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Nvidia to be the first TSMC customer to run 55nm designs
With Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) announcing its readiness to begin production on 55nm process, sources at Taiwan motherboard makers noted that Nvidia is very likely to be the first customer to introduce production on this half node geometry.
Given its long established ties with TSMC, Nvidia started pilot runs on 55nm in early 2007 and samples should be available for customers in the second half of 2007, the sources detailed. The graphics chip maker should introduce 55nm in volume production in the first quarter of 2008, the sources added. A Chinese-language Commercial Times report also cited sources at equipment makers as saying that AMD has also started pilot runs on 55nm. Chips fabricated on 55nm are to hit the market in early 2008.
Posted by | Wed, Mar 28, 2007 - 08:02 AM
OCZ Launches Trifecta Flash Memory Card
OCZ Technology today released the most innovative Secure Digital memory solution on the market, the new OCZ Trifecta SD card series. This unique combination of microSD, SD and a USB key in one unit creates a new way of sharing files between your mobile phone, MP3 player, digital camera, and PC.
“Today’s latest generation of cell phones possess superior multimedia features including integrated cameras and the ability to play MP3s,” said Alex Mei, VP of Marketing, OCZ Technology Group. “With more and more mobile phones and consumer devices making use of microSD, the Trifecta’s unique 3-in-1 design allows consumers to take full advantage of their handset’s features, as well as give them the flexibility to use microSD in their other devices, and the freedom to access their data without the use of a reader.”
Posted by | Tue, Mar 27, 2007 - 10:15 AM
Super Talent Announces 4 GigaByte DDR2-800 Gaming Kit
Super Talent Technology today announced a new 4 GigaByte 800MHz DDR2 memory kit that is aimed at gamers and enthusiasts. The new T800UX4GC5 is a matched pair of 2 GigaByte 800MHz DDR2 non-ECC unbuffered 240-pin DIMMs. This kit has been tested and is guaranteed to operate at 800MHz in a dual channel motherboard at 5-5-5-15 latencies at 2.1 Volts.
“A fast new breed of affordable gigabit DDR2 IC’s is now making new modules feasible that three months ago were impractical”, stated Joe James, Marketing Director at Super Talent Technology. “This kit is ideal for memory hungry applications running in Windows™ XP x64 and Windows Vista™ Ultimate operating systems, allowing customers a path to 8 GigaBytes of system memory by using two kits”, Mr. James added.
Posted by | Tue, Mar 27, 2007 - 09:08 AM
Amazon leaks details on Abode's Creative Suite 3
Amazon Canada accidentally revealed on Monday a number of details--from prices to release dates--for Adobe Systems' highly anticipated Creative Suite 3. The leak, which was reported by Apple Insider, has made information about CS3 available in advance of Adobe's formal announcement on Tuesday.
Included on the Amazon pages are prices for the various full versions, upgrade packages, and individual software editions like Photoshop and InDesign. Prices range from $95 for an upgrade version of Web authoring tool Contribute--which became Adobe property when the company acquired rival Macromedia in 2005--to $2,957 for the full Master Collection of all CS3 applications. The beta version of CS3 was released to existing Creative Suite 2 owners in December. According to the leaked Amazon data, the final versions of CS3 products will start shipping on April 20.
Posted by | Mon, Mar 26, 2007 - 11:06 AM
NVIDIA Launches nForce 680i LT SLI MCP
Early this morning NVIDIA released the nForce 680i LT SLI motherboard series for hardcore gamers. This new NVIDIA nForce 680i LT SLI MCP is said to deliver the best-in-class performance for Intel Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme processors. Don't take their word for it and be sure to check out our review of the eVGA 680i LT SLI motherboard and be sure to check out what the other professional reviewers are saying over at The Tech Report and Hot Hardware.
The NVIDIA nForce 680i LT SLI “Designed by NVIDIA” motherboard is engineered for the extreme gamer. Featuring award-winning NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI performance at a great price, the NVIDIA nForce 680i LT includes true dual x16 PCI Express slots with support for NVIDIA SLI technology, and SLI-Ready memory with EPP for one-click access to enhanced memory settings. This motherboard delivers best-in-class overclocking capability, allowing extreme gamers to push their CPU and memory components to the next level. Coupled with tools like NV BIOS and NVIDIA nTune utility for Microsoft Windows, the NVIDIA nForce 680i LT SLI motherboard gives gamers complete control of their system.
Posted by | Mon, Mar 26, 2007 - 09:09 AM
Alcatel Snags $6 Billion Verizon Pact
Verizon Wireless, seeking to continue its network expansion effort, signed a $6 billion supply contract with Alcatel-Lucent. The three-year deal, announced Monday at the opening of the CTIA Wireless conference in Orlando, Fla., calls for Alcatel-Lucent to provide so-called EV-DO Rev. A upgrades to the Verizon Wireless U.S. network.
Verizon Wireless, a joint venture between Verizon and Vodafone, says it is adding the new gear, including advanced switching and transport equipment, to help provide services like voice over Internet protocol, mobile video and possibly two-way instant communications called push-to-x. Verizon Wireless says the move will help transform its network to Internet protocol.
Posted by | Mon, Mar 26, 2007 - 09:03 AM
AMD pushes IT automation - SIMFIRE
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) released a software tool Monday that could allow hardware and software vendors to meet a new industry standard for IT management and security.
Technology vendors can use AMD's SIMFIRE to test whether their products meet a standard called DASH, for desktop and mobile architecture for system hardware. The Distributed Management Task Force Inc. unveiled the new DASH specification on Thursday as a replacement for the four-year-old Alert Standard Format (ASF). This jumble of acronyms is important to IT managers because the new standard will allow them to manage a diverse pool of corporate computing gear even if it includes desktops and notebooks made by various vendors, said Margaret Lewis, director of commercial solutions at AMD.
Posted by | Mon, Mar 26, 2007 - 08:57 AM
Intel announces plans for first 12-inch fab in China
Intel today announced plans to build a 12-inch wafer fabrication facility (Fab 68) in China in the northeast coastal city of Dalian. The US$2.5 billion investment for Fab 68 will become Intel's first wafer fab in Asia and adds significant investment to Intel's existing operations in China.
Construction on Fab 68 is scheduled to begin later in 2007 with production projected to begin in the first half of 2010. Initial production will be dedicated to chipsets to support Intel’s core microprocessor business. When completed, Fab 68 will become part of Intel's manufacturing network that includes eight 12-inch factories in 2010 with other fabs located in the United States, Ireland and Israel.
Posted by | Mon, Mar 26, 2007 - 08:55 AM
March 23rd News From Around the Web
Friday's Web Reviews
"Now under the Universal abit brand name, the bad ass attitude of ABIT is back with a vengeance. So far we have tested three motherboards under the Universal abit brand - A8N 32X, AB9 Pro and the IN9 32X SLI motherboards and they all performed quite well with the exception of the latter which failed to impressed with very poor overclocking results. Today we have a new motherboard based on Intel’s P965 chipset, the same that was used in the AB9 Pro board, but with a few updates to the design and layout. It is aimed at taking on ASUS and Gigabyte’s Crossfire dual graphics based Intel P965 motherboard - today we test the AB9 QuadGT and see if ABIT are able to produce a motherboard for your Core 2 processor which packs some punch."
Posted by | Fri, Mar 23, 2007 - 07:37 PM
Sony Gives Away 42” TVs With PS3s For Those First In Line
Diehard gamers around the world, some of whom had queued for nearly two days, finally got their hands on brand spanking new Sony Playstation 3 games consoles after midnight launches in Europe, the Middle East and Australasia. If you happened to be one of the first 125 people standing in line at the Virgin Megastore in London, you quickly found out you also get a free 42" Sony TV!
In the basement of Virgin Megastore's flagship London outlet, hardcore video game fans who waited in line for more than a day for the midnight launch were rewarded by Sony, which gifted each of the first 125 a new 42-inch Sony TV.
Posted by | Fri, Mar 23, 2007 - 09:32 AM
Intel releases 50 watt server processors - L5320 and L5310
Intel is introducing two low-voltage processors: the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor L5320 and L5310. The new 50-watt quad-core processors operate at 1.86 GHz and 1.60 GHz, respectively, feature a unique 8 megabytes (MB) of on die cache for faster memory data communication and run on dedicated 1066 MHz front side buses. In 1,000 unit quantities the L5320 is priced at $519 and the L5310 at $455.
Servers based on the new low-power, quad-core processors are designed for dense Internet datacenters, blade servers and industries such as financial services where the scale and density of servers are highly sensitive to power, real estate and cooling costs. The potential for cost savings by replacing aging infrastructure with Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processors and deploying virtualization technology can be as much as $6,000 per year over the lifetime of each server based on Intel's own evaluations.
Posted by | Fri, Mar 23, 2007 - 09:28 AM
Can Hollywood topple YouTube?
NBC Universal and News Corp. announced Thursday that they are teaming up with Google's biggest rivals in an effort to topple 'the kings' of YouTube off their Internet throne.
Executives from NBC Universal and News Corp. are hoping they can turn the tide by giving Google's competitors premium content. At launch, the service will feature shows like ``Heroes,'' ``24,'' ``Saturday Night Live,'' ``The Simpsons,'' ``Prison Break'' and ``Top Chef,'' as well as movies including ``Borat,'' ``Little Miss Sunshine'' and ``The Devil Wears Prada.'' In addition to streaming videos on their partners' Web sites, the venture also is planning to launch its own site and to make player software available that would allow videos to be inserted on other Web pages.
Posted by | Fri, Mar 23, 2007 - 09:19 AM
Google Beats Belgian Lawsuit Claiming That Google Linked to Cracks
A Belgian court dismissed a lawsuit filed by a company that said a feature for Google Inc.'s search engine offers up password-cracking tools and serial numbers to unlock their software.
The lawsuit, filed in May 2006, sought to make Google modify Suggest to not offer up piracy-related terms but did not seek financial damages. On March 1, the Commercial Court in Leuven, Belgium, dismissed the suit, saying Google can't be found liable for finding Web pages that may be involved in illegal activity based on search terms. The court also rejected an argument the Suggest feature offered a misleading advertisement, since that's not the intended function of Suggest, said Trevor Callaghan, Google's senior product counsel for Europe.
Posted by | Fri, Mar 23, 2007 - 09:18 AM
Judge halts patent case against Palm
In a preliminary victory for Palm, a federal judge halted proceedings Thursday related to a patent infringement lawsuit brought against it by NTP. The ruling, handed down by Judge James R. Spencer of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, essentially means Palm can continue to sell products in question--the line of Treo smart phones, the Palm VII, Palm i700 and Palm Tungsten.
All additional discovery, motions and depositions were also halted until the PTO rules on the validity of NTP's patents. Palm originally filed its motion to stay the proceedings on January 31. "We are extremely pleased with the court's decision to grant a stay. We hope and expect that the PTO's review of NTP's patents will confirm the decision of the examiners to reject them all and so avert the need for further litigation of this matter," said Mary Doyle, Palm's senior vice president and general counsel, in a statement.
Posted by | Fri, Mar 23, 2007 - 09:16 AM
Rumor: Apple to postpone Leopard to support Windows Vista
Apple is expected to launch its next generation Leopard operating system (OS) in April, but according to industry sources, the release of the new OS will be postponed to October to allow Apple to make Leopard support Windows Vista through an integrated version of its Boot Camp software. This would be an interesting situation if it holds true!
he sources pointed out that the launch delay is not due to software design problems with Leopard but instead is attributed to Apple's plan to have its new OS support Windows Vista through an integrated version of Boot Camp. Boot Camp is an Apple software application that currently assists in the installation of Windows XP on computers using Apple's latest OS. The company hopes with support for Vista, Mac computers using the new OS can grab more market share, according to the sources.
Posted by | Fri, Mar 23, 2007 - 09:15 AM
Intel Releases Energy Star Implementation Guidelines
Intel Corporation recently announced that it has released a new implementation guide, developed in conjunction with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), that helps PC manufacturers and system integrators deliver ENERGY STAR-qualified PCs based on Intel microprocessors and other system components.
The new implementation guide provides large and small system integrators with key understandings on how to specify and test desktop PC, notebook PC, workstation computer and desktop derived server configurations that can best meet the required power levels of the new specification. . The new version replaces a previous specification that has been in effect since 2000, and is intended to continue to differentiate the market for energy-efficient computers while also accelerating the adoption of energy-efficient technologies.
Posted by | Thu, Mar 22, 2007 - 09:57 AM
U.S. judge blocks 1998 online porn law
A federal judge on Thursday dealt another blow to government efforts to control Internet pornography, striking down a 1998 U.S. law that makes it a crime for commercial Web site operators to let children access "harmful" material.
In the ruling, the judge said parents can protect their children through software filters and other less restrictive means that do not limit the rights of others to free speech. Technology experts said parents now have more serious concerns than Web sites with pornography. For instance, the threat of online predators has caused worries among parents whose children use social-networking sites such as News Corp.'s MySpace.
Posted by | Thu, Mar 22, 2007 - 09:50 AM
Hitachi to slash workforce by 11 percent
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies plans to close a manufacturing plant in Mexico and lay off around 11 percent of its 40,000-person global workforce in a bid to shore up its hard disc drive (HDD) operations.
The company expects the moves to save it $300 million over the next five years through streamlined operations and better efficiency, it said in a statement Thursday. The plan is expected to be completed by the end of 2008. By the middle of that year, Hitachi expects to have shut down an HDD component factory in Guadalajara, Mexico, and phase out the production of media components at its Odawara, Japan, operation, it said.
Posted by | Thu, Mar 22, 2007 - 08:34 AM
Asustek and Gigabyte may not attend CeBIT in 2008
With the number of companies participating at the CeBIT IT trade show declining every year and visitors becoming more localized, Asustek and Gigabyte Technology both stated they are considering whether or not to attend CeBIT in 2008, according to the Chinese-language Commercial Times, citing sources at motherboard makers.
The cost to attend CeBIT is large, but with most visitors to the trade show being end-users and coming from Germany, Taiwan-based OEM and PC part companies did not benefit much from the show, reported the paper.
Posted by | Thu, Mar 22, 2007 - 08:32 AM
Google Takes Click Fraud Action
Google is experimenting with a new way for advertisers to pay for listings. The company said late Tuesday that its new pay-per-action, or PPA, model allows advertisers to specify how much they would pay Google for attracting users who go on to do certain things at a Web site they find through a Google search.
The PPA system would build upon the highly popular pay-per-click, or PPC, system Google currently offers. In the PPC model, advertisers specify how much they are willing to pay for each user that clicks through to their site. In both systems, advertisers pay only for ads that are clicked on. One appeal of the PPA model is that it could cut down on click fraud, where competitors click on links in order to drain advertising budgets. Google's test is reportedly limited to about 75 Web sites and 75 advertisers thus far.
Posted by | Wed, Mar 21, 2007 - 03:19 PM
March 16th to March 21st News From Around the Web
March 16-21st News From Around the Web
"Constructed entirely in aluminum, it comes in either a silver or black anodized finish and promises quiet cooling performance in an elegant package. It comes complete with a 7-inch LCD display, remote control and an impressive battery of software that should make building a top shelf HTPC a relatively easy task for the average enthusiast. Follow along as we take an in-depth look at the Zalman HD160XT. I think you'll be as impressed as I was with this product."
Posted by | Wed, Mar 21, 2007 - 02:52 PM
Mushkin Launches 4GB PC2-6400 Kit With 4-3-3-10 2T Timings
Mushkin has released XP2-6400 4-3-3 modules available in 4GB dual-channel kits and 2GB single DIMMs. Designed for the most demanding enthusiasts, the XP2-6400 is specified for operation at 800MHz, 4-3-3-10 latencies.
Our goal was to enter the 4GB overclocking space with a line of products that would allow enthusiasts to expand their system memory without sacrificing performance,” said Brian Flood, Director of Mushkin Product Development. “With the 4GB XP2-6400 kit, overclockers now have a no-compromise solution for their memory upgrade needs.”
Posted by | Wed, Mar 21, 2007 - 02:17 PM
Killer NIC’s Network Processing Unit Can Now Download Bit Torrent Files While You Game
Bigfoot Networks has recently introduced FN Torrent, a hardware offloaded peer-to-peer file sharing application that allows users to download files with zero impact to CPU utilization. With FN Torrent, gamers have the power to download the torrents they want without impacting their online game play.
“The introduction of FN Torrent allows gamers to benefit from the full potential of the Killer’s Flexible Network Architecture (FNA),” said Harlan Beverly, co-founder and CEO of Bigfoot Networks. “While the Killer NIC makes online gaming faster and smoother, the FN Torrent enables a whole new experience for gamers who want the freedom to download unlimited files from the Internet without slowing down the other things they want to do on their PC.”
Posted by | Wed, Mar 21, 2007 - 02:12 PM
Apple TV Goes On Sale - $299
Apple on Tuesday started selling the Apple TV, the wireless set-top box designed to show video downloaded from the iTunes store on the living-room television. The device has a 40GB hard drive that is able to hold up to 50 hours of video, which is plenty for the average television viewer.
The device, available through Apple's Web site for $299, includes a 40-Gbyte hard drive capable of storing up to 50 hours of video, and a remote control. The appliance ships in three to five business days, and is also available through retailers, according to Apple's site. The Apple TV has the potential to alter the media landscape and boost Apple's value as a company, according to Jonathan Hoopes, a ThinkEquity Partners financial analyst. Hoopes predicts 25% to 70% of the 22 million Mac users, and many more PC users, would buy the device in the next five years, overtaking set-top box maker TiVo and mail-order DVD renter Netflix.
Posted by | Wed, Mar 21, 2007 - 11:04 AM
Computing pioneer John Backus dies - Fortran
John Backus, whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s changed how people interacted with computers and paved the way for modern software, has died. He was 82.
Backus' early work at IBM included computing lunar positions on the balky, bulky computers that were state of the art in the 1950s. But he tired of hand-coding the hardware, and in 1954 he got his bosses to let him assemble a team that could design an easier system. The result, Fortran, short for Formula Translation, reduced the number of programming statements necessary to operate a machine by a factor of 20.
Posted by | Wed, Mar 21, 2007 - 06:58 AM
ATI R600XTX Scores Just 200 Points Higher Than The 8800GTX on 3DMark06
The guys over at VR-Zone have published some benchmarking numbers of what they claim is a retail R600 graphics card that is codenamed the Dragonhead 2. They also talk about the poor 65nm yields and claim that just 20,000 pieces will be available by the middle of April. With drivers that are still under development the card was able to score 200 points higher than the mature GeForce 8800GTX, but what will happen when NVIDIA bumps up the speed on their cards?
we got hold of some preliminary benchmarks figures of the R600 XTX card with core clock at 800MHz vs a GeForce 8800 GTX card. Using a Core 2 Extreme 2.93GHz processor on an Intel 975X board, the 3DMark06 score at 1600x1200 resolution is 97xx on the R600XTX compared to 95xx on the 8800GTX. Seems like R600XTX is running slightly faster than 8800GTX on the early release of drivers for R600. AMD is still working hard on the drivers and there are some more performance left to unlock. However, the DX10 benchmarking war between ATi and NVIDIA has not started yet. The targeted display driver version for launch in May is 8.361 or later (Catalyst 7.4 or 7.5).
Posted by | Wed, Mar 21, 2007 - 06:54 AM
Sony lists games compatible with PlayStation 3
Sony on Tuesday moved to head off a public relations disaster by announcing which older PlayStation 2 games will work on the European version of the PlayStation 3 console due out on Friday. If you want to see what games will work check out this site that Sony has created.
Sony said last month that the PS3 model to be launched in Europe would lack a chip used in the earlier models introduced in Japan and North America in November last year. The function of the chip would be replaced by software, making the console cheaper to produce but taking away the almost full backward compatibility enabling PS2 games to play on PS3.
Posted by | Wed, Mar 21, 2007 - 06:49 AM
Micron opens new testing and packaging facility in China
Micron Technology today officially opened a new manufacturing facility in Xi'an, China. The facility, Micron's first manufacturing facility in China, is designed for assembly and test operations for Micron's semiconductor products, including DRAM, NAND flash memory and CMOS image sensors.
Micron hosted a ceremony at the facility with company, government and community officials on hand. The facility is expected to be built-out by the end of 2008 at an investment of US$250 million and support up to 2,000 employees. The plant is Micron's second assembly and test facility in Asia, with its first being opened in Singapore in 1998. Micron's Xi'an facility will be one of the largest investments of the 860 foreign-invested companies operating in the Xi'an High Tech Zone in Shaanxi Province in midwest China.
Posted by | Wed, Mar 21, 2007 - 06:46 AM
Yahoo jumps ahead of Google on mobile phone search
Yahoo Inc. introduced on Monday a new Internet search system for mobile phone users that delivers locally relevant answers, a move that vaults it ahead of what rival Google Inc. now offers.
Yahoo, which has been playing to catch up to Google in computer Web search, has been making strides in recent months to overtake its rival in the fast emerging mobile Web market. As networks grow faster and most handsets now come with Web browsers, Internet companies are moving aggressively to bring search, e-mail, mapping and other familiar online services to phones. The mobile Web promises to offer a handier way than bulky computers for many consumers to connect to the Internet.
Posted by | Tue, Mar 20, 2007 - 01:33 PM
Fujitsu offers SSDs in LifeBook notebooks
Fujitsu Computer Systems has introduced pen-enabled notebooks with solid state drives (SSDs). The LifeBook P1610 and LifeBook B6210 ultra-portables will offer an option for an SSD, an NAND flash-based replacement for traditional hard disk drives (HDDs).
The 2.2-pound LifeBook P1610 convertible touch screen notebook and 3.2-pound LifeBook B6210 touch screen notebook are now offered with two flash-based SSD configurations, 16GB or 32GB. SSDs offer lower power consumption, added ruggedness, high reliability, and improved performance. The LifeBook P1610 convertible notebook offers full PC functionality and an 8.9-inch indoor/outdoor touch screen. It is designed for on-the-go mobile professionals who require the flexibility of a tablet for note-taking or navigating through forms-based applications, along with the traditional keyboard input of a notebook computer, noted Fujitsu.
Posted by | Tue, Mar 20, 2007 - 01:32 PM
Is Motorola Preparing a Deal with Palm?
Motorola chief Ed Zander's sudden schedule change fuels speculation that the company is preparing a deal with Palm. Zander was scheduled to give a keynote speech at the CTIA Wireless industry conference next week in Orlando, Fla., but he had an "unforeseen scheduling conflict" and had to cancel, Bloomberg reported Tuesday
Zander's surprising absence from the high profile event helps add to the ongoing rumors that Palm is taking offers from heavyweights in the mobile phone business and private equity. "There's a process being run," said one hedge fund manager, referring to bankers shopping Palm around to private equity groups. The investor has been a longtime holder of Palm stock and clearly would be a beneficiary if the company gets a good takeout price.
Posted by | Tue, Mar 20, 2007 - 01:31 PM
Study Shows Video racing games may spur risky driving
People who play car racing video games may be more prone to drive recklessly and get into accidents, according to a study that adds to evidence that video games can influence the behavior of some players. I would have to agree with them, but since I don't have an unlimited budget I tend to not hit trees, buildings, people or other cars trying to get around them!
The researchers first questioned 198 men and women. Those who played the games most often were more likely to report engaging in aggressive and risky driving and getting in auto accidents. Those who played these games less often reported driving more cautiously, the researchers said. The researchers then studied 68 men and found those who played even one racing game took more risks afterward in traffic situations on a computer simulator than those who played another type of game.
Posted by | Mon, Mar 19, 2007 - 07:04 AM
Russia Makes Gas-Powered Boots That do 22 mph!!
Gordeyev, a specialist in airplane piston engines, has developed a gasoline-powered boot that can take you up to 22mph! They are said to look like pogo sticks that strap to your shins, and they work on the same principle as the air-cushioned basketball shoe. I don't know how much these cost or if they will ever be sold, but I'd love to try them out! Heck, just imagine if these were available a couple years ago and Johnny Knoxville got his hands on a pair!
A test runner once topped out at 21.7 miles per hour, despite the risk of being sent off-balance. The tanks in the shoes hold a third of a cup of gasoline each and will take the runner three miles; that means the boots get about 70 miles per gallon
Posted by | Mon, Mar 19, 2007 - 07:01 AM
Nokia Sues Qualcomm Over Patent Dispute
Qualcomm lightened its legal load with a mutual agreement to drop some patent cases with Broadcom, but faces a new claim in Europe from Nokia. Qualcomm and Nokia have been sniping at one another over patent issues for some time. They have a license that is due to expire in May, so this is about to get hot and heavy.
Nokia announced today that it has filed complaints against Qualcomm in Germany and the Netherlands requesting declarations that Qualcomm's European patents are exhausted in respect of products placed on the European Union market with a Qualcomm license, in this instance chipsets supplied by Texas Instruments. Texas Instruments and Qualcomm aentered into a Patent Portfolio License in 2000, Nokia said.
Posted by | Mon, Mar 19, 2007 - 06:56 AM
Asustek aims to ship over 2.5 million notebooks in Europe in 2007
Yen-cheng Chen, president of sales for Asustek's European operations said the company’s own brand notebook was ranked number six in Europe with 1.63-1.64 million units shipped in the fourth quarter of 2006.
This year, the company plans to focus on the Eastern European market and has set a shipment goal of 2.5-3 million units for the whole of Europe, reported the Chinese-language Apple Daily. Chen pointed out that Asustek’s notebook market share currently ranks second in Eastern Europe and that the company will focus on this market to boost shipments with the hope of becoming one of the top five notebook brands in the European market, reported the pape
Posted by | Mon, Mar 19, 2007 - 06:53 AM
March 12th to 16th News From Around the Web
This Weeks Web Reviews
"Overall, the eTorque is a decent case for the money, but a few bad marks bring it down from a Top Rank product. The lack of case fans is something to keep in mind if you're looking at this case, the front panel door doesn't have much room for fan controllers, and the top mounted USB/FireWire jacks all take the eTorque down a few notches."
Posted by | Fri, Mar 16, 2007 - 07:54 PM
How to run Windows Vista legally without activation ... for at least a year
Windows Vista can be run for at least a year without being activated, a serious end run around one of Microsoft Corp.'s key anti-piracy measures, Windows expert Brian Livingston said today.
"The [activation] demands that Vista puts on corporate buyers is much more than on XP," said Livingston. "Vista developers have [apparently] programmed in back doors to get around time restrictions for Vista activation." Microsoft promptly labeled the registry change a "hack," a loaded word that is usually synonymous with "illegal."
Posted by | Fri, Mar 16, 2007 - 08:59 AM
Nintendo Wii top-selling game console in February
Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s Wii was the best-selling video game console in the United States in February, console makers said on Thursday, citing sales results from market research firm NPD. While the Wii being number one is no big shocker the fact that the Xbox 360 is still selling so well is amazing.
Consumers bought 335,000 Wii consoles and 127,000 of Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 consoles in February. Both systems debuted in November, and the Wii is priced at $250, compared with the $600 top-end version of the PS3. Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360, which came out in November 2005, sold 228,000 units, making it the second-biggest selling console in February.
Posted by | Fri, Mar 16, 2007 - 08:47 AM
Intel suffered but AMD surged in 2006, iSuppli says
It was a tale of two companies in the semiconductor industry in 2006, with leading chip supplier Intel suffering a revenue decline, while rival AMD nearly doubled its sales, according to iSuppli. Everyone expected this, but the technology industry is used to events like this.
For US microprocessor giant Intel, 2006 was the worst of times, as its global semiconductor revenue dropped by 11.1% from 2005," said Dale Ford, vice president of market intelligence for iSuppli. "The revenue decline, which was due to Intel's bleak performance in its core PC microprocessor and flash-memory businesses, erased nearly all of the company's sales gains from its strong year in 2005. Intel's 2006 revenue of US$31.5 billion was less than half a percentage point higher than its sales in 2004.
Posted by | Fri, Mar 16, 2007 - 08:43 AM
Anticlimactic end to HP case - Charges Dropped
In dropping felony charges against former Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman Patricia Dunn over the HP spying scandal, the state of California acknowledged Wednesday that despite the bravado and bluster of its charges, it just didn't have a very strong case.
After weeks of behind-the-scenes negotiations among prosecutors and defense attorneys, the state dropped all four felony charges against Dunn, who was vilified for starting a spying operation on her board. California Attorney General Jerry Brown, who inherited a case that was filed Oct. 4 by then-Attorney General Bill Lockyer, also agreed to reduce the four felony charges against each of the three remaining defendants to one misdemeanor each.
Posted by | Thu, Mar 15, 2007 - 08:38 AM
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