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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.
While we may know of the Atom CPU right now as the brains inside nearly every netbook on the market, Intelò€™s got more diverse aspirations for its tiniest current processor.
Shuttle announced on February 27 the XPC SD39P2 barebone, the company"s atest small form factor PC supporting Intel"s socket 775 processors, including the Intel Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme series models.
According to several reports, Asus has announced an increase in price for all of its portable computers, including the ever popular Eee PC.
New software released today decreases time servers are down for maintenance, reduces storage costs, and simplifies data center management.
Redmond (WA) - While retail employees were busy stocking shelves and setting up displays during the early hours of the morning, some customers were already purchasing their copies of Windows Vista and Office 2007 without leaving their computer chair, as the two new applications have joined Xbox 360 and Zune content in the expanding world of digital downloads, with Microsoft offering the OS and business software through the Windows Marketplace for the first time.
Designer of the Vaio P Lifestyle notebook says he was inspired by the Mini Cooper.
There are so many power supply units on display at Computex. Most manufacturers focus on showcasing the big stuff, meaning 1,000-W PSUs and up. Most companies offer units that provide up to 1,200 W, and some are already talking about 1,500 W. Those ones, however, donò€™t fit into the compact standard ATX dimensions of 163x150x85 mm. FPSò€™s new and modular 1,200-W model Everest Pro 1200/1250 is slightly larger: 180x150x85 mm. It has all the features youò€™d expect from a high-end PSU: Active PFC, a 135-mm fan, ATX12V 2.2 compliancy and EPS12V 2.92 compliancy, a modular cabling design, multiple 12-V rails and support for both Crossfire and SLI multi-graphics setup. However, FSPò€™s product presentation was somewhat misleading, as the firm put the 80plus Gold logo right above this new PSU. In fact, it isnò€™t certified for Gold (no PSU has officially reached the Gold standard yet), but it was already submitted to 80plus.org. One last word on the packaging, which we arenò€™t sure it truly adds value: All Everest Pro 1200 PSUs are shipped in a small aluminum case. At least it looks really nice.
Sony has debuted the Vaio W, the machine Sony is calling the company"s first netbook while ignoring the fact that it said it would never produce a netbook.
Santa Clara (CA) - Researchers at Intel and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) today said they have succeeded in building the world"s first hybrid silicon laser using standard silicon manufacturing processes. The technology could be become a key enabler to make photonic interconnects in mainstream communications and computing devices a reality.
We"ve been trying to avoid the whole Twitter-gate drama that"s been unfolding over the last 72 hours because we know how much you don"t want to hear about Twitter but this little detail is not related to the Twitter hacking, despite presenting significant security issues for the company.
Backing up data is an important part of keeping your sanity.
Imagine having computer memory so dense that a cubic centimeter contains 12.8 million GB of information.
Physicists at Imperial College London are developing a new optical disc with up to one TeraByte storage capacity. All 350 scheduled episodes of The Simpsons, totalling 8,080 minutes of film, could be easily stored on the new disk, dubbed MODS - for Multiplexed Optical Data Storage - by the Imperial College team. The first disks could be on the shelves between 2010 and 2015 if the team are able to secure funding for further development.
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Zarafa benefits from growing demand for integrated open source software
Samsung reported that it has shipped the world"s first (and smallest) high-density 16 GB DDR3 module.
Asustek Computer president Jerry Shen has revealed the company plans to launch Eee PCs based on Intelò€™s Atom processor platform in June, and will introduce models with a 10" display later in 2008. Asustek is believed to have ordered 2.5-3 million Atom processors from Intel, while Acer has ordered around one million and may place another one million unit order depending on market demand for corresponding low-cost PCs in the later half of the year, according to industry sources.
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Chicago (IL) - Seagate has reacted to rumors that the company may be showing a 1 TB version of its Barracuda 3.5" desktop hard drive at the Consumer Electronics Show. Company spokesman Michael Hall said that the firm expects "to be the first to deliver 1 TB hard drives in high volume for global customers during the first half of 2007."
ATI shares some AM2 spotlight with Nvidia and announced two of its own chipsets to support the upcoming socket AM2 AMD processors. The CrossFire Xpress 3200 is aimed gaming entuasiasts with dual ATI graphics cards, while the Radeon Xpress 1100 chipsets has an integrated graphics processor for home users.
There"s no doubt that many enthusiasts are waiting to see what the final version of Microsoft"s Windows 7 operating system will look like when shipped.
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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.
US performance PC maker VoodooPC today introduced what it claims is the "world"s fastest gaming computer", based on the latest processor and chipset technology from AMD and Nvidia.
Tokyo (Japan) - If there is one place in the world that any gadget-electronic freak should go to, that is Akihabara district in Tokyo. Numerous stores bring on fascinating number of products, often first in the world. There are also products which are not so usual, nor you can find them in retail or e-tail in western world.
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.
Tawainese manufacturers of optical disc drives say that the cost of production for a Blu-ray disc player is set to fall to $50 in the next year.
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The software development company Mobile Effort announces a major price decrease on their mobile tools.
Scotts Valley (CA) - The terabyte hard drive era came about 50% closer to becoming a reality this morning, as Seagate announced the availability of what it"s calling the industry"s first 750 GB 3.5" hard disk drive.÷
Last week Via showed off a new energy-efficient chipset thatò€™s slick trick is decoding 1080p video. Now the company is cramming that capability into a netbook.
Vital Path"s Migration Center for the desktop provides self service, drag-and-drop, content migration for SharePoint, Livelink, Documentum and other content management platforms.
Toshiba will put its 4 GB 0.85in micro hard drive into volume production next month, rather sooner than it anticipated when it announced the product in January this year.
Las Vegas (NV) - JVC today announced a high-definition version of its Everio hard drive camcorder series. The GZ-HD7 records video in 1080i (1920x1080 interlaced) onto a 60 GB hard drive. According to the company, that"s enough room for up to five hours of HD video at a data rate of 30 Mb/s. The new Everio is slightly larger than the current standard-definition models and integrates three CCDs and a Fujinon lens.
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Richmond (WA) - Enthusiast PC maker chimed in the general Vista launch activities with one of the more interesting hardware products. The company released, according to our knowledge, the first Vista-based set-top media center PCs with an optional Blu-ray writer. Of course, these PCs don"t come cheap. Be prepared to spend about $3000.
Microsoft has been slapped with a fine of approximately $11.8 million for price fixing its popular Office Home and Student 2007 suite at a recent retail promotion.
Washington (DC) - New draft legislation being proposed by the Republican chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, in the wake of a fallout with House Democrats last Friday, would ease the restrictions on telecommunications companies seeking to obtain national franchises for cable television service. But with the definition of "cable television service" changing by the month, the likelihood of piggy-backed Internet and voice services atop digital CATV could make it possible for AT&T and Verizon to provide the "triple threat" - voice, data, and multimedia - on a nationwide scale.
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.
Framingham (MA) - Notebooks will continue to drive the growth of the PC market, analysts of market research company IDC believe. Despite fewer PC replacements and slower economic growth, the impact of portable devices may be big enough to lift the market into double-digit growth.
San Jose (CA) - Day One of the Game Developers Conference here saw a very different world come to fruition, as the word that used to mean "no fun" in high school - physics - become the watchword of the day. Two competing approaches to physics in gaming, Ageia"s Physx boards and Nvidia SLI, vied for the spotlight as the "must see" demos.
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Yorktown Heights (NY) - IBM said it has developed a silicon broadband optical switch, a key component for the creation of on-chip optical interconnects: The company believes that nanophotonic switches will lead the way to CPU cares that communicate faster with each other while using much less energy.
Intivia, the leading provider of Medical Transcription Services and InSync , their fully integrated Electronic Medical Record and Practice Management System has moved their corporate offices from Somerset, NJ to Piscataway, NJ to allow for their continued growth.
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Corsair Memory, a leading company in high-end memory and cooling products, today announced that it has become the first company in the memory category to receive the Nvidia SLI-Ready certification. Nvidia SLI (Scalable Link Interface) technology increases performance by linking two graphics cards together to provide scalability and increased performance, says the company.
Santa Clara (CA) - Back in January, we reported about Intel"s plans to drop the "Pentium" brand. Now it is official: After having renamed its new mobile processor family earlier this year, the next-generation dual-core desktop processor series will also get a new brand and listen to the name "Core 2 Duo".
Sunnyvale (CA) - OCZ today announced a new memory module that follows the recent trend of more visible cooling methods. The new "Reaper" modules come with a fin-array heatspreader that is connected to the main heatspreader of the module via a copper heatpipe.
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NASA plans to permanently occupy an outpost at one of the Moon"s poles, officials announced on Monday.
Etcetera Edutainment has announced the release of Electrical Safety Sim: Low Voltage - simulation-based training that allows trainees to learn and practice the principles of NFPA- and OSHA-based electrical safety.
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Micro-Star International (MSI) today introduced the RD480 Neo2, an AMD Socket-939 motherboard that supports ATI Technologies" CrossFire dual-graphics technology, with volume shipments slated for the middle of November.
w00t," an expression of joy coined by online gamers, was crowned word of the year on Tuesday by the publisher of a leading U.S. dictionary. Massachusetts-based Merriam-Webster said "w00t" - typically spelled with two zeros - reflects a new direction in the American language led by a generation raised on video games and cell phone text-messaging.
Information about downloading, installing and using Zamzom"s wireless network tool is now available in a new online video. Zamzom wireless tool is designed to help users identify computers logged on to a specific network to prevent unauthorized use
With the opening of its first retail store taking place today, Microsoft has opened up its online store and is now selling PCs through its website.
Graphics card specialist Albatron Technology recently unveiled its Intel 945P-based SLI-supporting motherboard (PX945P) for dual-core CPU and dual-graphics card solutions, with the company stating the product is scheduled to begin shipping in October.
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.
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Forget using a can opener. Who cares about Vaderò€™s silly little Death Grip. Why settle with primitive tools when you can crush bones with a bionic hand?
Carly Fiorina, the former HP, Lucent and AT&T executive spoke to a small gathering of IP telephony suppliers, resellers and customers today in Los Angeles, telling the conference that a revolution is on its way and they better be prepared for it. She emphasized that "every physical process and analog content will become digital, mobile, virtual, and personal. It will happen to everything - music, photography, telephony, and computing."
Chicago (IL) - A new study released by Net Applications indicates that a decreasing percentage of the Internet population is using Windows as their operating system. It appears that Mac OS X could soon be listed in the double digit-range, while Windows could fall below the 90% mark.
Independent developer id Software today announced Doom 4 is under development. The title is the fourth game in the franchise that has been credited for pioneering the first-person shooter. The latest title in the Doom series will be developed in-house, and will be the first in-house developed title since Doom 3 that was released in 2004. While no platforms were announced, gamers can likely count on Doom arriving on the usual three platforms ò€“ the PC, Xbox 360, and Playstation 3. No further details of the game content or expected released date were given by id.
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Some of you surely spend enough time in Blizzard Entertainmentò€™s worlds to experience them even in your dreams. Now itò€™s time to put some of that obsession to good use.
News did the rounds earlier in the week about Indiaò€™s supposed $10 dollar laptop. The laptop reportedly costs $20 to manufacture, but according to Indiaò€™s Secretary for Higher Education, large-scale production runs would see the price in half by the time it hits consumers.
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EntropySoft is once more working towards simple transfers between content repositories, either on-premise or in-the-cloud.
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.
Intel yesterday announced that the company will cut 294 jobs from its Irish plant in Leixlip, County Kildare.
TDK today demonstrated the first printable versions of Blu-ray discs at the NAB tradeshow. Two different versions were shown - Rimage showed a thermal printable BD-R, while Primera had an inkjet printable at its booth.
With USB 2.0 ports becoming a common as dirtò€”youò€™ll find them in everything from mobile phones to DVD players these daysò€”you know the time has come to move on to a new version. And thatò€™s just what the USB 3.0 Promoter Group announced today.
Santa Clara (CA) - Sun today launched three new workstation models: There are two AMD Opteron models, which, the company hopes, will increase its target market. The third new workstation is based on the Sparc processor and isn"t expected to reach many new customers: Instead, Sun believes the Ultra 45 will keep its existing 64-bit crowd happy.
San Francisco (CA) - Emotiv Systems today unveiled the EPOC, a neuroheadset that allows users to control gameplay simply with their thoughts. IBM said that it is looking for ways to extend the EPOC beyond games into enterprise business markets.
British nanotechnologists have emulated the functions usually associated with transistor-based digital electronics in all-metallic nanoscale devices made from ferromagnetic materials. This technology could lead to three-dimensional microchips with tremendous memory capacities.
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Chicago (IL) - Scientists from nine U.S. institutions have began working with a new 280-ton telescope system that may help astronomers to learn more about "dark energy," which is believed to be the cause of the rapid expansion of the universe.
Following PNY Technologies" memory card and USB drive patent settlement with SanDisk in early January, industry sources noted that more defendants have reached reconciliation with SanDisk. PNY and SanDisk recently reached a license agreement in January for PNY to sell licensed USB drives and CompactFlash (CF) cards.
Best quarterly earnings yet for Apple, but it"s not because of Macs
GeoCities holds a special place in a lot of our hearts. For this reason, Yahoo! felt the need to remind us that soon, GeoCities will be no more.
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.
Not to let Apple carry on unchallenged in the super-ultra-portable notebook segment, Lenovo today quietly announced the next evolution of its X300 notebook ò€” the X301.
Intel will redefine its 1-way server product range into high-end and entry-level lines in order to tune to the growing adoption of servers for personal or home office use, according to industry sources.
Demand for LED backlighting used in small- to medium-size panels for applications such as low-cost PCs and digital photo frames are expected to increase by 20-30% in 2008, according to industry sources in Taiwan. The cost of LED backlighting in the small- to medium-size segments is currently almost the same as that of cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) backlighting, according to sources at Taiwan-based LED makers Everlight and Unity Opto.
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The slowing U.S. economy is biting a lot of tech companies hard, but Cisco ò€“ seen as a barometer of the tech industry by many on Wall Street ò€“ has managed to meet its own lowered financial forecasts and beat those of the analysts in its latest quarterly results.
Your fourth and final helping of Booth Babes from Computex 2009.
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Palo Alto (CA) - We were intrigued by DispalyLink, a technology that uses the USB 2.0 standard to connect to computer monitors, the first time we heard about it. Initially, the technology was limited to the 32-bit version of Windows Vista, but we are about to get support for Mac OS X and 64-bit Windows as well.
Earlier this month, Alienware announced a "nearly netbook" packing Nvidia GT335M. The company promised we"d see a sub-$1,000 pricetag when the M11x shipped in spring and boy, did they deliver.
The launch of the Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800, Core 2 Duo E6300, E6400, E6600 and E6700 processors, which were originally expected to arrive on 23 July will be postponed to July 27, according to a recent review of Intel"s product roadmap by sources at Taiwan motherboard makers. In addition, the entry-level Celeron D 360 CPU, which will be the last part offered under the Pentium 4 Netburst microarchitecture, will be introduced on 1 September, sources said.
Reports today suggest that the Justice Department is stepping up its investigation into Googleò€™s Book Search settlement.
Despite the fact that no one has any money and its competitors are dropping their prices to make their consoles more attractive to cash-strapped consumers, Nintendo remains adamant that it will not be cutting its prices.
Continuing its multimillion dollar marketing campaign for Bing, the company"s new "decision making engine," Microsoft has launched a contest that challenged users to come up with the best Bing jingle, or "Bingle."
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.
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.
The Intel entry-level chipset shortage should ease completely by next month, due to more output from Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) and the OEM industry releasing part of its reserve inventory, according to sources in the Taiwan motherboard industry. However, motherboard makers are wary of slower demand in the beginning of next year due to seasonal effects, noted the sources.
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Up to three people in the same household can now share in the Windows 7 love. But they have to keep it all inside the family.
Having recently launching its first dual-core Celeron E1000 series CPU, E1200, Intel is ready to launch another family member with a faster core frequency in the second quarter of 2008, according to sources at motherboard makers. Intel is planning to launch E1400 with a core frequency of 2 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, L2 cache of 512 kB, and maximum TDP of 65W.
Shanghai (China) - Modern gleaming chip wafers constrasted with a thousands of year old sword at the Intel Developer Forum today as company executives showed off a 2-billion transistor Tukwilla processor along with the diminutive Atom chip. Hosted in Shanghai, a city famous for skyscrapers clashing with old shacks, this IDF was a spectacle steeped in Asian formality. While there were some juicy technical details released, most of the show has been devoted to pleasing Chinese companies as they rolled out their mobile Internet devices (MIDs).
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Osram anticipates the growing adoption of LEDs as a blacklight unit (BLU) light source due to an anticipated increase in LED efficiency, according to Ludwig Ploetz, application engineering manager (OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH) at Osram, on a 25 May 2006 Taiwan FPD International Conference event.Ploetz expects the efficiency of LED-based BLUs to approach that of cold cathode fluorescent lamp- (CCFL-) BLUs starting in 2007.
Canesta is developing a "Project Natal killer" for the PC, laptops, and other devices.
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.
Forget muscles, musk and Maseratis! A new study soon to appear in the American Journal of Psychology shows that the scents commonly emitted from an all-night computer building competition are far more appealing to the average woman.
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If PC gaming is dying, as many have claimed, why are gaming-oriented PCs selling so well? Market analyst Jon Peddie estimates that the market for PC gaming hardware stands at $20 billion todayò€”and predicts it will expand to $34 billion by 2012.
Riverside (CA) - According to Engadget, a GEM Electric Vehicle burnt to the ground yesterday on the UC Riverside campus. UCR media relations were unaware of the fire and the campus Police Department said it could have been a test burn.
HP was showcasing its newly announced Pavilion dv2, Pavilion dv3 and Mini 2140 notebook at CES this week.Â
Irvine (CA) - Toshiba launched five new hard drives for portable and consumer electronics applications with capacities of 60 GB, 80 GB and 120 GB.
LED packaging house Everlight Electronics - in cooperation with Hua-chuang Automobile Information Technical Center (Haitec), an affiliate of local Taiwan automobile firm Yulon Group - claims that it has successfully resolved issues concerning heat-dissipation for LED headlamps, and Everlight estimates that the LED headlamp will soon pass heat-dissipation tests and be ready for commercialization by the third quarter of 2008. LED lamps used in automobiles can be grouped into two categories, interior and exterior lighting.
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.
Intel cut the prices of its premier mobile chips by up to a third on Sunday, as it prepares for the holiday season.
Chicago (IL) - Shortly before Christmas Eve, Sony released a preview of what many considered should have been the main launch title for the Playstation 3. Gran Turismo HD Concept features ten cars and one track of the scrapped Gran Turismo HD and gives a first glimpse of what Gran Turismo 5 could look like.
To promote the first production run of its PCIe-enabled pico-BTX XPC model SB86i, Shuttle Computer will bundle a free BTX CPU cooler with each barebones system, according to sources. Although the sources claimed the 5000 units will begin shipping next week, the company refuted the claim and stated that the systems will not begin shipping until mid-December, although they will be available in retail outlets before Christmas.
Palm Desert (CA) - Accelerating your child"s learning is as easy as giving him LeapFrog"s new "Tag" pen-like device. Thanks to an infrared camera in the tip, the pen recognizes graphics on specially designed books and then reads back words and letters as the kid taps on the book.
Round Rock (TX) - Following Michael Dell"s announcement yesterday, Dell today released configuration pages for its initial AMD-based systems this morning. The computers can be ordered now and the company promises to begin shipping the built-to-order systems later this week. Dell heavily promotes the green party, which indicates a long-term commitment to AMD.
Infiniti today unveiled the next generation of its G35 performance sedan, which will offer drivers a few new gimmicks when it goes on sale in November this year. Besides a 300-plus horsepower engine, paddle shifters, push-button ignition, touch-screen navigation and a rear-view monitor, the G35 will offer a high-end Bose audio system that integrates a digital audio converter (DAC) that lets users rip audio CDs and create digital audio files.
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According to web statistics firm WebSideStory, at the start of this month Firefox had a browser market usage share of 8.88 percent, about double the 4.23 percent it boasted at the same time in 2005.
El Segundo (CA) - Despite the promises of chip manufacturers to quickly move dual-core processors into the mainstream, only a small fraction of computers sold today in fact come with such a chip. This scenario will change soon, market research firm iSupply believes.
The design of in-ear headphones that come as standard with many portable music players, can cause users to crank their music up to damaging levels, research suggests.
San Francisco (CA) - Intel today announced a new line of products in its Classmate PC project, an initiative to create low-cost computers for disadvantaged children.
Round Rock (TX) - Dell is the midst of streamlining its consumer PC business with systems that focus on basic, multimedia or performance computing. Following this strategy, the company today released the M140 multimedia notebook with an XPS sport package as well as the Dimension E310 desktop that fills the role of an entry-level multimedia PC.
Those of you whoò€™ve been watching the rumors regarding a release date for Windows 7 RC1 will be disappointed to hear the latest, which apparently comes from a trusted source within Microsoft.
T2 sues 3D Realms.
The DRAM market has a glimmer of hope after a dreadful 2007. Analysts expect a rebound in 2008 as DRAM supply begins to normalize. Global third-party DRAM module suppliers are expected to see a rise in shipment this year to a total of $8.9 billion, a 9 percent gain from $8.1 billion last year. In 2007 DRAM manufactures ramped up production and invested heavily in new fabs, as they essentially bet their business on the success of Microsoft Windows Vista to drive demand. Unfortunately, Vista had a lukewarm introduction.
Santa Clara (CA) - It has been a long, and sometimes seemingly uncertain, way for the Monahans processor. More than a year after the CPUs first demonstration and almost half a year of Marvell"s acquisition of Intel"s applications and communications processor business, the new Xscale processor has finally arrived.
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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.
Sales of 40" LCD TVs in North America were better than expected during the year-end holiday season, with related shipments beating out those for the 37" segment, according to a survey conducted by DisplaySearch.
Intel"s recent aggressive push into emerging markets are seen as a response, in part, to the USS$100-laptop project launched by the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) research initiative, under the auspices of The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, under the leadership of veteran lab leader Nicholas Negroponte. The OLPC project aims to produce 7.5" notebooks, which adopt the Geode CPU series from AMD, and will target the product to seven emerging countries in the fourth quarter of this year.
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.
Redmond (WA) - Microsoft today gave a first glimpse at an expansion of the firm"s Internet strategy: New content and services - such as a renewed email offering, a voice-enhanced messenger and security checks - take aim at Google and will bring a tighter integration of the Internet within Windows and Office applications.
Security experts are concerned over the increasing vulnerability of the Mac operating system to virus attacks. Once almost immune to viruses and malware, Mac users are finding that they too are falling victims of online criminals, like Windows system users.
Sunnyvale (CA) - While Intel is busy prepping its next-generation Woodcrest server and workstation processors, AMD sails ahead with a final performance upgrade for its single-core Opteron CPU. AMD claims that the new chips will provide a "performance boost" and remain in the 95 watt power envelope of other single- and dual-core Opteron processors.
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Intel"s Core architecture gets a solid start with about 150 companies offering more than 200 Xeon 5100 (formerly code-named Woodcrest) platforms today. Pretty much every know server manufacturer has sent out press releases ranging for example from Gateway that promises to offer Woodcrest system in the future to Supermicro that has launched 30 different Xeon 5100 system.
With technology improving and prices falling, demand for digital photo frames is expected to increase to 20 million units in 2008, according to Taiwan"s Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center (IEK). A number of international leading makers such as Samsung, Sony, Kodak, Philips, ViewSonic, and Hewlett Packard (HP), among others are now offering models sized as small as 1.5" and as large as 32".
Jolly Technologies announces the availability of Asset Track, an innovative new asset management solution
Intel plans to aggressively expand its shipments of notebook CPUs aiming to almost double its total of 2007 within the next few years, according to sources close to the company. Since Intel launched its Centrino platform in 2003, shipments have grown from 38 million notebook CPUs in the first year to 79 million in 2006.
Intel has officially launched an innovative PC platform that has been developed exclusively to meet the needs of rural villages and communities in India. The Intel-powered "Community PC" platform is equipped to operate in a community setting, while accommodating the varying environmental conditions in the country, according to the company.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs returned to work.
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We like the MSI Wind Netbox, but it still is just a basic Intel Atom machine. For those desiring (a lot) more power, MSI has the elegantly named MS-9A08.