Channelweb looks back at the microprocessor news and developments that made the biggest splash in 2008, in Silicon Valley and beyond.
It was a whirlwind year for the networking industry. Here are the 10 biggest networking stories of the year.
Acquisitions headlined the news in the storage industry in 2008, helping to define what the next iteration of vendors and their channels will look like in the years ahead, while good news about new technologies and clouds helped cover the bad news that storage growth is slowing.
MacWorld Boston is dead. IDG has pulled the plug on the show, which has struggled since its rebirth a few years back.
When management returned the venerable event from New York to Boston, Apple didn't come with it, and the absence hurt. The show struggled for both attendance and buzz.
No more.
This is the end of an era, especially for anyone in the audience in 1997 when Steve Jobs announced a $150 million investment from—and an end to legal hostilities with—Microsoft. His news was nearly overshadowed by the booing/hissing engendered when a gigantic image of Bill Gates beamed in behind him on the stage. Ah those were the days.
A final PDC query: Does the omnipresent (and annoying) Microsoft Channel 9 mascot have a name? What the hell is it supposed to be—a microphone? Spongebob Roundhead? What????? And who's the poor schlub running around in that costume. Scoble, is that you??
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