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U.S. House approves less stringent anti-spyware bill
The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Tuesday that would impose specific penalties for the fraudulent use of spyware but would not impose new requirements on software makers.
House lawmakers approved a bill providing for up to five years in jail for those who use spyware to commit fraud but stops short of regulatory requirements sought by some lawmakers. The bill passed by the House on Tuesday is supported by the software industry. It omits provisions in competing legislation endorsed by the House Energy and Commerce Committee that would require software distributors and advertisers to clearly notify and obtain consent from consumers before programs can be loaded onto a computer.
Posted by | Wed, May 23, 2007 - 07:21 AM
AMD Claims Better 45nm Innovations Than Rival Intel
Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are competing in a high-stakes battle to adopt 45-nanometer technology, where the size of circuitry on a chip averages 45 nanometers, as opposed to 65 nanometers today.
Intel claims a year's lead in the process. AMD says it is only six months behind. 45-nanometer chips are faster, cheaper and less power-hungry. They will be used in personal computers that are more powerful and more efficient. AMD says it is bringing innovations to its 45-nanometer production that Intel is not deploying. One is "immersion" lithography that will more effectively etch circuits on a piece of silicon and allow a factory to increase its output of finished wafers.
Posted by | Wed, May 23, 2007 - 07:19 AM
Dell introduces XPS 720 H2C gaming rig
Dell expanded its line of desktop gaming systems by introducing the XPS 720 H2C, which is designed for overclocking. With a starting price of US$5,999, the XPS 720 H2C features Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core processor QX6700 at 2.66GHz (factory overclocked to 3.46GHz) combined with Nvidia nForce 680i SLI MCP, 2GB 800MHz Corsair DOMINATOR DDR2 memory featuring EPP (factory overclocked to 1066MHz) and SLI-enabled dual 768MB Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX graphics cards.
The XPS 720 H2C pushes the performance with Enhanced Performance Profiles (EPP) memory technology. The system ships with 800MHz Corsair DOMINATOR EPP memory modules (factory overclocked to 1066MHz) combined with Intel multi-core processors (factory overclocked up to bin+3). Additionally, BIOS switches allow users to manipulate the speed of the FSB (front side bus) and chipset through the Windows operating system and third-party applications such as Nvidia's nTune.
Posted by | Wed, May 23, 2007 - 07:18 AM
Real Estate Tycoon Joseph Lau Orders Himself a Boeing 787
Boeing Co. said on Tuesday it received an order for a private 787 airplane from Hong Kong real estate tycoon Joseph Lau. The order for Boeing's new carbon-composite 787-8 model, which would seat up to 250 people if configured as a normal airliner, is valued at $153 million at list prices, the planemaker said. That must be nice to have all that money and be able to order jumbo jets for private use!
Lau is one of Asia's richest entrepreneurs, with a net worth of about $2.1 billion, according to Forbes magazine. He holds stakes in Hong Kong property developer Chinese Estates Holdings Ltd. and department store owner Lifestyle International Holdings Ltd. He is one of the world's leading art buyers, setting a record for Andy Warhol purchases last year when he bought the artist's portrait of Chinese leader Mao Zedong for $17.4 million. Lau is also a red wine collector, reportedly owning more than 10,000 bottles.
Posted by | Tue, May 22, 2007 - 03:25 PM
Intel Will Not Use Lead in Future Microprocessors!
Intel Corporation today announced that its future processors, beginning with its entire family of 45 nanometer (nm) high-k metal gate (Hi-k) processors, are going 100 percent lead-free. The Intel 45nm Hi-k family includes the next-generation Intel Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad and Xeon processors, and the company will begin 45nm Hi-k production in the second half of this year.
Due to lead’s potential impact to the environment and public health, Intel has worked for years with its suppliers and other companies in the semiconductor and electronics industry to develop lead-free solutions as part of its long-standing commitment to environmental practices. In 2002, Intel produced its first lead-free flash memory products. In 2004, the company began shipping products with 95 percent less lead than previous microprocessor and chipset packages. To replace the remaining 5 percent (about .02 grams) of lead solder historically found in the first-level interconnect -- the solder joint that connects the silicon die to the package substrate -- in processor packages, Intel will use a tin/silver/copper alloy.
Posted by | Tue, May 22, 2007 - 01:27 PM
Western Digital Lowers Inverstors' Expectations - Tough Market
Western Digital took another step to ratchet down investors' expectations for fiscal fourth-quarter results, reminding them Monday that demand for its primary product, hard-disk drives, typically weakens in the quarter ending in June and that this year will be no different.
Western Digital's stock has tumbled in 2007 on worries that makers of consumer-electronic devices will replace its hard drives with so-called flash memory storage devices. Shares began to rise in April, helped by strong sales of desktop and notebook PCs with hard drives, but are still 18% below their December level.
Posted by | Tue, May 22, 2007 - 11:50 AM
NVIDIA Announces $1 Billion Stock Repurchase Program
NVIDIA Corporation today announced a stock repurchase program under which NVIDIA may purchase up to $1 billion of its common stock. Since authorizing its first stock repurchase program in August 2004, NVIDIA has spent $613.1 million to repurchase 31.4 million shares of its common stock.
The repurchases will be made in the open market, in privately negotiated transactions, or in structured share repurchase programs, and may be made from time to time or in one or more larger repurchases. The program will be conducted in compliance with the SEC's Rule 10b-18 and applicable legal requirements and shall be subject to market conditions and other factors.
Posted by | Tue, May 22, 2007 - 09:37 AM
Chip brands failing Intel, AMD
Core Duo, Core2 Duo, Pentium Dual Core, Fusion, CoreFusion. Confusion? That seems to be the mental state of consumers, based on a new report that says a dizzying array of chip brands isn't much help for buyers. Surprisingly, even tech savvy early adopters mix up all the monikers that Intel, AMD and others dream up, according to a survey conducted by market researcher In-Stat. The brands covered included chips from AMD, ATI, IBM, Intel, Nvidia, and Via.
"Recent moves away from the Pentium brand, coupled with attacks on the Celeron brand by AMD, have weakened Intel's once near dominance in this area," said Ian Lao, an In-Stat analyst. In other words, Intel probably needs to bring back the Blue Man Group. Nothing builds brand recognition like a bunch of bald blue guys banging the drum for Centrino. Or is it Centro, or Cenfusion? — ah, so easy to mix things up.
Posted by | Tue, May 22, 2007 - 09:20 AM
DRAM Capacity Reduction To Stabilize Prices
According to the latest market report from DRAMeXchange, DRAM spot prices last week slipped more than 10%, as the market showed no increase in demand. That is a huge drop for a market where the profit margin is now next to nothing.
Amid the tumbling contract prices, DRAM makers are already experiencing a loss. Despite the already dismal prices, the continuing ramp up from DRAM makers are allowing OEMs to ask for further price cuts. With DDR2 512MB U-DIMM 667MHz now only at USD17.00, there are at least some signs of a price stabilization in 2HMay. Contract Prices are expected to drop less severely in 2HMay, as some manufacturers have already reflected the persisting downward price trend in their 1HMay quotes. Thus, the pricing levels in 2HMay may be relatively the same as in 1HMay.In light of the current oversupply, some DRAM makers are reducing their losses by transferring some of their capacity to other types of products. This should help partly alleviate the demand and supply imbalance.
Posted by | Tue, May 22, 2007 - 08:07 AM
Win $2993 If You Can Beat FATAL1TY In Taiwan
owerColor, Cooler Master and Universal ABIT are in search of a challenger in Taiwan to take on Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel, during COMPUTEX 2007. Will people please start beating him so they stop doing these challenges? Oh wait he has hired all the good people to be on his brand line and they won't play him... If you can't beat them -- hire them!
Is this guy human? Can he be defeated? PowerColor, Cooler Master and Universal ABIT want a worthy challenger to give him a run for his money. We will reward the challenger with 100,000 NTD if he or she can defeat Fatal1ty on June 5th.
Posted by | Tue, May 22, 2007 - 08:05 AM
Intel To Announce Processor With Hundreds of Cores Today?
Intel is expected to unveil on Tuesday research plans for chips with hundreds of cores, or electronic brains, and a new way to ease the bottleneck these more complex processors will create talking to the memory in a computer.
Ten years ago, engineers could foresee a decade into the future as they projected new manufacturing technology, said Mark Bohr, a senior Intel fellow. Now they can foresee improvements that extend less than five years, Bohr said. "We are now in an era where we have to continue to innovate with new materials and structures" for transistors, Bohr said. "New materials have been introduced at a higher pace than a few years ago."
Posted by | Tue, May 22, 2007 - 08:02 AM
AMD shows sunny side of Barcelona
Advanced Micro Devices is ready to start fighting back against Intel with silicon, but Intel has an answer in the waiting. AMD demonstrated its Barcelona quad-core server chip for reporters and analysts here Monday, comparing its performance to one of AMD's dual-core Opteron processors. This marked the first time AMD shared Barcelona performance information with anyone outside of its server partners and internal folks, said Randy Allen, corporate vice president for server and workstations at AMD.
AMD did not test Barcelona's performance against one of Intel's quad-core Clovertown Xeon processors, but Allen said Barcelona "will be the highest-performing x86 chip out there. It will blow away Clovertown." But soon after AMD's Barcelona arrives, Intel will launch its Penryn processors, which are expected to be a significant improvement once again over the current generation. Allen said he couldn't project Barcelona's performance against Penryn, since Intel hasn't published any benchmark results based on the forthcoming chip.
Posted by | Tue, May 22, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Linux on Dells to debut Thursday
Dell is expected to begin selling on Thursday three models of its long-awaited laptop and desktop computers loaded with Ubuntu Linux. I think this is a great move on Dell's part and for all consumers as we now have a choice of what OS brand we get to pick from.
"We will be launching a Linux-based OS [Ubuntu] on the E520 [budget Dimension desktop PC], 1505 [Inspiron laptop] and [home entertainment level PC] XPS 410 starting next Thursday, 5/24," the Dell e-mail stated, according to Garcia's blog. "Please cover the huddle deck below with your team by [end of business] Sunday. If any questions come up, please let me know so I can address them before launch. The goal of launching Linux is to continue to give our customers more choices to customize their new Dell. Providing more options to our Linux Enthusiast customer group will hopefully create even more Raving Fans!!"
Posted by | Tue, May 22, 2007 - 07:58 AM
Internet pioneer to oversee its redesign - GENI Gains Ground
A government contractor that played a key role in the Internet's birth will oversee efforts to redesign the network from scratch. The National Science Foundation announced Monday that BBN Technologies Inc. will get up to $10 million over four years to oversee the planning and design of the Global Environment for Network Innovations, or GENI.
A new Internet could ultimately mean replacing networking equipment and rewriting software on computers, at a cost of billions of dollars. But any new network is likely to run parallel with the existing one for some time, with individuals and businesses gradually migrating over as they need more advanced applications. Clean-slate advocates say the current piecemeal effort to address security and other problems only creates inefficiencies and opens the network to more risk.
Posted by | Tue, May 22, 2007 - 07:56 AM
Google offers daily updates on trends
he art of trend-spotting is set to take a more scientific turn as Google Inc., the world's top Web search company, on Tuesday unveils a service to track the fastest-rising search queries. It's pretty interesting, but what can you do with this list of random stuff?
Hot Trends, a list of the current top-100 fastest-rising search trends, will be refreshed several times daily, using data from millions of Google Web searches conducted up to an hour before each update, the company said.
Posted by | Tue, May 22, 2007 - 07:55 AM
Motherboard makers to showcase more Intel Bearlake at Computex
Although several versions of the Intel Bearlake family of chipsets will not be released until the third quarter of 2007, motherboard makers will have sample products on show during Computex Taipei 2007, according to sources at Taiwan-based motherboard makers.
Motherboards based on P35 and G33 versions of the Bearlake family which were announced during CeBit 2007 have already been launched by some motherboard makers and are available in certain channel markets ranging between NT$4000 (US$119.71) - NT$7000. Intel is yet to officially launch these chipsets, with the event scheduled for some time in the second quarter, according to sources.
Posted by | Tue, May 22, 2007 - 07:51 AM
May 18th through May 21st News from Around the Web
Today's Web Reviews
"For $20, the Scout webcam is worth the purchase. It takes good still shots, decent video, and has a built in microphone. Its small size makes it ultra portable and I would have liked to see Cyber Snipa include a carrying case. It stays put when clipped onto an LCD monitor but can also stand on its own. For basic webcam functions it works great."
Posted by | Mon, May 21, 2007 - 08:18 PM
Intel to slash prices for quad-core server processors in July
Intel plans to slash prices 40-60% for quad-core server processors in order to achieve its shipment goal and to foil competition from AMD's upcoming launch of its Barcelona series CPUs, according to industry sources. Looks like this summer will be a perfect time to get into quad-core processing!
Intel will cut the prices for one-way server Kentsfield processors on July 22 along with price reductions for desktop processors, while two-way server Clovertown processors will see prices slashed at the end of July, the sources said. The Kentsfield Xeon X3210 and X3220 will have their prices cut to US$224 and US$266 respectively, while prices for the Clovertown Xeon E5310, E5320, E5335, E5345, and X5355 will go down to US$209, US$256, US$316, US$455, and US$744 respectively, the sources said.
Posted by | Mon, May 21, 2007 - 03:32 PM
IBM Powers Up New Power6 Processor
IBM unveiled a new microprocessor Monday, claiming advances in performance and power consumption for the high-end servers used by many corporations. The Power6 features 790 million transistors, with circuits measuring 65 nanometers and is said to be pretty quick!
The new Power6 chip is the latest update to IBM's line of Power microprocessors, following the three-year-old Power5 generation of chips. The Power6 boasts a clock-speed of 4.7 gigahertz, which is twice as fast as its predecessor, according to IBM.
Posted by | Mon, May 21, 2007 - 03:31 PM
Kingston Technology subsidiary to start WBGA lines this June
Kingston Technology's wholly-owned subsidiary in China, Payton Technology, will start production of its window ball grid array (WBGA) lines in June, with a monthly capacity of 10 million units, and will chiefly process orders from its parent company and packaging and testing firm Powertech Technology Incorporated (PTI), according to the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN).
Kingston, which holds about 20% of PTI, sees PTI as a partner, rather than a competitor of Payton in the packaging and testing business, the paper said, adding that PTI is also considering acquiring Payton in the future to accelerate its deployment in China.
Posted by | Fri, May 18, 2007 - 06:44 AM
May 13 through 17th News From Arond the Web
Web Reviews for May 13 through 17th
You would think that the Radeon X1950PRO would just about be discontinued, with the new mid-range graphics cards from Nvidia offering Direct X 10 and the HD 2600 just around the corner, why would you even bother looking at the AMD DX9 counterpart?
Posted by | Thu, May 17, 2007 - 08:02 PM
Google retools search engine
In a bold and potentially risky move, Google is making dramatic changes to the way it helps hundreds of millions of people find information on the Internet. Executives Wednesday unveiled a new master search engine at the company's Mountain View headquarters. In addition to pointing people to Web sites, Google will now steer them to digital books, movies, images, news articles and maps that could contain the answers they are looking for.
The new search engine at google.com, whose features are going to be slowly rolled out over the coming months, combines half a dozen search engines previously used only by a handful of cognoscenti who knew where to find them on Google's sprawling Web site.
Posted by | Thu, May 17, 2007 - 08:14 AM
Intel chipset road map slowed down by Windows Vista drivers
What has taken Intel so long? For one thing, Intel says the ever-changing requirements for Windows Vista drivers forced it to pull resources away from the project to make sure it had stable drivers for all of its chipsets.
We had to do many, many iterations of engineering work to get a functioning driver for Vista," said Mike Joy, graphics software product marketing engineer for Intel's mobile platforms group. Intel wasn't alone in having problems creating graphics drivers for Vista; Nvidia also suffered several delays getting its own drivers ready. Intel also says that PC companies, when informed of the time crunch, wanted Intel to focus on improving the video processing quality of the 965 chipset over 3D technology like vertex processing. "We put our focus first on video, but now we're refocused on getting our vertex processing capabilities delivered," Newman said.
Posted by | Thu, May 17, 2007 - 08:11 AM
Kingston Technology invests in packaging and testing house OSE
Kingston Technology announced that it will invest NT$184 million (US$5.51 million) in Taiwan-based packaging and testing house Orient Semiconductor Electronics (OSE) through private placement. The sum amounts to 8% of the shares that OSE plans to issue through private placement, and it would account for only a 1% stake in the packaging and testing house.
DK Tsai, chairman of both Kingston Technology Far East and Taiwan-based packaging and testing house Powertech Technology Incorporated (PTI), stressed that the memory module maker has no plans to shift orders from PTI to OSE. Tsai said that PTI is the first packaging and testing house that Kingston invested in Taiwan and that Kingston is not just an investor, but also a manager of PTI. The performance of PTI has a bearing on Kingston's reputation, and therefore Kingston will never do anything irresponsible to PTI, its investors and clients, Tsai insisted.
Posted by | Thu, May 17, 2007 - 08:09 AM
Java SE To Be Supported For Intel Itanium 2-Based Systems
The Itanium Solutions Alliance has commended Sun Microsystems and Intel Corporation, a Founding Sponsor of the Itanium Solutions Alliance, on their cooperation to deliver Sun's Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) for Itanium 2-based solutions. Intel is porting and optimizing the code, and support is expected to be included as part of a standard update for Java SE 6 available from Sun next year.
The availability of this support will ensure the “write once, run anywhere” philosophy, which helped make the Java Platform a widely-used development environment, continues to extend to developers working on Itanium-based systems. This support for Intel Itanium architecture is expected to increase the availability of Java-based software and broaden solutions choices for end users. The announcement came during an Intel keynote at JavaOneSM in San Francisco, Calif. by Renee J. James
Posted by | Wed, May 16, 2007 - 09:37 AM
NVIDIA Releases Forceware Beta 158.43 Drivers
NVIDIA has released a new beta driver for Windows Vista users with GeForce 8 series graphics cards. The Forceware 158.43 drivers enable SLI for DirectX 10 applications for the very first time, so all the GeForce 8 series users with SLI will finally be able to run SLI the way it was designed to. This driver can to be used for work or play and yes I'm personally running this driver already on my XFX GeForce 8800 Ultra with no major issues.
Fixed Single-GPU Issues
• GeForce 8600: When playing a VC1 title with PowerDVD, there is a block of corruption at the bottom of the video.
• GeForce 8600 GT/GTS: The system hangs after switching from analog TV to another display while playing a video.
• GeForce 8600, GeForce 7 Series: Video playback color is off when playing a DV video in AVC‐HD format.
• GeForce 8600: Numerous NVIDIA registry settings are left intact after running the uninstaller
• GeForce 8300/8400/8500: When changing to 1024x768 on the DVI display, the display switches to centered scaling.
Posted by | Wed, May 16, 2007 - 09:23 AM
AMD Announces Update to Its I/O Virtualization Technology Specification
AMD today announced broad availability of the latest version of its I/O virtualization technology specification, which is enhanced with stronger and more secure input/output connections. Together with AMD Virtualization™ Technology (AMD-V™), the AMD I/O Virtualization Technology Specification revision 1.2 is designed to provide high throughput and scalability to improve overall system efficiency, reliability and security.
This latest specification extends the benefits of AMD’s I/O Memory Management Unit (IOMMU) to provide a secure, scalable, high-performance solution for I/O virtualization in x86-based servers, desktops, and notebook computers. IOMMU technology also improves reliability in non-virtualized environments and is expected to be a necessary component for secure systems of the future. "The IOMMU 1.2 spec is a breakthrough development in furthering our ability to deliver on the promise of virtualization,” said Joe Menard, corporate vice president for AMD. “As multi-core processors become critical for consumer and enterprise applications, IOMMU will provide an essential platform for virtual machines to manage I/O devices in a secure and efficient manner.”
Posted by | Wed, May 16, 2007 - 09:08 AM
Millions disconnected by NTT broadband outage
Millions of broadband Internet users across most of eastern Japan were unable to log on Tuesday evening after a problem at the country's largest broadband provider. All said and done 2.85 million customers were impacted by the outage and I'm sure the call centers were flooded!
NTT East said 2.85 million customers lost Internet service at 6:44 p.m. (9:44 a.m. GMT) on Tuesday, the carrier said in a statement. The outage, the cause of which is still being investigated, lasted until 1:35 a.m. on Wednesday when the last of the affected customers was reconnected. The outage is one of the largest in years and took out both PC Internet connections and IP telephone service across 14 of the 17 prefectures in which NTT East provides service. Customers in Tokyo and the surrounding prefectures of Kanagawa, Chiba and Saitama were not affected.
Posted by | Wed, May 16, 2007 - 09:06 AM
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Demo
As promised, Capcom has released a playable demo for Lost Planet: Extreme Condition, giving you the chance to try out the PC version of this sci-fi action shooter scheduled to be available for PC in June for a suggested retail price of $39.95. The demo will let you play through two levels: the Akrid hive and the pirate fortress, the same levels from the demo for the Xbox 360 version. If you’re on Windows Vista, you will need the DirectX 10 version. For XP users, grab the DirectX 9 version.
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition DirectX 9 Demo
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition DirectX 10 Demo
Posted by | Wed, May 16, 2007 - 09:02 AM
Microsoft Says 40 Million Vista Copies Sold in 100 Days
Nearly 40 million copies of Windows Vista have been sold in the first 100 days following its release, more than twice the sales of Windows XP over the same time period, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said in his opening keynote here at the 15th annual WinHEC. No mention on the 200 million copies that have been traded and sold on the underground market! ;)
"We have been amazed by the response to Vista and what has happened in the last 100 days. So, in the first five weeks of shipping Vista, we have matched the installed base of any other operating system provider," Gates told several hundred attendees in an address entitled "Platform Innovations for Today and Tomorrow."
Posted by | Wed, May 16, 2007 - 08:57 AM
Advanced Micro Devices shares are up 20% in five days
I knew AMD stock was on the rise, but I didn't know that it was up twenty percent in just five days! This is great news for AMD and investors that got in at the right time. Interesting to see a massive 20% stock price increase in such a short amount of time though.
ThinkEquity did raise the shares to a "buy" because the research firm believes that orders from Dell are strong. But, Dell is not doing all that well itself. American Technology Research also raised its rating on the theory that AMD will sell some of its operations and pay down part of its very large debt load. But, that is speculation. AMD also came out with two "Intel killer" chips earlier this week. One is a high end graphics chip for PC gamers. The other is a quad-core chip that delivers more computing and eats less energy. All of the news is thrilling. But none of its means a thing.
Posted by | Wed, May 16, 2007 - 08:28 AM
Microsoft says open-source violates 235 patents
Microsoft Corp made its broadest challenge to date against open-source software, including Windows rival Linux, claiming that such programs violate 235 Microsoft patents and saying it will seek license fees.
The world's largest software maker said that various open-source packages violate patents it holds in areas related to graphical user interface, e-mail programs and other technology. "The real question is not whether there exist substantial patent infringement issues, but what to do about them," Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft vice president of intellectual property and licensing, said in a statement.
Posted by | Wed, May 16, 2007 - 08:24 AM
Intel FUD versus AMD fact
At the AMD CTO Summit held last week in Monterey, Calif., AMD put a few members of the press under nondisclosure and gave them a detailed look at unpublished products and plans. Tom Yager goes over a couple of facts related to the state of AMD’s manufacturing process engineering in his editorial that was posted today in his blog.
The transistor innovation that AMD and IBM have developed brought most of the advantages of process shrink, like lower power consumption and reduced leakage in a transistor’s off state, to manufacturing. As a result, AMD carried its present process, 65nm (which is Intel’s standard as well), into production only when its benefits exceeded those delivered by transistor evolution and not as a reaction to Intel or any other competitor.
Posted by | Wed, May 16, 2007 - 08:19 AM
Microsoft sets launch date for Halo 3
Microsoft said on Tuesday it will release its Halo 3 video game on September 25, a hugely anticipated event that the software giant hopes will help drive sales of its Xbox 360 gaming console. The regular edition of Halo 3 will sell for $60, with two limited editions going for $70 and $130.
By moving up the launch of Halo 3 to the month of September, Microsoft is betting it will spur sales of Xbox 360 consoles, giving it a larger user base in time for the year-end holiday season that is the high tide for video game sales. The game will go on sale in Europe on September 26, but Kim said Microsoft had not set a date for Japan, where the Xbox 360 has been eclipsed by Nintendo's Wii and Sony's PlayStation 3.
Posted by | Wed, May 16, 2007 - 08:17 AM
Intel to showcase Harpertown 45nm Processors at Computex 2007
With AMD scheduled to showcase its new quad-core Opteron processors (Barcelona) at Computex Taipei 2007, Intel also plans to demonstrate its 45nm native quad-core server processors (Harpertown) at the show, according to sources at server makers.
Intel will only demonstrate Harpertown-based products in its own booth, and the 45nm native dual-core processor, Wolfdale-DP, will be absent from the show, added the sources. In an update to previous reports, Barcelona-based products will be displayed in both AMD's and its server partners' booths. However, only AMD’s booth will have performance testing, with other companies only showcasing their own products.
Posted by | Wed, May 16, 2007 - 08:15 AM
Seagate Prototype Featured in Microsoft Demo of Windows Rally
Seagate Technology teamed up with Microsoft yesterday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) to showcase Windows Rally technologies by setting up six network devices in six minutes. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates demonstrated that by incorporating the core Windows Rally technologies into a prototype Maxtor Shared Storage II, Seagate will make the everyday configuration, diagnosis, and backup interaction of network devices for consumers easier than ever.
The prototype 1TB Maxtor Shared Storage II utilizes the core Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) and PnP-X technologies of Windows Rally and other features such as appearing in the Windows Vista Network Map. This tool provides users with great diagnostic information about the connectivity of the device and where it fits in the home network. Additionally, the prototype solution uses Plug and Play Extensions (PnP-X) to allow for an effortless setup experience because the prototype Maxtor Shared Storage II is discovered for the user as an installable device. The familiar plug and play experience immediately creates a mounted folder for users to access without ever having to know device IP configuration or opening a web browser.
Posted by | Wed, May 16, 2007 - 08:14 AM
Intel settles copyright infringement dispute with Chinese company
Intel Corp., the world's largest chip maker, said Monday it has settled a copyright infringement dispute with a Chinese maker of telecommunications and network equipment.
Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy said Monday it no longer made strategic sense to pursue the litigation, and the two companies brokered a licensing deal over the disputed technology. The companies have agreed to keep confidential the terms of the out-of-court settlement. "Continuing a lawsuit doesn't benefit each company's best commercial interests," the companies said in a joint statement. Beijing Donjin Xinda Technology Co., the Shenzhen Donjin unit that filed the countersuit, also signed the statement.
Posted by | Tue, May 15, 2007 - 09:58 AM
DirecTV ponders broadband over power lines
Satellite television provider DirecTV may test delivering high-speed Internet service through power lines in a major U.S. city in the next year, its chief executive said Monday.
DirecTV and others are talking to companies that specialize in providing broadband through the electrical grid, Chief Executive Chase Carey said at the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit in New York.
Posted by | Tue, May 15, 2007 - 09:57 AM
IBM union calls for work stoppage
An IBM labor union is calling for a 15-minute work stoppage to protest job cuts at the company. The stoppage is scheduled for Tuesday at 3 p.m. Eastern Time across the U.S. Workers at IBM in Italy are also planning a similar action in support of the U.S. employees.
A recent posting on the Robert X. Cringely blog at PBS.org suggesting that IBM might lay off about 150,000 U.S. employees may have contributed to concern about impending job cuts at the company. The posting set off a flurry of comments across the Web.
Posted by | Tue, May 15, 2007 - 09:56 AM
Micron announces its 78nm-made DDR3 validated with Intel
Micron Technology announced that its 1Gbit DDR3 have been validated with Intel desktop platforms. This DDR3 is being fabricated on Micron's 78nm 6F² process, which results a smaller die size premium over DDR2 compared with 512 megabit (Mb) products. offer lower power on modules that can utilize either 512Mb or 1Gb and meet the minimum system density requirements of 1GB.
Evaluation samples of Micron's 1Gb DDR3 components are available to select customers with production expected to begin early next year. Micron's 1Gb DDR3 components will be available in various output configurations (x4, x8 and x16), and will be fully compliant with the most recent JEDEC DDR3 specifications. These components will support module densities from 512MB through 4GB and a variety of module types, including UDIMMs, SODIMMs, and RDIMMs.
Posted by | Tue, May 15, 2007 - 09:55 AM
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