Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.com and Intel plan to jointly develop a computer designed to get small and medium-sized Chinese businesses online, the companies said this week. The planned computer, the first step in a broader Continue reading “Intel to develop e-commerce PC with China’s Alibaba”.
Apple Inc unveiled its largest U.S. store on Wednesday, a glass-facade building sheathed in steel that a senior company official said reflects Apple’s plans to expand retail ventures at home and abroad. Sandwiched between aging Continue reading “Apple’s largest U.S. (Boston) store highlights growth plan”.
Dell issued a statement on Tuesday night, saying the XPS brand will live on but that more resources will go into Alienware. It seems the Wall Street Journal didn’t lay down the facts correctly in Continue reading “Dell Tells Gamers That Alienware and XPS Systems Will Remain Industry Leaders”.
Nokia plans to add navigation to half of the phones it sells within a few years to find new revenue streams amid decreasing handset prices, a senior official at the world’s top cellphone maker said. Continue reading “Nokia sees half of cellphones with GPS in 2010-12”.
The magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Sichuan province of China will not affect ProMOS Technologies’ 8-inch fab mass production schedule set for the third quarter of 2008, according to company chairman ML Chen. Chen indicated that Continue reading “ProMOS China fab mass production schedule not affected by quake”.
VIA Technologies today announced the VIA EPIA PX5000EG Pico-ITX board that features the extremely power efficient 500MHz VIA Eden ULV processor, offering embedded developers an uncompromisingly compact, highly integrated board. The introduction of the VIA Continue reading “VIA Unveils the Worlds Lowest Power x86 Processor on the Worlds Smallest Board”.
In the wake of personal navigation devices’ success, cellular carriers have started to offer on-board and off-board navigation solutions, as well as a range of LBS (Location Based Services) such as friend finder and local Continue reading “More Than 550 Million GPS-Enabled Handsets Will Ship by 2012”.
HP and EDS today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase EDS at a price of $25.00 per share, or an enterprise value of approximately $13.9 billion. The terms Continue reading “HP to Acquire EDS for $13.9 Billion”.
In addition to its GPU production, AMD is planning to also outsource CPU production to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in the second half of this year, according to industry sources. Although Hector Ruiz, CEO Continue reading “AMD planning to outsource CPU production to TSMC in 2H08”.
AMD today announced enterprise customers now have more choices for rack-mount and blade systems based upon Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors with the launch of eight new innovative servers from Sun Microsystems. All systems are specifically Continue reading “Sun Microsystems Offers Quad-Core AMD Opteron Based Systems”.
Swiss cooling solutions provider ARCTIC COOLING today announced the launch of the Accelero XTREME 9800, a new exceptional cooler of the Accelero Xtreme series for the latest nVIDIA GeForce 9800 series graphics cards. The Accelero Continue reading “Accelero XTREME 9800 Helps Improve GeForce 9800 GTX Cooling by 33%”.
AMD today introduced the industry’s first energy-efficient x86 server processors with four processing cores and an integrated memory controller all in a low 55-watt ACP thermal envelope. Blade and rack systems based on five new Continue reading “AMD Announces Five New 65W Low-Power Opteron HE Processors”.
Installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 sends some PCs into an endless series of reboots, according to posts to a Microsoft support forum. Jesper Johansson, a former program manager for security policy at Microsoft and Continue reading “Microsoft Windows XP SP3 cripples some AMD based PCs”.
Research in Motion officially took the wraps off the highly anticipated and much-rumored smartphone, complete with a new name. The “Bold” is in reference to the smartphone’s gorgeous display, but it’s also bold in that Continue reading “RIM unveils BlackBerry Bold/BlackBerry 9000”.
Google plans to switch some of its servers over to solid-state drive-based (SSD-based) storage supplied by Intel in order to lower electricity consumption, according to sources at memory makers. The more power efficient SSDs will Continue reading “Intel gains SSD orders from Google, say sources”.
