Meg Whitman’s first HP analyst call: We’ll get back to business fundamentals in 2012 (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:Meg Whitman’s first HP analyst call: We’ll get back to business fundamentals in 2012 — Meg Whitman, the newly appointed chief executive of the world’s largest technology company, said in a conference call with analysts that Hewlett-Packard will get “back to business fundamentals” in 2012.
Oak Ridge National Labs uses AMD and Nvidia chips for world’s biggest supercomputer (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:Oak Ridge National Labs uses AMD and Nvidia chips for world’s biggest supercomputer — The Oak Ridge National Laboratory plans to create what could become the world’s most powerful supercomputer based on a Cray supercomputer with 18,000 microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices and an equal number of Nvidia graphics chips.
OnLive to power on-demand game demos at game fan site GameSpot (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:OnLive to power on-demand game demos at game fan site GameSpot — GameSpot is moving into live game demos with an on-demand service powered by cloud-gaming firm OnLive. — GameSpot is one of the largest game fan news and review sites and it will now enable its readers to instantly play game [...]
Sony loses money due to quake and PlayStation Network outage (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:Sony loses money due to quake and PlayStation Network outage — Sony reported a $199 million loss in the first fiscal quarter ended June 30 because of problems including the Japan earthquake and the hacking of the PlayStation Network. — Like Nintendo last night, Sony also cut its profit forecast.
HP will install both Windows and WebOS on same desktops in future (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:HP will install both Windows and WebOS on same desktops in future — Hewlett-Packard chief executive Leo Apotheker said today that HP will install both Microsoft Windows and its own WebOS operating system in desktop and laptop computers in the future. — Apotheker said that HP plans …
MySpace acquiring team and assets of social messaging service Threadbox (exclusive) (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:MySpace acquiring team and assets of social messaging service Threadbox (exclusive) — MySpace is in the process of acquiring the team and assets of social messaging service Threadbox. — A source close to the matter tipped VentureBeat off on the news, and MySpace has since confirmed the deal with us.
Sony to sell Move motion-sensing wand for $49.99 (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:Sony to sell Move motion-sensing wand for $49.99 — said it will sell its motion-sensing Move controller for $49.99, a low mass market price that could kickstart the company’s attempt to take games to the next level. — The company will also sell its Playstation Eye camera, which is used with the [...]
Intel launches new business PC technology, 6-core chips (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:Intel launches new business PC technology, 6-core chips — Intel is announced today that new business computers are shipping today with its latest technology for corporations. — The new Intel Core vPro processors are based on the new Nehalem design that debuted in servers last year.
