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Tokyo (Japan) - A developer of parts and technologies for magnetic recording devices, as well as supplier of parts for hard drive manufacturers, announced this morning it will be demonstrating an implementation of a perpendicular hard disc drive recording scheme made feasible through a new type of thin-film recording head. ALPS Technologies is promising it will demonstrate, at a private trade conference this May, a recording head capable of boosting areal densities to 170 Gb/in2, that will be ready for production in the second half of this year.
Intel today is announcing the annual update of its business desktop PC microprocessors, with this year"s version focusing heavily on features for easier management.
Clemson (SC) - Researchers at Clemson University"s Center for Silicon Nanoelectronics have developed a new process technology which reduces power loss by six times, "to a level never seen before," according to the press release. This new technology results in reduced heat, and will allow future multi-core chips to have less physical cores because each one can be clocked higher and do more work. Future handheld devices could also benefit by requiring less power to do the same work seen today.
Intelò€™s next generation Centrino 2 notebook platform is still not ready, but at least we have received word that OCZ has put the finishing touches on enthusiast DDR3 SO-DIMMs for the new platform.
ATI today announced the Xpress 1100 chipset, which is specifically targeted at notebooks equipped with the Turion 64 X2 processor. ATI claims that the new chipset consumes less power and 33% more graphics performance than the Xpress 200M series, which is used in single-core Turion 64-based mobile computers.
Intel may purchase entry-level chipsets from Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) for its entry-level motherboards, sources cited by today"s Chinese-language Commercial Times
Western Digital (WD) announced that it has expanded its mobile and desktop hard disk families. New in the catalog are a 120 GB 2.5" drive that is available with EIDE or SATA interface and spins its platters with 5400 rpm. WD claims that the new 2.5" drive consumes about the same power as a 4200 rpm model. According to its specifications, the new drive is equipped with 8 MB of cache and is rated at an average access time of 12 ms.
Although Intel is experiencing heavy GP chipset (915GM) inventory pressure as it transitions to the Napa platform, industry players noted that the chip giant may gain relief from Microsoft, which has approved the 915GM chipset - as well as the desktop 915G IGP chipset - for supporting the Vista operating system (OS).
Even after adjusting its DRAM output toward more DDR production, Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) has admitted that its DDR2 output is still outpacing demand and DDR2 will only rise to become the mainstream memory after the first quarter of 2006, according to company vice president and spokesman Eric Tang. Tang indicated that only about one-fourth of global desktop and notebook PCs currently adopt DDR2.
Central Florida based, Little Fish Big Ocean Inc. has just released it"s comprehensive publishing software for small- to medium-sized publishers.
After testing Nvidiaò€™s GeForce 3D Vision for most of last week, I came away impressed with how the company picked up where the technology left off 10 years ago. Now that CRTs have been relegated to the scrap heap, it hasnò€™t been possible to get the 120 Hz needed for an active stereoscopic solution until now. With Samsung and Viewsonic shipping the requisite LCD technology, 60 Hz in each eye is once again feasible given 120 Hz panels. A 40 hour battery charge and decent-looking shades helped matters as well.
Phyzios Inc. released a prototype preview of PHYZIOS Studio, a web application based on its 2D physics engine, PHYZIOS Engine, at http://phyzios-studio.net/ on August 3rd, 2009.
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Hawthorne (CA) - Tesla Motors has announced that it will begin regular production of its all-electric Roadster. Capable of going from 0 to 60 mph in 3.9 seconds, the car gets 220 miles per charge and is of course a zero-emission vehicle. Tesla CEO and President Ze"ev Drori says the 2008 model year is sold out, but you can plunk down a hefty $100,000 deposit to reserve next year"s cars.
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In a move that may surprise some Apple watchers, reliable sources tell AppleInsider the Mac maker has contracted the design duties for its next-generation Power Mac motherboard over to industry heavyweight Intel.
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The leading European software developer Incomedia today confirmed it will exhibit at two further shows in the latter half of 2009 - gamescom in Cologne and at CeBIT Eurasia in Istanbul.
Xensource has released a beta of its upcoming XenEnterprise 3.1 virtualization software that will be one-fifth the price of VMWare. XenEnterprise will run Windows and Linux operating systems in virtual environments and the company claims it will be even faster than VMWare.
Rambus adds more patents to its stable.
The global production value of high-luminance LEDs is projected to grow only 5% on year in 2005, following 37% growth last year, according to Strategies Unlimited, a leading market research firm for the high-luminance LED and GaN markets. The slow growth is due to stable demand for mobile phones and slower penetration of new applications including LCD TV-use backlighting, said the market research firm.
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LG.Philips LCD expects its large-size panel area shipments to increase by a mid-teen percentage sequentially in the second quarter of 2006, a decline from the previous guidance of a mid-to-high twenties percentage increase. LCD TV shipment growth at the end of the second quarter is expected to be approximately 25% sequentially, approximately 50% less than previously announced expectations, the company said.
Using GPS (global positioning system) data to measure how points on land move following an undersea earthquake could help geologists decide if the tremor will cause an ocean-wide tsunami. Combined with existing tsunami warning systems, the data could speed up decisions about whether to issue an alert and avoid false alarms, say US researchers.
Google"s Writely online word processing service is now up and running, providing a new challenge to Microsoft"s Office applications dominance.
Maxtor today unveiled its new OneTouch III "Turbo Edition" external drives at the Digital Life Expo in New York. The device comes with with RAID 0/1 and file synchronization capability and extends the consumer OneTouch line of drives into high-end consumer and professional markets.
NASA"s planned moon base announced last week could pave the way for deeper space exploration to Mars, but one of the biggest beneficiaries may be the terrestrial energy industry.
Pricewatch - There is trouble in Nvidialand. AMDò€™s new graphics cards apparently have surprised Nvidia, forcing Nvidia to sharply cut prices of its new cards. Sources told TG Daily that Nvidia is adjusting its marketing strategy to GeForce 8800 cards to avoid what has all the signs for a big sales decline on the high end. Of course, that means that it is a good time for graphics cards shoppers. Hereò€™s some insight in what you can expect to find on the market.
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Chicago (IL) - Intel is currently finalizing its new notebook platform, code-named "Santa Rosa." Sources told TG Daily that the platform is on track for a May release and it looks like that it will come with a quite capable graphics engine. We hear that the Crestline chipset, core of Santa Rosa, will be DirectX 10 compatible.
A team of researchers from two of Taiwan"s top universities has unveiled a new technology that they say can produce blue PLEDs (polymer light-emitting diodes) five times brighter than current ones, according to the Chinese-language Economic Daily News.
Hawthorne (NY) - The all-seeing "Eye of Sauron" from the Lord of the Rings has got nothing on IBM"s new S3 surveillance system. The Smart Surveillance System, S3 for short, can shift through multiple camera feeds and give real-time alerts along with showing most recent cars and people. It can even catalog and display the last the last 100 license plates, name badges or faces.
This card will be announced .. today! One of the graphics card makers didn"t adhere to Nvidia"s NDA - MSI reacted promptly by openly displaying its GeForce 9800GX2.
The DVD Forum plans to draw up a blue-laser HD DVD-ROM format specifically for and only available in the China market in response to the request by two China-based organizations, the government-sponsored Optical Memory National Engineering Research Center (OMNERC) and the state-run China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC), according to industry sources in Taiwan. The forum announced the plan at its latest conference in Japan on October 5, the sources noted.
Orlando (FL) - IBM today announced a new version of its collaboration software Sametime, which connects its users the Instant Messaging platforms of AOL and Yahoo. In the future, IBM plans to also make Google"s Talk software accessible.
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Intel plans to cut the prices of its 90nm Celeron D CPUs on February 20, 2005, while keeping the prices of its Pentium 4 CPU lineup unchanged early next year, according to sources at Taiwan motherboard makers.
Intel processors will be initially adopted in Apple Computer"s entry-level Macintosh PC lineup, including the Mac Mini, iBook, and iMac series, with a launch in Taiwan slated for June 6 2006, according to sources at Taiwan PC distributors.
Munich (Germany) - The European Union and the European Space Agency (ESA) today sent the first satellite of its Galileo system into space. Galileo is planned to grow into a civil, globally available positioning system that provides more accurate and more reliable localization data than the current Global Positioning System (GPS).
Security firm Secunia today disclosed a programming error in Microsoft"s Internet Explorer browser that could allow malicious hackers to take over users" computers and destroy their hard drives or turn them into "zombie" spam mailers.
El Segundo (CA) - Who would have thought that? Market research firm iSuppli today said that Microsoft in fact is not meeting market demand for its Zune portable media player. However, the reason may not be just a jump in demand for certain models, but an overly cautious market strategy of Microsoft as well, the market research firm speculated.
Barcelona (Spain) - Nvidia today unveiled its first CPU. The APX 2500 is a system-on-a-chip (SoC) product that is aiming for Windows Mobile handhelds. Despite the fact that it is not scheduled to hit the market until late this year, the chip is bound to raise more than just one eyebrow.
An extensive review by the German Web site 3DCenter.org, recently translated into English, appears to lend credence to some complaints by users of graphics cards using NVIDIA"s 7800 GTX graphics processor, that textures appear to shimmer even at highest quality. The reviewer believes a lower standard for anisotropic filtering in newer models, may be to blame.
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Chip giant Intel is moving heaven and earth to deliver dual core technology, but according to a web cast its president Paul Otellini made to staff, there are limitations on AMD technology which could give the chip giant the edge.
CRT televisions and monitors are in the final stages of extinction, according to market research firm iSuppli. In a recent study, iSuppli found that CRT monitor revenues will shrink by a compounded 22% after 2007. Most of this decline is fueled by lower demand and the closing of several CRT factories.
Texas Instruments DLP Cinema announced today at ShoWest that IMAX will incorporate the DLP Cinema projector solution. Under the terms of the agreement, each IMAX Digital projection system to be deployed to commercial exhibitors around the world, scheduled to begin mid-2008, will be powered by DLP Cinema projectors.
Booming sales of large-size panels for large-size TVs are exacerbating supply constraints for materials and components used in the manufacturing of LCDs, including glass substrates, color filters (CFs) and cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFLs). TV requires the largest panels of all major LCD applications.
Worldwide makers are expected to ship 48 million LCD panels for use in TVs this year, with 40- and 42" panels in over 10% of the shipments, according to DisplaySearch Taiwan president David Hsieh. S-LCD will ship 3.1 million 40" panels and LG.Philips LCD will ship 1.8 million 42" panels this year, Hsieh said, indicating that the two major makers for the segments will alone account for more than 10% of this year"s worldwide LCD TV panel shipments.
Anti-fraud investigators are constantly forcing phishing websites offline, but now the scammers are using a new tactic to send unsuspecting victims to other fraudulent websites.
ViewSonic has showcased the world"s first "Made for Ipod" LCD monitor, which features an integrated Ipod dock, at the 2006 Apple Expo in Paris. The ViewDock series LCD monitor has received authorization from Apple, and the new monitors will hit US, Europe and Taiwan markets in November.
Olympia (WA) - Small USB thumb drives are great for most people, but they cause headaches for government agencies handling sensitive information. One agency, the Division of Child Support in Washington State, is now issuing its own thumb drives to employees to curtail the use of personal drives.
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Analyst Opinion - Intel has IDF and NVIDIA has NVISION. Both shows have some similar goals, but the two couldn?t be more different. Intel?s show is button down and professional while NVIDIA?s is a little crazy. Intel dominates the PC hardware space and, as it often was in the Olympics last week, the real competition is for number 2, or Silver and Nvidia clearly wants that spot. AMD plays very conservatively generally leveraging partners like Microsoft who often have their own agendas. Nvidia is taking a much more aggressive path and while the press room I?m writing this in is sponsored by Microsoft, there is no sense at all that this is anything but an Nvidia event.
Fujitsui has developed a new optical drive element that could one day achieve one terabit per square inch recording. The element is for thermally assisted magnetic drives and helps focus heat onto a hard drive platter so that a magnetic head can record more data. The new head element, along with perpendicular recording technology, will help hard drive companies increase capacities.
Culver City (CA) - After fighting stagnant sales of its PSP handheld for several months, Sony is now working on a video download service that it hopes will pose a real threat to the iTunes video store, and also rebuild interest in the portable gaming system, according to a Financial Times story.
Sandisk introduces 8 GB JEDEC-compatible iNAND
Being touted as a golden recipe for success, Brenda Fairchild has become one of the newest members at CarbonCopyPRO. Brenda Fairchild, author and motivational speaker, joins a powerful group of online marketing experts in the CarbonCopyPRO lineup.
California representative Jane Harman has submitted a bill to the House of Representatives that would ban inefficient lightbulbs. HR 1547 would ban all lightbulbs that produce less than 60 lumens per watt by 2012. The bill would also require that even more efficient lightbulbs be used in subsequent years.
Atlantic Global today announced that MavenWire, the world"s leading provider of independent Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) services, have implemented Atlantic Global OnDemand v3.
Kingmax Semiconductor, ranked as the world"s eighth-largest third-party DRAM-module supplier by iSuppli for the last two years, is hoping to increase the proportion of DDR2 products in its unit shipments to, at least, 20 percent by the end of this year. Last week, the company launched its new DDR2-667 modules targeting new generation of the Intel platforms based on i945 and i955 chipsets.
Zamzom, the popular wireless network security tool that is available in both English and Italian versions has recently launched a Spanish version of their tool. The all Spanish website can be found at www.es.zamzom.com.
Brillertek has utilized and integrated the "need no touch" facial biometic access control system to personal computers. Along with a webcam, FaceAether can complete the facial identification less than 1 second, so that you no longer need passwords.
Mountain View (CA) - Adding to Google"s slate of filters and views for its widely-used Google Earth software, the Internet giant today unveiled the 2006 Google Earth Election Guide. The add-on allows users to view the entire country with district separation lines and embedded information about candidates running for Congress in each district.
The collaboration between IBM, Infineon Technologies, Chartered Semiconductor and Samsung Electronics on 45nm production process has progressed, with the first tape out proceeding at IBM"s 12" fab, and other members of the alliance stating they are on schedule to introduce their own production by end of 2006, according to officials from the companies at a recent Chartered technology forum in Santa Clara. The four partners announced their success on 45nm development in late August of 2006 with the first 45nm-made silicon-functional circuits fabricated at IBM"s East Fishkill, New York fab, and officials now indicated that tape-out at the fab has started.
Yield problems with Hynix Semiconductorò€™s 66nm production are said to have resulted in 30 million defective 1Gb DDR2 chips, translating to about 10% to its output, according to industry sources at downstream players. Hynix refuted the reported issues but declined further comment.
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Market research firm DisplayBank is reporting that LG.Philips LCD has fixed the size of its eighth-generation (8G) glass substrate to 2200x2500mm, a size referred to by Taiwan LCD panel makers as "unfamiliar". The reported 8G substrate could be cut into eight 47" panels or six 55" panels and would be larger than the 8G substrates planned by Sharp, which plans to move into mass production at the world"s first 8G line in the second half of this year.
This free audio recorder from Applian Technologies offers free audio recording for any PC running Windows - including Windows Vista.
This week at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Taipei, Intel has been discussing its next-generation dual-core mobile processor, known as Merom, which will come out in the second half of 2006. Merom will succeed Yonah, Intel"s first 65nm processor, which is the main part of the Napa mobile platform and is scheduled for launch in January 2006. At the event in Taipei, Intel also introduced its future mobile platform technology codenamed Robson. The technology, which is now under development, aims to extend battery life, accelerate system boot-up and provide user-visible responsiveness, said vice president of Intel"s mobility group and general manager of the mobile platforms group Shmuel (Mooly) Iden.
ATI Technologies plans to introduce a new version of its entry-level Radeon X300 graphics chip, this time with memory sharing technology in early 2005, according to sources at Taiwan graphics card makers.
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Taipei - Graphics cards manufacturers are gearing up to launch boards carrying Nvidia"s next-generation graphic processor, Tom"s Hardware Guide has learned. The chip, code-named G70, was shown behind closed doors at the Computex trade show today.
Albatron today announced the availability of its latest graphics card offering, the GeForce 7300GS based on the Nvidia GeForce 7300 GS graphics processing unit (GPU). Although this comes on the heels of announcements for similar products launched by three of Albatron"s competitors, no price has yet been announced.
MXSave announces that its e-mail disaster recovery network processes over 1 million e-mails per day.
Hillsboro (OR) - This afternoon, an Intel spokesperson confirmed to TG Daily that the Montecito platform, which will premiere the company"s next-generation 64-bit Itanium architecture, will dispense with executing all 32-bit instruction set applications on-die, prompting customers to opt instead for software-based emulation which Intel promises will be faster anyway.
While Royal Philips Electronics is still negotiating renewals of its Veeza patent licensing with leading Taiwan-based makers of blank CD-R discs, the makers have become more reluctant to accept the licensing terms due to decreasing global demand for CD-R discs, according to industry sources in Taiwan. Leading makers include CMC Magnetics, Ritek and Prodisc Technology, the sources noted.
Hollywood (CA) - Despite mass hysteria in the movie industry of piracy and declining movie sales, box office ticket sales reached nearly $10 billion last year, a new record.
Rhxo Technology Group, leading software and web application development company, announces the launch of its new strategic partnership with TurkofAmerica Magazine aimed at delivering best and latest technology solutions in the United States.
Optimus to promote TANDBERG"s world-class video conferencing and immersion solutions through its Middle East channel network
Bangkok (Thailand) - At TG Daily we strive to bring you the very best coverage of events around the world. Sometimes that means lugging a heavy digital camera, hi-def camcorder and a laptop around to steamy parts of the world like Thailand, but we do it for you, our loyal readers. For those of you who aren"t lucky enough to attend the 29th International Motor Show here are some videos to show you what you"re missing.
NEC LCD Technologies announced it will introduce a 4.3" amorphous silicon (a-Si), TFT LCD module (LCM) at SID (Society for Information Display) 2006 conference to be held in San Francisco, US from June 5-9. The display employs WQVGA display technology and has a resolution of 480x272 pixels, with a luminance of 350 cd/m2 and features a touch panel.
Tom"s Hardware has posted a summary of its 500-hour test run of Windows Vista. The article provides a first impression of the operating system"s new user interface, the upcoming web browser Internet Explorer 7, network and security applications as well as DirectX and driver installation procedures.
Irvine (CA) - The third largest PC retailer in the U.S. today announced that all desktop PCs and "nearly" all notebook computers offered through its website now come standard with a dual-core processor.
New enhancement for USB Monitor: Windows 7 and 64-bit OS support added. USB protocol capturing, decoding, displaying, filtering, errors detecting and much more.
Miami (FL) - Alienware, a specialty maker of top-end gaming PCs, has thrown its hat into the big Vista ring, now offering the new operating system on its compatible PCs as part of the large-scale Vista launch.
Matsushita, best known for its Panasonic consumer brand, today said that it is developing a higher capacity SD memory card. Based on the new SD Specifications Version 2.00, the new SDHC (SD High-Capacity) memory card will offer 4 GB of storage space. A global launch of the card is scheduled for the summer of this year. SDHC cards are believed to reach capacities of up to 32 GB within a few years.
Professional Service Automation and Project Portfolio Management Software provider Atlantic Global announce major enhancements to the market-leading solution Atlantic Global OnDemand.
Austin (TX) - The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin is now running the world"s most powerful supercomputing system for open science research. Ranger is expected provide more than 500 million processor hours of computing time to the science community, performing more than 200,000 years of computational work over its four-year lifetime.
Back in November 2002 ATI was still very much the underdog, woofing in the Canadian wilderness like a timber wolf. Nvidia was so strong and so red, the Canadian company seemed paralysed, like a rabbit in the headlights. Whenever ATI launched a chip Nvidia would overtop it.
Cupertino (CA) - Apple may be the leader in the market of MP3 players, but in the world of environmental friendliness, the company holds an entirely different distinction. According to Greenpeace, Apple is ranked dead last on the scale of green electronics, failing to make virtually any accommodation to lessen its output of electronic waste.
Nvidia"s driver for graphics processing units released hours ago supports graphics cards with 512 MB frame-buffer, it transpired. While currently there are no graphics cards with that lot of memory onboard, they are likely to be available in future and it may appear that in not too-distant-future.
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Although digital photo frames are in many ways still thought of as a geek accessory or as a gift to bestow on a less technically inclined loved one, the market continues to show strong growth. According to Taiwan"s Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center (IEK), demand is expected to grow from about 12 million units in 2007 to 20 million this year. Looking to drive growth further, players in the industry are now trying to leverage Internet services to make digital photo frames easier to manage while perhaps even redefining how the devices are used.
Upgrade your rig to SATA 6Gb/s with an add-in card.
Meraki hopes it can succeed where larger players such as Earthlink and Google failed: Making a business out of providing the infrastructure for citywide Wi-Fi systems.
Textronics has received patent approval for "stretchy" textile electronics that can be integrated into clothing to monitor certain body functions.
Sources told TG Daily that Intel will begin shipments of its Woodcrest server and workstation processor at the end of June of this year. Woodcrest is the server derivate of the firm"s next-generation micro architecture, which has the mobile processor Merom at its core.
Microsoft is preparing a total of seven security patches for Windows and Office in is security update package for July. According to an "advance notification" posted on the firm"s Security Bulletin website, the company will provide consumers four Windows and three Office updates. While details have not been released, the firm said that "critical" security issues will be addressed by the updates.
Nvidia will adjust its chipset roadmap following the acquisition of ULi Electronics, according to company president and CEO Huang Jen-hsun. Nvidia is looking to enhance its high-end chipset line for the Intel platform, but has no plans to participate in the entry-level segment for the short term, said Huang.
Santa Clara (CA) - Nvidia will be launching its next-gen 9-series graphics cards tomorrow, February 21. Reviews of the sub-$200 cards are scheduled to surface at 8 am EDT and we will get a better idea why we should care about Nvidia"s new volume enthusiast card.
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Taipei (Taiwan) - Global aggregated large-size panel shipments in the second quarter of 2008 reached 110.8 million units, a quarter-on-quarter increase of 6.7% and a year-on-year growth of 22.4%, according to WitsView. The growth mainly stemmed from increases in IT panel shipments, especially the notebook segment, where shipments jumped 12.9% to 35.4 million units. Monitor panels were up quarterly by 5.5% to 51.6 million units.
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Taiwan"s first-tier motherboard makers Asustek Computer, Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI) collectively shipped 7.778 million motherboards in April, up 18.6 percent on year, according to the makers. Among the vendors, only MSI saw an on-year decline in its April motherboard shipments.
Las Vegas (NV) - Revealing more than we knew before about Microsoft"s planned two-tier program for computer manufacturers and OEMs, and graphics card manufacturers, a representative of NVIDIA on the CES floor told TG Daily today that Microsoft"s plans for "Vista Standard" and "Vista Premium" support programs will indeed create two separate, simultaneous groups of graphics cards, and potentially two classes of computers as a result.
Intel expects low-cost PC shipments (including those for Internet-centric devices such as netbooks and nettops) to break 100 million units between 2008-2011, while Asustek president Jerry Shen expects the market to see shipments of 10 million units in 2008, and 20 million in 2009. Intel has told notebook makers it forecasts both netbook and nettop products are to see double-digit growth annually in 2008-2011, with netbook total shipments from 2008-2011 to reach 47 million units and those for nettops to reach 60 million, according to industry sources.
Barcelona (Spain) -Flags, like the checkered finish flag, have always served a critical part in any form of car racing, but drivers can sometimes miss those wavy pieces of fabric driving at 200+ MPH. In a bid to change the status quo between judges, race organization and the drivers themselves, FIA as the world"s automotive governing body recently tested digital flags on the Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona.
Chicago (IL) - After launching its 3D1 graphics card last December, Gigabyte will announce a second dual-GPU board next week, Tom"s Hardware Guide has learned. The card will be based on two GeForce 6600 processors and be priced around $400.
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It"s all about tablets today! Asus" Eee Pad is rumored to be based on Tegra.
Chicago (IL) - Three weeks ago, we reported that Microsoft is planning to replace the "Tahoma" font in Windows XP with the newly developed "Segoe UI," which is designed to be less "computer-y" and is more readable on LCD screens. Now it appears that Segoe UI may not be that new. According to a report in a German newspaper, it is virtually identical with the "Frutiger Next" font.
Sequence said that it had reached a milestone in its recent power optimization efforts using its MTCMOS (Multi-Threshold CMOS) technology. The company claims to be first to become the EDA industry"s first organization to achieve power-gating optimization by reducing leakage on a 90 nanometer design.
Following the first public presentation at the Intel Developer Forum last week, Nvidia previewed its nForce 4 chipset for Intel PCs also at CeBit. According to a company statement the SLI-capable chipset is scheduled for release in April and will allow system builders to create "new enthusiast PCs".
Las Vegas (NV) - Tech savvy soldiers now have a new way to stay in touch with the Defcon computer security convention. Hackers at the Defcon computer security convention have created the "Traveling TeraByte Project" (TTB) - basically is a set of hard drives filled with multimedia in a rugged Pelican case: Soldiers and tech contractors, who missed this year"s Defcon, can view and copy nearly a terabyte worth of movies, computer security talks and MP3 music.
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Worldwide external controller-based disc storage revenue totalled $3.2bn (÷£1.8bn) in the second quarter, up 5.1% from the $3.1bn recorded in the same period last year.
Intel has received an license to support CrossFireX on its upcoming P45 chipsets, according to sources at motherboard makers. Although ATI originally said it would be open to licensing CrossFire to those who wanted to, the acquisition of the company by AMD, followed by the resignations of Dave Orton and Rick Hegberg, former CEO and vice president of worldwide sales of ATI, respectively, sparked concerns among motherboard makers that AMD would completely cut its cooperation with Intel.
Pixarra today released TwistedBrush Pro Studio version 16. With release 16 of TwistedBrush Pro Studio the major new feature called Solutions is introduced. A Solution in TwistedBrush Pro Studio is a system to accomplish complex tasks with a single click of the mouse or pen.
Rambus announced its customers have shipped more than 500 million RDRAM memory devices. The modules are manufactured since 1997 and are commonly found in applications ranging from game consoles and high definition televisions to Internet routers.
Epic has released a new update for Unreal Tournament 2004 It patches the game to version 3236 and includes gameplay and engine related fixes and improvements. Here"s a snip from the engine related updates:
Basketball vests (singlets) with electroluminescent displays that show a player"s score, and number of fouls, are being trialled in Australia.
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said on Thursday it will start selling a high-definition 65" plasma television in Japan on November 1 for less than 1 million yen.
Irvine (CA) - Emachines today introduced four new entry-level systems that sport double-layer DVD burners.
Gigabyte announced the GA-8I955X Royal, the firm"s new flagship motherboard. The board integrates Intel"s 955X chipset for use with Intel"s Pentium Extreme Edition and Pentium D dual-core processors in LGA775 packaging.
The worldwide demand for single-side dual-layer DVD+R/-R discs will increase in 2008, according to sources at disc makers and research firms. Since Ritek and CMC Magnetics expanded their 2.4x dual-layer DVD production capacity starting in 2007, pricing has dropped from NT$70-80 (US$2.17-2.48) to NT$55-60, which has helped to boost market demand, according the market sources.
Already having started production of HD DVD-R discs in May, CMC Magnetics stated it is preparing for volume production of 30 GB single-sided dual-layer HD DVD-R discs in the third quarter, according to the company.
Government Computer News is reporting today on a debate within the US Department of Homeland Security over whether to embed RFID identifiers within identity cards, that US citizens would carry with them when making border crossings into Canada or Mexico. One concern is that the cards themselves may be so powerful that officials could conceivably use them to spot citizens in a crowd, away from territorial borders.
Chicago (IL) - Plextor today announced the availability of a new compact DVD burner to date. The PX-608CU is less than 16 millimeters thick and weighs about 0.5 pounds.
UPDATE 21 Oct 23:15 EST - Burbank (CA) - In a move that had been anticipated earlier this morning, as the Blu-ray Disc Association has confirmed to TG Daily, Warner Bros. has joined the BDA"s board of directors, and is making plans to release films on Blu-ray format videodiscs, when that format is made available.
The world"s largest personal computer maker, introduced two low-priced server computers in it"s continuing bid to convince customers that networks of PC-style machines can handle tasks generally reserved for much bigger ones reports Reuters.
A capsule carrying dust particles from the tail of a comet parachuted to Earth on Sunday, and elated NASA scientists were eager to examine the samples for clues about how the solar system formed.
SecurityFocus is reporting this morning that a Venezuelan native already convicted for defacing a US Air Force Web site, and who is facing deportation, may be detained in the US as NASA considers whether to press charges against him, for the possible theft of documents relating to next-generation launch vehicles:
Seiko Epson has developed the world"s slimmest electronic paper (e-paper), according to the Japanese-language Nihon Keizai Shimbun. The e-paper is only 0.096mm thick and has a resolution of 192 dpi. The e-paper is 2.1" in size and weighs 0.44g, the paper said, adding that the e-paper can be used to make electronic books (e-books) or bulletin boards.
Santa Clara (CA) - Roxio, subsidiary of Sonic Solutions, today announced the latest version of its RecordNow CD/DVD burner software. The new software adds a handful of features for music editing and management.
Minneapolis (MN) - If you have a gift card from last year that"s partially or completely unredeemed, you helped line retailers" pockets by over $3.5 billion.
The Japanese space agency is canceling its long awaited moon mission. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is recommending canceling the Lunar-A project which would have planted probes into the moon"s surface. Japan had been planning the mission for more than a decade and even built the mothership, which is falling apart from neglect.
Palm Desert (CA) - Database administration and creation has always been relegated to pointy head techie types, but start-up company Blist claims to have developed the world"s easiest database. The web application makes database creation as simple as dragging data types like pictures, lists or even documents into the creation page. Watch our video of Blist"s demonstration from the DEMO Conference in Palm Desert California.
San Francisco (CA) - The virtual residents of Second Life are experiencing a banking crisis of their own after recently announced ban on unregistered banks. As of January 22nd, unregistered banks won"t be able to offer interest or any return on investment. Now, virtual citizens are scrambling to pull their money out of banks and causing some institutions to close their doors.
Taiwanese notebook systems manufacturer Inventec is expected to ship 6.5-7 million notebooks in 2006, thanks to orders from Toshiba, Hewlett Packard (HP) and Acer.
Intel is shipping five new software development tools that promise developers of supercomputing and distributed high performance computing (HPC) software environments to accelerate and simplify the creations of applications. As a result the new "Cluster Tools" help to reduce the costs of software development. The new products include Trace Analyzer and Collector 6.0, Message Passing Interface (MPI) Library 2.0, Math Kernel Library (MKL) Cluster Edition 8.0, Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP) 5.0 and VTune Performance Analyzer for Linux 8.0. Intel said that all components can be used in conjunction with other popular software development tools.
Santa Clara (CA) - Intel today said that it has announced it is shipping the industry"s first 90 nm multi-level cell (MLC) NOR flash memory device in volume. According to the company, the memory delivers faster performance, higher density and lower power consumption than the previous 130 nm generation of the technology.
New File Share Migration Product from echo Provides Powerful Capabilities for SharePoint
Students in 50 Orange County Schools Will Use Visual Software to Deepen Understanding of Mathematical Concepts
Volkswagen is testing a robotic Golf GTI that blazes through the racetrack at up to 150 miles per hour. Using a combination of radar and laser sensors, along with a GPS system, the car is accurate to within an inch. VW engineers claim the car can drive faster and better than them at the test track in northern Germany.
Columbus (OH) - Games like Nintendogs, Catz, and The Sims, wherein players can take care of a virtual pet, is leading to a decline in ownership of real pets, according to the response from a new study.
The second quarter of 2006 saw the worldwide handheld devices market experience its tenth consecutive quarter of on year decline, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). Vendors shipped a total of 1.4 million devices, a 26.3% decrease from the same quarter one year ago. For the first half of the year, vendors shipped a total of 2.9 million units, down 21.4% from the 3.7 million units shipped during the first half of 2005.
The hard drive on Wednesday turned 50.
Lacie has upgraded its biometrically-protected SAFE hard drive line with a desktop edition, adding an internal firmware lock to help prevent data from being accessed if the actual hard drive is removed from the chassis.
Taiwanese makers will deliver a total of 2.2 million DVD recorders this year, rising by 18 percent from 2004, including models equipped with hard disk drives (HDDs), according to the Market Intelligence Center (MIC) under the government-sponsored Institute for Information Industry (III).
Several prominent weblogs have been hit with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in recent weeks, as the target list for digital attackers continues to broaden. While some of the attacks appear to be politically motivated, on Monday a DDoS struck one of the blogosphere"s most financially successful bloggers.
VIA Technologies announced the Via CN800 digital media IGP chipset, featuring support for PCIe and integrated Via UniChrome Pro graphics with hardware MPEG-2 playback and DuoView dual monitor output. The IGP is designed as the companion chipset for the VIA C7-D processor.
Field Precision now includes an easy-to-learn, versatile viewer for STL models in all 3D finite-element software packages.
Intel will introduce the 945GC chipset, which will support an FSB of up to 800 MHz for the Core 2 Duo E4000 and Pentium E1000 CPU families, in the first quarter of 2007, according to motherboard makers. The 945GC series features a PCI Express (PCIe) x16 interface and is expected to attract more attentions than the existing 945GZ in the low-end segment, indicated the makers.
Hollywood (CA) - Dell"s new XPS M2010 portable desktop could become a tremendous bragging rights machine for casual LAN gamers and Starbucks wireless surfers. The collapsible entertainment PC was launched yesterday amidst the glitz and glamour of Hollywood. We took a closer look in a hands on demonstration and have to admit that it leaves quite an impression. Extra: slide show
Yesterday, ULi Electronics officially launched its M1697 single-chip solution for the AMD K8 platform. The company started sampling this product in September, and the chip recently entered mass production, ULi associate vice president Bruce Tai said.
Matsushita said it will invest about $1.5 billion to build a new plasma display panel (PDP) fab in Hyogo Prefecture, Prefecture. The plant will output about 500,000 42" PDPs per month, which would make it the world"s largest production facility of its kind.
Cambridge (MA) - Determining the difference between a level two and level three hurricane may be done in the future by measuring the sound instead of flying in airplanes in the middle of it at several hours throughout the day.
Tokyo (Japan) - Japanese customers will soon be able to pay for their fast food lunch without the use of cash or a credit card, thanks to a new partnership between McDonald"s and Docomo, Japan"s largest cell phone operator.
Santa Clara (CA) - Media reports are in that Intel is ready to release a new quad-core processor, marking yet another new product for Intel this year. The Xeon E5335, which was originally scheduled for a February 2007 release, takes its position as the fifth quad-core processor since Intel first released the Kentsfield/Clovertown cores earlier this autumn.
Palo Alto (CA)
Bert van der Zwan has joined the Twinfield management team and will also assume the responsibilities of chairman of the board