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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.
With Apple"s tradition of jumping onto the latest bandwagon at the start of a major product transition, such as chipset or CPU, we"re expecting a transition to Intel"s new Westmere platform later in the year.
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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.
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Seattle (WA) - Amazon.com was represented in an auction in Sotheby"s yesterday, and the online retailer became the proud owner of a never-before-released handwritten book from J.K. Rowling, for around $4 million.
Danielle LeDuc recovers revenue, confirms compensations and forecasts at Sun Microsystems, Inc.
A group of Swiss people will soon attempt to realize the first Atlantic crossing with a solar boat. This ship, named "sun21," is a 42 ft catamaran able to sleep 5 or 6 persons. The goal is to leave Seville, Spain, in December 2006 and to reach ports in Florida and New York in the spring of 2007.
Westlake Village (CA) - CDs and DVDs already are tough to scratch under everyday circumstances, but just in case your your music and data CDs get damaged once in a while there is a new option that may keep your discs from getting scratched. Highlands Ranch, Col.-based Scratch-Less Disc integrates bumps and ridges onto surface of a CD to craete a "scratch-resistant" CD.
The shipment proportion of notebooks supporting Vista operational system (OS) will soar in the second quarter since Microsoft has ruled that branded makers upgrade all of their consumer notebooks to the new OS by March or the company will suspend its marketing subsidy, according to industry sources. With the strategy from Microsoft, Vista-supporting models will account for over half of consumer notebooks to be shipped in the second quarter, Taiwan-based PC branded makers said.
Nvidia expanded its product lineup with two new news graphics processors for the high-end and the low-end. As an answer of ATI"s recently shown 512 MByte Radeon X850, the company announced that it is shipping a version of its GeForce 6800 Ultra with 512 MByte GDDR3 memory to card manufacturers.
Early last month, Philips Polymer Vision, a business unit within Philips Technology Incubator, Royal Philips Electronics, revealed its Concept Readius rollable display at the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) in Berlin, Germany. The company claims Readius is the world"s first prototype of a functional electronic-document reader that can unroll its display to a scale larger than the device itself.
BizSpark Startups can now leverage Scio"s experience designing and building .NET based, fully commercialized multi-tenant Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings.
Virtosoftware Team is proud to announce beta version 1.3. of Ajax Web part Calendar for SharePoint.
Surprise! It"s not Westmere.
Working with the basic material of computer chips, Intel researchers have constructed an all-silicon laser that could lead to computers one day harnessing light waves rather than electrical currents to shuttle data swiftly.
There is a new online dating website that promises to only let beautiful people join. The aptly named hotenough.org functions like a regular dating website with pictures and profiles, but members must maintain an 8 out of 10 rating to continue their membership.
Prices for SDRAM are expected to rise in the second quarter of this year as current supply cannot satisfy increased demand coming from handset, LCD TV and memory card applications, according to Nicky Lu, CEO and president of SDRAM specialist Etron Technology. Etron is negotiating with its clients to hike contract prices for the second quarter, with new prices set to become available this month, Lu said.
Austin (TX) - Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have turned on the Texas Petawatt laser on March 31 for, well, a very brief period of time. The specs of the device are mind-boggling: It has the power output of thousands of power plants and is brighter than the surface of the sun. Yet, the total power output of the atom-splitting laser is just enough to keep a light bulb burning for only a few seconds.
Xilisoft Corporation, a leading provider of digital media software, announced today that all iPhone/iPod software fully supports iPhone OS 3.0.
Intel is expected to ship 10 million entry-level 865-series chipsets in the second quarter, with half of that amount going to motherboard maker Asustek Computer, according to industry sources.
Intel"s LaGrande technology (LT), an approach to protect applications and data from software and simple hardware attacks will be arriving in mobile and desktop business platforms in the second half of 2007, TG Daily has learned. According to sources, the upcoming Averill Pro (desktop, due in Q3 2006) and Santa Rosa (mobile, due in Q2 2007) platforms will support LT through the new ICH8 southbridge, but complementing trusted platform modules (TPM) will not be available until the following chipset generation.
Sunnyvale (CA) - A few months late, AMD today fired up the latest and likely last performance stage for its 90 nm Athlon 64 X2 processor with Windsor core. The new 6000+ model is clocked at 3 GHz and represents a consumer-focused socket AM2 version of the FX-74 enthusiast processor that is based on the socket 1207FX.
This year"s hot trend in web hosting is grid computing, which employs server clusters to bring the advantages of enterprise-level infrastructure to affordable web hosting plans. As with any trend in web hosting, it hasn"t taken long for a price war to break out.
The average selling price (ASP) for Viiv PCs is expected to go down by the fourth quarter of 2006, according to Charlotte Lamprecht, director of digital home brand management at Intel"s sales and marketing division, who added that Viiv-based models will be positioned as mainstream desktop PCs in 2-3 years. Currently, the ASP for Viiv PCs begins at $900 and goes as high as $1500-1800.
TFT-LCD panel makers are expected to suffer from serious inventory issues throughout this year, with LCD-TV panel inventory likely to reach 15 million units in 2006, according to estimates from Taiwan-based panel makers. The global supply for LCD-TV panels will total 55 million units in 2006, while worldwide demand for LCD TVs will only attain 40 million units, Taiwan-based panel makers noted.
Just about a week after announcing upcoming availability of AMD"s FX-60 processor in its performance systems, Alienware added Intel"s most recent Extreme Edition processor, the 65 nm dual-core 955 chip to its website.
China-based Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) and US-based Aurora Systems have announced Aurora"s LCOS (liquid-crystal-on-silicon) panel chips have successfully entered volume commercial production at SMIC.
Methanol-powered artificial muscles have been created by researchers aiming to create battery-free robotic limbs and prosthetics.
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Reportedly, AMD will be unveiling the new Athlon 64 FX-55 chip next week. They hope to bump up the performance of gaming desktops and other high-end PCs in time for the holiday season. The chip is expected to be unveiled on Tuesday, along with the Athlon 64 4000+, AMD"s highest-performance processor for mainstream desktops.
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.
Burbank (CA) - The HD DVD Promotional Group has issued a statement in response to this month"s announcements regarding huge industry players Netflix and Best Buy moving away from its format.
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.
A few months ago, the pilot of a small Cessna flew low in the skies over Seattle, taking pictures from 3,000 feet.
Intel plans to change part of the high-capacitance multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) for supporting its dual-core CPU from 0402 X5R 1 μF to 0402 X5R 2.2μF, and the move will affect supply of other MLCC series, making Japan-based MLCC providers hesitant to support the plan, according to sources in the channel. Intel has decided to make the change since tight supply for 0402 X5R 1μF MLCCs continues to persist, the sources indicated.
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Chicago (IL) - Art Lebedev today announced that it has begun shipping Optimus Maximus keyboards.
The body of missing CNET senior editor James Kim was found earlier today. He and his family were stranded in the mountains for eleven days after taking a wrong turn in the family car. He left his car to find help for his stranded family on Saturday, but never made it back. Kati Kim, James" wife, and his two daughters were found safe two days ago.
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Breaking the $1 billion mark in revenue and proving excellence in providing IT solutions, Logicalis ranks #87 on the 2009 VAR 500 list.
Piper Jaffray said Advanced Micro Devices should have an edge over Intel "throughout 2005" but resumed coverage of both companies at "market perform" and both at price targets of $25. The market research firm believe that AMD will be able to capture "more and more" market share until Intel rools out its 65 nm processors early 2006. Intel currently "is about the most vulnerable it has ever been in its history", Piper Jaffray said.
Making a parallel computing chip is hard, says Nvidia.
Taiwan-based core-logic chipset makers are bracing for fierce competition in the Intel Pentium 4 chipset market as Nvidia plans to begin marketing its SLI (Scalable Link Interface)-enabled core-logic chipset, codenamed C19, at the end of first quarter of next year, according to market sources.
Some of us with graying hair may remember Atari"s 2600 console. The wood paneling was fashionable for the times and the uniquely designed joysticks were murder on the hands. Well you can relive those days because Atari is bringing it back with their Flashback 2 console.
The first product based on IBM/Toshiba/Sony"s Cell processor has shipped, reports Mercury Computer Systems. Mercury"s Cell Technology Evaluation System (CTES) is a 470-pound behemoth with one or two dual-Cell blades running Linux. It targets defense, medical, and industrial inspection markets.
Samsung Electronics and Sony appear to be pushing new models into the market at leading price points in May, undoubtedly as a result of increased production at their joint S-LCD fab facility and others may follow next month as they try to match this downward trend, according to research firm Insight Media.
Holiday gift shopping can be very stressful. Thanks to our sponsors, Logic Buy, you can get it all over with quickly and painlessly! And don"t forget, it"s always way more fun if you follow the "one for them, one for me" rule.
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.
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There"s talk that the latest batch of AMD"s Radeon HD 4830 GPUs may be the last, as many partners wouldn"t even let the chips come in through the front door. As it stands, it looks as though the 4830 will be heading out to the pasture soon.
Juneau (AK) - Alaska is calling a routine maintenance check gone wrong "the worst-case scenario", after a technician accidentally wiped out a series of crucial government data. Two sets of back-up data were also corrupted, and Microsoft consultants were unable to retrieve the data.
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.
ABI Research believes that a bundling of wireless broadband with traditional telephone, television and Internet services are about to arrive in the US. Dubbed in the telecommunications industry as the "quadruple play" or "grand-slam," companies are trying to reduce costs by unifying their networks and handing their customers a single bill for their Internet, voice and mobile services.
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Although panel makers have aggressively pushed widescreen LCD monitor panels, the adoption rate is not expected to proceed as fast as expected, with the penetration rate of the segment now set to increase from 2% in 2005 to 9.8% in 2008, according to Sara Liu, assistant manager of market intelligence, Philips CEBLC-MMFD, Royal Philips Electronics.
Fast switching FLCOS microdisplays and high-brightness LEDs from Osram Opto Semiconductors will power Displaytech"s working demonstration of pico-projection at the International CES show, January 7-10 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The demo projector can output 6-8 lumens, producing images up to 30 inches diagonal depending on ambient lighting.
Samsung Electronics, the South Korean chipmaker, is planning to spend $33 billion expanding output and building a research and development plant by 2012.
While everyone can see that Nintendo is making money hand over fist thanks to amazing sales of the DS Lite and the Wii, some of the console makerò€™s partners are also riding the wave.
myLittleTools announces a new Datacenter license for its SQL Server Admin tools, myLittleAdmin and myLittleBackup. This license perfectly fits the VPS and Managed Servers markets.
Redlands (CA) - Computer geeks on opposite ends of the Earth have found the original sketch of the world"s first programmer. In a story worthy of a Hollywood movie, an Army sergeant in Tajikistan and a programmer in Texas resurrected the legend of Ada Lovelace by buying up her nearly 150-year-old sketch portrait on eBay.
Las Vegas (NV) - We checked out Roadmaster"s booth at CES today - although it didn"t really fit the trend of most other in-car products around the show. While Roadmaster does not have a whole lot of entertainment products, it does have interesting Bluetooth technology devices and rear-view video camera systems. And then there was a programmable license plate frame.
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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.
We love non-traditional case mods, and I"m personally a huge God of War fan. This latest case mod is those two worlds collided.
Palit has announced its new custom designed addition to the GT200 series, the GTS 250 2 GB, 1 GB and 512 MB.
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.
Ottawa (Canada) - Now on its thirteenth edition, the brand of word processor that at one time commanded an industry, today must humbly find its way in a market long ago seized by Microsoft. WordPerfect - a topic about which many pages of computer magazines have been expended, and I wrote a book - bears very little resemblance today to the highly respected, if somewhat overrated, document processor of the 1980s. No, right out of the box, what it resembles - in large measure - is today"s Microsoft Word. And Corel, the product"s current manufacturer, has no problem with that at all.
With most of the browser buzz surrounding Microsoft"s upcoming Internet Explorer 7 and first public versions of Firefox 2.0, it"s easy to miss the launch party of a browser with the third largest market share. Opera Software today released the download of the final version of Opera 9, which still comes in a compact package (4.6 MB), but offers a range of new features.
Inno3D sent over some info and screenshots based on its GeForce GTS 250 and GeForce 9600GT E-Save cards, currently on display at CeBIT 2009.
ATI posted the fifth Catalyst driver package for this year. Version 5.5 includes an updated driver for Windows XP x64 Edition, Windows XP, Windows 2000 as well as Linux. The package also comes with an updated Control Center and a new Multimedia Center.
The oversupply ratio of LCD monitor panels is expected to widen in the first quarter of 2006, as the period is a traditional slow season for the segment and panel supply will continue increasing, according to Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT).
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As previously expected, HP and IBM launched new servers to accompany the launch of Intel"s Xeon DP dual-core chips, code-named Paxville.
Nvidia announced today that its ION platform was named as the "Best Enabling Technology" during last week"s CES "09 expo.
After reporting on-month drops in February motherboard shipments, Gigabyte Technology and Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) expect sequential 25-30% and 10% shipment growth, respectively, in March, amid escalating channel demand, according to sources at the makers.
Improved brightness and contrast ratios for TFT LCD TV panels will add pressure on color CRT technology, AU Optronics (AUO) said. The brightness of LCD TVs will rise to 600 nits, up from 500 nits last year, while the contrast ratio will go up to 1200:1, compared to 800-1000:1 in the past.
Products utilizing Intel"s G965 Express chipset with Shader Model 3.0 support are not among Asustek Computer"s current motherboard offerings, though the company released its ASUS P5B-V series in August, featuring the Intel Core 2 processor/G965 chipset platform without Shader Model 3.0, sources indicated. The sources said that G965-based motherboards from Asustek suporting Shader Model 3.0 are expected later and that sales of the P5B-V have been poor so far.
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 KDE Project today announced the latest version of its open-source office suite. KOffice 1.5 now uses the Oasis Open Document format as the default file format. The majority of the programs directly compete with applications in Microsoft"s Office suite. In addition, the suite has improved accessibility features including mouseless operation and text-to-speech translation.
Japanese website PC Pop managed to acquire a batch of slides pertaining to the upcoming ATI Radeon HD 4770, complete with the first 40nm desktop chip.
Spyware Terminator, one of the world"s most popular free antispyware programs, delivers new features to users.
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.
The latest version of OmniTrak from Field Precision LLC features an order-of-magnitude increase in computational speed for three-dimensional simulations of high-current, high-voltage planar electron guns.
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Long heralded Balanced Technology Extended (BTX) Intel motherboards have started to go for sale in Japan.
ATI"s Q3 2004 lead over arch-rival Nvidia was eroded during Q4, the latest figures from market watcher Mercury Research suggest.
Although LCD TV demand has been weak this quarter, especially in the Europe market, most investment firms and panel makers expect demand to rise significantly next quarter due to aggressive price reductions from panel makers. Current LCD TV sales are not strong in Europe and makers were overly optimistic about Christmas season demand last quarter, so panel inventory levels have picked up, according to Wan-Li, Wang (transliterated from Chinese), an analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston.
Originally codenamed Newcard (introduced under this name in February 2003 at the Intel Developer Forum in San Jose), ExpressCard technology represents the new generation of hot-pluggable I/O expansion cards that the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA) is positioning to replace CardBus as the preferred solution for notebooks and desktop computers.
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Comarch facilitates the use of a new tool in the Contact Center application dedicated to supervisors and managers of consultants.
Mark Russinovich couldn"t understand how the rootkit had sneaked onto his system. An expert on the internals of the Windows operating system, he was careful when it came to computer security and generally had a pretty good idea of what was running on his PC at any given time. And yet the security tool he was using to check his PC was pretty clear: It had found the rootkit cloaking software typically used by virus and spyware writers. After a bit of detective work, Russinovich eventually tracked down the source: a Sony BMG Music Entertainment CD titled Get Right with the Man, performed by country music duo Donnie and Johnny Van Zant.
Lottery.co.uk has announced the launch of its new lottery application for the iPhone and iPod Touch
A three-month-old flaw in a preprocessor function for the open-source intrusion detection system may attract worm writers, but the number of vulnerable systems is likely low, security experts said on Wednesday.
AMD could have a monster midrange card on the horizon. According to sources, RV740 may be a 40nm process shrink of RV770LE - the currently available HD 4830.
Gigabyte announced a new addition to its product lineup. The GeForce 6200-based GV-N62128DE is targeted at users who intend to upgrade from an integrated graphics chipset to a discreet graphics solution. Features of the card include support for DirectX 9.0, Shader Model 3.0, as well as Nvidia"s PureVideo to improve video quality on the screen. The card will become available during this month. Pricing has not been announced. (THG)
St. Louis (MO) - Sony"s robotic Aibo dog is just as effective as a real dog in curing loneliness. According to a study conducted by the St. Louis University, elderly patients in a nursing home became attached to the dog after several weeks of playing with the non-pooping plastic pet.
Kingston today said that will be upgrading its "ultimate" line of Compact Flash (CF) cards by preloading Ontrack"s Easy Recovery Professional software 6.1 onto the devices. The application is designed to assist users to recover accidentally deleted or damaged files.
Las Vegas (NV) - Some people take CES all too seriously. There are lots of vendors at the show who know how to have a little fun and still make a dollar. We have picked three examples.
Foxconn giving PC some wood.
Atlanta (GA) - A 16-year-old is behind bars today after he posted a stomach-churning YouTube video of a baby being launched in the air. The teen placed the eight-month-old baby on an inflatable pillow which he then jumped on. The baby flew several feet and was crying after hitting the ground.
Asus this week broke NDA with Nvidia and accidentally leaked details of the upcoming GeForce GTS 250 based cards. Although the original press release was removed just several before time of writing, we were able to save details of the release.
Seattle (WA) - Amazon.com has announced that it will offer a $50 store credit to anyone who bought an HD DVD player from the online store before February 23.
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.
Port Washington (NY) - Market research firm NPD Group says Mother"s Day gadget buying is catching up with Father"s Day. Sons, daughters and husbands purchased over $865 million dollars in gadget gifts for mom, while $873 million in gadgets were purchased for fathers day. This represents a year to year increase of 9% for mothers versus only 3% for fathers.
David Wang of RWT has posted a lengthy followup to his previous article on the CELL processor. This new article contains more technical details, some of which were disclosed in a recent presentation at the Eleventh International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture.
VIA Technologies today announced wide industry support for its K8T890 chipsets for AMD 64-bit processors.
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Today Foxit is pleased to announce the new release of Foxit Reader SDK ActiveX 3.0. This updated version introduces a variety of new features along with many enhancements.
Apparently, BFG has released a passively cooled 9800 GT card to US online retailers without officially announcing its shipment.
Looking to downsize your rather large and mundane tower case that currently hosts your Home Theater PC or semi-extreme gaming rig? Shuttle delivers with its latest Prima flagship model--the SX58H7.
ATI Technologies, Nvidia and VIA Technologies may raise chipset prices by approximately 10% as demand is outpacing supply, according to sources in the Taiwan chipset industry. The increase will follow a 10-15% price-hike earlier planned
Second-tier motherboard makers Acorp Electronics will withdraw from the motherboard market and instead migrate into the production of networking devices such as ADSL2+ modems, the company said after a provisional shareholders meeting on Thursday, March 10.
Intel has delivered small volumes of one of its Alviso core-logic chipsets, the 915PM, to Taiwan notebook makers, for sample production, with volume shipments of the chips to begin on January 18, 2005, according to sources at Taiwan notebook makers.
In response to the launch of LG Electronics" latest Blu-ray Disc (BD) burner (GGW-H20L), complete with claims of it being the first BD burner to support 6x BD-R SL (single-sided single-layer) write speeds, sources at Taiwan-based makers of optical disc drives commented that the 6x write speed claims are meaningful more for marketing purposes rather than practical ones, as 6x BD-R discs are not available yet. LGE last week announced the launch of the GGW-H20L in South Korea at a recommended retail price of 490,000 Won (US$532) and some online shopping websites in the US market have quoted US$514 for the model, which will be available later this week or early next week, the sources pointed out.
A leaked circular issued by Nvidia says that the company will display the upcoming GeForce GTS 250. It sure looks purdy!
Qsan will showcase P300H (Redundant iSCSI RAID controllers) and P500H (Redundant 10GbE iSCSI RAID controllers) in the upcoming Computex Taipei 2009 exhibition.
Jay Deakins, president of enterprise software solution provider Deacom, Inc., is a finalist in the Executive of the Year - Computer Software category of The 2009 American Business Awards(SM).
ELEKS Software, a Ukrainian IT services and product company, has supplied a Customs system (CAESAR II) to Jersey, a self governing British Crown Dependency
Remote Backup Systems will host a live seminar focusing on service providers starting and running a successful Online Backup service.
Beijing Fastweb"s professional CDN service was selected by School of Software, Tsinghua University.
Sunglasses that conceal a 4 GB USB stick is not quite what we mean by "optical storage," but ok.
Aneesoft Released Video Converter Pro for Windows PC. Enables Consumers to Easily Convert Among all Popular Video Formats and View Video Content on Popular Portable Devices.
For a whopping $449.99, you too can own the luxurious LaCie d2 Blu-ray drive, capable of writing up to eight times standard data writing rates.
Avangate announced the launch of the Intel Business Exchange Software Store in Europe, a market place for which Avangate provides the hosting, billing and process execution.
We had the chance to briefly talk to Asus tonight, prior to CES" full opening in the morning. One thing we learned from Asus is that the company is preparing to launch what it claims is the world"s first 512 GB SSD ultra-portable.
TestSoft Inc. Releases Explicore Continuous Improvement Software
As the market for NAND Flash stabilizes in the latter half of the year, consumer and enterprise demand for solid-state drives is expected to surpass hard drives.
HR Data Manager today introduced a new version of their popular Human Resource Management System (HRMS / HRIS) software for Small and Medium Businesses.
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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.
Computex isnò€™t just about whatò€™s inside your machine and proof of that is Flash maker Corsair"s first foray into the case market.
AKVIS announces the releases of AKVIS MultiBrush, an all-in-one photo enhancement and portrait retouch solution for Windows and Mac users. MultiBrush helps to enhance portraits, retouch image flows and remove unwanted objects from digital pictures.
They"re the same, only newer, cheaper and faster.
Innovative Collaborative Desktop Solution Enhances Enterprise Content Management
Astralax studio released a visual effects editor Magic Particles 1.61
pureSilicon has shipped its line of rugged SSDs, with a 256 GB version to follow in Q1 2010.
Better Database Technology, Compatibility, and Functionality Highlight Latest Version Release of Transoft Solutions" Seminal Vehicle Swept-path Analysis Software
Pliant"s new Lightning line of SSDs provide super fast IOPS that seem.. well, lightning fast.
Corsair discovers that Indilinx Barefoot controller and Samsung MLC NAND flash memory are good ingredients.
Microsoft isn"t too keen on SSDs and HDDs living under the same roof.
Hidden in a plethora of over 20,0000 iPhone apps... the newly released Whiteboard app still hopes to see some "Apple Love". Just 5 days after being released though, Whiteboard was cracked and made available for free on Jail broken iPhones.
Flexibility is key, and Patriot Memory"s ConvoyXL delivers just that.
Super Talent had its RAIDdrive GS card on display and on demo at the show floor here at Computex.
Are modern solid-state drives ready for the enterprise situations? We"ve discussed how the market is beginning to combat the high price-to-performance ratios for solid-state technology. But that doesn"t mean that SSDs are ready, technologically speaking, to leap into business servers the second the price-point hits acceptable levels. At least, that"s the stance that HP is taking, predicting that solid-state technology won"t see the light of day in the enterprise world until at least 2012.
Shortly after the new year rang in there were reports made by various sources that Corsair was planning to enter the PC case market and it came through, showing off a case at CeBIT.
Remote Backup Systems has announced a significant price reduction on its Virtual Hosting service. This Software as a Service (SaaS) allows companies to start their own branded Online Backup business in the Cloud using RBS" software and data center.
Intelò€™s Josh Bancroft made an interesting comment in a blog post the other day, claiming that Windows 7ò€“which might very well require more hard space than Windows Vistaò€”is going to make for cramped working conditions on your average Netbook.
Xynomix consider the importance of utilising Business Intelligence (BI) and supporting underlying database systems to improve customer retention and value.
Adeptia Inc., an innovative provider of business process integration technologies offers BPM for Insurance solution as a software product that helps insurance organizations ....
ROAM delivers on promised benefits for users, physicians, and IT staff
Dr. Edward Farajzadeh recently introduced new software to his practice that helps better evaluate CAT Scans of patients in need of dental implants.
Is your Xbox 360 noisy? Perhaps you don"t own an Xbox 360 because you"ve heard that they"re noisy (maybe). This week a company called Quiet PC launched a line of Xbox 360 consoles that aren"t Xbox 360 consoles at all.
Latest Automation Technology Topics Covered - from Geo SCADA to Energy Analytics
There"s no doubt about it: one of the best ways to boost your computer"s performance, is to upgrade your hard drive to a cutting edge solid state drive (SSD).
If you are looking for new ERP or MRP application and your company is reasonably small (including mid-size office buildings inhabitants)....
Itò€™s been a rough past week for Seagate, and even more so for owners of new large-capacity Seagate hard disk drives.
Blizzard"s Jay Wilson said that skill trees will not be a part of Diablo III.
BinBase.com has updated their database to include over 70,000 credit card records. A BIN system provides an extra line of defense against unwanted fraud.
New features and enhancements in the latest release of the Virtual Records Center help simplify the records management process.
HTPC and Quiet PC users are always fighting the battle towards the Ultimate Quiet and the Lower Power consumption system. Western Digital has tossed a new drive into your sights ò€“ The Caviar Green 1 TB drive.
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Microsoft has met its self-imposed deadline to deliver Community Technology Previews (CTP) to Microsoft Developer Network subscribers. Last month Microsoft told attendees of the VSLive conference that it would deliver the bits designed for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 before the end of March.
Omega Health Systems (OHS) program improved for non-English speaking organisations. New versions will improve compliance and reduce injuries
Natural User Interface (NUI), a Sweden based company specializing in multitouch technology partnered with NextWindow to develop plug-in for NextWindow "s technology, supporting their innovative and cost effective touch solutions.
Business Process Outsourcing Company Uses CentRealTech"s One Click System for Title Production Process
AppTOKYO, a collaboration between three of Japan"s most influential entertainment and software companies, has begun developing iPhone applications for the English-speaking market.
Audiofy to automate Orders, Invoices and Customer Support processes with NetSuite
This mouse still has its tail.
When Apple went vocal about the Nvidia GPU failures in its MacBook Pro line nobody was overly surprised.
Transoft Solutions" Innovative New Roundabout Software Impresses Webcast Participants, Leads to Quick Sales
Jaspersoft and leading software distributor AsiaSoft partner to meet growing demand for Jaspersoft"s professional BI suite
Microsoft Dynamics GP ERP and MRP is robust and flexible platform for barcoding, consignment, warehouse management, picking up ecommerce.
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.
At CeBIT 2009, Collanos and Translumina Networks launch LumiMagic, a cost-effective Linux box combining the functions of a VoIP telephone switchboard, network router, and WLAN access point.
Corsair Memory is saying that it will launch the world"s fastest DDR2 and DDR memory solutions for Intel and AMD platforms at CeBIT 2006 in Hannover, Germany. Rated at 1066 MHz, the new TWIN2X1024-8500 from Corsair targets Intel users, while the TWINX2048-4400PRO at 550 MHz is aimed at the AMD platform.
Microsoft Dynamics GP is becoming very popular ecommerce ERP and accounting back office. This trend is probably related to success of eConnect SDK
ZSL is participating in Convergence 2009 to be held between March 8-13, 2009 in New Orleans, LA. ZSL is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner & recognized ISV and is focused in providing business solutions - CRM and ERP - for industries of various verticals - BFSI, Pharma, Telecom, MFG, Retail & More
While they won"t be on the same scale as other major update rollouts, Valve is will soon tweak two classes in its smash hit Team Fortress 2.
e-Zest Solutions, a software development company, is demonstrating open source competency at CeBIT 2009 Hannover Germany for the third time in sequence. CeBIT is the world"s largest IT exhibition.
Lynx Systems Inc. introduces two new services for users of Intuit MRI, Yardi Systems and other property management software. The Four Day System Assessment gets the most from your property management software and the Ten Day Process Review ensures management has access to strategic information.
IBM PC Bus, ISA, EISA, math co-processor, floppy disk. So many forgotten terms, from years ago.
The Chinese government has confirmed that its plans to roll out filtering software on all PCs sold in mainland China has not been canceled.
Long respected for its rugged quality, Chieftec has updated parts of its line with trendy design and enhanced features.
New Roundabout Software from Transoft Solutions Offers Impressive One-of-a-kind Features and Functionality
Key Solutions and Intermec Media Products will host a Lunch and Learn session March 12, 2009 at 11 a.m. to discuss how to increase worker productivity.
Zalman has introduced its latest low-noise case, the integrated liquid cooling LQ1000.
Chicago (IL) - Ibuypower was one of the first system builders to offer AMD"s new Quad FX platform, previously code-named 4x4. The basic configuration of the computer runs for less than $2000 and includes two FX-70 processors, a 500 watt power supply, 512 MB of memory one Geforce 6600 graphics card and an 80 GB hard drive.
Conference to cover new business opportunities for resellers, update them on the latest products and honour the best-performing partners at the event.
Cheating is bad, but does cheating infringe on a video game publisherò€™s copyright? World of Warcraft-maker Blizzard, a subsidiary of Vivendi, is trying to argue in court that it does. If this argument succeeds, it could change the way all software copyrights operate in the eyes of the law.
Apptricity Warehouse Management System (WMS) gains momentum with new implementation slated at Danaher Tool Group.
University Management System (UMS) is a large database system which can be used to manage, maintain and secure your university"s day to day business.
If you have Microsoft Dynamics GP formerly known as Great Plains Dynamics implemented in your organization and you are experiencing performance issues, we would like to present you this small publication, written in the form of FAQ and highlights
Turbo buttons on the PCs went extinct after the 386/486-era. But now, according to TweakTown it appears that MSI will be trying to resurrect it for the button happy crowd with the MSI GeForce N9600 GT Diamond graphics card.
New managed service offerings have been released the IBM System i and Intel Servers by Vault400 Disaster Recovery.
Mystic Management Systems builds more functionality in its web based Quality Management System granting more freedom with more control.
Nvidia yesterday confirmed that the company is halting development of its chipsets because of legal issues with Intel.
Windows 7 to get more out of your laptop battery.
Synaptris part of the Cybernet-Slash Support Corp has been named winner of the IBM Lotus CTO Innovation Award at the 15th annual IBM Lotus Awards.
The Peel District School Board, Canada"s second largest and one of North America"s fastest growing public school systems recently acquired KWizCom"s Calendar Plus web component for SharePoint and is already seeing the benefits.
New KLAS report looks at how ambulatory EMRs stack up against expected meaningful use requirements
Despite their dominance, workstation industry leaders Dell and Intel were in a tailspin 12 months ago, both steadily losing ground to their respective rivals Hewlett Packard (HP) and AMD, according to Jon Peddie Research (JPR). But the research firm said there was a reversal in fortunes for both companies in the third quarter of 2006.
Monday Biostar unveiled the very first Dragon Platform qualified motherboard, the TA790GX A3+
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Improved automation provides affordable, fully-automated 3D point measurement with new RAD Targets