Category: Computers

Computers

  • Cloud Computing Deniers

    I’m not a big fan of “cloud computing,” as EEJ readers know. It seems like a stap backwards, to 1970s-era timeshare machines instead of the…

  • MIPS Gets a New Home

    Hey, wanna buy a CPU company? You’re too late, because MIPS Technologies was just sold for $60 million in cash. If that’s more than you…

  • Hardware Security in the Cloud

    Some time back, we covered “physically unclonable functions,” or PUFs. These are techniques for deriving a key from the random characteristics of a specific piece…

  • Windows RT: Not So Hot for Tablets

    By now you’re heard about Microsoft’s big splash into the tablet market with Surface. CEO Steve Ballmer showed off two versions: one with an x86…

  • There was another company at Des

    There was another company at DesignWest doing something similar, but not exactly competitive. Nabto puts a tiny webserver into your mobile device or onto your…

  • Bad Speakers Cast a Bigger Shadow

    Let’s face it: a lot of the speakers we have these days are crappy. I know how my laptop sounds; I used to attribute that…