Lost in the Earth-shattering report of Steve Jobs’ departure was the news that AMD has named a new CEO. Rory Read most recently President and COO of Lenovo will take over the reigns at AMD. “I believe AMD’s technology portfolio and design expertise position the company to lead in market segments beyond the traditional PC ecosystem” said Rory, you can … Read more
Seasonality and worldwide recession to blame
HP’s Personal System group, PSG, is a $41 billion dollar company. It is, IMHO, a jewel, but I may be a bit biased because I have a lot of old friends there. And, like any large organization, it’s not just one thing. In macro scale it’s a desktop PC company, a notebook PC company, a workstation company, and maybe a … Read more
HP’s Personal System group, PSG, is a $41 billion dollar company. It is, IMHO, a jewel, but I may be a bit biased because I have a lot of old friends there. And, like any large organization, it’s not just one thing. In macro scale it’s a desktop PC company, a notebook PC company, a workstation company, and maybe a … Read more
Updated C & E-Series APUs feature DDR3 1333 support for enhanced memory bandwidth and faster performance and video playback, HDMI 1.4a connections allow for viewing 3D pictures and home video on 3D-enabled TVs and displays. For notebooks, the new AMD Fusion C-Series and E-Series APUs deliver longer battery life — with up to 10.5 hours of resting battery life on … Read more
A day after announcing plans to ditch its tablet and smart-phone efforts, HP dropped the price of its webOS-powered TouchPad tablet device at the weekend to just US$99.99 and in turn claimed to have witnessed “overwhelming” demand. HP cut the price of its least-expensive TouchPad to just under US$100, from US$499.99.
Net earnings for the May-through-July period were $71.2 million, or 30 cents per share, up from $59.9 million, or 25 cents per share, in the second quarter of 2010. Revenue was $546.3 million, up 16 percent from $472.8 million a year earlier, sales were particularly strong in Asia, $143 million in the second quarter, up 24 percent. You can listen … Read more
JPR hosted a lively discussion on Virtual Moviemaking at SIGGRAPH in Vancouver that included industry stalwarts Rob Powers of Newtek, Brian Pohl of Autodesk, Steve Cooper of Smith Micro, Darin Grant of DreamWorks and Ping Fu of GeoMagic. You can view the entire panel discussion on YouTube here.
It’s getting real, folks. Increasingly, the real world is becoming interrelated with the digital world, and this is driving new frontiers in software. Scanned data is being fed into computer-aided design (CAD) programs to serve as a starting point or even to co-exist with CAD data, depending on the application. You can read the rest of Kathleen Maher’s article in … Read more
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Autodesk has released 123D Sculpt, a 3D sculpting and painting app for iPad. The app is one more product Autodesk’s new consumer products division is releasing to appeal to the rapidly growing group of consumers who self-identify as Makers. Read the full story here.
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