Blade Runner replicants? Well, not quite yet
Robots are used across different industries and in the armed forces, but Ram Ramamoorthy said that it’s really the defence sector that’s driving most applications. Of course the film Blade Runner is...
View ArticleSilicon crunch "around the corner"
Malcolm Penn, CEO of chip analyst Future Horizons, gave his annual rundown on the semiconductor market at the IEF2013 in Dublin, and he had some warnings of what the industry should expect. The...
View ArticleGet ready to buy your last light bulb ever
Plessey, for people of a certain age, is a name to conjure with and being of a certain age, well blow me down because the outfit is still going, albeit in a different form.Michael Le Goff, the CEO of...
View ArticleMicrosoft continues to touch our hearts
Software behemoth Microsoft has also been in the forefront of hardware almost forever - hey don't forget the mouse. Although it’s been a little bit late to the game with tablets and that, it has...
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Moore’s Law gets very warped in the sub 20nm era
After all the talk of “innovation”, Walden (Wally) Rhines), chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics, posed many questions about the future of semiconductors in the post 20 nanometre era at IEF2013. He...
View ArticleIntel lays claim to the internet of fangs
After realising that it’s a bit behind the rest of the semiconductor world, Chipzilla (tick: INTC) has rolled out some marchitecture and claiming it’s still on the roadmap – especially about the...
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PC sales continue to slump
The third quarter was always a boom period for PC manufacturers but it looks as though the mould is broken as Gartner released details of shipments during the period.Shipments fell by 8.6 percent in Q3...
View ArticleIntel attempts to bluff it out as sales fall
Chip giant Intel (tick: CHIPZILLA) said tonight that its profits had only fallen by less than a percantage point for its Q3 earnings, flying in the face of facts.It reported that PC demand is rising,...
View ArticleDatabases: They’re good, they’re bad and they're ugly
As a guy who dabbled with databases last century, I was cheered to see young enthusiastic people today realising that they were all kind of re-inventing the wheel although the wheel will never be...
View ArticleNokia shoots itself in both pheet
Ailing phone company Nokia – now a subsidiary of Microsoft – appears to have looked in the mirror and seen a distorted image of reality after it launched a $500 tablet in Abu Dhabi.The tablet, named...
View ArticleShakespeare hits out at Intel, Microsoft
ACT ISCENE I. London. A street. Enter GLOUCESTER, solus distributor, UKGLOUCESTER Now is the Wintel of our discontentMade glorious summer by this sun of ARM;And all the cloud computing that lour'd upon...
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D-Link net cam covers all the angles
Want to keep an eye on your yard while you’re down at the Dog and Duck? D-Links wireless pan tilt network camera could be just the job for you.The DCS-5222L comes with an installation CD, a remote...
View ArticleSkype man says have fun, or shrivel up
A co-founder of Skype told an audience of luminaries and me that if you aren’t having fun with your start-up, the chances of success are slim.Estonian Jaan Tallin, speaking at the Silicon Valley comes...
View ArticleIntel has totally lost the plot
When newly hatched Intel CEO Brian Krzanich told analysts that Intel was moving into the foundry business, a thousand jaws in the semiconductor business must have dropped.The fact is that while...
View ArticleUSA: Road to healthcare paved with good intentions
I was in Greece some years ago, sat at the bottom of the Acropolis, minding my own business as I largely do when two grizzled old American geezers started talking about the “home of democracy”.One said...
View ArticleIT multinationals put in political oar
The world+dog knows that the following big companies lobby US politicians all the time and quite shamelessly push their own agenda irrespective of the views of individual people like the world+dog.AOL,...
View ArticleIntel, Microsoft have terrible annuses
"Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust." - TS Eliot, The Wasteland Yeah, I am quite aware the...
View ArticleIt's a bank holiday today!
TechEye won't be filing stories today. We'll be filing them tomorrow. It's a bank holiday and me and Nick Farrell need a bit of a break.
View ArticleWorld+dog fails on security front
A farcical situation arose in the UK on Monday this week when the National Crime Agency gave advice to people to wake up to security and referred them to its web site – which crashed under the...
View ArticleMagyar David takes on security Goliaths
Hungarian company Balabit said that an injection of $8 million series A funding from C5 Capital will help to boost its security profile internationally.The startup – formed in 2000 - has a suite of...
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