Architect David Fisher says that by the end of 2010, an 80-storey tower in Dubai will stand tall as the world's first-ever shape-shifting skyscraper.
Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy had to be wined and dined at a Silicon Valley McDonald's before he gave up his reluctance to help launch the workstation maker in 1982, according to one of many tales the company cofounders recounted on Wednesday.
Sun Microsystems has agreed to acquire Kealia, a start-up that designs servers with Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor and that employs Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim.
Cisco Systems has lost another entrepreneur to the start-up world.
Commentary: Intel may make semiconductors, but to understand what the company's efforts will mean to you and me in the months ahead, it helps to be less an electrical engineer and more a cartographer.
Over a long and distinguished career, Andy Bechtolsheim has earned a reputation as a top-notch engineer. Now that reputation will be put to the test. The task: Invent Sun Microsystems' next "hot box".
On-demand customer relationship managemet provider RightNow Technologies claims it is the only true believer when it comes to hosted software.
Kensington resurrects a dying breed with the SlimBlade Trackball, but the potential of its unique shortcut buttons devolves into a mess of clumsy extra functions and awkward movements that restrict productivity.
Commentary: Intel may make semiconductors, but to understand what the company's efforts will mean to you and me in the months ahead, it helps to be less an electrical engineer and more a cartographer.
Intel will release its Prescott desktop chip later this year and follow it in 2004 with a successor code-named Tejas and a slew of other products designed to make the desktop more compelling.
IEEE 1394 may be the shape of things to come, but the Granite ext94-CDRW-2,"the only unit here that uses this interface,"is not for everyone
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