When Apple announced to stop attending MacWorld after the last show early next year, questions also rise seriously over the future of trade shows in general. There were many comments about the ROI a company gains at a trade show and it appears not efficient enough for Apple, according to the company's claim: Apple is reaching more people in more ways than ever before, so like many companies, trade shows have become a very minor part of how Apple reaches its customers. The ...

Apple Inc has been known for long of its premium-price strategy. "We don't know how to make a $500 computer that's not a piece of junk," Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, said in October implying the wave of affordable, reduced-size notebooks, often called netbooks, flooding the market this year. The strategy proves working really well for the company bringing in close to 20% profit margins in comparison with 6% or less for its competitors. And until October, Apple had enjoyed a successful ...

Boston-Power Inc, a Massachusetts-based company which has 6 Sigma-level mass manufacturing operations in China, today announced HP as first customer to offer its next generation notebook computer battery in a company's press release. The Boston-Power's next-generation Lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery cell, named Sonata, will be able to keep 80 percent of their initial charge after three years of use. Typically laptop battery time starts to drop significantly after around 150 charges while Boston-Power's batteries can be charged 1,000 times and get "like new" ...

Five winners of fbFund, who were picked from a pool of 25 finalists, have been announced. Each of them will receive $250,000 non-recourse grants, mentorship from Facebook on development and a lot of marketing benefits. They are (in alphabetical order): GroupCard: Digital greeting card service that lets friends send cards signed by a whole group. Kontagent: Advanced analytics tool to help developers track many aspects of app usage in details. MouseHunt: Casual (but ...

Google today uncovered a new project the company is pursuing called Native Client that "make it possible to build applications that run in a web browser but incorporate native code modules," according to a post on the company code blog. The project, though still in the early stage, promises to let Web-based programs access far more computational power on computers than they do now. This is probably Google's answer to Adobe's Flash, Sun's Java/JavaFX, Microsoft's SilverLight and even to Windows as ...

According to the tests conducted by engineers at Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico, who have simulated future high-performance computers containing the 8-core, 16‑core, and 32-core microprocessors, it appears that after 8 cores put to process the more cores added the worse applications perform especially bad for data-intensive apps. As the chart below shows, while keep adding more cores to the tests the memory bandwidth remains flat, and that is the cause of the trouble. [caption id="attachment_404" align="aligncenter" width="470" caption="More cores per chip ...

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A recent study conducted by Precursor LLC, a consulting firm bankrolled by major telecom companies, alleged that Google "is by far the largest user of Internet bandwidth," the company's share of bandwidth usage is rising rapidly, and it's bandwidth use "is orders of magnitude greater than its payment for its cost." Scott Cleland, the author of the study, is known a frequent Google critic, stated that Google actually used 21 times more bandwidth than the company paid for. Here is the ...

Adobe System said this afternoon in a statement that it will cut its revenue outlook for fiscal Q4, 2008, citing the impact of the global economic crisis. The company also wants to cut costs by firing 600 full-time employees, about 8 percent of its workforce. The company's Q4 revenue target range was $925 million to $955 million but will be able to deliver between $912 million to $915 million only. The main cause for the revenue deficit, cited, was weaker-than-expected demand for ...

Good OS, the California-based company who is most famous for the gOS, a Linux distribution that debuted last year on the $199 Everex gPC selling at Wal-Mart, announced another operating system called Cloud on Monday at the Netbook World Summit in Paris. Different from other quick-start software that allows users to check mail or play music almost instantly after turning on their computers, Good OS has created "a wrapper that enables you to perform all your major rich-client applications from within ...