jun 25, 2008 10:11 AM in Communications

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A brief trip to IEEE Secon raised more questions than answers for me about the status and outlook for wireless sensor networks....

Continue reading "Making sense of sensor nets"

Posted by Rick Merritt on Jun 19, 2008 02:08 PM in Computing

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Sun Microsystems founder and chairman Scott McNealy doesn't make many public appearances, and he took the liberty of a keynote speech at NxtComm to prove he relishes the role...

Posted by Loring Wirbel on Jun 18, 2008 12:16 PM in Communications

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We've mentioned in the past that one important difference between a femtocell base station in the home based on Long-Term Evolution, and a WiMax access point, is the degree of...

Continue reading "Handing over the home"

Posted by Loring Wirbel on Jun 17, 2008 12:39 PM in Communications

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I’m trying to read between the lines of opinions Justin Rattner expressed yesterday as well as inputs for other stories on graphics out recently or coming up Monday. Here are...

Continue reading "Connecting the polygons"

Posted by Rick Merritt on Jun 12, 2008 01:03 PM in Computing

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Fairfax County Middle School Science has selected the award-winning book, MEMS & Nanotechnology for Kids, to provide background knowledge on nanotechnology for their middle school students....

Continue reading "Macro nano book for kids"

Posted by Nic Mokhoff on Jun 11, 2008 10:44 AM in Consumer

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Ciena Corporation, a communication network infrastructure company, is taking a novel approach to promote the One Laptop per Child fund....

Continue reading "Worthy donations"

Posted by Nic Mokhoff on Jun 9, 2008 03:44 PM in Consumer

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Thanks to Patrick Mannion of TechOnline for tipping me off this morning to the conflict over 60 GHz. I had no idea the 802.15.3c folks and the 802.11 VHT crowd...

Continue reading "60G unity and beyond"

Posted by Rick Merritt on Jun 4, 2008 01:16 AM in Computing

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It’s a reasonable speculation from where I sit in the blogosphere. In a recent interview with CEO Ahbi Talwalkar I found out the company lacks standard Ethernet chips to support...

Continue reading "Will LSI buy Chelsio?"

Posted by Rick Merritt on Jun 2, 2008 06:51 PM in Computing

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My colleague Rick Merritt has just reported on a study from Portelligent, our affiliated company at Tech Insights, warning of a declining market in mobile telephony for the application processor...

Continue reading "Watch the Hard Wiring"

Posted by Loring Wirbel on Jun 2, 2008 10:39 AM in Communications

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