In the business world, that amorphous concept called “consumer confidence” is measured in dozens of metrics, algorithms, and white papers. In the real world, there are Super Bowl ads. So, unsurprisingly, if you look at Continue reading “Tech ads on the sidelines at this year’s Super Bowl”.
apanese electronics maker Hitachi Ltd. predicted it would post a massive net loss this fiscal year and said it will slash about 7,000 jobs as part of a global restructuring plan. Battered by plunging demand, Continue reading “Hitachi forecasts $7.7 billion loss, cutting 7,000 jobs”.
Dell Inc is plotting a foray into the cell phone arena as early as next month, making and selling smartphones to revitalize a business walloped by crumbling PC sales and pitting the firm against Apple, Continue reading “Dell Thinking About Making A Smartphone – Watch Out Applie iPhone”.
Our story yesterday about TigerDirect.com dropping EVGA products from their retail site made it all over the internet yesterday, but today we have cleared up part of the mystery. One of our contacts at EVGA Continue reading “EVGA Products Not Listed on TigerDirect.com Was a Business Decision”.
ATI has just released Catalyst 9.1 for Windows Vista, Windows XP and Linux platforms on http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html. This software suite includes Radeon display driver 8.573 and full OpenGL 3.0 extension support. It also fixes numerous bugs Continue reading “ATI Releases Catalyst 9.1 Video Card Drivers for Windows and Linux”.
At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, St. Louis-based Energizer announced that they would be releasing Zinc Air (Zn-O2) Prismatic batteries. This morning a package arrived from Energizer, and inside the metal display case was a real Energizer PP355 Zinc Air Prismatic 1.4V battery! Read on to see what makes this battery special in one of the first hands-on looks at the Zinc Air Prismatic Battery.
An effort to delay the February 17 deadline for a nationwide switch to digital television failed in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday after Republicans blocked the move. The legislation is backed by President Continue reading “House fails to pass digital TV delay bill”.
Sony said net profit tumbled 95% in the third quarter, as the global slump hurt sales of its core electronics products. The Japanese electronics giant said net profit plunged to 10.4 billion yen ($115.6 million) Continue reading “Sony Profit Plummets 95%”.
Jon Peddie Research (JPR) today announced estimated graphics shipments and supplier market share for the fourth calendar quarter of 2008.GPUs are used in industrial and medical systems, point of sale terminals, kiosks, digital signs, and Continue reading “Computer Graphics Chip Shipments Dive in Q4 ’08”.
One of our readers sent me an e-mail letting me know that TigerDirect.com has dropped EVGA products from its retail site today for reasons that are unknown. I just went over to the TigerDirect.com site Continue reading “TigerDirect.com Drops EVGA Products From Its Retail Site”.
At the moment there is no greetings card for Data Privacy Day, but this is its second year and 27 countries around Europe, Canada and here in America will use it as a springboard to Continue reading “Today is Data Protection Day!”.
Battered Asian memory chip makers will get some respite from oversupply in the long term after German chipmaker Qimonda filed for insolvency but the industry’s recovery depends on a pick-up in demand. Makers of dynamic Continue reading “Asian chip makers to gain from Qimonda’s troubles”.
Researchers at Intel, RTI International of North Carolina, and Arizona State University have shown that it’s possible to build an efficient microrefrigerator that can target hot spots on chips, saving power and space, and more Continue reading “Intel Cooling Chips with Thermoelectrics”.
Western Digital (WD) today announced the first 2 terabyte (TB) hard drive the worlds highest capacity drive and the latest addition to WDs popular, environmentally friendly, cool and quiet, WD Caviar Green hard drive family. Continue reading “Western Digital Launches World’s First 2 terabyte (TB) Hard Drive – Caviar Green”.
While we’ve had a number of engineering sample motherboards floating around our test bench in recent weeks the ASUS M4A79T Deluxe motherboard is the first retail AMD Socket AM3 motherboard to show up at our door step. Read on to see what this upcoming motherboard is all about it as you look at some of the very first pictures of the ASUS M4A79T Deluxe motherboard to be posted online.
