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Advanced Micro Devices has opened the door to embrace Google`s Android operating system, but said it would continue to focus on Windows with its upcoming tablet and laptop chips. AMD on multiple occasions has said it had no interest in putting its chips in Android tablets and would focus exclusively on Windows 8. A change of heart could open up a wider market for tablets for the company.
Over the next three years, global organizations will make understanding and interacting with the customer their top priority. So says a recent study conducted by the Intelligence Unit of The Economist newsmagazine. But the study -- called "Voice of the Customer: Whose Job Is It, Anyway?" -- shows a disconnect. Only 56 percent of respondents to the survey believe their companies clearly understand
Wynn Resorts kept a suite open all year at its tony Las Vegas hotel and casino for founder and CEO Steve Wynn, at a cost of nearly $452,000. Former IBM CEO Samuel Palmisano was guaranteed an administrative assistant and furnished office for life as a retirement gift -- plus a $1 million office renovation. Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices bought the house CEO Rory Read struggled to sell for $790,
Sony`s CEO Kazuo Hirai says the electronics giant`s board will discuss a proposal by U.S. hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb to spin off up to 20 percent of its movie, TV and music division. Hirai was asked about the proposal at a corporate strategy presentation Wednesday. He did not give a timetable for a decision, and would not give his own opinion about the suggestion raised by Loeb, who is CEO o
Now that tech favorite Apple Inc. has been dragged front and center into the debate over the U.S. tax code, lawmakers are hoping that the spotlight on such a high-profile company could be the catalyst for Congress to take action to close loopholes or reform the law. At a hearing Tuesday, members of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations grilled Apple CEO Tim Cook over allegations tha
Twitter is booming as a social media destination for U.S. teenagers who complain about too many adults and too much drama on Facebook, according to a new study about online behavior. It said teens are sharing more personal information about themselves even as they try to protect their online reputations. "The key is that there are fewer adults, fewer parents and just simply less complexity," said
Many of us have apparently been saying it wrong for years. This week, the inventor of the GIF image format revealed that the correct pronunciation of the popular image format is "Jif." Anyone who has been involved in interactive media production has encountered meetings where both the hard "g" and soft "g" pronunciation of the term were bandied about to describe the image format. The name itself
If you like chatting with Siri, sending voice texts while driving or telling your Xbox when to pause or rewind a DVD, you`re going to enjoy the upgrade to Google`s Chrome browser. The new system, which was previewed at Google`s I/O developer`s conference on May 15 and went live Wednesday, allows users to search for topics conversationally, by asking questions rather than stating keywords, much li
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