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With the recent introduction of low-priced motherboards built using Intel 915PL/GL chipsets by Foxconn Electronics (the registered trade name for Hon Hai Precision Industry) and ASRock, the penetration rate for the 915 platform in the channel is likely to gain momentum starting in the second quarter, according to sources at Taiwan makers.
Sunnyvale (CA) - AMD has begun offering a new processor in its mainstream dual-core lineup. The 5200+ joins the Athlon 64 X2 series as new flagship. There no clock speed increase, but AMD has integrated twice the cache of the 5000+ and re-enters the $400+ segment of CPUs.
Texas Instruments has extended its PowerVR MBX Lite graphics engine licence, the chip maker said today.
Gainward said it has finally got Geforce 6800 Ultra PCIe chips in its mitts. We know that all Taiwanese based companies have been waiting for NV40 chips for some time. Gainward was able to get NV40 chip running at 350 MHz and use them for the Geforce 6800GT AGP or PCI Express but not for the Ultras.
Microsoft on Monday talked up a few features of its next-generation Office release, due next year, which revolve around the concept of "business intelligence." A major focus of Office 12 will be on improving the way users access data in existing applications, thereby making business intelligence (BI) more pervasive.
Las Vegas (NV) - Philips held its CES press conference today, and - not surprisingly - the company focused on its "ambient" technology. The first move to this technology was its flat-panel Ambilight TV sets. Philips, however, wants to take this even further with full surround sound and gaming experiences using ambient technology.
The latest Flash runtime not only takes advantage of hardware acceleration, but will now infect smartphones and many other Internet-connected devices.
World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) projects the global semiconductor industry will continue to grow in 2007 and peak in 2008, said WSTS Asia-Pacific president Tony Huang. Huang said the global semiconductor industry should enjoy mild growth in 2007 at 8.6%, up further from this year"s projected 8.5%.
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Although the expected buzz at the upcoming Computex Taipei 2005 show from May 31 to June 4 will be the competing dual-core desktop CPU offerings from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), motherboard vendors have warned that the new processors may not help motherboard sales in the short-term.
Virtosoftware Team is proud to announce beta version 1.3. of Ajax Web part Calendar for SharePoint.
Performance memory company OCZ today announced a new heatspreader for some of its DDR devices. The honeycomb design enhances airflow "by means of micro-convection throughout what is usually the dead air space inside conventional heatspreader designs," OCZ said. The new spreader offers increased ventilation and heat dissipation, which results in an overall more stable memory operation, according to the company.
Intel"s single-core Conroe-L processors will appear in two family series, with the Pentium E1000 scheduled for launch in the second quarter of 2007, while the Celeron 400 will arrive one quarter later, according to Taiwan-based motherboard makers that have reviewed Intel"s latest desktop CPU roadmap. The two lines will replace the current Pentium 4 and Celeron D CPU lines, the makers added.
Kaiser Permanente medical correspondence, insurance, disability, occupational health, patient access, and psychiatric departments from Southern and Northern California upgrade their Release of Information (ROI) software system to MedCorr 2.8.
Microsoft has a code name for the next version of Windows. But what is the planned delivery date for the product, as well as its successor, "Vienna"? No one"s talking, but plenty are speculating.
Due to back-to-school demand and hot season effects, most Taiwan-based panel makers, including AU Optronics (AUO), Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) and Quanta Display, plan to raise prices for their LCD monitor or notebook panels, according to the Chinese-language Apple Daily.
Mars - Spirit came across an interesting spot of pure silica this past May. It literally ran right over it. Since then, scientists have been trying to figure out what might have caused it. Two theories include a previous water source which dissolved the silica and then deposited it, along with acidic steam springs emanating from deep within Mars. In preparation for the coming long, cold Martian winter, Spirit is being parked at a safe place near the previous silica discovery with the hopes of sending back more images for additional analysis.
In a week or two, Intel will release its updated 533 MHz system bus Pentium Ms, and it looks like DFI will be ready for the processors and new chipsets.
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) yesterday announced the delivery of a new SONOS (Silicon Oxide Nitride Oxide Silicon) memory to Taiwan-based IC-design house Solid State System. This new memory adopts advanced SONOS dielectric storage technology, which enhances program speed as compared to conventional SONOS cells and conventional NAND type flash, UMC said.
Xilisoft Corporation, a leading provider of digital media software, announced today that all iPhone/iPod software fully supports iPhone OS 3.0.
Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) announced the release of the SiS756/965 chipset to support PCI Express X16 in combination with AMD Opteron and Athlon64 FX processors. The chipset also integrates functionality for RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and JBOD, providing fast access to harddrive data, intelligent redundant backup functionality, and secure file management. (THG)
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TEC-IT releases the new version of the barcode label printing and reporting software TFORMer. This versatile output solution helps customers to unify output requirements and reduces operating and maintenance costs.
Hillsboro (OR) - With countries in Asia-Pacific leveraging huge tax incentives to convince chip manufacturers to build plants in their countries, it is not a secret that such investments are getting less attractive in the US. Oregon Senator Gordon Smith today said that the US needs to "get its act together" quickly - and Governor Ted Kulongoski even conceded that his State "can"t compete with China or Singapore" on a financial basis.
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Burbank (CA) - The dramedy that went from Myspace to NBC has been canceled after one episode, after it received the network"s worst rating for its time slot in 20 years.
Intel today introduced the Mobile Intel Pentium 4 processor 548 supporting Hyper-Threading Technology for the portability market segment.
Asustek Computer recently unveiled its new series of 3ms 17" LCD monitors, which are slated to hit the market in November, according to the company.
Following the recent revelation by Toshiba that it will no longer make any HD DVD products, the death knell of its next-generation, high-definition DVD standard has been sounded - and rival Blu-ray"s victory assured. However, after years of a standards war, the major question for Sony and the Blu-ray camp is whether a physical format for HD still has any relevance to consumers in this era of Internet-delivered movies and video on demand, according to research firm iSuppli.
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Chicago (IL) - The Internet continued its rapid growth rate in the final month of last year, adding more than five million websites for a bottom line of more than 150 million.
The Yomiuri newspaper is reporting, and Reuters is translating this afternoon, that Hitachi, Toshiba, NEC, Matsushita, and Renesas Technology (a Hitachi/Mitsubishi joint venture) will pool together up to 200 billion yen toward the production of a jointly managed chip fabrication facility. Rumors of this move have been covered by DigiTimes for several weeks.
Flat-panel monitors have become more and more affordable, and the trend is accentuating. According to our confrere Purchasing.com, prices on 17" LCD computer monitors fell 19 percent between July and September, and the trend won"t turn around anytime soon.
Sierra Online is bringing the popular sci-fi show Battlestar Galactica to the Xbox Live network and PCs in a new video game this fall. The space flight simulator will have ships from both the human and Cylon races and will feature single and multiplayer games. A single player campaign mode will also have missions that resemble episodes from the television series.
We already have sub-$100 16X speed DVD burners, but 20X burners should be readily available later this year, according to Digitimes. Major PC makers like HP and Dell are looking into the speedier burners for upcoming models.
Google"s share of search queries has grown to 47 %over the last three years. But, the no-frills homepage isn"t pulling searchers away from Yahoo!, whose busy portal page has held runner-up status over the same time period, but rather from the chronically third-place MSN.
Santa Clara (CA) - While we are still waiting for the general availability of most of ATI"s recently announced X1000 graphics chip family, Nvidia is bolstering its holiday portfolio. Today, the company announced the 6800 GS, a new GPU that aims to compete with what is expected to be ATI"s most bang for the buck - the X1600 XT.
BenQ has increased prices for its 17" LCD monitors $4 since last month while CMV will plans to raise its prices for the segment $4-5 by the end of this month, according to both companies, as cited in the Taiwan-edition of the Chinese-language Apple Daily News
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) plans to launch a series of 940-pin Socket M2 CPUs, a dual-core processor codenamed Windsor, and the single-core Orleans and Manila processors in the second quarter of 2006, according to unspecified motherboard makers that have reviewed the chip vendor"s latest roadmap. As a result, AMD"s Socket-939 processors are expected to be phased out one year after the release of the Socket-M2 CPUs, indicated the makers.
Microsoft"s System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) will be ready for prime time in the third quarter, the vendor is expected to announce Friday.
E-mail scams grew more sophisticated this year as spammers tried new ways to lure consumers into providing personal information for apparently legitimate business transactions, according to a report from America Online.
In 2011, mobile TV services will have some 514 million subscribers worldwide, up from only 6.4 million at the end of 2005, according to ABI Research.
GeCube has launched its Radeon HD 3600 and 3400 series graphics cards targeting the mid-range and entry-level markets. The GeCube Radeon HD 3650 adopts the ATI Radeon RV635 GPU with 55nm process, 256 MB GDDR3 memory and supports core frequency up to 800 MHz and DDR memory frequency up to 2 GHz, while the Radeon HD 3450 adopts the ATI Radeon RV620 GPU also with 55nm process, 512 MB DDR2 memory and supports a core frequency up to 600 MHz and DDR memory frequency up to 800 MHz.
EDGE enabled handsets have never attracted the same levels of attention that "sexier" technologies such as WCDMA and HSDPA have enjoyed. In fact EDGE can best be described as the Cinderella of the cellular handset world.
Tegra 2 is coming at CES. Get ready for something more hardcore than the Zune HD.
Intel is hoping the market will migrate from 500-series Pentium 4 CPUs to 64-bit 600-series by the third quarter of this year, with the chip giant promoting the fact that 915- and 945-series chipsets will support the 64-bit CPU platform, according to market sources.
Unexpectedly strong demand in the notebook market has resulted in CPU shortages, sending notebook makers scrambling to secure CPU supply for the fourth-quarter high season, according to industry sources. Some notebook makers have described the gravity of the shortages by saying they may have to "beg" daily for CPU supply, the sources claimed.
Unreal Engine programmer thinks Larrabee could have been something cool.
With production of widescreen panels giving Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) a boost in its profits last quarter, second-tier Taiwan-based panel makers are now eyeing the segment, according to market sources.
The next time you use the office printer, you may be printing up a lot more than sales figures or quarterly reports. Many color laser printers are secretly embedding tracking dots, minute and almost invisible yellow specks, on documents. While many have speculated on the meaning of the dots, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) appears to have decrypted the code.
Although the specifications were not officially announced, details regarding the upcoming GeForce GTX 275 have surfaced.
Redmond (WA) - Planning to take advantage of the wildly popular video sharing sites, Microsoft has launched its own online video hosting service, further adding to the number of Internet companies that are trying to emulate the extreme popularity of YouTube.
Microsoft and top South Korean car manufacturer, Hyundai-Kia have announced that they are to pair up and design an in-car music/information system.
The Internet added 4.4 million new hostnames during July - the single largest gain of new sites in a single month, according to Internet services firm Netcraft. The growth surpassed the previous records set in June of this year, which saw a 3.96 million site gain.
Ask Jeeves this week announced the launch of its first proprietary image search technology. The company also unveiled plans to move into Germany with a locally targeted search site.
Stockholm (Sweden) - A little-known paper in Sweden has long held the distinction for being the longest-running active newspaper in the world. Now it is earning headlines again, as the Post-och Inrikes Tidnigar has moved to an all-digital format, with all 2007 issues to be distributed over the Internet.
VIA has announced the VIA PadLock RSA Module, which utilizes the strength and speed of the VIA PadLock Security Engine integrated into all VIA C7 family processors, to accelerate public key encryption such as RSA used in Microsoft Windows operating systems. Designed to help in the fight against Internet fraud, the VIA PadLock RSA Module works by accelerating the process of public key authentication in Microsoft applications, thereby enabling users to utilize longer authentication keys, making it more difficult for computer criminals to break and so enhancing security in a wide range of Internet and network applications, such as online banking and e-commerce, says VIA.
Buoyant SDRAM demand, coupled with product mix readjustments said to be taking place at leading players Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) and Samsung Electronics, will aggravate supply/demand balance in the SDRAM market, according to industry sources. SDRAM inventory levels are currently low among customers, according to sources at Taiwan SDRAM IC design houses.
Nanotechnology leapt into the realm of quantum mechanics this past winter when an antenna-like sliver of silicon one-tenth the width of a human hair oscillated in a lab in a Boston University basement. With two sets of protrusions, much like the teeth from a two-sided comb or the paddles from a rowing shell, the antenna not only exhibits the first quantum nanomechanical motion but is also the world"s fastest moving nanostructure.
Mitac International expects its shipments of GPS-enabled devices, including PDA phones, to top 4-5 million units in 2006, up from the 2.8 million units it shipped in 2005, company president Billy Ho said yesterday. Of the total GPS shipments last year, about one million units, or 36%, were Mitac"s own Mio-branded models with the remaining being OEM products, Ho noted.
NEC LCD Technologies, together with its sales and marketing channels in the Americas and Europe, NEC Electronics America and NEC Electronics (Europe), has introduced a new 22.5" amorphous-silicon WUXGA TFT LCD module. The new module features Full HD (1920ç—1080) resolution, high luminance of 460 candelas per square meter (cd/m2), a wide color gamut of 97% NTSC, and a double frame rate of 120Hz to improve motion picture performance, highlighted the company.
Oculis LabsTM, a leading innovator in data-in-use security, today announced that it has been awarded the annual Maryland Incubator Company of the Year Award.
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Monitis Inc., a leading provider of affordable easy-to-use enterprise-class systems management software as a service, today released a new notification channel: tweets. Monitis has begun using Twitter to alert users of network failures.
San Francisco (CA) - Later this year, Microsoft will be releasing its next-generation operating system, which is considered the most significant Windows launch in a decade. The extra bling-bling in Vista - especially in the Premium version - will require a PC with lots of performance. And if you are not among those users who will buy a new PC for Vista right away, there"s a good chance you will have to upgrade several components such as your graphics card, your mass storage devices and your system memory.
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CMC Magnetics and Ritek, the top two makers of optical discs, have recently started volume production of 15 GB HD-DVD-R SL (high-definition DVD recordable single-sided single-layer) discs and are prepared to begin production of 30 GB HD-DVD-R DL (single-sided double-layer) discs in the fourth quarter of this year at the earliest, according to industry sources.
Columbus (OH) - A man who obtained an advance copy of the animated film "Flushed Away" was arrested and could face as much as three years in prison after he uploaded the movie to the Internet.
It all started in August, when Microsoft announced that it wanted to embrace RSS feeds. At the time, the company proposed changing the RSS logo and the name of the service within Internet Explorer (IE) 7.
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DisplaySearch estimates that the 40-/42" LCD TV segment is growing faster than the 37" segment, but the mainstream segment will remain 32" this year, according to the research firm.
Satellite phones have been around for years, but Stratos adds a twist to satellite communication: The company offers satellite broadband access in most places of the world. Using a compact satellite terminal weighing two pounds, users can surf the web, upload video or even broadcast the news from remote parts of the world at up to 492 kbps (downstream). Stratos officials say that the system has been a hit with big game hunters, military personal and of course the broadcast news reporters.
Following Intel"s announcement of a virtualization technology for its processors, AMD today announced that it will make its virtualization approach available for Opteron processors next month.
News agency Reuters has become a news target itself as it announced today plans to open a virtual bureau in the online life-simulation platform Second Life. Users will now be able to look up Reuters reports about the world of Second Life as well as the real world within the virtual environment.
Los Angeles (CA) - Specialty promotional group Seeview has announced a new kind of DVD case that would allow consumers to get a better preview of the movie or game content on the disc.
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.
In the June Virus Bulletin comparative review, TrustPort Antivirus once again ranked amongst the best security solutions globally.
New Toshiba notebooks use special hardware to make YouTube less ugly
San Francisco (CA) - The reorganization of business units at Intel also affected traditions at IDF: For the first time in several years, it was not the former CTO Pat Gelsinger who presented the outlook. Justin Rattner, former director of the firm"s microprocessor development and newly appointed head of the corporate technology group informed us about tech that is cooking in Intel"s labs.
Gateway announced three new LC displays which the company claims include an easy to use on-screen display to simplify setup. The screens come in sizes of 15-, 17-, and 19" and are priced at $210, $300 and $350.
The troll - as such taunting posters are dubbed - would frequently ignite massive angry e-mail responses, or flame wars, at times limiting the usefulness of the Full Disclosure list. Over time, n3td3v took on multiple online personalities, or gained members of the n3td3v group, and attempted to create an online security hub.
Toshiba admitted yesterday that it is struggling to keep up with demand for flash memory after announcing plans to accelerate production at its latest fab.
Users always looking for the ultimate performance for their PC will get yet another opportunity to upgrade the horsepower and torque of their system. Tyan said it is shipping its Thunder K8QW (S4881) motherboard that will carry up to four Opteron 800-series processors and up to eight chips, if customers decide to upgrade the board with the available add-on modules HT4881 and M4881.
Most ATI partners have already made a noise about X850 and yjr new X800 cards. ATI allows this after it lifted the heavy burden of NDAs from their shoulders and new it"s OK to talk about the new cards even though no one can ship them yet.
Apparently, AMD"s Sabine platform will support DirectX 11 and UVD Technology when released in 2011.
Clairvoyante, a display technology developer and patent-licensing company in the US, claims panels using its patented PenTile Matrix technology consume less power, are brighter, have a higher contrast ratio, a lower production cost and higher yields than standard panels. Major display makers such as Samsung Electronics and Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) have displayed panel prototypes using the company"s technology. DigiTimes recently had the chance to interview company president and CEO Joel M. Pollack about its business model, competitiveness and future plans.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will announce the Rev G Turion 64 X2 and Mobile Sempron CPU lineups, which will debut as the chip vendor"s first 65 nm-made mobile processors, in 2007, according to motherboard makers familiar with AMD"s latest CPU roadmap. The Tyler series - replacement parts for the AMD Turion 64 X2 (codenamed Taylor) CPUs - will be launched in the second quarter of next year, noted the makers.
A camera is considered to be one of the most desirable features in mobile phones, yet, evidence suggests that only a tiny percentage of camera phones are used regularly to transmit pictures or to store for later use, reports In-Stat.
I guess that lions living in Africa don"t need to be stimulated to learn how to chase prey. But apparently, it"s a different story for the lions living in captivity in the Blair Drummond Safari Park located near Stirling in Scotland. In a recent article, BBC News reports that lions are trained to hunt by a robot.
Pentium M 770 processors have begun to appear in Tokyo shops today, ahead of tomorrow"s formal launch of the 533 MHz frontside bus-supporting chips.
Everyone wants to get the most for their money. This is no exception to Tom"s Hardware readers.
Samsung announced its new high-end LCD SyncMaster 930mp that integrates a stand-alone TV as well as built-in FM radio. The device is eqipped with Dolby speakers, and multiple video inputs including component, composite and S-Video, for direct hook up to a DVD player, camcorder, VCR, security camera or other video sources.
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Since late last year, several DRAM makers have begun requesting that testing houses cut their DDR2 memory testing times by 20-40% amid cost concerns, according to sources.
The award-winning provider of innovative online collaboration solutions, BeamYourScreen, announced the release of its cross-platform desktop sharing solution for use on Apple Mac computers.
Excess supplies of large liquid crystal displays (LCDs) are forecast to peak in the third quarter of this year, but will balance out by the fourth, a U.S. research firm said on Friday.
Camera modules with an optical zoom will become a standard feature for handsets with a built-in 5-megapixel camera, according to a recently released Digitimes Research report. Handsets with a 5-megapixel camera must have features such as auto focus or optical zoom in order to improve image quality, the report noted.
Renesas Technology anticipates that its dual-core microcontroller (MCU) for automotive vehicles could hit the market by 2010 at the latest, and possibly as early as 2008. The the new solution will help to enhance the functionality of electronic components that will be deployed within an increasingly complex driving environment.
Comarch facilitates the use of a new tool in the Contact Center application dedicated to supervisors and managers of consultants.
Last Thursday, AMD released a 392-page PDF (v1.0 dated March 2009) outlining the Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) native to the R700 family, and display a difference between the Radeon HD 4870 and the Radeon HD 4890.
VMware recently released a new beta version of its virtualization software Workstation 6.0. According to the release notes, the current build 36983 includes support for Windows Vista and multi-monitor systems. The software also removes the 4 GB memory limit, works with USB 2.0 devices and introduces cross-platform drag-and-drop, which allows users to move files and directories from a Linux or Windows host to a Linux, Solaris, or Windows guest, and vice versa.
A Missouri prosecutor said Monday no charges would be sought in the case of a teen who hanged herself last year after chatting on MySpace, although he said adults should have prevented the tragedy.
Mountain View (CA) - Google accounted for more than 65% of all Internet search requests in November, a new record for the online giant.
Las Vegas (NV) - Pre-installed navigation systems in automobiles do not only have the disadvantage that they are significantly more expensive than most after-market systems, they are also, well, stationary which limits their use.
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Redmond (WA) - The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has issued a warning about a newly discovered hack that could implant malicious software on a computer via Microsoft"s database software program.
A few hundred movies on an optical disc? That"s the goal of the Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) Alliance.
The current supply of Intel desktop-use mainstream LGA775 Pentium 4 CPUs, such as the Pentium 4 530 (3.0 GHz) and 520 (2.8 GHz), is insufficient in Taiwan, especially in the channel, according to sources at Taiwan motherboard makers. The shortage is expected to last until the first quarter of next year, the sources said.
The Norwegian hacker who was arrested, and ultimately exonerated, for reverse-engineering DVD copy protection has taken a job with Michael Robertson"s latest venture, a digital music company called MP3tunes.
San Francisco (CA) - The phrase "use your brain" gets a new meaning with Emotiv"s development kit, which, according to the company, will allow the creation of games that can interface with a player"s thoughts, actions and emotions.
Nvidia has launched the Quadro FX 4800 professional graphics card, featuring 192 processor cores and 1.5 GB of memory.
Fresh search teams prepared to join the hunt for a San Francisco man who set out on foot Saturday to find help for his stranded family in Oregon"s snowy coastal mountains.
Samsung Electronics expects to start operating an eighth-generation (8G) TFT LCD plant in the second half of 2007, with a 9G plant to start volume production in 2009 at the latest, according to Sang Wan Lee, president of Samsung"s LCD Business, as quoted by the South Korea-based Chosun Ilbo.
DFI announced the LANParty NF4 SLI-DR and LANPartyUT NF4 Ultra-D motherboards for the AMD Athlon 64 (socket 939) processors. Both boards are based on Nvidia"s nForce4 chipset.
Georgia Tech researchers have shrunk an optical device called wavelength demultipler (WD) by combining into one crystal three unique properties of photonics crystals. This optical discovery opens the way to sophisticated and cheap biosensors mounted on "lab-on-a-chip" devices - sensors to run blood tests, detect chemicals in water supplies or for drug testing.
Las Vegas (NV) - Of all the SLR lenses and paraphanalia going around, Lensbaby is probably one of the most interesting. Called "selective focus SLR lenses", basically the bayonet mounted lenses are ajustable in multiple directions in order to achieve a very impressive and artistic effect on photos.
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Apparently, BFG has released a passively cooled 9800 GT card to US online retailers without officially announcing its shipment.
LCD-monitor OEM prices are expected to drop this month, with 15- and 17" monitor quotes to drop US$3-5 and 19" monitor prices to fall US$5-10, according to Taiwan-based monitor makers.
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Gen8 Solutions" Emailchemy and Harvester technologies vastly extend and improve the email import capabilities of MPP Archive"s MPP Green architecture.
TV services that depend on set top boxes like the Apple TV, are unlikely to see a considerable jump in sales in 2008, ABI Research believes. Even with Apple TV at its front line, the company describes this market segment as a "struggling breed of retail-based Internet video devices" and estimates that about 1.2 million of these systems will make their way to consumers in 2008.
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is planning to at least double the capacity of its 1" Microdrive hard-disk drive within this year, the company says from Las Vegas, where the 2005 International Consumer Electronics Show has officially begun.
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Sparkle Computer Co. this week announced a technology for cooling its video cards called Diamond-like-Carbon (DLC) coating. Stated as a new process to help dissipate heat from heatsinks, Sparkle sets sights on overclockers.
Argonne (IL) - A newly published research finding at Argonne National Laboratory has identified a hybrid organic/inorganic material with zero thermal expansion (ZET) that is proving suitable for use in semiconductors. Such ZET products would allow for a much wider operational temperature range, resulting in faster clock rates and higher performing computers.
In addition to Taiwan-based LED specialist Epistar recently raising funds of NT$7.2 billion (US$223 million) for capacity expansion, other Taiwan-based LED makers such as Everlight Electronics, Harvatek, and I-Chiun Precision Industry all plan to raise funds for expanding their respective capacities. Everlight Electronics plans to raise funds of NT$3 billion, which can be converted into company bonds, in order to invest in its facilities and equipment.
Backing up our story this morning about whether Core Duo-based Mac users will perceive the "2 - 3x" performance improvement in their software, Macworld is reporting this afternoon that in its own tests with native (compiled for Intel) Mac applications, performance improvements were only in the 10 - 25% range.
Lenovo doesn"t just continue IBM"s notebook and desktop PC business, but also has begun launching new monitor products. The most recent addition to the existing product line is ThinkVision L171p, a 17" desktop LCD that can rotate its screen into portrait or landscape mode. According to the company, the portrait mode enables users to view an entire 8 ÷˝- by 11" page on-screen at once.
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Among the sea of classes and briefings going on at Intelň€™s Developer Forum, there is one that stands out and appeals to the hardcore gamer lucky enough to attend the yearly smorgasbord that Pentium built.
Remote Backup Systems will host a live seminar focusing on service providers starting and running a successful Online Backup service.
eazybusiness have just launched the ultimate suite of cloud apps with over 20 business management and productivity applications aimed at small and medium sized businesses.
Japanese developer Pony/Canon has successfully created a Blu-ray hybid disc that will work in standard definition DVD players.
A mathematical formula based on logarithms now proves undeniably that the God concept is absurd. The formula I named FFG demonstrates mathematically that absolute certainty is absurdity.
This year at Computex, case maker Lian-Li introduced a less pricey line of cases designed to be kinder to your wallet than the likes of Corsairň€™s $300 offering from earlier on in the day.
Scotts Valley (CA) - Seagate today announced its first commercial hard drive that uses perpendicular recording technology. The new 2.5" form factor Momentus 5400.3 drive stores 160 GB on two platters and will be available in volume in February.
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Boise (ID) - Micron announced a new generation of its RealSSD flash disk drives for server and notebook applications Capacities are now hitting 256 GB, but the real questions appears to be pricing and not storage space.
In these difficult economic times, Websystems lowers its prices for all non-profit organizations who subscribe to AceProject.
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Hitachi"s two new Ultrastar drives have blazing spindle speeds of 15,000 RPM.
Letterbox Animation Studios launches Softimage resource library that offers tutorial downloads, free of charge.
Seagate today started shipments of the Barracuda XT, which boasts the fastest SATA connection yet.
Sandra L. Groscost has Shown 30 Years of Dedication as a Certified Project Management Professional
The non-profit education researcher and publisher MIND Research Institute announced the release of its revolutionary ST Math: Instructional Learning System at the National Council of Teacher"s of Mathematics Annual Conference in Washington D.C.
Design houses from the automotive industry have penned the lines for more than just cars. In fact, some even dabble into computer parts.
Foxit Software today is announcing the official Linux version of Foxit Reader 1.0, a freely downloadable PDF viewing application.
SoliCall, a leading provider of noise reduction, echo cancellation and quality monitoring software designed to improve voice quality, is tightening its grip in the telecom market.
Tempe-based web development company announces launch of human-centric software that integrates custom profiles, record sharing among business networks, and Social Media integration
MSI has announced a netbook with hybrid storage, something that could set it apart from the market competition.
Would Heart be proud of this version of Barracuda?
Not to be outdone by the impending release of OCZň€™s high-performance Vertex series of solid-state drives, A-DATA has announced a new 256 GB SSD that features the same 64 MB of internal cache as OCZň€™s product.Ň The company was showing off the SATAII SSD 300 Plus, as well as its mammoth 512 GB XPG SSD, at this yearň€™s Cebit show in Hanover, Germany. The loss of capacity isnň€™t that bad of a deal if you look at it like a fat runner shedding weight; A-DATA is boasting speeds of up to 250 MB/secŇ and 160 MB/sec on the driveň€™s sustained reads and writes, respectively. That"s 20 MB/sec faster reads than the company"s XPG SSD.
If your current Dynamics GP Great Plains server got to be replaced with new hardware, you should follow procedures to move Dynamics GP databases as well as FRx reporting system files.
Quality Ingredients Corporation recently purchased ProcessPro Premier to meet their ERP solution requirements. Quality Ingredients uses the most advanced technology to provide their customers with healthier, better tasting, and easy to use products.
Diablo III made an appearance at BlizzCon 2009.
By now, the Internet has been abuzz with a new marketing video from Samsung. In it, a group of intrepid--well--Samsung marketers take the company"s new 256 GB solid-state drive and hook it up to 23 of its closest friends.
New company logo design software version now supports automatic generation of Windows (XP/Vista) screensavers.
Disk drive manufacturers of the world, unite!
Fujitsu Limited announced Tuesday that it will cease manufacturing hard disk drive (HDD) heads on March 31, 2009.
Is your collection of ň€śmediaň€ť growing at an exponential rate? Western Digital could have what youň€™re looking for, as it launches the industryň€™s first 2 TB hard disk drive.
AMD today announced price reductions for most of its mainstream and performance desktop processors. Prices declined by up to 33% for the mobile high-end ML-44 chip ($525 down to $354), 20% for the high end dual-core Athlon64 X2 4800+ ($803 to $643), 12% for the Mobile Athlon 64 4000+ and 3400+. The entry level Sempron and mobile Sempron processors experience price drops of as much as 11%.
Taipei (Taiwan) - Intel has begun offering NAND flash-based solid state disk drives (SSDs) for mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and entry-level desktop and notebook computers, referred to as Nettops and netbooks. They might not offer a whole lot of capacity, but they are one of the first SSDs we can actually call affordable.
Is the IT industry following suit along with the economy? The Wall-Street blues, Corporate entities closing up shop and the big banks buying out other big and small banks ň€” could this be happening in the IT world too? In short, yes ň€“ however we are not saying this potential buy out fits the exact scenario. It could though.
Diablo III This Year?
DDA Enterprise provides significant improvements in the ability to access media defect signatures and yield charts.
Taipei (Taiwan) - Nvidia today launched a new generation of mobile graphics processors. All new processors support Hybrid SLI for the first time, Nvidiaň€™s CUDA software acceleration technology as well as the companyň€™s recently acquired physics engine.
Software as a Service Application Selected by Cybersoft as Technology Solution
Former Great Plains Software Dynamics and eEnterprise with the following versions: 7.0, 6.0, 5.5, 5.0, 4.0 and earlier, as well as current Microsoft Dynamics GP versions 10.0, 9.0, 8.0, 7.5 - this ERP, MRP and Accounting application has perfect Financial reporting tool
Business Process Outsourcing Company Uses CentRealTech"s One Click System for Title Production Process
AutoTrack v8.5; in this release, full compatibility and integration with Bentley V8i,
Cloud Slam "09 is the first virtual conference on cloud computing which will be held on April 20-24, 2009. It will feature leaders in the field and will include panel discussions and keynote addresses on topics that are relevant to cloud computing and how they relate to the business world.
This mouse still has its tail.
Here it is, the winner of Microsoft"s "Bingle" contest.
Hyperic HQ Version 4.1 improves Web services administration/configuration and MySQL plugin performance
If you are in ERP, MRP, accounting, warehouse and supply chain management software selection process, where barcode scanning is required either in real time or in batch mode, we recommend you to consider Microsoft Dynamics GP, former Great Plains.
Corsair Memory said it has begun shipping a PC3200 CAS2 model of the blinking "Xpert" series memory modules. The new model is named TwinXP1024-3200C2 and represents a matched pair of 512 MByte DDR DIMMs.
Microsoft Dynamics GP is becoming very popular ecommerce ERP and accounting back office. This trend is probably related to success of eConnect SDK
Premier Properties Of The Space Coast, Inc. Announces The Worldwide Release Of DBA Assist 6.1 For Oracle 7.x, 8.x, 9.x, 10.x
Ukraine-based software outsourcing company Softheme moved into new office in order to ensure streamlined communication between teams.
Welcome to the inaugural edition of ň€śHighlights from the Geek Dictionary.ň€ť
The Chinese government has confirmed that its plans to roll out filtering software on all PCs sold in mainland China has not been canceled.
CAD Schroer showcases solutions that speed up sales configuration, cut pre-sales overheads and support all phases of plant and installation design
Brookson has purchased the latest Customer Relationship Management software from K3 Business Technology Group to drive new business through highly structured sales and marketing campaigns
Today, ICONICS, a 2008 Microsoft Gold Certified Partner of the Year and provider of Web-enabled, OPC-based, HMI/SCADA Visualization and Manufacturing Intelligence software for Microsoft Windows operating systems, announced its new seminar series, titled "Improving Operational Productivity".
We"ve got a sneak peek at what Intel"s land looks like at Computex.
Metrix has all the major pieces needed in a field service suite, and has one of the most modern user interfaces
When economy slow down hits, it is good time to review your current ERP, MRP, Accounting, CRM, Warehouse management applications and see if you can automate processes, integrate
If you already have SAP B1 implemented in your organization, or if you would like to consider SB1 license purchase with following implementation, and if your IT infrastructure has various legacy platforms and applications
Like the previous years, Zalman offers interesting products (innovation is easier on cooling systems and casings than on GPUs or processors) and a whole side of the booth was new.
Dell first showed off its 10-inch entry to the netbook market at CES, and today we finally learn more about the final shipping configurations.
Infonic"s Document Management software and systems are revolutionizing the way in which many businesses today are handling all that paperwork.
The rift between Intel and Nvidia is about to get much, much bigger.
Intel is now shipping the N280 version of its popular Atom processor to OEMs for use in netbooks.
Microsoft Business Solutions officially supports at this time Dynamics GP versions 10.0 and 9.0. Older versions: 8.0, 7.5, Great Plains Dynamics and eEnterprise 7.0 and 6.0
In order to celebrate the winning of the prestigious Red Herring Asia 100 award, we are now launching the Red Herring 100 Asia Award Winner Promotion, valid until March 31st, 2009.
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TGI announced the debut of its new online customer portal, allowing existing TGI customers to access their customer account online through the TGI corporate website.
Intelliware has released a free and easy-to-use web accessible HL7 message validation tool that instantly validates HL7 v3 messages for compliance with Canada Health Infoway (CHI) sponsored format standards.
Nvidia yesterday confirmed that the company is halting development of its chipsets because of legal issues with Intel.
Windows XP continues to roll on with nice little things.
UIDesign Group, Russia, a leader in user experience field and one of UXalliance partners, celebrated its birthday on 30 January 2009. An in-house event was organized for the partners and staff, to thank for the mutual cooperation.
If you"re into hackintoshes, today may be the final day to pick up a truly OS X ready netbook--the Dell Mini 9.
Language Bridge will revolutionize teaching English as a second language. Language Bridge learners apply a state of the art technology to automatically turn off cross-translation and start forming a new English language speech center in the brain.
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The demand for regulatory compliance services continues at a high level. This phenomenon is due to increased regulatory enforcement from the FDA and other global enforcement bodies.
How fast and for how much.
Swiss startup Collanos Software receives prestigious award in San Diego
Phoenix (AZ) - Adtron last week announced that it will begin offering what will be the largest solid-state disk (SSD) drive on the market - matching the capacity of the upcoming mainstream hard drive capacity in notebooks. Unfortunately, the drive will be priced well out of consumer reach.
Qsan Technology and Enhance Technology"s iSCSI storage has passed Vmware Hardware Certification Program.
It"s $14,000, but you get your life back.