Chinese New Year is the longest and most important celebration in the Chinese calendar. Chinese months are reckoned by the lunar calendar, with each month beginning on the darkest day. This year, the 15-day Chinese Continue reading “Happy Chinese New Year!! 2009 is the Year of Ox”.
The global credit crisis may have caused the decline in consumer and business spending that is assaulting the giants of high tech. But as the dominant technology companies try to emerge from this slump, they Continue reading “$200 Laptops Break a Business Model – ASUS EeePC”.
Intel Corp Chairman Craig Barrett, the courtly former academic credited with building the company into the world’s foremost chip maker, will retire in May after 35 years at the company. Barrett, who turned Intel into Continue reading “Intel’s Barrett to bow out as tech crisis simmers”.
Black and gold will reign supreme in Tampa Bay, according to the official EA SPORTS simulation of Super Bowl XLIII by Madden NFL 09. According to the award-winning video game, the Pittsburgh Steelers will win Continue reading “EA Predicts Super Bowl XLIII Champion Using Madden NFL ’09 – Pittsburgh Steelers”.
Salaries of tech professionals managed to spike up an average of 4.6 percent last year to $78,035, according to survey results released Thursday by tech career site Dice. Dice, based on a survey of more Continue reading “Technology salaries rise by 4.6 percent”.
German memory-chip maker Qimonda AG declared bankruptcy Friday, just a month after receiving a rescue package of millions of euros in loans. The administrative court in Munich, Qimonda’s base, confirmed media reports that the company Continue reading “German chipmaker Qimonda declares bankruptcy”.
AMD today reported fourth quarter 2008 revenue from continuing operations[1] of $1.162 billion. Fourth quarter 2008 revenue decreased 35 percent compared to the third quarter of 2008 and 33 percent compared to the fourth quarter Continue reading “AMD Reports 2008 Fourth Quarter and Annual Results”.
Microsoft Corp is expected to post a quarterly profit that misses its own target and announce thousands of job cuts this week as the global economic slump hurts even the technology industry’s biggest players. Analysts Continue reading “Microsoft expected to cut jobs as profit weakens”.
Jerry Shen, president of Asustek Computer disclosed that the company’s current stockpiled inventory is worth NT$40 billion (US$1.19 billion). Now as bad as this situation is for ASUS I’d love to see a picture of Continue reading “Asustek backed-up inventory worth $1.19 billion”.
Intel Corporation today disclosed plans to restructure some of its manufacturing operations and align its manufacturing capacity to current market conditions. The company will consolidate and streamline some older capacity without impacting the deployment of Continue reading “Intel Halts Production at Five Older Factories”.
The White House web site has been updated now that Barack Obama is President of the United States and I found the Technology agenda page to be very interesting. You should check out what he Continue reading “Barack Obama’s Agenda for Technology in America”.
Images of an upcoming Solid State Drive (SSD) from Corsair Memory have leaked out to the web in the past day. It looks like Corsair is really close to announcing their first SSD series! The Continue reading “Corsair Memory 128GB Solid State Drives Go On Sale”.
Qualcomm Incorporated today announced that Qualcomm has acquired certain graphics and multimedia technology assets, intellectual property and resources that were formerly the basis of AMDs handheld business. The acquisition enhances Qualcomms multimedia capabilities, allowing Qualcomm Continue reading “Qualcomm Acquires Handheld Graphics Assets from AMD”.
Graphics card manufacturer Palit Microsystems recently cut orders for about 400,000 Nvidia GPUs for first quarter of 2009 due to high inventory levels, according to industry sources. Inventory pile-up at graphics card makers from the Continue reading “Palit cuts Nvidia GPU orders”.
I made a fun little video yesterday that and I think you guys will enjoy this and get a laugh out of it. We just posted up a 6-way Intel Core i7 CPU cooler roundup Continue reading “Think Your CPU Cooler is Loud?”.
