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In need of a quiet, energy-efficient power supply for that new build? Announced today, Corsair brings you a new line of economical, quiet, energy-efficient desktop computer power supply units ò€“ dubbed Corsair Power.
Lucid said that it has begun shipments of Hydra reference designs, a technology that allows system vendors to integrate multiple graphics cards in a single computer. Called the Hydra 100-series, the SoC is now available for evaluation and can be integrated with PC motherboards, notebook motherboards and add-in cards.
Ontario (CA) - Graphics card vendor XFX today announced its first two overclocked add-in cards. Called the "XXX" edition, the company offers a 8800 GTX card that comes with a 630 MHz GPU and 2.0 GHz memory. The reference design provided by Nvidia runs on a 575 MHz GPU and 1.8 MHz memory clock. There is also a 8800 GTS XXX model with a 550 MHz core and 1.8 GHz memory (standard: 500 MHz/1.6 GHz).
Albatron Technology and XFX introduced new SLI-ready graphics cards based on the Nvidia GeForce 6800 GS, following Nvidia"s announcement of the availability of the GPU on November 7. Nvidia"s Geforce 6800 GS-series GPUs supports Microsoft"s DirectX 9.0 and Shader Model 3.0 technologies and has dual integrated RAMDACs operating at 400 MHz, allowing screen resolutions up to and including 2048 x 1536 at 85 Hz, according to Nvidia.
ASRock, an Asustek Computer subsidiary focusing on entry-level motherboards, will significantly increase the adoption of integrated graphics processor (IGP) chipsets from VIA Technologies for Intel-based motherboards while lowering the proportion of motherboards with ATI chipsets, indicated sources who have seen the company"s latest roadmap.
Despite that some industry players expect battery cell supply will reach an equilibrium in the fourth quarter, sources at Taiwan notebook battery module makers have noted that it is still too early to tell whether supply will be enough to feed demand. They generally believe shortages will only be solved when fresh capacity becomes available from 2009.
Yesterday, we learned that Microsoft would be shipping Windows 7 in six different versions -- but it wonò€™t be as confusing as the different versions of Vista, explains Windows general manager Mike Ybarra.
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Santa Clara (CA) - We have no doubt, the Mobile Internet Device will turn out to be what the UMPC was intended to become - a mass market pocket computing platform. And Intel finally develops the components such a platform needs to have, including a compact and economical mass storage device.
Valve Software has appealed Australia"s decision to ban Left 4 Dead 2 in that territory.
Japan"s Hitachi Ltd. on Wednesday unveiled the world"s first hard disk drive/DVD recorder that can store one teraByte of data, or enough to record about 128 hours of high-definition digital broadcasting.
Matsushita, best know for its Panasonic consumer brand, claims it has developed the first chipset that enables future optical drives to playback and record Blu-ray media (BD) as well as common DVD and CD formats.
Gamers have been trading virtual gear for the longest time. Farming is also an everyday part of MMO life.
Tokyo (Japan) - The HD DVD is dead, but the DVD Forum apparently has not given up hope on the Chinese version of the format yet. Toshiba will chair the Steering Committee over the next two years.
Tokyo (Japan) - Fujitsu today announced the first 7200 rpm notebook hard drives that come with a 3.0 Gb/s Serial ATA 2.5 interface, as opposed to the widely available 1.5 Gb/s port.
K-12 Schools Can Receive 10% Off Orders Over $2,500 of LeapFrog School Learning Solutions through December 11, 2009.
Physicists from several U.S. labs have clocked the transition of vanadium dioxide nanoparticles from a transparent to a reflective, mirror-like state, at less than 100 femtoseconds (a tenth of a trillionth of a second). According to this Vanderbilt University report, this effect has a size limit: "it does not occur in particles that are smaller than about 20 atoms across (10 nanometers)." This opens the door - if I can say so - to windows that are transparent at low temperatures and block out sunlight when the temperature rises. But other applications are possible, such as nanosensors which could measure the temperature at different locations within human cells, or "ultrafast" optical switches which could be used in communications and optical computing.
Daisy has launched a product that could revolutionise communications for small businesses across the UK. The company has introduced Wire 3, a fixed mobile convergence (FMC) product, developed specifically for the SME market.
Microsoft has given the green light to custom PC manufacturers, allowing them to offer machines with Windows XP
Despite complaints from Microsoft"s competitors it looks like the European Union is all but ready to approve the Redmond-based company"s ballot screen proposal.
Harmony Gold is causing a fuss over the upcoming MechWarrior game.
Pre CES 2007 coverage - - Las Vegas (NV) - Hitachi this morning was first out of the gate to announce details about a 1 TB hard drive, which the company said will ship during the first quarter of this year. The announcement follows a brief statement by Seagate, which yesterday confirmed that it will also deliver a 1 TB drive within the next three months.
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Seagate reported record shipments for the first quarter of this year (fiscal Q3). The company was able to sell 24.9 million drives, up from 24.3 million units in the previous quarter and 18.1 million drives in the first quarter of 2004.
Lite-On IT will begin volume production of 18x DVD burners in July and plans to start production of 20x DVD burners in the fourth quarter of this year, according to Michael Gong, the company"s Optical Disc Drive Business general manager, at a press conference following the company"s 2006 shareholders meeting on June 15.
Not that Call of Duty: World at War wasnò€™t a respectable sequel, but it wasnò€™t the real follow up to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
The rapidly growing market for NAND Flash, a technology typically used for storage media such as Flash cards, continues to attract new manufacturers. Micron today announced that it is shipping 2 Gbit 90 nm devices into the segment and is the most recent competitor in a field that is dominated by Samsung, Toshiba (Spansion (AMD/Fujitsu), Intel, and ST Microelectronics.
LBi to sponsor regional user group meetings in the Northeast
Los Angeles (CA) - While most people would be happy just to own a solid state drive, BitMicro says it can now make SSDs with an amazing 6.5 TB of capacity. At the Siggraph trade show held at the Los Angeles Convention Center, a company representative told TG Daily that the custom made drives can have up to 55,000 input/output instructions per second (IOPS) and can have sustained transfers of up to 230 MB/sec.
Microsoft has known about Internet Explorer bug from Google Hack since September 2009.
Yesterday the new rumors about Appleò€™s supposed touchscreen netbook were the talk of the town.
Boston (MA) - Microsoft this morning announced server-based application customization tools for Office Enterprise 2007, the high-end distribution of the company"s applications suite. Included within this extended distribution will be integrated search capabilities (presumably including what had been called "WinFS"), workflow management, a distributed storage and retrieval system for structured data called "Business Data Catalog," and something we"re just learning about called "Web Site and Security Framework."
Charging tolls on the information superhighway would dampen innovation and hamstring the United States" competitiveness in the world market, warned Vinton Cerf, a father of the Internet and a top Google executive, on Tuesday.
A suicide bomber killed himself and injured three others in the Moroccan city of Casablanca late on Sunday. According to police the bomber had been visiting a net cafç© in the Sidi Moumen district of the city, where in 2003 suicide bombers killed 33 people, in order to access Jihadist websites.
IDC has lowered forecasts for world PC sales in 2005, citing a cautious outlook in the US and delayed recovery in Japan for the adjustment.
Retailer Implements ASPEN 360 for Accounts Payable Automation
Sony has announced that it will invest approximately $371 million toward strengthening its lithium ion battery production operations. This is the first phase of investment in lithium ion batteries Sony is undertaking as part of efforts to reinforce core areas of its component and semiconductor business over the next three years.
Iomagic today announced the EZ Netshare external harddrive that can be used for backing up data in home networks, but also for sharing digital multimedia such as photos, audio and video. The 3.5" drive offers 300 GByte capacity and a USB2.0 interface.
Microsoft has released a free application that allows users to create an encrypted and password-protected folder. Microsoft Private Folder 1.0 works on Windows XP and Media Center Editions with Service Pack 2 and is meant to provide a consumer-level of protection. Microsoft warns that it is "not intended to provide security against hackers."
Redmond (WA) - Developed to increase Microsoft"s credibility in the high-performance computing (HPC) space and to take advantage of the rapidly growing x86-based server market, Microsoft today released its first server software enabling cluster computing to manufacturing.
While Taiwan-based panel makers are aggressively developing new widescreen LCD monitor panels, LG.Philips LCD, which will soon to change its name to LG Display, is also planning to roll out 18.9" 16:9 LCD monitor panels at the end of the third quarter, according to market sources. LG.Philips LCD will cut the 18.9" panels at its 6G plant.
Redmond (WA) - In a blog posting at Microsoft"s Technet site, Microsoft security program manager Christopher Budd announced details about February"s monthly security update, which will be available to Windows users on February 13.
Sunnyvale (CA) - AMD kicks off a week that will be largely dominated by news coming out of Intel"s developer forum in San Francisco. The company today announced three new versions of its Opteron workstation and server processor - which run at 2.6 GHz and remain in the 95 watt power envelope.
Boston (MA) - Following a developer preview at the Novell Brainshare Global 2006 conference two weeks ago and a presentation in San Francisco behind closed doors in early March, AMD today unveiled its upcoming processor with virtualization technology to visitors of the Linux World tradeshow.
We saw earlier today more evidence that Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade Family Pack, which should include three licenses, is real and could cost just $20 to $30 more than the Home Premium Upgrade with just one license.
Orange Panel PC with Intel Celeron & Intel Core 2 Duo Processors.
Tokyo (Japan) - Matsushita, commonly known in the US for its Panasonic brand, is introducing a new waterproof notebook in Japan. The Let"s Note CF-Y5 has a waterproof sheet and drainage ducts that protect it from spills and light rain. In addition, it can withstand up to 220 pounds of force.
Marinas Trench (Pacific Ocean) - So let"s say you"re a diver who just hates having watches break under pressure because you like diving deep, I mean REAL deep. What kind of watch would you buy? The new Rolex Sea-Dweller DEEPSEA model of course. This baby is waterproof at 12800 feet and can withstand an incredible 2.98 metric tons of pressure.
The adoption of LEDs as a backlight source for 12- and 14" notebooks should begin in the second quarter of 2006, when the price gap between CCFL- (cathode fluorescent lamp-) and LED- based backlight modules narrows to less than $3, according to LED maker Everlight Electronics.
New report addresses radiologists" rising interest in Toshiba, which is challenging the dominance of GE, Philips and Siemens in some medical imaging markets
The location serves as a hub for the company"s Open Source CRM Professional Services, Support, and Sales teams in the Australasian region.
A system builder in China called Eazo announced this week a personal desktop computer adorned with a heap of Swarovski crystals (translated).
I wish I had this to do my homework for me. Well, back when I had homework.
The brand new software - shopping site www.software-click.com was just officially released after only 3 months in beta.
Ottawa (ON) - Some decisions take time. Answering the question whether to implement support for the Open Document Format in its Word Perfect software or not, took Corel more than a year. At last, the long-time supporter of ODF today announced that it will update WordPerfect Office to support the XML-based ODF as well as Microsoft"s Open Office XML format.
Todd Holmdahl, corporate vice president at Microsoft"s Xbox and Gaming Platform Group, is one of the more influential figures within software giant"s growing gaming business. He has worked on Xbox since the inception of the division at Microsoft and was a pivotal figure in the development of Xbox 360.
Compared to the previous two years, when the market demonstrated double-digit growth, an expected slowdown this year could mean a tough time for DRAM-module makers. For small players, it may be a challenge to survive. DigiTimes.com recently had an opportunity to speak with Scott Chen, vice president of the APAC Business Division of Kingston Technology. Under discussion were general trends in the DRAM-module industry and Kingston"s own development, including the status of its new plant in China, claimed to be the largest DRAM-module manufacturing site in the world.
Freescale, Motorola"s former chip division, has licensed Imagination Technologies" PowerVR MBX Lite graphics core.
Over the last few weeks, a number Apple customers who invested in the new 17-inch unibody MacBook Pro have been reporting problems with the graphics on their new machines.
Nvidia has partnered with four motherboard makers to push the sales of 915PL chipset-based motherboards that bundle GeForce 6200 Turbo Cache-based graphics cards, according to sources at Nvidia Taiwan. The four makers are Asustek Computer, Gigabtye Technology, Micro-Star International (MSI) and Albatron Technology.
Beverly Hills (CA) - Sure the RED-ONE camera isn"t new, but this didn"t stop hundreds of videographers from drooling at last week"s HD Expo in Beverly Hills. Capable of recording 4520 by 2540 pixels video at up to 60 frames-per-second, the camcorder has been highly sought after by feature film makers and well-funded amateur directors. We got an up close look at the RED and here"s the video.
A brief look at an obvious reason why Activision Blizzard should include LAN support for StarCraft II and Diablo III.
Symantec, next to McAfee, has been the key voice in criticizing Microsoft"s decision to lock down the Windows Vista system Kernel and provide less access to one of the core elements - which could result in incompatibilities of the operating system and some antivirus software packages. The attack was unsuccessful, but the company has managed to roll out a first version of antivirus software that is described to be compatible with Vista.
It"s been a while since we"ve heard anything from Nicholas Negroponte but the OLPC chief recently aired his grievances about the OLPC project and it seems that he is not at all pleased with the Sugar UI that runs on all XO laptops.
Berkeley (CA) - Electron microscopes are great for viewing atomic details, but don"t you just hate it when nearby scientists start blaring Queen"s "We Will Rock You"? Well the researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory were fed up with rock music shaking up their atoms and have developed a new microscope that can maintain stability under intense vibration. They even made a video to prove it.
Leicester (UK) - If you had the chance to send a message into space, what would it be? People in the UK have an opportunity to get their Doritos-sponsored message sent to 47 Ursae Majoris, which is believed to be supporting living organisms - 42 light years away from Earth.
Herat (Afghanistan) - The United States Army is dazzling Afghani drivers with laser light in a bid to prevent accidents with its convoys. Convoy crews have been testing out the GLARE weapon-mounted laser by shinning the beams into the windshields of slow and dangerous cars. So far the makers of the laser system, B.E. Meyers and Company, say the tests are a resounding success.
Timesheet, Professional Service Automation and Project Portfolio Management Software provider Atlantic Global announce the release of its new website www.atlantic-ec.com
Las Vegas (NV) - If ever there was a perfect product displayed at a mammoth trade like CES, Aliph"s Jawbone might be it. The Bluetooth headset, which is available exclusively for Cingular Wireless customers, uses Aliph"s Noise Shield Technology to virtually eliminate background and present clearer conversations. Imagine being able to talk to someone in the middle of the chaotic CES exhibit floor, surrounded by thousands of people, and being able to hear the person as if there were no competing conversations, sound effects and other noise pollution interfering with the call; that"s Aliph"s message at CES 2007.
Blizzard today activated the 1.10 patch for World of Warcraft, which promises to make the game less repetitive for veteran players. Also, new content such as better armor sets and realistic weather have been added and several dungeons have been altered to provide more of a challenge to players who have completed them several dozen times in a row. But while the new content may temporarily satiate WoW"s six million plus players, the patch also tries to balance out the game by modifying several classes and significantly altering the player-on-player battlegrounds.
Mountain View (CA) - Google is painting a scary scenario about potentially dangerous websites on the Internet: More than 1.3% of all search queries are now directing users to at least one malware site - and only seven out of ten threats are caught by the best security applications available today.
On the heels of Intel announcing breakthroughs in transistor design, Taiwan-based motherboard makers indicated that Intel should be able to increase its technology lead over AMD, and in order not to further endanger its market position, AMD should look to develop innovative solutions instead of competing head to head with Intel. In the first quarter 2007, Intel plans to increase the production ratio of its 65 nanometer (nm) products to 80% and minimize 90nm products such as the Pentium D 800 series to less than 5%.
Lenovo is reportedly planning to enter the netbook market by the end of September this year, according to sources at notebook ODMs. Currently, Compal Electronics, Wistron and Pegatron Technology are all possible candidates to manufacture the netbook for Lenovo.
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Hackers have proclaimed victory over Microsoft"s vaunted Windows Vista activation protection. The folks at Keznews forums say they have made a simple number guesser that takes a serial code and then tries to activate it through Microsoft"s servers. It can take a while, but they say it eventually works.
Various websites last week claimed to have "confirmed" from sources that Windows 7 would be hitting the RTM (release to manufacturing) milestone earlier this week on July 13, 2009. But that day came and went and there was no peep of the RTM.
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Your fourth and final helping of Booth Babes from Computex 2009.
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When was the last time you upgraded your PC? Was it a CPU? Was it a graphics card?
Palm Pre. Yay or nay?
Austin (TX) - When security software engineer Mark Russinovich was testing last week one of his programs called RootkitRevealer, on a system he normally expects to be free of malicious code, he noticed that it revealed a hidden directory, and several hidden files. Inside were what appeared to be device drivers, with .SYS and .DLL extensions, and one hidden executable .EXE file. These weren"t hidden by the normal means - for instance, setting the old DOS "Hidden" attribute - but by cleverly diverting system calls used to identify themselves to Windows.
Intel plans to add its dual-core Itanium 2 CPU line, dubbed "Montecito," to to its current Xeon 5100 series (codenamed Woodcrest) and Dempsey processor offerings on 18 July, according to sources at Taiwan server makers. The dual-core "Montecito" processor line will feature more advanced specifications for the high-end market, compared to the "Woodcrest" seres under the new Intel Core microarchitecture (65-80W in power consumption) and the "Dempsey" under the NetBurst microarchitecture (95-130W in power consumption), indicated the sources.
In the first successful U.S. investigation into distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS), two European individuals have been indicted for allegedly cyber attacking two Web sites.
Megasys Software, a software developer specializing electrical engineering design software, has announced the release of version 6.0 PowerVue Circuit Analyzer. It is a powerful ,easy to use and flexible software for meshed distribution networks.
Intel has developed a high-speed silicon-based avalanche photodetector that can be manufactured cheaply, which could one day lead to optically-connected Intel processors.
Intel"s G965 will integrate the company"s fourth-generation Graphic Media Accelerator (GMA) graphics core and deliver a significant increase in 3D gaming and multimedia performance compared to Intel"s other chipsets with GMA 900/950 graphics processors, according to sources familiar with Intel"s product roadmap. The G965 is one of the Broadwater chipsets supporting DDR2 800 memory that Intel has scheduled to launch in the second quarter of 2006, with the P965 and G965 series for the consumer market and the Q965 and Q963 for the business segment.
Biostar Microtech on May 23 introduced its new T-series motherboards supporting AMD"s AM2 platform and nForce 500 series chipsets, the TForce 590 SLI Deluxe and TForce 570 U Deluxe. The TForce 590 SLI Deluxe with the Nvidia nForce 590 SLI chipset belongs to the enthusiast motherboard segment, and features Nvidia technology like SLI(2x16), Linkboost and DualNet.
Intel is planning to add one more member to its 4 series (Eaglelake) chipsets which will be launched in the second quarter of 2008, according to sources at motherboard makers. In addition to its original premium G45 IGP and mainstream P45 chipsets, Intel will add the G43 chipset to replace the previous G35, P35, G33 and G31 chipsets in the value segment.
HSBC Division Employ Tracesmart"s Proprietary Existence System
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A significant constraint in its chipset supply recently forced Intel to use third party integrated graphics chipsets, including millions of units from ATI, for Intel branded motherboards. The company today said that the current shortage is temporary and that it will use Intel-only chipsets as soon as possible and try to regain lost market share in this segment.
Shipments of large-size TFT LCD panels jumped by 41% from 2006 to 393.47 million units in 2007, and shipment area also soared by 57.4% to 5.276 million square meters (msqm), according to Displaybank. Revenues also reached $71.7 billion, up 35.7% from the previous year, buoyed by strong demand for large size panels and an increase in shipments.
AVnex Ltd. is a software publisher that has been in the market for over eight years; they are pioneers in developing and distributing audio and video morphing software as a worldwide business.
But what about the wallpapers?
San Diego (CA) - On October 3, 2006 we printed an article titled, "Hackers invited to break the security on $100 laptops" which detailed a talk given by Ivan Krstic at the Toorcon computer security convention. While we believe the article is accurate, we"ve pulled it because the talk was given off the record.
Westlake Village (CA) - Computer systems equipped by Nvidia"s four-graphics processor system will be shipping soon - and that will be the only way for enthusiasts to get their hands on "quad-SLI". At least for now, Nvidia has instructed computer makers to only sell the cards as part of a complete system, TG Daily has learned.
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Intel and Nvidia have jointly launched a marketing campaign to promote Intel"s own-brand PCIe-enabled motherboards and Nvidia-based graphics cards in the channel, according to sources at Taiwan graphics card makers. The campaign will last until December 31.
Google or Bing, why choose?
A recent major class action lawsuit that was brought against both Nvidia and ATI for conspiring to fix, raise, maintain and stabilize prices of graphics processing chips and cards may soon be coming to a resolution.
Here we have seven gaming consoles that we think were the all time epic failures of consoles.
TAMPA, FL ò€“ As the evermore popular Twitter social networking tool infiltrates society, one Tampa, FL teacher is using it to teach her students, 140 characters at a time.
VIA Technologies announced at the Embedded System Conference in San Francisco its CoreFusion processing platform, which combines the Eden-N processor with Via"s CN400 digital media chipset north bridge in a single package.
Is Nvidia working on a CPU?
Apple on Tuesday opened up its online store just a little bit, enabling customers to buy products and have them delivered to another country.
Microsoft took a step towards creating an open standard of technology behind Word and Excel in a move to appease governments and ensure data in documents and accounts can be accessed in decades to come.
Evana Rachel Gerstman wants to continue helping Microsoft become more user-friendly
Raleigh, North Carolina-based Red Hat began talking positively about Xen in October 2004 and has included Xen open source virtualization in its Fedora community-led project since Fedora Core 4 was launched in June 2005.
Uh oh, Microsoft"s the next one up to bat in the job cutting game.
Red Hat, well known for its Linux based operating system and middleware now wants to be more of a player in the Virtualization market.
Redmond (WA) - Microsoft released a public download of Windows Vista RC1 through its customer preview program (CPP). Before you run to get your time-limited early Vista copy, be sure to make your way through Microsoft"s release notes to cover all other upgrades that are necessary to run the new operating system without hiccups.
Earlier today, Panda Security--publisher of Panda Antivirus and Panda Internet Security--announced the global beta release of the industry"s first free cloud-based antivirus "thin-client" solution.
Santa Clara (CA) - Intel continues to quietly but consistently expand its open source Linux driver initiative. The company recently added support for the just released 965 version, which is currently shipping as a new-generation chipset for Core 2 Duo computers.
Las Vegas (NV) - It had been an open secret for quite some that Intel would unveil its new mobile processor at CES. What wasn"t so certain was how the company would position the new processor, along with the refreshed Centrino platform. But by Intel"s unveiling Core Duo, a not-so-open secret was revealed: The company will push Core not only for notebooks, but also entertainment platforms, as a way to open the door for the influx of Hollywood content, and to carve out a new market for itself to fuel chip sales.
Chicago (IL) - IBM, on the heels of an announcement earlier this week by HP, Intel and Yahoo to build a huge cloud computing playground for researchers, reached deeper into its pockets to invest in new cloud computing centers in the United States and Japan. How deep, you ask? $400 million.
Mountain View (CA) - Due to posts on Google"s official Google Video blog group that contained a link to a computer worm, the Internet search giant is now apologizing, with reports that some 50,000 viewers and subscribers to the group were potentially affected.
Do you remember Windows ME? If not, maybe it is because you skipped it all together or that the experience was bad enough that you choose not to remember.
Asus and Disney have gotten together and come up with a Disney-branded Asus netbook, which theyò€™re calling a netpal.
Star-powered websites may contain harmful software, claims anti-virus specialist McAfee. According to the company, celebrity websites are the most "prolific" distributors of adware and spyware.
San Francisco (CA) - Intel today revealed more details about its 80-core research CPU, which likely is the most powerful floating point engine built to date. 200 of these processors achieve the same floating point performance as today"s most powerful supercomputer. But don"t get excited just yet: The CPU won"t come to market and the number of cores isn"t everything to future CPU design, Intel said.
Samsung SDI plans to volume produce 2- to 2.6" QVGA active-matrix (AM) OLED (organic light-emitting diode) panels in the first quarter of 2006, according to sources at the maker. The company revealed during its recent investors conference that it is now developing 2" class QVGA AM OLEDs.
Mountain House (CA) - One of our readers informed us about very expensive AMD triple-core
AMD is expected to grow its penetration in the mainstream graphics card market after seeing a meaningful cost down thanks to improved yields for its RV670 series chips, according to industry sources. RV670 chips, fabbed under Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company"s (TSMC"s) 55nm process, have seen a noticeable increase in yields recently, the sources noted, which will enable AMD to be more price competitive, they believe.
San Francisco (CA) - "Paxville" is Intel"s first shot in the volume server and workstation segment: The new processor, in its core a version of the Pentium D 800 series, will go head-to-head with AMD"s dual-core Opteron, so far the only dual-core option for servers and workstations. Intel announced that it will use aggressive pricing to push Paxville into the market.
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A Japanese web site which claims to have talked to sources close to the Fair Trade Commission (FTC), said the chip giant halved the prices of CPUs to keep OEMs in its camp.
Provides Users with Single InBox and Address Book
Dell and HP are supporting Microsoft"s effort to have the Word injunction overturned.
Play old Space Quest, Police Quest, Leisure Suit Larry through your web browser
HPò€™s Mininote 2133 was originally designed to compete with the likes of Asusò€™s EeePC on the budget educational market. When HPò€™s marketing people got a look at it, they decided to bring it to the general market ò€“ and rightly so.
Global DRAM output grew 4.47% on month to 568.7 million 256Mbit-equivilantent units in August, according to DRAMeXchange. However, the most remarkable change in the market was the 9 percentage point drop in the market share of DDR, which was mirrored by a 8 percentage point gain by DDR2, DRAMeXchange noted.
Stuttgart (Germany) - Mercedes-Benz today announced its two first hybrid vehicles, both of which will be using conventional lithium-ion batteries, as opposed to nickel-metal versions that are used for example in the Toyota Prius or the upcoming Porsche Cayenne Hybrid .
One Laptop Per Child founder Nicholas Negroponte used the Wall Street Journal"s D Conference in Southern California Wednesday to show off a prototype of the much-anticipated $100 laptop for emerging markets.
SoThin ThinClient has been short listed as a finalist for Information Security Product of the Year at this years BCS and Computing UK IT Industry Awards.
DRAM vendor ProMOS Technologies announced that its third 300 mm facility (Fab 4), which will be built in Daya Township, Taichung County, will mainly operate as a DRAM fab, but the company does not reject the idea to allocate some capacity there for manufacturing NAND flash memory chips.
Tampa Bay (FL) - TyanPSC announced what likely could be considered the ultimate multi-core desktop computer system that money can buy today. The new Typhoon 600 combines ten Intel quad-core processors for a maximum performance of 256 GFlops.
Redmond (WA) - In an unorthodox effort to generate some revenue from a project whose construction remains in progress, Microsoft today is launching the first stage of its beta version of its Office Live hosting services. New customers will be able to take advantage of free Web hosting and five e-mail addresses, both during and after the completion of the beta cycle; while customers interested in testing collaboration and customer management tools can sign up for two classes of service, for which Microsoft will charge $29.95 per month once the cycle has concluded.
The annual PWN2OWN contest is really popular. Itò€™s a friendly contest that offers cash prizes to computer experts who can successfully hack fully patched machines.
Asus has always been on top when it comes to netbooks. The company launched the first Eee PC in October 2007 and itò€™s been a case of follow the leader ever since with netbook after netbook hitting the market with the same ubiquitous specs.
Via today announced the P4M800 Pro chipset for Intel"s Pentium 4 and Celeron processor with up to 800 MHz FSBs. The new product supports DDR2 533/400 memory modules as well as DDR 400/333/266 SDRAM and comes with an integrated graphics processor (IGP). The S3 UniChrome Pro graphics core offers HD experience with outputs to CRT, LCD and standard definition TV, and support for HDTV up to 1080p resolution, which, however, requires a compatible TV-Out or DVI encoder. If combined with the VT8237R South Bridge, the P4M800 Pro supports native Serial ATA and V-RAID (RAID 0, 1 and 0+1 arrays) as well as Gbit Ethernet.
Chinese scientists said they have succeeded in an experiment to remotely control the flight of a pigeon with electronic technology.
Dena Point (CA) - During a meeting of financial and technology analysts, AMD chairman and CEO Hector Ruiz told an audience he would be willing to pare down his company"s consumer market segments, including high-performance desktop PCs, in order to devote more energy to growing the company"s lucrative, high-quantity commercial processor market.
Along with the launch of the new Ask.com yesterday, the company introduced an upgraded mapping product that now looks very much like Google Local and Windows Live Local. It offers aerial and "hybrid" views in addition to the standard mapping view.
Dell is continuing on its quest to become a green company, this time with an expansion of Reconnect, the firm"s electronics recycling service.
7100 could be the RC build for Windows 7, but don"t go downloading it just yet
Seagate joins the SSD fray with Pulsar.
Experts are today calling for the Whitehouse to take control of cybersecurity, a responsibility that currently falls under the Department of Homeland Securityò€™s scope of duty.
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Could you imagine Steve Ballmer as your coach?
Nvidia said "no comment" about the news that Optimus is a new name for a new and improved Hybrid SLI.