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AMD Unveils Fusion APUs for Embedded Devices

January 19th, 2011 | No Comments

AMD is rolling out its G-Series APUs aimed at the highly competitive embedded market. The new APUs, which offer CPU and graphics on the same die, are similar to ones launched at CES for notebooks. – Advanced Micro Devices is taking the wrapping off its first Fusion accelerate processing units for the embedded market.
AMD launched the G-Series Jan. 19, just weeks
after unveiling its first Fusion processors for consumer PCs at the
2011 Consumer Electronics Show. Like those processors, the G-Se…

AMD Rolls Out First Fusion APUs

January 4th, 2011 | No Comments

At CES, AMD is unveiling the first of its Fusion APUs, which offer computing and graphics technology on a single die. Intel also is rolling out its similar Â“Sandy BridgeÂ” chips at the show. – A
day after rival Intel
unveiled its line of quot;Sandy Bridge quot;
second-generation Core-i Series processors, officials with Advanced Micro
Devices rolled out the first of their Fusion chips.

AMD
used the day before the Consumer Electronics Show 2011 opens its doors Jan. 5
in Las Vegas …

AMD Demonstrates Bulldozer CPU, Ships Fusion APUs

November 10th, 2010 | No Comments

Analysts appear cautiously optimistic about AMD after the company demos its Bulldozer CPU and Fusion APU technologies. – Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices has demonstrated its CPU and GPU computing
technologies on a single die and processor design, with planned OEM system
availability in early 2011. The company’s Fusion Accelerated Processing Units,
currently shipping to OEMs and coming to market in 2011, are built…

Adobe Cold Fusion: 8 Reasons Why It Is Still Relevant

October 6th, 2010 | No Comments

Despite being one of the longest-standing application development platforms, Adobe ColdFusion continues to gain steam. More than 770,000 developers at more than 12,000 companies rely on ColdFusion to rapidly build and deploy Internet applications& from the Professional Golfers’ Association, Under Armour, AT&T, the Federal Reserve Bank and even the National Security Agency. Check out this slide show to see examples of how companies and government agencies use ColdFusion for everything from managing a central portal where people in all 50 states work collectively to safeguard the national food supply, to running sophisticated online traveler applications that allow extreme backpackers to stay in touch with families at home, to analyzing customer behavior on e-commerce sites to anticipate impending customer requests. Adobe ColdFusion, a rapid application development and application server platform, includes an IDE and a full scripting language, and features enterprise integration along with support for Rich Internet Applications. This slide show offers eight projects that demonstrate that Adobe ColdFusion is still a highly relevant development platform. – …

Wipro and Oracle Develop Solutions on New Oracle Fusion Apps

September 24th, 2010 | No Comments

Wipro and Oracle have launched a joint initiative to develop solutions for the recently announced next-generation Oracle Fusion Applications. – Wipro Technologies, the consulting, system
integration and outsourcing business of Wipro Limited, and Oracle have
announced a new joint development initiative on next-generation Oracle
Fusion Applications.
Wipro is a partner selected by Oracle Product
Development to be involved in this joint d…

Oracle Introduces Oracle Fusion Applications

September 20th, 2010 | No Comments

At Oracle OpenWorld 2010, the company announced Oracle Fusion Applications, the next generation of business applications from Oracle. – SAN
FRANCISCO On the opening day of the Oracle OpenWorld 2010
show here, Oracle announced Oracle Fusion Applications, the next generation of
business applications from the database giant.

In
an opening keynote, Oracle Chairman and CEO
Larry Ellison said that by setting the standard for appli…

AMD Fusion APU Zactate Preview Planned Next Week

September 10th, 2010 | No Comments

AMD is to preview its Fusion APU, codenamed Zacate, in San Francisco, while rival Intel plans an unveiling of its Sandy Bridge chip. – Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices announced next week in San Francisco the company would
unveil the first North America public demonstrations of its Fusion
Accelerated Processing Unit, known as Zacate. The APU is a
dual-core, 18-watt TDP processor containing discrete-level graphics
capabilities o…

Funding for nuclear fusion: Expensive Iteration

July 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

A huge international fusion-reactor project faces funding difficulties

VIABLE nuclear fusion has been only 30 years away since the idea was first mooted in the 1950s. Its latest three-decade incarnation is ITER, a joint effort by the European Union (EU), America, China, India, Japan, Russia and South Korea to construct a prototype reactor on a site in Cadarache, France, by 2018. If all goes to plan, in about 30 years it will be reliably producing more energy than is put in.

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor became plain ITER following public anxiety about anything that has “thermonuclear” next to “experimental” in its name. ITER aims to produce energy by fusing together the nuclei of hydrogen atoms, confined in a magnetic field at high temperatures—a process akin to that which powers the sun. …

Dell, Practice Fusion to Offer Medical Records System

June 3rd, 2010 | No Comments

Dell and Practice Fusion will offer smaller medical practices around the country a "technology suite" of both hardware and software for electronic medical records. Once installed, the system would allow those offices to electronically chart, schedule, prescribe and issue lab orders. Dell’s contribution, unsurprisingly, will be hardware, paired with Practice Fusion’s cloud-based EMR system. Electronic medical records have been attracting a good deal of attention as an efficiency-boosting and cost-saving measure for medical practices. – Dell and Practice Fusion plan on delivering electronic
medical record technology to smaller medical practices around the country, as
part of a packaged solution that includes both hardware and cloud-based
applications, according
to a June 3 announcement by both companies.
As part of the package…

AMD Demonstrates Upcoming Fusion Chips at Computex

June 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

AMD officials at Computex showed off one of the company’s upcoming Fusion APUs, which combine a CPU, GPU and various accelerators on a single die, and which will be available for use in desktops and notebooks in the first half of 2011. – Advanced Micro Devices officials June 1 gave Computex attendees the first
public demonstration of a Fusion processor, technology that is scheduled for
release in the first half of 2011.
Fusion is AMD’s effort to
create what the company is calling APUs (accelerated processing units), which
bring…

AMD Hires Nvidia Exec to Head Its Fusion Program

May 27th, 2010 | No Comments

AMD has hired Nvidia Vice President Manju Hegde to head up its Fusion program, which aims to combine CPU and GPU functionality into a single chip, which AMD is calling an APU, or accelerated processing unit. Both AMD and Nvidia are pushing GPU technologies for general-purpose computing needs. – Advanced Micro Devices has hired away an executive from rival Nvidia
to head up its efforts to combine CPU and graphics technologies in a
single computing platform.
AMD on May 27 announced that Manju Hegde, Nvidias
vice president of CUDA technical marketing, will now be corporate vice
president…

VMware Adds 20 New Features to Fusion 3 Windows-on-Mac Package

May 27th, 2010 | No Comments

The downloadable update for current Fusion 3 customers, Fusion 3.1, boasts improved 3D graphics, a new USB "easy connect" and 18 other new features. – VMware on May 26 announced that it has upgraded its popular Fusion
virtualization package, which enables Mac users to run the Windows
Vista or Windows 7 operating systems and their applications in a
virtual machine on the desktop.

The downloadable update for current Fusion 3 customers, Fus…

VMware Fusion 3.1, Workstation 7.1 Advance Desktop Virtualization on Mac, Windows

March 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

Beta versions of Fusion 3.1 and Workstation 7.1 show incremental improvements to VMware desktop tools that enable virtual machines to run on Mac and Windows PC systems. While the advances don’t surpass Parallels or other desktop offerings, IT administrators and developers will appreciate improvements that dump bugs and enhance graphics handling.
– …

Oracle Releases Imaging and Process Components for Fusion Middleware

March 15th, 2010 | No Comments

Two new components of Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Imaging and Process Management 11g and Oracle Forms Recognition, will in theory allow businesses to better automate document- and image-centric processes such as accounting and claims processing. Imaging and Process Management 11g also offers solution templates and streamlining for processes involving paper-based and electronic transactions. As Oracle moves into 2010 looking to build on its financial successes from late 2009, it still faces the need to integrate its Sun Microsystems acquisition while challenging IBM in the systems arena.
– Oracle released two new components for its Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle
Imaging and Process Management 11g and Oracle Forms Recognition, on March
15. The new applications allow businesses to automate document- and
image-centric processes such as claims processing.
Specifically, Oracle Form…

Fusion Garage’s JooJoo Enters Full Production, Despite Lawsuit

February 4th, 2010 | No Comments

Fusion Garage announced that its controversial JooJoo tablet PC has entered full production, with devices expected to reach consumers by the end of February. The move comes days after Fusion Garage moved to dismiss a lawsuit filed against it by TechCrunch, the publishing entity founded by Michael Arrington, which alleges that the JooJoos design is a rip-off of his unreleased CrunchPad tablet PC. The name JooJoo may be derived from Ju-Ju, a West African term for objects such as skulls possessed by spirits.
– Fusion Garage announced on Feb. 3 that its controversial
JooJoo tablet PC had entered full production, with devices expected to reach
consumers by the end of the month. That announcement came two days after Fusion
Garage moved to dismiss a lawsuit filed against it by TechCrunch, the publishing
e…

Fusion Garage Moves to Dismiss CrunchPad Tablet Lawsuit

February 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

Fusion Garage filed a legal motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed against it by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, who insists that the company ripped off the design for his never-released CrunchPad for its JooJoo tablet PC. In the filing, Fusion Garage describes the legal action between the two entities as the fallout of a failed merger. Arrington originally intended for the CrunchPad to be a cheap, open-source device retailing for around $200. The announcement of the Apple iPad has superheated the tablet PC space lately, with a number of companies planning competing devices.
– Fusion Garage filed a motion on Feb. 1 to dismiss the lawsuit
filed against it by TechCrunch, the publishing entity founded by blogger Michael
Arrington, which alleges that Fusion Garages JooJoo tablet PC is a rip-off of
Arringtons never-released CrunchPad.

The legal action continues a saga t…

TechCrunch Founder Arrington Files Suit Against JooJoo, Fusion Garage

December 13th, 2009 | No Comments

TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington filed on Dec. 10. a much-threatened lawsuit against Fusion Garage, a startup that he claims stole his idea for the long-awaited CrunchPad tablet PC. Fusion Garage began taking preorders for the $499 JooJoo tablet, which features a 12.1-inch touch screen and can primarily be used to surf the Internet, on Dec. 11. In addition to the lawsuit, Arrington posted on the TechCrunch blog describing what he termed a pattern of deceit on Fusion Garage’s part. The matter will be settled in court.
– Michael Arrington, founder of popular tech blog TechCrunch, announced that
he had filed a lawsuit Dec. 10 against Singapore-based Fusion Garage, formally
alleging that the latter company’s JooJoo tablet PC is a rip-off of Arrington’s
never-released CrunchPad.
The JooJoo, a 12.1-inch touch scree…

Fusion Garage Announces JooJoo, Refuting TechCrunch Claims

December 7th, 2009 | No Comments

Tech startup Fusion Garage CEO Chanda Rathakrishnan announced the upcoming debut of the JooJoo, a tablet PC with a 12.1-inch touch screen, during a Dec. 7 Web conference. Fusion Garage will likely be sued by Michael Arrington, founder of popular technology blog TechCrunch, who insists that Fusion Garage stole the concept and designs for his CrunchPad tablet and used that to manufacture the JooJoo.
– Tech startup Fusion Garage announced that it will debut the JooJoo, a
tablet PC with a 12.1-inch touch screen, on Dec. 11 at a price point of $499.
Whether or not the device, announced by Fusion Garage CEO
Chandra Rathakrishnan during a Web conference on Dec. 7, actually meets that
launch date, …

Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac Competes Against VMware Fusion 3

November 4th, 2009 | No Comments

Parallels introduces Desktop 5 for Mac, a solution for running a virtual PC on a Mac that the company claims is 300 times faster than the previous version. The latest version of Parallels’ Mac virtualization software is competing against VMware’s Fusion 3.
– Parallels makes it easy for Macs and PCs to just get along, and on Nov. 4 it
introduced Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac, offering an updated way for them to
bond more quickly, more easily and with better integration.
Parallels 5, according to the virtualization company, is 300 times faster
than the…