Stories by Agam Shah

  • OLPC asked to free XO laptop

    As commercial sales of One Laptop Per Child's XO laptop close on Monday, a user tracking the nonprofit effort said continued commercial availability of the laptop could benefit OLPC's nonprofit effort, the XO manufacturer and children using it as a learning tool.

  • AMD launches platform for multimedia users

    Advanced Micro Devices will today launch the 'Spider' platform, which combines the company's next-generation quad-core processors, graphics cards and chipsets in one platform to deliver better graphics, performance-per-watt and improved high-definition video.

  • Dell XPS One strips the tease

    After teasing the public for a while, Dell on Friday revealed an all-in-one computer that combines the monitor and CPU in one box.

  • AMD could bite Intel with cash infusion

    With Advanced Micro Devices on thin ice with severe pressure from chip rival Intel and four consecutive quarterly net losses, the cash infusion by an Abu Dhabi government investment arm could help the struggling chip maker remain competitive.

  • OPENWORLD - Dell will help corporations go green

    Dell plans to release a reference architecture in the future that will pave the way for enterprises to reduce power consumption and go green in the future, Dell CEO Michael Dell said in a keynote at the Oracle OpenWorld 2007 conference in the US this week.

  • Apple could build Penryn into Xserve

    While Apple is tight-lipped about the introduction of new Mac systems with Intel's latest Penryn processors, analysts said the company's Unix-based Xserve servers could be the first to include the power-efficient Penryn chips.

  • Dell revamps PowerEdge line of servers

    Bringing Intel's latest Penryn chip to its servers, Dell this week is expected to revamp the PowerEdge line of servers with new hardware and nomenclature to identify servers.

  • Intel launches power-efficient Penryn processors

    Intel this weekend launched its long-awaited new line of power-efficient microprocessors, code-named Penryn, designed to deliver better graphics and application performance as well as virtualization capabilities.