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"The low cost Windows product is aimed at Eastern European countries where average annual salaries are a small fraction of what the U.S. and western Europe are used to," Charles King, an analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld "The effort is aimed at establishing brand presence...

"They've been really close-mouthed about Diamondville," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld, noting that there have been some claims floating around the industry at large that Diamondville would be based on Intel's Silverthorne. There have also, however, been claims it would in fact not be based on Silverthorne -- that it might be a new architecture rather than a Silverthorne sibling...

Dell's Q3 situation is complex, said Pund-IT principal analyst Charles King. "It's one of those good news, bad news stories," he told the E-Commerce Times "If you look at where the company was at the beginning of the year, they definitely seemed to be on an upswing," said King...

The investment is interesting, "particularly coming a week or so after another Dubai entity bought a big stake in AMD," said Pund-IT principal analyst Charles King The Sony deal reflects the fact that "with oil selling at nearly $100 per barrel, economies like Dubai have a gre...

Referring to personal computers and printers, Pund-IT principal analyst Charles King pointed out that HP is "deriving a vast majority of its revenue from two areas where IBM doesn't even compete anymore." Overall, it was a "great quarter for HP," King told the E-Commerce Times...

With cloud computing, infrastructure is shared among systems linked in large pools or clouds. Cloud computing offers several value propositions, Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT said "One is the overall low cost of industry-standard components, Intel-based servers, i...

"I think in a way, the amount of PR that Intel has been putting out that the different Hi-k metal gate technology will change the marketplace is a bit overblown," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld "Certainly the technology has some promise and sho...

"IT professionals say they find some aspects of autonomic computing very valuable, but it seems to me to be a work in progress," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld "You can talk about autonomic computing as an overarching strategy, but I also think...

Sun's progress is "somewhat encouraging," but not exactly worthy of a parade, said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "They've shown that they can string together four quarters of black ink, much of it driven by cost-cutting and layoffs, but are not demonstrating an ab...

The number of participants, as well as the open platform, will be key to OpenSocial's success, Charles King, principal of Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld "What Google is doing is seizing the high ground. Partners can develop widgets or applications that can be deployed on any or a...

Intel's efforts to make the plant "green" are praiseworthy, said Pund-IT senior analyst Charles King "The focus on the green aspects of the production facility reflects a growing awareness of ecological issues within the IT industry," King told TechNewsWorld. "It's happening e...

For one IT analyst, the fires in San Diego bring back memories. "We had the Oakland fires up in the Bay area where I live, from the 1987 earthquake, and there was a similar loss of communications and electrical infrastructure for a couple of days, and you're just in that gray zone of knowing something is going on but you don't know what's exactly happening," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "It can be disorienting ... and surrounded by chaos is never a great place to be," he noted...

The drivers behind the partner price cut might include more fundamental factors as well, speculated Charles King, principal of Pund-IT "Any time that a vendor cuts prices for its partners it is about helping to make the partners succeed at selling your products," he told CRM B...

Putting the prize in perspective, "This quadrupling of density is a great example of the continuing evolution of drive technologies -- it's great that it comes after the Nobel award last week," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld "The funny thing ab...

The fact that these services all can be found at a central site, for example, is a competitive differentiator for Live, Charles King, principal at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld "Microsoft is leveraging a common access to the Web and then providing different services and vehicles...

"For notebooks, one of the severe battery power drains is the boot-up process -- because you're basically starting the drive from scratch and bringing it up to full speed," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld "There's some tricks to avoid that, like...

"In the space where Intel plays against AMD's Opteron, Intel has been clearly lagging technically behind AMD for three years now -- ever since Opteron hit the market -- and with Nehalem they seem to have caught up and surpassed AMD a bit," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld...

"It is interesting that Google makes its announcement the same week that IBM is expected to roll out its Symphony application suite," Charles King, principal with Pund-IT Research, told TechNewsWorld. "There is a growing number of Web-based or open source alternatives to Microsoft Office."

"What Intel has been doing over the past year or so is catching up," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "The company took an awfully long time to respond to Opteron when it originally came out." Faster to Market...

"I think it's safe to say that Intel has made some great strides over the past year," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld "Frankly, AMD's Opteron was a really terrific and transformative technology. If you look back to what was happening in the x86 ...