General Motors today announced plans to cut 23,000 U.S. jobs by 2011, drop its Pontiac brand and slash 40 percent of its dealer network to try to stay out of bankruptcy. CNNMoney reports that GM Continue reading “GM kills Pontiac, cuts 23,000 jobs”.
The 2009 North American Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championship features 13 of the best overclockers from North America, so you know it will be a good time to get them all in the same room. Read on to see what happens and who won the overclocking championship in North America for 2009.
OCZ Technology recently unveiled the Z-Drive, a PCI-Express based SSD solution designed to meet the stringent demands of enthusiast computing environments and high-end workstations. First debuted at Cebit 2009 in Germany, the Z-Drive is the Continue reading “OCZ Announces the Z-Drive PCI-Express SSD for Enthusiasts”.
Today at the Pacific Palms Resort in California you will be able to find the thirteen overclockers that will be facing off in the North American Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championship. Read on to see what this event is all about and to see if you are missing out.
DFI just announced that they will hold the first session of their global online overclocking competition during April to May of 2009. In addition to a handsome sum of money as prize and awards to Continue reading “DFI LANParty online overclocking contest announced – Project Europa”.
Beginning this June, NVIDIA will be introducing NVISION, the magazine that celebrates and examines the world of digital graphics in entertainment. If you sign up and pay for a year right now you will get Continue reading “NVIDIA launching NVISION, the magazine in June 2009”.
Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that declining PC sales hurt revenue, as the software giant reported quarterly sales that fell for the first time in its 23-year history as a public company. The Redmond, Wash.-based company Continue reading “Microsoft sales fall for first time in its 23 years”.
Two central Pennsylvania friends spent most of March in a text-messaging record attempt, exchanging a thumbs-flying total of 217,000. For one of the two, that meant an inches-thick itemized bill for $26,000. Nick Andes, 29, Continue reading “Record attempt reaps 217,000 texts in a month, $26K bill”.
Active Media Products today launched a new USB flash drive that commemorates President Barack Obama, and comes pre-loaded with President Obamas Inaugural Address. The Obama USB drive is a folding-style drive that measures only 1.6 Continue reading “Obama USB 2.0 Flash Drive Ships With Speeches”.
Rushing in a new era of power efficiency, AMD today introduced the 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron EE processor with AMDs lowest x86 quad-core server power band. The new 40W ACP processor is designed for very Continue reading “AMD Honors Earth Day – Launches 40W ACP AMD Opteron EE CPU”.
Samsung recently introduced their new 500-Gigabyte (GB) 2.5-inch hard disk drive with a shock operation tolerance of 400G/2ms. The Spinpoint M7 500GB 2.5-inch hard drive with 250GB per platter features a rugged base and cover Continue reading “Samsung Announces Rugged 2.5″ Spinpoint M7 500GB Hard Drive – HM500JI”.
Expanding consumers TV recording capabilities by hundreds of hours, WD today announced in the U.S. that its My DVR Expander is now available with 1 TB capacity. Consumers can instantly and seamlessly expand their TiVo Continue reading “WD Announces TiVo DVR With 1TB Capacity My DVR Expander”.
AMD reported revenue for first quarter of 2009 of $1.177 billion. First quarter 2009 revenue was flat compared to the fourth quarter of 2008 and decreased 21 percent compared to the first quarter of 2008. Continue reading “AMD Reports First Quarter 2009 Results – Loss of $416 million”.
Computer spies have repeatedly breached the Pentagon’s costliest weapons program, the $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. The newspaper quoted current and former government officials familiar with the Continue reading “U.S. fighter jet project breached by hackers”.
Taiwan-based netbook vendors saw shipment volumes fall short of their respective goals in the first quarter, according to sources at channel vendors. Although Acer is estimated to have shipped two million Aspire One netbooks in Continue reading “Acer, Asustek, MSI see 1Q09 netbook sales fall short of expectations”.
