Et tu Brute?
Finally today, in an 'et tu Brute?' end to the week for NVIDIA, Foxconn announced it's not proceeding with its planned enthusiast motherboard based on NVIDIA's 790i chipset, the Dreadnought, because the chipset is not of the quality it needs. There's currently no evidence linking these two issues and no other motherboard vendors have made equivalent announcements but you never know...
This wasn't HP’s only appearance on HEXUS.channel this week as we spoke to HP about its strangely subdued sub-laptop offering. The product marketing manager for these things explained that HP was happy to keep itself to the education and SME sectors for now and watch everyone else scrap it out for the consumer market.
There was also the announcement that HP, Intel and Yahoo! are pooling their resources, together with three academic centres, to improve research into cloud computing. We recently spoke to the director of HP's Automated Infrastructure Lab in Bristol and will be bringing you that soon.
Our TV cameras were out in force at the official opening of Bolton etailer SCAN's new retail store. While we were there we had a fascinating chat with director of operations Elan Raja, who shared his vision of some of the dangers faced by UK tech etailing and, specifically, the importance of accountability.
And finally... Microsoft brought us its version of The Pepsi Challenge this week. It demonstrated Windows Vista Ultimate to a few users who had pre-announced their dislike for it. But here's the clever bit: Microsoft didn't say it was Vista! Instead it said this was a new operating system called Mojave, which the embittered consumers were duly won over by. Cunning.
