Intel sets sights on Asia

Intel sets sights on Asia
By Vladimir Guevarra
The Wall Street Journal Europe
27 Sep 2006

SINGAPORE— Intel Corp. said it expects revenue contributions from Asia to increase beyond the current 51% asmore computer makers shift production to low cost countries there. Intel Asia-Pacific General Manager John Antone predicted in an interview... read more...

Tech Tags: The Wall Street Journal Europe newspaper ECONOMY& POLITICS

Free wireless Internet carries dangers

Free wireless Internet carries dangers
By THERESE POLETTI
The Gazette, Colorado Springs
24 Sep 2006

c Gordon Hamachi, a software developer who lives in Mountain View, Calif., just started using the new free wireless computer network that Google has launched to cover the entire city. Hamachi, 51, said he is concerned about security when he uses the... read more...

Tech Tags: The Gazette, Colorado Springs newspaper TECHNOLOGY

Microsoft’s Vista system sparks complaints to EU

Microsoft’s Vista system sparks complaints to EU
By Mary Jacoby
The Wall Street Journal Europe
21 Sep 2006

BRUSSELS—Two U.S. software makers are lobbying European Union regulators for action against Microsoft Corp.’s next-generation Windows computer-operating system, slated for release to corporate customers in November. Adobe Systems Inc. of San Jose,... read more...

Tech Tags: The Wall Street Journal Europe newspaper Front Page

Microsoft boasts wireless Zune will turn iPod nano into hockey puck

Microsoft boasts wireless Zune will turn iPod nano into hockey puck
Software
Australian
19 Sep 2006

MICROSOFT has unveiled its wireless-enabled Zune digital music and video player, scheduled to go on sale this Christmas in competition with Apple’s iPod. The player offers a 30GB hard drive, comes in black, white and brown, and allows users to... read more...

Tech Tags: Australian newspaper It Today

Dell will add 500 engineer jobs here

Dell will add 500 engineer jobs here
By Dan Zehr
Austin American-Statesman
19 Sep 2006

Dell Inc. plans to hire more engineers in Central Texas than it has at any time since the tech boom. Chairman Michael Dell, in Slovakia to announce an expansion of 600 jobs at the company’s sales and support center there, said Monday that the computer... read more...

Tech Tags: Austin American-Statesman newspaper Front Page

iPod, theyPod: Rivals copy Apple

iPod, theyPod: Rivals copy Apple
Nick Wingfield And Robert A. Guth
The Wall Street Journal Europe
18 Sep 2006

After years of watching Apple Computer Inc.’s success in digital music, rivals are ripping a page from the company’s playbook. RealNetworks Inc. today plans to announce a deal with SanDisk Corp. to sell a digital music device that’s specifically... read more...

Tech Tags: The Wall Street Journal Europe newspaper Leading The News

A company saved, a culture cast away

A company saved, a culture cast away
SIMON AVERY
Globe and Mail
12 Sep 2006

Acouple of years before Discreet Logic Inc. became fodder for a large U.S. software firm, it moved headquarters to a 60,000-square-foot warehouse in Old Montreal, creating a chic industrial workplace where catwalks spliced the vast open-concept... read more...

Tech Tags: Globe and Mail newspaper Report On Business

CHI pioneers

CHI pioneers
B Y A L E X H U T C H I N S O N
Ottawa Citizen
07 Sep 2006

When 18- year- old Peter Tanner, a co- op engineering student from the University of Waterloo, arrived in Ottawa for a summer work placement with the National Research Council, he was ushered into a room filled with a dozen refrigerator- sized banks of... read more...

Tech Tags: Ottawa Citizen newspaper Techweekly

Apple’s Jobs should address options scandal

Apple’s Jobs should address options scandal
By Jesse Eisinger
The Wall Street Journal Europe
07 Sep 2006

Steve Jobs is in a unique and unenviable situation among technology leaders. Both companies he founded— Apple Computer and Pixar Animation Studios—have fallen under the stock-optionsbackdating cloud. Apple has owned up to options “irregularities,” an... read more...

Tech Tags: The Wall Street Journal Europe newspaper Money & Investing

The Big Apple’s model for homelessness bears fruit

The Big Apple’s model for homelessness bears fruit
GARY MASON VANCOUVER
Globe and Mail
05 Sep 2006

Canadians like to think of themselves as far more socially progressive than their neighbours to the south. And yet when it comes to homelessness, it is the United States that has taken the boldest steps to eradicate the problem. And there isn’t a city... read more...

Tech Tags: Globe and Mail newspaper Canada