Nancy Weil - Author - Good Gear Guide

Stories by Nancy Weil

Article | 14/11/2009 AMD and Intel patch things up, HP buys 3Com

We had a blockbuster deal this week, with Hewlett-Packard saying it plans to buy 3Com, and a blockbuster settlement, with Advanced Micro Devices and I...

Article | 7/11/2009 Intel antitrust, 'Net bug, coding error

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed federal antitrust charges against Intel this week, with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission expected to fol...

Article | 16/03/2009 Kundra takes leave, Google raises privacy flags

Well, at least the issue is not unpaid taxes this time -- but Vivek Kundra, the brand-new, first-ever federal CIO after just a few days on the job is ...

Article | 2/02/2009 Human error caused Google search bug

Human error caused a glitch that returned the message "this site may harm your computer" for all Google search results for about an hour Saturday morn...

Article | 6/01/2009 Steve Jobs blames 'hormone imbalance' for weight loss

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has a hormone imbalance that is causing him to lose weight, he said in a letter posted Monday morning at the company's Web site i...

Article | 2/09/2008 Google browser will be available Tuesday

Google is launching a beta version of its own Web browser on Tuesday in more than 100 countries, the company announced Monday in a blog posting.

Article | 26/06/2008 Bill Gates' big mouth

As Bill prepares to hand over the reins of Microsoft at the end of the month, here are some of his more notable comments, assembled from the Microsoft...

Article | 23/06/2008 The quotable Bill Gates

Some of the most oft-repeated comments attributed to Bill Gates through the years were not uttered by Bill Gates. Take for instance "640K ought to be ...

Article | 1/02/2008 'Greg Brady' gives fans a place to connect

When the e-mail story pitch arrived to say that Barry Williams, who played Greg Brady on "The Brady Bunch" was launching an online community to connec...

Article | 19/12/2007 2008 IT forecasts: XP lives and the greening of tech

The predictable flood of 2008 IT prognostications has rolled in over the past few weeks and we have listened to analysts, vendors, consultants and our...

Article | 10/10/2006 Google to buy YouTube in US$1.65B stock deal

Google has laid speculation to rest -- it is buying YouTube for US$1.65 billion in a stock transaction.