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Swiftech Stock (Rouchon Inds. Inc.) Drops 98 Percent
Rouchon Industries, dba Swiftech, which is traded over the counter had 666 shares traded today resulting in a 97.62 percent drop for the day. It looks like two trades took place with one person dumping 333 shares and someone buying all 333 shares back at fewer than two cents a share. This morning the stock was worth $0.63 cents on Tuesday and today is currently trading at $0.015 cents.
About Rouchon Industries Inc., dba Swiftech:
Swiftech develops, manufactures, and sells thermal management products such as air and liquid cooling solutions for Intel®, AMD®, nVidia® and ATI® microprocessors. Its most prominent customers include giant semiconductor and CPU manufacturers, PC and component manufacturers such as Corsair® memory, Voodoo PC®, and multibillion Internet resellers such as Newegg.com® and Fry's electronics® in the distribution sector. Today, Swiftech offers a wide variety of advanced air and liquid cooling solutions for the IT industry, and is working with leading OEMs, semiconductor and PC manufacturers as well as a network of over seventy leading distributors worldwide.
Posted by | Wed, May 31, 2006 - 01:33 PM
Mozilla Launches Next Firefox 2.0 Alpha
In case you missed this news over the weeked Mozilla Corp. released the third alpha version of Firefox 2.0, code-named "Bon Echo," with additions that include a built-in anti-phishing feature and suggestions for searches run in Google and Yahoo this past Saturday.
The anti-phishing feature in Firefox is courtesy of Google, which released the code for a Firefox extension, or plug-in, to the Mozilla Foundation for use in the browser. As with the two earlier alphas, Mozilla stressed that the early look was intended for "Web application developers and our testing community" only. "Current users of Mozilla Firefox 1.x should not use Bon Echo Alpha 3," the company added in the release notes to the new version.
Posted by | Wed, May 31, 2006 - 05:45 AM
Motorola needs an heir to the RAZR and it's not the SLVR
Motorola needs a successor to its successful RAZR phone to hold on to market share, and BenQ Mobile is set to make gains when new products kick in, market research group Gartner said in a survey on Wednesday. I think Gartner makes some good points, but the SLVR is still pretty sweet.
The survey found that Motorola had a 20.3 percent global market share of consumers in the January-March period, up from 16.7 percent a year earlier, but Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi said the slim RAZR phone would run out of steam. She dismissed Motorola's thin stick phone SLVR as the heir to the flip phone RAZR. "That's not a 'halo' product. They need an aspirational, exclusive phone and then take it to the masses," she said.
Posted by | Wed, May 31, 2006 - 05:43 AM
Hedge Funds Flog Micron/Lexar Deal
Several hedge funds continue to oppose Micron's acquisition of Lexar Media, and recently told the companies that they plan to vote against the merger when shareholders vote on the matter Friday. Interesting twist in the merger between Micron Technology and Lexar.
In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Tuesday, fund partners Elliot Associates and Elliot International, which together own 7.5% of Lexar shares, disclosed that the funds have reaffirmed their opposition to the deal as currently structured in a meeting with Micron and Lexar's management last week.
Posted by | Wed, May 31, 2006 - 05:42 AM
AMD Launches AMD LIVE PCs for Pure Digital Entertainment
AMD announced today the next milestone in digital entertainment with the AMD LIVE! PC - a full-featured, easy-to-use media center PC, designed to enable consumers to organize, distribute, share, and enjoy their content collection throughout the home and on the go. Leading OEMs including Acer, Alienware, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Gateway, HP, Sahara, and Tsinghua Tongfang, as well as system builders in North America, Western Europe, and China, will have AMD LIVE! PCs, powered by the award-winning AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor, starting in June.
The first solutions to be offered in the AMD LIVE! Entertainment Suite include AMD LIVE! On Demand powered by Orb Networks: a service that streams live or pre-recorded television programs, photos, music and movies to many common Web-connected devices; AMD LIVE! Compress: a tool that optimizes recorded television content in order to save space and time, enabling customers to save up to 10 times as many TV shows on their PC; AMD LIVE! Network Magic: an easy to use service that allows users to set up, manage and secure their home network; AMD LIVE! LogMeIn: a service providing users the ability to remotely control their AMD LIVE! PC to obtain access to content, files and programs from anywhere; and AMD LIVE! Media Vault: a service that can automatically back-up users' digital content collection to a secure online server. Once registered and activated, AMD LIVE! PC users will receive 25GB of free storage to safely store their personal photos, home movies and music collections.
Posted by | Wed, May 31, 2006 - 05:35 AM
Online journalists have the same rights as traditional reporters
Online journalists have the same rights as traditional reporters, a Californian court has ruled. The decision was made in a case brought by Apple against a number of reporters who published information online about a future Apple product launch. This court ruling is a big deal and I'm glad to see that online journalists are FINALLY gaining respect.
"Today's decision is a victory for the rights of journalists, whether online or offline, and for the public at large," said Attorney Kurt Opsahl of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a digital rights organisation who have been defending the journalists.
Posted by | Tue, May 30, 2006 - 06:36 AM
Middle class goes broadband as price falls
Middle- and working-class Americans signed up for high-speed Internet access in record numbers in the past year, apparently lured by a price war among phone companies. This is good news for all of us as more people are using the internet from day to day.
Broadband adoption increased 59 percent from March last year to March 2006 among U.S. households with incomes between $30,000 and $50,000, according to a survey to be released Monday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. It increased 40 percent in households making less than $30,000 a year. Among blacks, it increased 121 percent, according to the study.
Posted by | Tue, May 30, 2006 - 06:34 AM
Virgin Mobile introduces ad-subsidized calls
Virgin Mobile USA, a cell-phone service used mostly by teenagers and 20-somethings, said on Tuesday it was giving its customers the option to earn free calls if they view and respond to ads on their phones. An interesting idea and if the text ads are free I might do it, but I don't have Virgin! ;)
Under the offer, customers of Virgin, a venture of Sprint Nextel and Richard Branson's Virgin, can get up to 75 minutes of free calls per month if they spend an equal amount of time looking at ads and replying to these ads via text messages. Virgin, one of the first providers to offer such a service, hopes the service will appeal to its often cash-strapped customers, 65 percent of whom are younger than 30 years old.
Posted by | Tue, May 30, 2006 - 06:32 AM
Newegg Keeps on Getting Bigger
Newegg.com, an online retailer of computer and electronic products, intends to recruit Taiwan's second-tier IT brands for its online shopping offerings through the upcoming Computex 2006 IT trade show, according to Luke Lu, Product Management Director of Global PM Center at Newegg.com.
The online retailer expects to bring more Taiwan brands, especially companies that specialize in LCD TVs and consumer electronics products, into its online stores, which already covers 3C (computer, communications and consumer electronics) goods for more than 600 branded vendors, including Taiwan's leading brand companies Acer, Asustek Computer, Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI), said Lu.
Posted by | Tue, May 30, 2006 - 06:30 AM
Superhighway toll booths have an ally: Cisco
In the growing debate over whether companies that send a steady stream of big video and other files over the Internet should pay extra for filling the pipeline, there is one group that has kept relatively quiet -- until now. Network companies such as Cisco Systems stand to reap billions if the government lets phone and cable companies divide Internet access into different tiers, an idea vehemently opposed by consumer advocates and firms like Google and Yahoo that distribute content around the globe.
Companies such as AT&T and Comcast want to charge Web sites more to guarantee quality transfers of high-bandwidth traffic -- such as video and phone calls. This, in turn, could affect how cheaply television-over-the-Internet prices may be, or affect the cost of Internet phone calling plans. While it's unclear exactly how much money networking companies could make modulating the Internet, the phone and cable companies that buy their equipment stand to gain an estimated $10.7 billion in extra revenue by charging for different tiers of service, according to a report by Light Reading industry analysts.
Posted by | Mon, May 29, 2006 - 09:09 AM
Superhighway toll booths have an ally: Cisco
In the growing debate over whether companies that send a steady stream of big video and other files over the Internet should pay extra for filling the pipeline, there is one group that has kept relatively quiet -- until now. Network companies such as Cisco Systems stand to reap billions if the government lets phone and cable companies divide Internet access into different tiers, an idea vehemently opposed by consumer advocates and firms like Google and Yahoo that distribute content around the globe.
Companies such as AT&T and Comcast want to charge Web sites more to guarantee quality transfers of high-bandwidth traffic -- such as video and phone calls. This, in turn, could affect how cheaply television-over-the-Internet prices may be, or affect the cost of Internet phone calling plans. While it's unclear exactly how much money networking companies could make modulating the Internet, the phone and cable companies that buy their equipment stand to gain an estimated $10.7 billion in extra revenue by charging for different tiers of service, according to a report by Light Reading industry analysts.
Posted by | Mon, May 29, 2006 - 09:09 AM
Scientists trace AIDS origin to wild chimps
Twenty-five years after the first AIDS cases emerged, scientists have confirmed that the HIV virus plaguing humans really did originate in wild chimpanzees, in a corner of Cameroon. Maybe now they can hurry and find a cure!
?We?re 25 years into this pandemic,? Hahn said. ?We don?t have a cure. We don?t have a vaccine. But we know where it came from. At least we can make a check mark on one of those.? Scientists long have known that nonhuman primates carry their own version of the AIDS virus, called SIV or simian immunodeficiency virus. But with one exception, it had been found only in captive chimpanzees, particularly a subspecies that in the wild populates mostly West Africa.
Posted by | Mon, May 29, 2006 - 09:02 AM
Prices for Intel's upcoming 64-bit Merom chips revealed
Intel's August launch of its 64-bit dual-core Merom processors will include the high-end T7600 series and mainstream T7200 and T7400, according to sources.
Of the Merom lineup, the T7600 will feature a 2.33GHz core speed and will be priced at over US$600. The 2GHz T7200 and 2.16GHz T7400 will be priced at US$294 and US$423, respectively, close to the 2GHz T2500 and 2.16GHz T2600 (codenamed Yonah).
Posted by | Mon, May 29, 2006 - 09:00 AM
AMD to Invest $2.5 Billion in Dresden, Germany Facility
Advanced Micro Devices announced today that they will would invest $2.5 billion to expand its two chip-building facilities in Dresden, Germany. This is good news for AMD and Germany!
AMD said Monday it intends to complete a "major transformation" of its existing Fab 30, enabling the facility to make 300 millimeter wafers capable of holding twice as many processors as the 200 millimeter wafers the plant currently makes. AMD plans to rename the facility Fab 38. The company will also expand 300 millimeter chip production at its existing Fab 36. It plans to complete the projects over the next three years.
Posted by | Mon, May 29, 2006 - 08:58 AM
Earthlink to build New Orleans Wi-Fi network
Earthlink Inc., the Internet service provider, said on Friday it has won approval from the New Orleans City Council to build a wireless high-speed Internet network in the city.
The company said the wireless network will provide Internet access for residents, businesses and visitors in New Orleans. It will offer a free service for a limited time during the city's rebuilding efforts and a faster paid-for tier service.
Posted by | Sat, May 27, 2006 - 11:21 AM
Women gain prominence in video game world
For years PC video games have been created by men for men, but it seems that times are quickly changing. With more women getting into the industry games are now being designed for both groups and it is likely that more women are starting to play games as a result.
`For this industry to mature and move on, it has to grow beyond just that 13- to 35-year-old male demographic,'' said Anthony Borquez, a professor who teaches video game production at the University of Southern California. ``From a business perspective, it makes a lot of sense to engage women more.''Besides, sisters are doing it for themselves. Amber Dalton and twin sister Amy Brady created the PMS Clan in 2002. Boasting international membership of nearly 500 women and girls, PMS -- which stands for Pandora's Mighty Soldiers -- is a competitive group that plays Xbox, PlayStation2 and PC games. Its members range in age from 9 to 58, Dalton said, but most are adults.
Posted by | Sat, May 27, 2006 - 11:20 AM
Microsoft CEO says Windows Vista on track
Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said the Windows Vista operating system is still on track for early January shipment. Anyone taking bets on this one?
"This design track (is) for a January shipment, but we're going to see what kind of feedback we get from users," Ballmer told reporters Thursday on the sidelines of the Seoul Digital Forum, a three-day gathering of leading figures in the technology industry. "We've got still a lot of time, but we're going to work and make sure it's an absolutely high-quality product," he said.
Posted by | Fri, May 26, 2006 - 06:36 AM
Web inventor warns of 'dark' net
The web should remain neutral and resist attempts to fragment it into different services, web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said. Recent attempts in the US to try to charge for different levels of online access web were not "part of the internet model," he said in Edinburgh. He warned that if the US decided to go ahead with a two-tier internet, the network would enter "a dark period". I agree 100 perceont with Sit Tim Betners-Lee and believe the internet should remain free and not have different levels.
Sir Tim said this was "not the internet model". The "right" model, as exists at the moment, was that any content provider could pay for a connection to the internet and could then put any content on to the web with no discrimination. Speaking to reporters in Edinburgh at the WWW2006 conference, he argued this was where the great benefit of the internet lay."You get this tremendous serendipity where I can search the internet and come across a site that I did not set out to look for," he said.
Posted by | Fri, May 26, 2006 - 06:33 AM
Kingston to unveil new USB flash disk lineup at Computex 2006
Digitimes is reporting that Kingston will introduce a new lineup of high-density memory card and a really cool looking USB flash drive at the upcoming Computex Taipei 2006, which runs from June 6-10.
Kingston will debut the 133x Ultimate Compact Flash (CF) cards in 2GB and 4GB versions at the exhibition. The 23MB/s read speed and the 20MB/s write speed make this series of CF cards ideal for professional photographers, Kingston said. The company stresses that this series of CF card is embedded with the OnTrack EasyRecovery Professional 6.1 software, which protects data from being accidentally lost or corrupted. A 8GB high-end CF card, CompactFlash Elite Pro, will also be introduced.
Posted by | Fri, May 26, 2006 - 06:31 AM
ATI Releasesd Beta 6.5 Catalyst for Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
If you play Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and own ATI graphics cards then you need to download and use "The Chuck Patch" that ATI has been releasing. This special driver is provided to enable additional functionality for Oblivion by permitting High Dynamic Range Lighting (HDR) concurrently with Anti-Aliasing (AA) on RADEON X1000 series graphic boards. It also lets you enable AFR mode for those lucky enough to own a CrossFire gaming system.
Just wanted to let all of you know that an updated version of the Chuck Patch (the underlying driver has been updated to Catalyst 6.5 so that everyone using the Chuck Patch also gets the latest Catalyst 6.5 features etc. )
Posted by | Thu, May 25, 2006 - 06:24 AM
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