A NASA satellite crashed back to Earth about three minutes after launch early Tuesday, officials said. “We could not make orbit,” NASA program manager John Brunschwyler said. “Initial indications are the vehicle did not have Continue reading “NASA satellite crashes minutes after launch”.
Micron Technology is cutting as many as 2,000 more jobs because of slumping demand for its products, as the shakeout in the memory chip business continues. The largest U.S. maker of memory chips said Monday Continue reading “Micron to cut up to 2,000 more jobs”.
Microsoft Corp has dropped an attempt to recoup some severance money from 25 recently fired workers it mistakenly overpaid. We wrote and laughed about the situation yesterday and are glad that it has been resolved Continue reading “Microsoft drops payback demand on ex-workers”.
While Intel’s sales were flat in 2008, Taiwan was one of the few geographic regions where sales increased. According to the chipmaker’s recently released annual report, revenues from Taiwan increased about 15% in 2008 to Continue reading “Taiwan accounts for more than 25% of Intel revenues in 2008”.
Marvell today announced its Plug Computing initiative to make high performance, always on, always connected, and environmentally friendly computing readily available for consumers. With a 1.2GHz processor and a total of 1GB of memory inside the Plug computer this little PC might be perfect for your home network.
It looks like the rumor or Delphi and CoolIT working on a price for Delphi Thermal’s Electronic Cooling engineering, products, patents and facilities in Mexico and China can be put on the back burner. I Continue reading “CoolIT Systems Denies Working on Deal With Delphi”.
Microsoft says it made an accounting error when it laid off some employees last month and now feels the best way to correct the error is with what will likely add up to a public Continue reading “Microsoft wants refund from some laid-off workers”.
One of our readers tipped me off over the weekend that Delphi was visiting Calgary, Alberta, CA last week and the reason why might come as a shock to many of you. If our source Continue reading “CoolIT Systems Ready To Acquire All of Delphi Electronics Cooling”.
Netbook vendors are dropping prices of their 8.9-inch netbooks models to clear inventory, and solid state drive-based (SSD-based) models are seeing the sharpest drops, according to sources at channel vendors. The loosening of netbook hard Continue reading “SSD-based 8.9-inch netbooks seeing sharp price drops”.
A federal appeals court Friday struck down a California law that sought to ban the sale or rental of violent video games to minors. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the 2005 Continue reading “California’s violent video-game law for minors is struck down”.
NVIDIA responded to a court filing in which Intel alleged that the four-year-old chipset license agreement the companies signed does not extend to Intels future generation CPUs with integrated memory controllers, such as Nehalem. The Continue reading “NVIDIA RESPONDS TO INTEL COURT FILING”.
Who owns and controls your Facebook information? Many have wondered this and the question was debated over the holiday weekend when Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerman addressed the question in a blog post. He sort of Continue reading “Facebook Tries to Calm Privacy Fears”.
The Kentech Labs PS-Mi is a personal/portable audio device that utilizes Point Source Audio technology with Universal Dock for iPod. The PS-Mi has one satellite speaker enclosure section that contains 3 drivers (left, center, and right) in the top section, and a side-firing subwoofer.The Ps Mi also works on all iPod models including the iPod touch and any iPod featuring a click wheel, including all nano, mini, photo, video and classic models.
Some IC distributors are aggressively setting up their own R&D teams to provide reference designs to notebook designers and manufacturers targeting China’s white-box notebook market, which they believe will grow fast, according to industry sources. Continue reading “IC distributors developing white-box notebook reference designs”.
AMD has done a great job at getting the word out that Phenom II is a new and improved processor, but how do these new Phenom II processors overclock with extreme cooling? AMD showed us that the temperature bug is long gone by running a AMD Phenom II X4 processor at 1.95V and at below -190C, but what can we pull off on our own test bench? This weekend we purchased ten pounds of dry ice along with some Acetone to see what we could get a pair of Phenom II socket AM3 processors could do on the ASUS M4A79T Deluxe motherboard.
