AMD (NYSE:AMD) announced revenue for the second quarter of 2010 of $1.65 billion, a net loss of $43 million, or $0.06 per share, and operating income of $125 million.  The company reported non-GAAP net income of $83 million, or $0.11 per share, and non-GAAP operating income of $138 million.
“Robust demand for [...]

Before joining Microsoft in 1997, Jennifer Chayes taught mathematics at UCLA. She was researching “obscure-sounding” topics at the time, heady stuff such as phase transitions (think water freezing or ice melting) and intractable problems in computer science (problems that cannot be solved efficiently).
Then Nathan Myhrvold, an old friend who had [...]

Tr3is: MTV, Musica y Mas, which celebrates the bilingual/bicultural music and lifestyle of Latinos in the U.S., and Yahoo! en Espanol (NASDAQ:YHOO), are launching the Dame un Break contest sponsored by Verizon – giving up-and-coming artists and bands the opportunity to experience the music industry and get a shot at stardom.
“The [...]

Telefonica O2 subscribers in Prague and Brno will soon enjoy faster mobile broadband speeds. The operator is upgrading its network to 2.5G, EDGE (Enhanced Data Rate for GSM), technology to keep pace with growth in mobile data and the increasing use of smart devices. It has extended its existing contract with Nokia [...]

Milestone XProtect™ Enterprise Video Management Software (VMS) provides centralized management for the city of Dublin, Ohio. City management and IT staff built the installation on the unified Milestone platform with its open architecture running on an IT infrastructure. The ease of use for employees has reduced operation costs for the city [...]

Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) 70 is being misused by many vendors, and often their customers and certified public accountants (CPAs), in the hosted-application, software as a service (SaaS) and cloud computing spaces, according to Gartner, Inc.
Gartner analysts said SAS 70 is too often treated by vendors and their customers as [...]

IDC Energy Insights today announced the availability of a new report, Business Strategy: Optimizing Transmission for Wind Integration(Document #EI223579, June 2010) that examines the role of key transmission technologies in enabling the rapid growth of the U.S. wind energy market. The report describes the impact of current transmission constraints on [...]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced an open beta program for AIX 7, the company’s open standards-based UNIX® operating system. AIX 7 builds on the capabilities of previous releases of AIX and can fully exploit the performance and energy management capabilities of the new POWER7 servers that began shipping [...]

HP Enterprise Services today announced that 3M, which produces thousands of innovative products for dozens of diverse markets, has signed a multimillion dollar, three-year applications services agreement to help improve productivity, enabling the company to get innovative products into the market more quickly.
Under the agreement, HP will develop and manage a [...]

This week at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2010, Microsoft Corp. is highlighting market opportunities for hosting and communications service providers as adoption of cloud services among small and midsize business (SMBs) continues to rise. Microsoft is helping service providers take advantage of those opportunities through its software, services and [...]