Gadgetopia

How wireless changed the work behavior of Intel employees: An interesting look at how having wireless laptops available changed the way Intel employees worked. The study showed that employees gained about two hours per week in productivity because of the migration (Intel says the cost of the upgrades paid for ...

Intel recalls flawed chips less than a week after launch: Good for them that they handled this better than the last time they had this problem. Less than a week after the launch, Intel said Friday it's recalling some of its latest chip sets after the discovery of a manufacturing ...

Report: Apples will soon have Intel inside: I saw this float around for a while last week. Waiting for confirmation. I wonder if new Macs will have the "Intel Inside" sticker on them. That'd be cool. Apple CEO Steve Jobs is expected to announce Monday morning that Apple will discontinue ...

Apple should have used Intel chips, Sculley says Apple Computer Inc. should have adopted the Intel Corp. architecture when it had the chance, former chief John Sculley said Tuesday. [ ] In the late-1980s, when Apple was using Motorola Inc. 68000 series chips and considering its next step, Intel co-founder Andy ...

I thought this was interesting... I just wanted to tell you about a hack I experimented on my PC (I didn't really know what to do with it since I bought a Power Mac). It was surprisingly simple: I installed OSX86 and then Darwine. These are both simple operations. Now ...

ThinkSecret has what they claim are photos of the machine being shipped by Apple for Apple Developer Connection members; the Apple Development Platform ADP2,1. The machine's case is similar to the G5, but the cooling fans inside are arranged differently, and in place of the standard G5 processor it has ...

OS X Makes Slow Debut on PC: Two guys in Germany have built a PowerPC emulator to run OS X on an Intel or AMD-based machine. While this is cool, it's not nearly ready for prime-time yet: Biallas and Weyergraf warn PearPC is only a version 0.1 release and is ...

Brave New Web by Charles C. Mann: This article is admittedly seven years old, but it details what happened to Randal Schwartz, Perl Legend, and author of thee books on Perl. He was contracted as a sysadmin for Intel at the time: "Hearing of a security incident at another computer ...

I support and manage a number of Windows desktops as part of my job, and have been a little frustrated lately, having to put off even trying Vista on our network because the database software package we run just doesn t play well with anything but XP Pro. XP Pro is ...

The MacWorld Expo is going on this week, and Steve Jobs gave the big keynote address this morning. Highlights of what he had to say are... The first Intel-powered Macs will be the iMacs. They'll sport a either a 1.83GHz or 2GHz dual-core Intel chip, with an integrated 17 or ...

An astute MacInTouch reader pointed out an interesting coincedence... ... on the day that Apple officially announced products using Intel CPU's, Apple's stock price closed the day at $80.86. The coincidence is that the Intel CPU "which gave rise to the x86 architecture" was the 8086. Yeah, that's really geeky, ...

Apple introduces dual-boot software Seems Apple wasn't too worried about folks hacking their new Intel Macs to boot windows. They've been working on a solution themselves and it appears to be much more polished than anything a guy who never sees the sun could ever hope to create. Apple today ...

Reports: Advanced Micro Devices to buy graphics maker ATI: File under "interesting." Could Intel be in trouble? Advanced Micro Devices said it will make a "significant" announcement Monday, amid news reports that Intel's biggest rival for PC microprocessors plans to pay more than $5 billion to acquire a top graphics ...

Apple says could move to Intel, but happy with IBM: Good thing Jobs made this call, or I might be able to run OS X on a $400 white box machine. Horrors. The latest version of the Mac OS X operating system could easily run on Intel chips, but Apple ...

The Contest: Here's a contest to be the first person to boot WinXP on a Intel-based Mac. It started out with a bounty of $100, but it's climbed to $3,097 at this writing, and it just hit Slashdot, so expect it to go higher. My MacBook is shipping on the ...

Transmeta sells microprocessor unit: Apparently Transmeta well known as the landing place of Linus Torvalds is going to shut down. They just sold the Crusoe line of processors to a Hong Kong company. The deal marks the latest twist in the Transmeta melodrama. The Sunnyvale, California-based company, which ...

My buddy Joe made a really good point about Intel's upcoming EFI: it's a really good way to build Digital Rights Management (DRM) directly into the BIOS. Sneaky devils.

One Unwired Day "Join Intel on Thursday, September 25 your day to try public wireless Internet access for free at thousands of locations including coffee shops, airports, and hotels nationwide." Via Anil Dash.

And this time it's more preposterous than ever. According to him, now that Apple is using Intel processors they will complete the transformation and totally drop OS X, replacing the OS in Apple machines with Windows. Yeah, right. Like the market needs yet another Windows machine. The last thing Apple ...

The Apple Store has a Special Deals section where they sell refurbished hardware, and there are some sweet deals going on (don't let the word "refurbished" scare you off; you get what is basically new hardware and the standard warranty without the new hardware price.) For instance, you can pick ...

From News.com: Intel is planning to kill BIOS with EFI Extensible Firmware Interface: "EFI is a tiny operating system in its own right, freed from the constraints of the BIOS. ... it can run with a proper graphical user interface, rather than the blocky text-only interface. EFI also has ...

Whenever a new CPU comes out, it's often marketed by it's clock speed. "2GHz Pentium" means that the timing source in the chip operates at two gigahertz, which means, basically, that the chip completes a single CPU cycle in a whatever teeny-tinyth* of a second it takes for a 2Ghz ...

Boot Windows XP on an Intel Duo Core Mac and Make Money: Someone has won the contest, and took home the bounty of about $14,000. I can't find many details, other than this: Contest has been won - updates to follow shortly. All further donations will go into an account ...

Apple releases software to let Macs run Windows: Could this be a joke? Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday rolled out a software patch that enables its Intel-based Macintosh computers to install and run Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP operating system. Apple said that the new software, called "Boot Camp" is available ...

Intel helps fingers type faster highlights a new product, Fastap, which has been developed by Digit Wireless that helps speed up text messaging on mobile phones. "Fastap was developed by former Apple ergonomic design boss David Levy as a way to make it easier to enter text using the tiny ...

Gateway talks business at CeBit: Gateway has plans for a new handheld: Gateway's new PDA will begin shipping in mid- to late July. The company fitted it with a 400MHz XScale processor from Intel, along with a 3.5-inch screen and dual Compact Flash and Secure Digital slots for adding modules ...

Intel, IBM backing new fund to defend Linux users: The truth of SCO shows through when the mere forming of a legal defense fund to fight them off causes their shares to drop 9%. An industry group formed to promote Linux an operating system that provides an alternative to ...

MOOX :: Welcome to my Werxshop...: This guy custom compiles Mozilla apps for various platforms. If I'm reading his analysis (PDF) correctly, he's claiming 10-20% rendering speed increases for various Intel processors. I am currently releasing four versions, or "M" builds M0, M1, M2, and M3, of the Firefox ...

Intel Education: An Innovation Odyssey Day 300: Great story about the use of blogs in education: "She also set up a weblog for each student. That allowed for instant publishing and created a space where classmates could read and comment on each other's work. Students' attitudes began to change. 'They ...

PCI Express to usher in PC changes: An older article that I missed. There's a new PCI standard coming which runs at 2.5 GHz and has the potential for 40 GHz. "Intel is among the strongest backers of PCI Express, a successor to the PCI standard used to connect devices ...

Portland Man Strikes Plea Deal on Terror Charges: The story of this Intel engineer that was arrested and detained as a terrorist struck a huge chord in the geek community. BoingBoing covered it quite a bit and friends created a "Free Mike Hawash" site. Alas, it appears he may have ...

PC sales may be coming out of doldrums: PC sales are up between 14% and 20% this year, depending on who you ask. The numbers are encouraging to a sector that has been languishing for the past three years, battered by the dot-bomb, a flagging economy and a mountainous inventory ...

VeriSign Migrating 2,000 Unix Servers to Red Hat Linux: In the midst of the SCO battle, IBM releases new ads, and now Verisign goes and does this: "In the latest big win for Linux and open source, infrastructure service provider VeriSign has decided to migrate 2,000 of its high-performance Unix ...

So, you're telling me I just put this CD into the computer, reboot it, and I'm booted into an environment that's got all sorts of games pre-installed and instantly ready to play? I am so there. A distribution of Knoppix loaded with games has a bootable CD with 700 MB ...

Wired 11.07: McNealy's Last Stand: A fascinating, albeit long, article about the fate of Sun. "...the story reduces down to this: McNealy spent the second half of the 1990s monomaniacally obsessed with everything having to do with Microsoft, from its monopoly-like practices to the general unreliability of the Windows operating ...

First quad-core laptop hits U.S.: Here s the mother of all laptops for you quad-core processor, dual video cards, and up to three hard drives. With no mobile quad-core parts in existence, the Xtreme 917V Accelerator turns to desktop CPUs, giving you a choice between the Intel Core 2 Quad ...

Test bed helps the Internet evolve: The Internet has a dev environment, it turns out. "The project sponsored by Intel Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co., as well as many universities, is currently running on more than 160 machines at 65 sites worldwide. 'PlanetLab is a wonderful resource. Because it is in ...

Is your 2.5 pound Ultralight laptop really dragging you down when you tote it through the airport? Sony has you covered: The X505 is Sony's smallest notebook, weighing less than two pounds and under an inch thin. While small in size, the X505 delivers big performance through the power of ...

USATODAY.com - Tiny signs of life bloom in Silicon Valley: This is the latest in several articles I've read lately about Silicon Valley coming back to life. "Year-over-year job losses in Santa Clara County — the heart of the Valley — are easing. Median home prices, among the highest in ...

Cray forecasts Red Storm for masses: It's about time that Cray re-entered the commercial market. I remember when Cray was a force to be reckoned with. Things were never quite the same after Seymour Cray the founder of the company died in a car accident back in 1996. ...

Microsoft, Apple Sign 5-Year Software Pact: Some interesting news out of MacWorld. Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, said in an interview Tuesday that the company won't sell or support Windows itself, but also hasn't done anything to preclude people from loading Windows onto the machines ...

For fun, I pimped out one of the new "luxury" Dell XPS machines to see how high I could get it. First I had to set some ground rules: No peripherals (tower, mouse, keyboard only), or else it's too easy. No monitor either -- those LCDs get expensive. No software ...

Life at Google - The Microsoftie Perspective: Microsoft hired an ex-Google employee, pumped him for information, and is internally passing around this intel about how things really are at Google. The most depressing thing here is about Google s much-vaunted 20% Time which is the supposed 20% of your time you ...

I'm not one that usually wears logo tees, and I peel all the extra stickers off of the electronics I buy. I just don't much care for being an unwitting billboard for a company when I just paid money for their product. That's why I was happy to read that ...

Some not too kind things have been said about John C. Dvorak around here, much of it well deserved. But I'm wondering if his assertion that Apple is steering towards Windows is so far off base. I stand by my disagreement with him on why he thinks it's a done ...

IBM sets DB2 database free: This slipped under the radar about a week ago: there's now a free version of DB2. DB2 Express-C is the same database as IBM's commercial offerings but the company places limits on what kind of hardware it can run on. It can be deployed on ...

Wireless Internet access about to go extra 5 miles: We had WiMax-like service here in Sioux Falls as a test market for Monet Mobile. You could surf the Web from a laptop in the back seat of your car driving down the interstate. Sadly, it looks like Monet was a ...

CEOs shudder at thought of BlackBerry shutdown: A article about how many in the business world are terrified at the thought of having their Blackberries shut off. "It's just nuts. The idea that someone is just going to switch it off in three or four weeks, even if it's only ...

Apple's new dual-core Power Macs. My dream machine has arrived. Too bad I'll have to continue dreaming about it. I piled on the options to a new quad 2.5Ghz Power Mac G5 and I came up with a price of $22,930. The bulk of which is the premium paid for ...

Sounds like the long expected release of Office 12 for the Mac is well on it's way through the halls of Redmond's Mac Business Unit. The thing most potential customers are looking forward to is a version that will run natively on Intel Macs, but it will also have many ...

Amid all the hoopla surrounding Apple's new iPhone, another newly introduced Apple-related item hasn't received much press; Axiotron and Other World Computing (OWC) introduced the ModBook, the first tablet Mac portable. It sounds like the ModBook is exactly what the name implies; a Modded MacBook. According to Axiotron, they provide ...

Mac users froth, while Linux users befriend: Here's a pretty funny story about a USA Today writer, Andrew Kantor, who penned a piece about the supercomputer at the University of Virgina that's made out of G5 Macs. We've talked about this computer several times. A Mac site took offense at ...

I know this is late, and you've probably already heard, but today Apple cut loose the new Mac Pro the successor to the G5 Power Macintosh. Prices start at $2,199 for a dual-processor, dual-core 2GHz machine. An extra $1,100 will replace the 2GHz Xeons with 3GHz processors. The exterior ...

I was listening to a talk radio show earlier this evening, and the host was in the middle of interviewing Clint Wilder, co-author of The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity. During their discussion on conserving resources & recycling, they took a call from a guy ...