With back to school demand being weaker than expected in the DRAM market, Taiwan-based memory makers, including Nanya Technology, Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC), Inotera Memories and ProMOS Technologies, are now eying the Christmas season, and Continue reading “DRAM makers: No back-to-school demand, how about Christmas?”.
Even with rising energy costs, which are in turn pushing up shipping charges, PC manufacturers aren’t likely to jump to raise prices. Instead, they may consider other ways to pass on costs. Sure you will Continue reading “Will Retail Computer System Prices Remain Low?”.
The European Commission has set up a website to help people cut the high cost of using mobile phones abroad. If you are traveling around in Europe should be in your favorites. I’m shocked how Continue reading “European Commission Tries to Reduce Cell Phone Costs”.
I don’t think this is ground breaking news for those of us that live in America, but a good read on a lunch break. Just when we thought we couldn?t get any fatter, a new Continue reading “Majority of Americans likely to become fat”.
ATI silently lowered its warranty from three years down to a single year on the majority of their desktop graphics cards, which has created some upset and confused consumers. We talk with ATI on the changes and examine how they will impact consumers.
DigitalWork, a Chicago company dedicated to small businesses, has set up a Web site that lets non-techies create their own Web sites free. The site is limited to four pages and 100 photos,but comes ad Continue reading “Building Web sites for small businesses for free”.
Microsoft Corp. said on Monday that the next version of its Office program will be able to save documents in the PDF format, a popular method of sharing documents between different computers and software programs. Continue reading “Microsoft Office 12 to support PDF files”.
Shares of Micron Technology (MU) jumped $1.11 (+9.11%) on Friday after the company reported unexpected profit during its fourth quarter due to strong DRAM chip demand and image sensor sales. I wonder how much of Continue reading “Micron Technology Stock Shares Up Nearly 10%”.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill Friday making Internet “phishing” identity theft scams punishable by law. Sounds like common sense right? Well, California is the only state that has a bill of like this! Continue reading “Phishing becomes against law in California”.
San Francisco’s Mayor Gavin Newsom asked for a wireless network and thanks to proposals from Google and Earthlink they are going to get one. Google said on Friday it has proposed to provide free wireless Continue reading “Google & Earthlink propose Wi-Fi plans for San Francisco”.
SanDisk and M-Systems aim to increase the penetration rate of their co-developed U3 platform to 40% of the flash disk market in 2006, according to sources at downstream flash disk makers. U3 has gained support Continue reading “U3 penetration rate for 2006 set at 40%”.
VIA Technologies and Mini-box announced the VoomPC family of compact, high performance yet affordable x86 car PC kits aimed at driving telematics mainstream. Based on low power VIA EPIA Mini-ITX mainboards, the x86 platform of Continue reading “VIA & Mini-box Announce VoomPC: Sub-$300 Car PC Kit”.
Dell Inc. will stop its practice of sending low-end computers to customers homes without charge in order to cut costs, the company said Thursday. We will add this to our list of reasons to build Continue reading “Dell ending free home delivery of computers”.
ATI silently lowered its warranty down to 1 year for ALL of their desktop graphics cards. This shouldn?t have any impact on the warranty that offered by third party companies like Sapphire, ASUS, or VisionTek Continue reading “ATI Technologies Cuts Video Card Warranty To One Year”.
More than 60 percent of Americans who use the Internet at home now do so with a high-speed connection, a new study finds. That’s a jump from 51 percent a year ago. Nielsen/NetRatings says 86 Continue reading “Broadband Internet use grows to 60% in U.S. homes”.
