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IBM Predicts Home Electricity From Your Bike, Mind-Reading Computers

Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 19, 2011 at 12:29 pm PT

Big Blue marks the end of the year by rolling out its crystal ball.

G5 Idled? Check! Name Tags On? Check! Weeklong Mogul Fest in Sun Valley Will End With Zuckerberg-Gates Chit-Chat.

Kara Swisher in Media on July 5, 2011 at 5:47 pm PT

In case you haven’t heard, the tech and media moguls have jetted their private planes to Sun Valley, Idaho, for the exclusive annual Allen & Company confab and are probably easing into the cocktail hour just about now. Break out the Kistler Chardonnay and name tags!

An Unlikely Pair (Me and Glamour Magazine, That Is) Tackle Women in Tech Conundrum This Fall

Kara Swisher in Media on June 10, 2011 at 6:01 am PT

As readers of mine know, I write a semi-ranty post now and again about the lack of women in high-level tech jobs and on the boards of its major companies. This fall, Glamour magazine and I will be asking about that lack of women. And — fair warning — we have a lot of questions.

Intel Shifts Focus to Low-Power Chips

Shara Tibken, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 17, 2011 at 12:15 pm PT

Intel Corp. is increasingly focusing its roadmap on chips that consume less power, helping it target the smartphone and tablet markets and focus on enabling notebooks to be thinner and lighter, the company said Tuesday.

IBM Expected to Report a Strong Q1 Despite Exposure to Japan

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 18, 2011 at 11:06 am PT

IBM reports earnings after the close of the markets tomorrow. One analyst expects a relatively strong quarter despite the size of IBM’s business in Japan.

Transphorm Nabs $20 Million From Google Ventures, Kleiner

Kara Swisher in News on February 23, 2011 at 11:00 am PT

Yet another “stealth” start-up came out of hiding today with a big Silicon Valley funding. That would be Transphorm, a power conversion technology company, that has raised $20 million more in a Series C financing led by Google Ventures and including Kleiner Perkins, Foundation Capital and Lux Capital. That adds to $18 million already raised.

When Marc Met Mike–Andreessen Interviews Ovitz

Kara Swisher in News on December 8, 2010 at 9:05 am PT

Put one of Silicon Valley’s legendary power players together with one of Hollywood’s and what do you get? A must-see interview of Michael Ovitz by Marc Andreessen.

Qualcomm CEO Explains What Happened to Smartbooks

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 2, 2010 at 6:30 am PT

A year ago, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs was talking a lot about smartbooks. Today, well, not so much. For those who have already forgotten what the smartbook even was, the idea was to have a low-cost device that looked a lot like a netbook but offered far better battery life and instant-on capabilities. Once Apple released the iPad, though, everyone started focusing on tablet devices rather than on little notebooks. “Obviously, tablets are the flavor of the day,” Jacobs said in an interview on Tuesday.

Decoding Google's Net Neutrality Proposal Blog: The Pixie Dust-Free Edition!

Kara Swisher in News on August 13, 2010 at 5:51 am PT

The opening line of the classic J.M. Barrie book “Peter Pan” reads: “All children, except one, grow up.” Actually, that one too, and now the whole Internet is angry at Google and taking shots, because of its recent joint public policy proposal with Verizon over net neutrality. They are claiming the Silicon Valley search giant–in the most cynical of ways–sold out its long-standing commitment to the open Internet to make a corporately-favorable deal. Thus, Google took to the corporate blog yesterday to explain it all away in a post titled, “Facts About Our Network Neutrality Policy.” It practically begs for translation, so BoomTown shall not disappoint!