The chipmaker is making a bigger play in cell phones -- one that could spook competitors.
FORTUNE -- The battle for the teeny-tiny chips that power cell phones is heating up. Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker Nvidia just announced the ZTE Mimosa X, the first phone that runs on its Tegra 2 processor and an Nvidia-made modem chip (and quite possibly the first phone named after an alcoholic beverage).
Why is this significant? MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Feb 22, 2012 6:41 AM ET
CEO Paul Otellini thinks he's finally found a way to get Intel into the mobile game. Will phone makers take his call?
FORTUNE -- There are two kinds of CEOs: Those who love the spotlight and those who hate it. Paul Otellini, chief executive officer of Intel, falls into the latter category. But in January, as he stood in front of several thousand people at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Feb 21, 2012 5:00 AM ET
Google's sales to large businesses are still relatively small, but the company is making rapid gains. And it plans to ride the wave of "consumerized" IT to even greater heights.
FORTUNE -- Here's Google's (GOOG) strategy for selling to the enterprise: Take a popular consumer product, make a few small enhancements and tack the words "for business" on the end of the name. Sound simplistic? Turns out, it works. Larger and larger MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Feb 14, 2012 10:21 AM ET
Oracle's $1.9 billion acquisition of cloud-based talent management software maker Taleo is a shot across the bow to rival SAP.
FORTUNE -- Take that, SAP. Oracle just announced it is buying Taleo, maker of cloud-based talent management software, for $1.9 billion. The move comes just two months after rival SAP said it would acquire HR software provider SuccessFactors for $3.4 billion.
Both tech giants have been buying their way into the cloud. MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Feb 9, 2012 11:59 AM ET
Not yet. But for the first time in a while, it's showing positive signs of a working turnaround.
FORTUNE -- Cisco's turnaround efforts are starting to pay off -- slowly. The networking equipment giant released better-than-expected profits and sales on Wednesday, but it still has a long road ahead.
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First, the numbers: Cisco (CSCO) reported second-quarter profit of $2.2 billion, up from last year's $1.5 billion. Revenue came in MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Feb 9, 2012 11:02 AM ET
The Jeopardy-playing supercomputer is interesting in doing more than sparring with Alex Trebek. So it's going into business.
FORTUNE -- Beating lowly humans on Jeopardy was just the beginning. IBM's famed Watson supercomputer will soon be available as a commercialized analytics tool for data-heavy industries like healthcare, telecom and financial services.
It's been one year since Watson followed in the footsteps of its chess-playing predecessor Deep Blue and proved -- just in MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Feb 3, 2012 11:56 AM ET
Yes, it's likely to be the biggest and brightest in recent memory. But here are three important technology firms planning large offerings in the near future as well.
FORTUNE -- While everyone in Silicon Valley is talking about Facebook's imminent IPO, a handful of fast-growing yet far-less-sexy enterprise technology companies are quietly eyeing the public markets.
True, their valuations are nowhere near the $100 billion Facebook is expected to drum up. MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Jan 31, 2012 9:25 AM ET
Intel and Microsoft helped usher in the era of personal computers. Now the two companies are reinventing themselves in an industry where PCs are no longer the primary driver of innovation and growth.
FORTUNE -- Both Microsoft and Intel are still money-making machines--they raked in $20.9 billion and $13.9 billion, respectively, in quarterly earnings announced on Wednesday. But their core businesses are increasingly under threat because they're largely dependent on demand for desktops MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Jan 20, 2012 10:06 AM ET
So far, Android tablets have been a disappointment. Nvidia is betting that's about to change.
FORTUNE -- Like every other chipmaker on the planet, Nvidia (NVDA) is making a big bet on mobile. Earlier this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the company unveiled a slew of new Android tablets powered by its Tegra 3 chip, a new quad-core processor. The lineup includes an Asus touchscreen tablet that MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Jan 12, 2012 10:23 AM ET
Other chip makers have been eating the tech giant's lunch during the surge in smartphone and tablet sales. Now it has something to show.
FORTUNE -- It's been a long time coming, but Intel has finally entered the mobile market -- in China.
Intel (INTC) CEO Paul Otellini unveiled a smartphone that runs on the company's Medfield processor in a keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show on Tuesday afternoon. The MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Jan 11, 2012 6:21 AM ET
Based in Silicon Valley, Michal Lev-Ram covers enterprise and mobile technologies for FORTUNE. Prior to joining FORTUNE, she wrote for CNNMoney, Fast Company, Popular Science and other business and technology publications. She was also a staff writer at Business 2.0 and holds a B.A. in journalism from San Francisco State University.
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