Jan 19th, 2009 - Slow day in the markets on Monday, but we’re going to see a lot of 4th quarter financials come out of tech stocks this week, and the viewing, I suspect, won’t be pretty. One piece of news that has come out today is Intel cutting some of its chip prices by up to 50%. In a company statement... (Read More)

Jan 4th, 2009 - Let’s get the bad news out of the way first, and it starts with the semiconductor sector. Last month I wrote how the market for consumer electronics was one of the first to go as consumers buckled down as the recession hit home. That has set the semiconductor market in a downward spiral and now... (Read More)

Sep 12th, 2008 - That little spike in semiconductor stocks we saw in Q1 may be coming to a screeching halt, if the new numbers we're seeing are any good. Actually, the drop in semiconductor revenues from Q1 2008 to Q2 is fairly amazing, and I don't mean that in a good way. Here's the scoop. Semiconductor... (Read More)

Jul 3rd, 2008 - Dish Network is looking a bit chipped, if not actually cracked or even broken – and maybe Direct TV is poised to pick up all the pieces and put the second-place satellite TV provider back together again. That’s the picture I’m seeing with Dish, which saw it’s shares drop by $2.20 – or 7% total –... (Read More)

Dec 17th, 2007 - It should be a slow week for technology stocks, what with the holidays fast approaching and a dearth of any meaningful quarterly earnings surprises. The former you know about, with Christmas only a week away. Late December is notoriously dull for the stock market as traders think more about fun... (Read More)

Dec 23rd, 2008 - Yesterday I highlighted a few gadgets I thought it was worth getting people for Christmas. Today I thought I'd do the opposite - do not, repeat not, buy any of the following. Digital photo frame is a definite no-no. I've bought one for my in-laws last year and they said they were delighted - and... (Read More)

Oct 25th, 2008 - Wouldn't it be nice if you could track Gmail messages about specific features and bugs from within your defect tracking system? You can if you're using the open-source SugarCRM, thanks to a team of Italian developers that today launched DolceGmail. The new plug-in for Firefox links Google's... (Read More)

Aug 15th, 2008 - Get ready to rewrite your USB drivers. Again. Intel this morning released portions of an updated draft of the Extended Host Controller Interface 3, the latest version (0.9) of the part of the USB specification that handles register-level communications between the operating system and the USB host... (Read More)

Aug 2nd, 2008 - The Inquirer reports that the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has formally approved a 3.2Gbps supporting Firewire specification which goes by the catchy name of IEEE 1394-2008. As well as that amazingly fast rate, IEEE 1394-2008 also supports full backwards compatibility... (Read More)

May 4th, 2007 - According to new research from Centennial Software removable devices are the single biggest threat to company data so far in 2007, yet four out of five businesses are failing to defend themselves. The research resulted from a survey undertaken at this year's Infosecurity Europe, and discovered that... (Read More)

Aug 26th, 2006 - Some press releases grab your attention for all the wrong reasons, although from the PR perspective if it has grabbed my attention it has obviously worked. One such scurried across my desktop the other day: Logitech rolls out its coolest mouse ever, the headline proclaimed. Oh crikey, thought... (Read More)