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OCZ Technology Launches PC Memory With Jungle Camouflage Spreaders
CZ Technology Group has released their Special Ops Edition DDR and DDR2 memory lines. Parts will feature a unique camouflage motif XTC heatspreader and come in PC-3200, PC2-5400, and PC2-6400 speed grades.
Alex Mei over at OCZ says that gamers are a unique breed, but I have to say so is a company that comes out with camouflage hear spreaders! Cheers for an interesting and cool looking spreader! Since all of the recent military conflicts are in the sand it leaves me wondering why OCZ didn't use desert camouflage -- oh now that's an idea! I want to see Woodland, Desert, Snow Ghost, Concrete Jungle, Tiger Stripe, and Urban camouflage heat spreaders! Bet you didn't know the military had that many types!
?Gamers are a unique breed, and place distinctive demands on their PC memory,? commented Alex Mei, OCZ Technology Inc. ?Serious gamers put heavy bandwidth requirements on their memory, and put a premium on both superior performance and dependability. The new OCZ Special Ops Edition memory dual channel kits feature the ultimate balance of speed, reliability, and high capacity, making them an ideal solution for gamers.? OCZ Special Ops memory will be available as a premium selection for Monarch Computer Hornet Pro small form factor system for gamers tired of lugging their bulky PC towers to LAN events.
Posted by | Thu, May 25, 2006 - 06:03 AM
ATI's Linux 8.25.18 drivers are now available
ATI's Linux 8.25.18 drivers are now available, so if you need them head on over to ATI and pick them up!
Xord 7.0 is now supported by the ATI Proprietary Linux installer. This release of the ATI Proprietary Linux driver now enables Display Power Management Signaling (DPMS) support in the software display driver by default. The option to disable DPMS support is still available to users by referring to aticonfig --help. It also supports many new FireGL video cards.
Posted by | Thu, May 25, 2006 - 05:56 AM
The $100 Laptop Seen in Different Colors
Available in fetching orange and yellow, or shades of blue and green, here's the $100 laptop, which was unveiled at the Seven Countries Task Force Meeting yesterday. Almost immediately, pictures of the machine hit the net. Still looks a little too cheap for my tastes and why do they always show pictures of minorites on the displays of these laptops? Why not show the OS or an educational application for crying out loud. People aren't going to use these as $100 picture viewers.
Still, OLPC is concentrating minds on supplying ICT needs for poor people in developing countries. Many analysts expect the mobile phone to be the internet access of choice in developing world. They are cheaper than PCs - and there are far more of them. And new PCs prices are coming down all the time - although admittedly, the day when Dell or HP or Lenovo sell a new laptop for $100 is some years away. Microsoft is taking a different tack, by offering cheaper software licences to poor countries, and by offering a different mode of consumption. This week it announced its ideas for a pay-as-you-go PC, specifically for developing countries.
Posted by | Thu, May 25, 2006 - 05:50 AM
Quiet DRAM market show signs of an upside
DRAM transactions on the spot market were notably quiet, with both DDR and DDR2 prices remaining flat. The market for NAND appeared vibrant amid earlier price rises and capacity adjustment by the leading players, with 2Gbit NAND continuing to lead price growth. With AMD's just released AM2 platform we should find that it will stimulate the demand for 800MHz memory in the coming weeks when suppies start to run low at the memory companies.
DRAMeXchange notes that any risk of a price downside should be limited, amid a limited supply of DDR on the spot market. Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) was said to have reduced its supply. Motherboard makers have only a constrained supply, after posting a bullish outlook for the period through July. DDR2 is showing only limited price fluctuations, but overall demand for DDR2 remains weak, DRAMeXchange stated. The firm anticipates that a new AMD CPU, with support for DDR2-667, should stimulate some "performance" users to upgrade their platforms and stimulate demand for DDR2.
Posted by | Thu, May 25, 2006 - 05:43 AM
Nintendo warns of weaker profits
Nintendo has posted a 19% drop in annual profits and warned that results for its current financial year will be weaker than previously expected. Nintendo needs to bring out the Wii console quick because at $199 it's bound to sell no matter how good the performance.
The firm's sales for the past financial year fell 1.2% to 509bn yen, hit by falling demand for its outgoing GameCube console and supporting games. Strong sales of its DS handheld and titles such as Nintendogs failed to make up for the shortfall. It is planning to launch the Wii console in the final quarter of the year, competing against Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3.
Posted by | Thu, May 25, 2006 - 05:33 AM
PC game spending hit $1.4 bln in US
U.S. spending on video games for personal computers hit $1.4 billion in 2005, according to an estimate released by market research firm NPD Group on Wednesday. Online subscriptions to PC games and gaming Web sites accounted for about $344 million of those annual sales, said the NPD.
Faster Internet connections are making it easier for consumers to play games online and to download game content that had once only been available in stores, said NPD, which last year began tracking online subscriptions. Subscriptions to play specific online titles -- such as "World of Warcraft" from Blizzard Entertainment and Vivendi Games -- reached roughly $292 million in 2005, with about 1.4 million paid subscribers.
Posted by | Wed, May 24, 2006 - 06:54 PM
MSI AMD-powered dual-core notebook hits shelves
For those of you waiting for AMD to finally drop their dual-core loving on the laptop scene, MSI has released a notebook featuring AMD's Turion X2 dual-core technology. Based on the ATi RS485M + SB460 chipset, the MSI S271 will have Turion's Dual-Core TL-50 (1.6GHz) chip, DDR2 RAM, Gigabit Ethernet, and a optical drive that supports DVD RAM.
Micro-Star International (MSI) on May 23 announced the worldwide availability of its S271, a dual-core notebook based on the AMD Turion 64 X2 CPU and an ATI chipset. The model features a 12.1-inch WXGA TFT LCD display and the ATI Radeon Xpress 200 graphics solution. The MSI S271 has a recommended retail price of US$1,498
Posted by | Wed, May 24, 2006 - 09:19 AM
Cingular adding cell sites
Cingular Wireless will announce today it will spend $400 million in 2006 to extend coverage and enhance the quality of service for customers in Illinois and Wisconsin by adding 140 cell sites. Cingular spent $300 million to improve its network last year. This is great new, but what about Missouri?
Posted by | Wed, May 24, 2006 - 08:34 AM
Google to distribute online video ads
Google Inc. will begin distributing online video ads for the first time later this week, continuing the Internet search engine leader's effort to diversify beyond the static written messages that generate most of its profits. The video expansion, announced late Monday, will affect thousands of Web sites that rely on Google to post ads related to the surrounding material on a page. For instance, a news story about housing might prompt Google to display an ad for real estate agents.
Google isn't allowing the video ads to appear on its own Web site ? a heavily trafficked destination that produced 58 percent of its $2.25 billion in revenue during the first three months of this year. Despite that restriction, Google's push into online video advertising represents a significant step for the Mountain View, Calif.-based company as it explores new ways to propel its rapid earnings growth. Google began distributing graphical ads two years ago and during the past year has been dabbling in print and radio marketing.
Posted by | Wed, May 24, 2006 - 08:30 AM
Vonage Debut Turns Ugly - Currently Down 14 Percent
The Vonage IPO got off to a rocky start today, with shares falling 14% in furious trading. The Holmdel, N.J., Net calling shop priced its initial public offering late Tuesday at $17 a share, raising some $531 million. But Vonage tanked soon after Wednesday morning's opening, hitting $14.50 on the New York Stock Exchange with 21 million shares changing hands.
Vonage managed to accumulate 1.6 million users and booked $119 million in revenue in the first quarter ended in March. But to keep the top line growing, Vonage needs to spend a lot more money, which is among the reason it turned to the public market for financing. As one of the nation's biggest advertisers, Vonage has racked up massive marketing expenses. In the first quarter Vonage spent $88.3 million on marketing, up 59% from a year earlier. As of March 31, Vonage had an accumulated deficit of $467.4 million.
Posted by | Wed, May 24, 2006 - 08:29 AM
Alienware releases Auroras with AMD FX-62
Alienware announces their new Aurora 7500 and Aurora ALX Systems fitted with AMD's new Athlon 64-bit FX-62 Dual-Core Processor. It looks like Alienware is trying to be one of the first out of the gate offering AMD's socket AM2 with DDR2 memory. You can even outfit the Aurora with an Ageia PhysX PPU and Quad SLI!
Alienware is now offering the breakthrough AMD Athlon(TM) 64 FX-62 dual-core processor on the Aurora(TM) 7500 and Aurora ALX desktop systems. The AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 is the ultimate processor for PC enthusiasts and runs the most demanding 3D games and multiple processor-intensive applications without compromise.
Posted by | Wed, May 24, 2006 - 12:08 AM
Are you ready for solid state storage?
Samsung is apparently, and it's quite amazing how low key they've kept the project. No sooner that the announcement was made that another was made that actual product would be available by June, for the Korean market anyway. The new NAND flash equiped laptops will feature 32GB of pure flash based storage. And all that while drawing significantly less power and putting out much less heat than traditional hard drives, not to mention being able to operate in complete silence.
The SSD reads 300 percent faster (53MB/s) and writes 150 percent quicker (28MB/s) than normal hard drives. As a result, multiple application programs can operate simultaneously and large volumes of data can be edited and reproduced more efficiently. The Microsoft Windows XP operating system will boot up 25-50% faster on the SSD than on other drives—good news for those in a hurry. Moreover, the typical 1.8-inch hard disk drive weighs around 50 grams; whereas the SSD is 20 to 30 grams lighter, depending on the package type.
Posted by | Tue, May 23, 2006 - 06:45 PM
Corsair Launches Low Latency DDR2 800 Memory With CL3 timings
Corsair Memory today unveiled the world?s first DDR2-800 2GB kit rated at true low latency of CL3. The latest addition to the award-winning XMS family of products, TWIN2X2048-6400C3 delivers unparalleled memory performance at 800MHz and supports the industry?s lowest latencies of 3-4-3-9 in this speed grade. I've been using this memory on Intel and AMD systems here on the test bench and this is the fastest DDR2 memory that I have ever seen in my life and that's no joke. This minute I am running 4GB (picture) of 6400C3 on the AMD AM2 system and it's killer.
Using an extensive RAM screening process developed by Corsair, the new TWIN2X2048-6400C3 offers superior performance and rock solid stability at 800MHz at CL3. Optimized for the latest generation of processors and memory controllers, TWIN2X2048-6400C3 is a flexible memory solution that delivers outstanding performance at both low latency and high frequency. Designed with the ultra-enthusiasts in mind, the TWIN2X2048-6400C3 offers ample overclocking headroom, making it the ideal solution for anyone looking to build the most powerful DDR2 based systems.
Posted by | Tue, May 23, 2006 - 09:48 AM
Veterans' Information Stolen!
This just ticks me off! Not only have these guys given their life and limb to serve and protect our freedom, but now, thay may have given their identities!
Personal information belonging to 26.5 million U.S. veterans was seized following the theft of the data from the home of a government employee, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Posted by | Tue, May 23, 2006 - 06:33 AM
Via Announces AM2 Support
OK, so how about something to go among with AM2 on its big day!
To accommodate the latest platform features and rising system bandwidth requirements, AMD's transition to socket AM2 will enable a new wave of innovation on AMD64 based systems featuring AMD Virtualization and high-performance DDR2 memory. Supporting this transition, VIA offers a wide range of chipset solutions that are fully compatible with socket AM2 platforms, including the VIA K8M890, ideal for Windows Vista?-ready systems, and the VIA K8T900 performance chipset with dual X8 PCI Express support.
Posted by | Tue, May 23, 2006 - 06:30 AM
No Price Cuts For XBOX 360
Intel may have cut prices today, but Microsoft says, "No price cut fo you."
Microsoft announcing that the company has no plans to reduce the price of the XBOX 360 because of the much higher cost of the Sony console.
Posted by | Tue, May 23, 2006 - 06:25 AM
Intel Price Cuts
As long as we are talking about AM2... er... Intel... How about some price cuts from Intel!
As expected, Intel's roadmaps show May 28th as the next spring-board day for Intel price cuts. Intel's roadmaps only show a few processors taking minor cuts -- at least until the Core 2 Duo launch a few weeks away.
Posted by | Tue, May 23, 2006 - 06:23 AM
Intel Preview on AMD Launch Day
No one would think that there would be an AMD launch day without some Intel news would they? How about a Woodcrest preview on a Bensley platform!
Intel is looking to reverse its fortunes in the server and workstation markets with a series of new products designed to take on the Opteron and win. The first wave of those products is debuting today in the form of a new server platform, code-named Bensley.
Posted by | Tue, May 23, 2006 - 06:19 AM
AMD Announces AM2 Processors: FX-62 and 5000+
As part of AMD's ongoing commitment to deliver leading technology for desktop PCs, AMD today announced the immediate availability of the AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 dual-core processor, the world's ultimate processor for PC enthusiasts, and the AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+dual-core processor compatible with AMD's new socket AM2 platform.
Socket AM2 from AMD is designed to enable next-generation platform innovations such as AMD Virtualization and high-performance, unbuffered DDR2 memory to the award-winning AMD64 architecture. Additionally, socket AM2 streamlines the work for motherboard manufacturers, while reducing costs through economies of scale, which can provide better products and increase supply chain flexibility. With socket AM2, AMD brings new capabilities like AMD Virtualization to both commercial and consumer users. Virtualization on desktop computers allows a single PC to act like multiple virtual machines. AMD Virtualization can enable client computers to seamlessly support multiple operating environments. Therefore, IT managers can now gain the ability to develop and test software across multiple operating systems on a single computer to facilitate software migrations, isolate business and personal operating environments to increase security and reliability, and to initialize and manage client computers with less interruption to end users. AMD Virtualization helps make it easier for PC enthusiasts to upgrade and maintain their PCs through emulation.
Posted by | Tue, May 23, 2006 - 04:39 AM
Feds Widen DRAM Chip Probe With Mitsubishi Electric Added
The U.S. government widened the net of a criminal probe into price-fixing among computer memory chip companies, ensnaring Japan's Mitsubishi Electric. Mitsubishi is no longer in the DRAM industry, but that doesn't mean they wont get tied into this legal mess.
Mitsubishi Electric, which exited the DRAM business in 2003, is at least the sixth company to get caught up in the investigation. According to Mitsubishi, the DOJ's antitrust division has requested documents and other information about the DRAM business involving Mitsubishi Electric and Electronics USA, as well as its Japanese parent company.
Posted by | Mon, May 22, 2006 - 02:09 PM
Corsair Launches SLI-Ready 8500C5 and 6400C4 DDR2 Memory
Corsair Memory just announced broad availability of the world?s first production DDR2-1066 and DDR2-800 low latency 2GB kits. The new TWIN2X2048-8500C5 and the TWIN2X2048-6400C4 are optimized for the upcoming NVIDIA nForce 590 chipset based motherboards and feature Enhanced Performance Profiles (EPP).
Rated at scorching fast 1066MHz, the latest TWIN2X2048-8500C5 combines the best of high frequency performance and high density in one 2GB matched pair. Continuing the tradition of producing memory that perform at extreme speeds, Corsair flies past the competition to be the first manufacturer to offer DDR2-1066 2GB kits in mass production. Joining the growing XMS DDR2 product line, Corsair?s TWIN2X2048-6400C4 is aimed at gamers and enthusiasts who demand low latency at standard 800MHz frequency. Available in signature black XMS heat spreaders, the TWIN2X2048-6400C4 is built using carefully selected RAMs. These modules allow users to experience superior memory performance at 800MHz with uncompromised stability. The TWIN2X2048-8500C5 and the TWIN2X2048-6400C4 are the first in the XMS family of products to feature Enhanced Performance Profiles.
Posted by | Mon, May 22, 2006 - 08:59 AM
US predicts busy hurricane season with 8-10 hurricanes
The 2006 Atlantic hurricane season will be very active, with up to 10 hurricanes, although not as busy as record-breaking 2005 here in the United States. This is big news as the hurricane season greatly impacts the pricing on everything when a big storm hits. I have to sit back and wonder how much of this is directly related to human-induced global warming...
"For the 2006 North Atlantic hurricane season, NOAA is predicting 13 to 16 named storms, with eight to 10 becoming hurricanes, of which four to six could become 'major' hurricanes of Category 3 strength or higher," said retired Navy Vice Adm. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Posted by | Mon, May 22, 2006 - 08:31 AM
Foxconn Electronics Might Show Off Video Cards at Computex
Foxconn Electronics (the registered trade name of Hon Hai Precision Industry) may hold a press conference to officially introduce self-developed own-brand graphics cards made by itself during the upcoming Computex 2006 exhibition, according to sources in the industry. This is big news for many of the smaller video card companies fighting to keep up their market share.
Foxconn's first own-brand graphics card, the PX7900GTX based on Nvidia's GeForce 7900 GTX (G71) graphics processing unit (GPU) that was shown at the CeBIT show in March, was manufactured by Flextronics International, which partnered with Nvidia to co-develop G71-based card products for Nvidia's branded customers, according to market sources.
Posted by | Mon, May 22, 2006 - 08:25 AM
Microsoft Increases Employees' Stock Awards
Microsoft Corp. is raising spending on employees' stock awards by about 15 percent and adding perks to help prevent an exodus of workers to rivals such as Google Inc. Not a bad deal, but is it too late for some employees?
The company's 63,500 workers will get on-site laundry and dry cleaning, better food, discounts on pet and auto care and the return of a free towel service that Microsoft ended in 2004. The world's largest software maker also will increase some employees' pay. Microsoft is responding to complaints from staff and rising competition for workers from Google. Microsoft shares fell 27 cents, of 1.2 percent, to $22.56.
Posted by | Mon, May 22, 2006 - 08:23 AM
Microsoft and AMD announce 'Pay-As-You-Go' PC Program
AMD and Microsoft Corp. today announced an agreement to jointly support flexible business models for emerging markets powered by Microsoft FlexGo technology. The initiative reflects both companies? efforts to bring affordable access to technology to consumers around the world. At the 2006 Microsoft Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Seattle, the companies stated their commitment to support the initiative through a pilot program that provides consumers the opportunity to purchase PCs through a combination of innovative technology and a pay-as-you-go computing model.
Today?s announcement with Microsoft represents a key strategic component of AMD?s 50x15 Initiative, which seeks to apply new and sustainable business models to help narrow the global digital divide. Through AMD?s 50x15 Initiative, the company and its partners are building sustainable ecosystems that incorporate the full range of hardware, software, infrastructure, micro-financing, and entrepreneurial experience necessary to provide affordable, relevant technology to people in high-growth markets.
Posted by | Mon, May 22, 2006 - 08:18 AM
Boot from flash, save to platters, all in one drive.
Samsung, everyone's favorite rising star in the tech sector is to unveil a hybrid drive at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference next week in Seattle. The primary target of the drives will be for laptops, as the platters can power down while the OS and cache runs off the NAND. No information on pricing or storage capacity has been announced.
The drive uses both NAND flash memory with the standard magnetic storage to allow users to boot up twice as fast. Primarily designed for laptops, the drives will be less of a drain on batteries and will add an extra 20 to 30 minutes of battery life.
Posted by | Fri, May 19, 2006 - 05:47 PM
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Electronic Arts Interview With Paul Lee
Troy Wolverton over at The Street has EA in the hot seat for a Q&A that is worth looking at. He nails Paul Lee for delaying a large number of big title games and the president of worldwide studios actually has some decent responses. If you follow gaming you know EA signed Steven Spielberg, but in this interview EA states don't expect to see anything from that deal any time soon. If you are think 2008 or 2009 then you are in the correct time frame!
Timeliness has been an issue for EA of late. You've delayed Godfather. You delayed Superman. Medal Of Honor: Airborne is also delayed. What's going on? Why are you having so much trouble meeting deadlines?
Posted by | Fri, May 19, 2006 - 06:56 AM
Symantec sues Microsoft for stealing trade secrets
Symantec Corp. sued software rival Microsoft Corp. on Thursday, accusing it of misappropriating trade secrets to develop its own competing features and products, including the next version of Windows. I have a strong feeling that Windows is not going to come out when scheduled date in 2007.
The lawsuit filed in federal court in Seattle charges the world's biggest software maker with misappropriating intellectual property and breach of contract related to a licensing deal with Veritas, which Symantec acquired last year. It also seeks an injunction that would block the further development, sale or distribution of Vista -- the already- delayed next version of Windows -- and other products until all Symantec intellectual property is removed.
Posted by | Fri, May 19, 2006 - 06:51 AM
Mosel Vitelic To Stop DRAM production
Mosel Vitelic has decided to stop DRAM production by the end of the first half of this year and gear up for the development of the solar cell market, according to company chairman ML Chen. This means there is one less IC maker on the market. While Mosel memory chips were never a hit in the enthusiast market a number of companies like OCZ Technology have used them from time to time on high end parts.
Solar cell production is expected to be Mosel?s chief business by the fourth quarter of 2007, but until then pure-play foundry services for driver IC and power management (PWM) ICs will be the company?s major sources of revenues, Chen revealed during the company?s investors conference yesterday. He pointed out when he became Mosel chairman last year, he promised to reduce the proportion of DRAM production. In March, DRAM accounted for only about 8% of Mosel?s total revenues for the month, he said.
Posted by | Fri, May 19, 2006 - 06:48 AM
AMD Issues Statement On Dell Decision to Offer Customers Choice
AMD just released the following statement today regarding the announcement Dell Inc. made in its quarterly earnings statement that it intends to offer AMD Opteron Dual Core processor-based servers. Congrats to AMD for finally getting a foot in the door at Dell!
"We welcome Dell, and Dell customers, to the world of AMD64," said Marty Seyer, AMD senior vice president, Commercial Business. "Dell is a customer-focused company and we're pleased to see that they are listening to their customers and providing them the choice of innovative AMD products. We look forward to working closely with Dell in bringing the benefits of AMD leadership in performance-per-watt solutions to Dell customers."
Posted by | Thu, May 18, 2006 - 02:06 PM
Shareholders approve Seagate acquisition of Maxtor
Seagate Technology , and Maxtor Corporation announced late yesterday that Seagate shareholders and Maxtor stockholders have approved the previously announced definitive merger agreement under which Seagate will acquire Maxtor in an all stock transaction. Looks like all parties have a green light for the merger to happen!
Seagate has approached this transaction much differently than traditional mergers and acquisitions. This combination will deliver greater scale by leveraging Seagate's successful business model and is not intended to be a traditional integration of product lines or operations," said Bill Watkins, Seagate's President and CEO. "The acquisition of Maxtor will further build on Seagate's foundation as the premier global hard disc drive company and strengthens our ability to drive future growth by providing enhanced operating scale and key resources to fuel product innovation, maximize efficiency and realize significant cost benefits.
Posted by | Thu, May 18, 2006 - 10:08 AM
Micron to unveil 8-megapixel image chip for cameras
Chip-maker Micron Technology Inc. will unveil a thumbnail-sized digital sensor that enables pocket-sized cameras and cell phones to capture bursts of 10 high-quality photos in a single second or even high-definition video. This is great news and I'm glad to see Micron in the news again!
Production of the new 8-megapixel digital image sensor is expected to begin early next year at Micron's fabrication plants in Idaho and Italy, the Boise-based company said Thursday. Devices using the new chip should reach consumers by late 2007 and will feature high-speed, high-megapixel digital photography capabilities normally found in more expensive, single-lens reflex cameras.
Posted by | Thu, May 18, 2006 - 08:09 AM
Sony Ericsson launches five new mobile phones Z710 Included
Sony Ericsson on Thursday announced five new mobile phones for the end-of-year holiday shopping season, including two flip phones, two Walkman phones and one with Chinese character handwriting recognition. The Z710 business phone looks interesting and more information on it can be found here.
The more expensive Z710 business phone, priced between 200 and 300 euros, has a 2 megapixel camera and connects via most 2G GSM networks. It is aimed to fill the gap it left open after its hugely successful T610 ended its run, analyst Milanesi said. "There's a need for a high volume product within the enterprise segment," Lilja Molen said about the Z710.
Posted by | Thu, May 18, 2006 - 08:07 AM
Microsoft plans mobile DRM with NTT DoCoMo
Microsoft is planning on getting into the mobile digital rights management (DRM) market and has signed a deal with Japan's NTT DoCoMo phone company. The deal is to standardize that provider's phones with Windows Media Audio and Windows Media DRM.
Microsoft has big plans to get a universal DRM standard at some point, based around its own software, of course. The move is just in Japan at the moment, where Microsoft is not a big player in the media electronics market. However NTT DoCoMo does have a lot of pull in other countries. If it all works, then Microsoft could see its DRM system spreading.
Posted by | Thu, May 18, 2006 - 08:03 AM
GameStop Knocks Off Estimate
GameStop reported better-than-expected first-quarter earnings Thursday as sales more than doubled, thanks to the acquisition of Electronics Boutique. Who said that all gaming companies are doing bad?
GameStop earned $11.7 million, or 15 cents a share, in the quarter, compared with $10.3 million, or 19 cents a share, a year ago (the average number of diluted shares rose 44%, year over year). On average, analysts had been expecting earnings of 5 cents a share in the most recent quarter. First-quarter sales were $1.04 billion, up from $474.7 million. Analysts were expecting sales of $1.03 billion in the most recent quarter.
Posted by | Thu, May 18, 2006 - 08:00 AM
Asustek gets Apple team ready at factory for volume production of MacBook
In line with the latest launch of Apple Computer?s Intel Core Duo-based MacBook, Asustek Computer has camped out its design team specializing in Apple products at the company?s manufacturing facilities in Suzhou in preparation for volume production, according to sources at Taiwan notebook makers.
pple released the detail specifications regarding the long-anticipated MacBook on its website and the company is taking online orders. Volume shipments are expected to start in June and Apple?s production partner, Asustek, is fully prepared for production. The sources noted that the design team of Asustek has been sent to Asusalpha Computer, the China subsidiary of Asustek, to make sure mass production proceeds smoothly.
Posted by | Thu, May 18, 2006 - 07:58 AM
Pioneer Ships First PC-Based Blue-Ray Burner
Today, Pioneer announced the release of the BDR-101A, the first PC-Based Blu-ray Disc Burner. Rewritable media from TDK, and software from Roxio give this burner 50GB of capacity on a dual layer Blu-ray disc (BD-R & BD-RE). Unfortunately, the read/write speed is only 2x with the IDE (ATA/66) interface. Is HD burning and mass storage worth $1000 per unit?
Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. is now shipping the industry's first Blu-ray Disc (BD) computer drives. The new Pioneer BDR-101A will change the way digital and high-definition media are stored by increasing disc capacity and performance capability. By utilizing shorter wavelength blue lasers, the BDR-101A can burn up to 25 gigabytes (billion bytes) of information on a single layer Blu-ray Disc.
Posted by | Wed, May 17, 2006 - 02:48 PM
Apple Suit Seen Hurting Creative in Long Run
MP3 music player maker Creative's U.S. patent lawsuit against Apple has boosted the loss-making Singapore firm's shares, but analysts fear it will disrupt management turnaround efforts. I find it interesting that a lawsuit helped jump Creative shares 10 percent in just a single day!
On Wednesday morning, Creative shares rose as much as 9.3 percent to S$10.00 on thin volume, buoyed by news of the patent infringement suit, which relates to a system developed to organize and access songs. At midday, the stock was up 7.7 percent at S$9.85. Apple shares fell more than 4 percent on Tuesday in active trade on Nasdaq, due partly to the patent lawsuit and on concerns its business may be slowing. "The lawsuit will be a long process, and even if they win, any damages awarded will be a one-off gain. This does not change Creative's business fundamentals and the fact that there is nothing much to look forward to on the operations front."
Posted by | Wed, May 17, 2006 - 09:47 AM
H-P earnings up 51 percent
Hewlett-Packard Co.'s fiscal second-quarter profit rose 51 percent Tuesday as the printer and computer company benefitted from cost-cutting, gains in PC market share and higher revenue. This is a shocker to some, but expected after all the cost cutting H-P has done in recent months.
For the three months ended April 30, HP earned $1.46 billion, or 51 cents a share. Sales rose 5 percent to $22.6 billion.
Posted by | Wed, May 17, 2006 - 09:44 AM
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