Peter Sayer

Articles by Peter Sayer

CES: Greenpeace still in search for truly green electronics

Manufacturers are using less toxic materials, employing more LED displays and recycling more, but a Greenpeace study finds that the consumer electronics industry is far better at making green claims than green products

EU investigates possible smart card chip cartel

Commission is investigating price fixing, customer allocation and the exchange of commercially sensitive information among makers of chips in cellphones and bank cards

Sun buys Belgian cloud computing vendor

Sun is counting on Q-layer's technology to enable rapid provisioning and deployment of applications, servers, storage and bandwidth within cloud computing infrastructures

IE lost share to Firefox, Safari and Chrome in December

The percentage of people using Microsoft's browser has dropped just over 7 per cent over 2008, says a Web analytics company. But it admits the December figures may have been skewed by the annual holiday slowdown by businesses

Worldwide semiconductor sales dropped sharply in November

Decline of 9.8 per cent from the previous year was even more than in October, when sales dropped 7.2 per cent from the same period in 2007

Netbooks: small, cheap — and fast?

Good OS's forthcoming "Cloud" combines a compressed Linux kernel with a browser modified to play media files, make phone calls and set up the computer's network connection

Open-source developers set out software road map for 2020

Rosy vision painted of open source in the mainstream of the software industry, championed by CIOs wary of vendor lock-in

AMD spin-off receives multi-billion dollar backing

Two Abu Dhabi investment investments groups are laying down billions of dollars to fund the AMD's new company, tentatively named The Foundry Co

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