General Motors on Wednesday became the first automaker to commit to make a rechargeable hybrid vehicle, a move intended to distance the world’s largest automaker from its reputation for producing gas-guzzling trucks. I like raw Continue reading “GM pledges to make plug-in electric vehicle”.…more
Charting another industry first for computing enthusiasts, AMD today announced the AMD Quad FX Platform with Dual Socket Direct Connect (DSDC) Architecture, the first dual-socket, multi-core desktop PC platform designed to take advantage of the Continue reading “AMD Launches Quad FX Platforms with Dual CPU Sockets”.…more
Intel Corp. has announced that it is making prototypes of computer processors using new manufacturing techniques that further shrink circuitry, making the chips run faster and use less power. Penryn is rumored to be a Continue reading “Intel Samples 45nm Penryn Processors”.…more
he online video boom is starting to eat into TV viewing time, an ICM survey of 2,070 people for the BBC suggests. Some 43% of Britons who watch video from the internet or on a Continue reading “Online video ‘erodes TV viewing’”.…more
Microsoft may have to pull its Office suite from the shelves in South Korea as a result of losing a patent lawsuit in that country, according to published reports. Several news outlets reported Monday that Continue reading “Patent ruling threatens MS Office”.…more
Zimbabwe’s military has said the country’s mobile phone operators are threatening national security by using independent connections to the outside world, official media reported on Tuesday. “The mobile service providers have their own international gateway Continue reading “Zimbabwe army says cellphones danger to security”.…more
Asustek Computer yesterday denied rumors that it was planning to acquire Micro-Star International (MSI), according to the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN). Merger rumors of all sorts have spread in Taiwan’s markets since news broke Continue reading “Asustek denies planning to acquire MSI, says paper”.…more
YouTube is coming to mobile phones–or, to be more precise, a small slice of YouTube is coming to some Verizon Wireless phones. While its explosively popular Web site is free, YouTube’s phone-based version will require Continue reading “YouTube coming soon to cell phones”.…more