As Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang prepared to send a letter to Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer rejecting Microsoft’s $44.6 billion bid, the possible future of the Internet icon suddenly took an unexpected twist. Word Continue reading “Yahoo may buy AOL – The Drama Continues”.
When you’re the world’s largest chipmaker, it’s hard to turn on a dime. It can be even harder to admit when you’ve overreached. A shift has taken place at Intel over the last year or Continue reading “Intel increasingly letting customers lead the way”.
A repair ship began work Tuesday at the site where an Internet cable was cut last week in the Persian Gulf, and a second vessel was to arrive later that day at the spot north Continue reading “Ship arrives to fix Internet cable in Persian Gulf”.
Adobe released on Wednesday an update that fixes vulnerabilities in its widely used Reader document viewing program. Users are urged to upgrade to version 8.1.2, available for download on Adobe’s Web site. Adobe has not Continue reading “Adobe fixes undisclosed vulnerabilities in Reader”.
It’s a drama we’ve all seen play out before: a small, secretive start-up lays plans to come out with a chip that will compete against Intel in a hot market. Montalvo Systems is just hoping Continue reading “Silent start-up readies to take on Intel in notebooks”.
Yahoo! Inc., the world’s second-most popular Internet search engine, said it’s still examining a $44.6 billion unsolicited takeover bid from Microsoft Corp. and evaluating other options. The company has a ‘wide range’ of strategic alternatives, Continue reading “Yahoo Still Weighing Options After Microsoft’s Bid”.
As a leading hard drive supplier to major enterprise, surveillance, consumer electronics and computing manufacturers worldwide, Western Digital announced the company has joined The Green Grid, a nonprofit consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in Continue reading “WD JOINS THE GREEN GRID”.
The great migration from Internet Protocol version 4 to IPv6 has officially begun, after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers added the first addresses to its root servers that conform to the new Continue reading “ICANN turns on next-gen IP addresses”.
Apple on Tuesday introduced models of its iPhone and iPod touch devices with double the memory available in previous versions. The products come on the heels of Apple’s launch last month of a service that Continue reading “Apple unveils iPhone, iPod touch with more memory”.
Intel has informed motherboard makers that it will definitely launch its X48 chipset in mid March, two months later than its original launch date, according to industry sources. The X48 chipset was originally slated for Continue reading “Delayed – Intel to launch X48 in mid March, sources claim”.
AMD’s QuadFX platform might be dead, but that hasn’t stopped Intel from bringing the Skulltrail platform to market. Skulltrail consists of the Intel D5400XS motherboard that supports a pair of LGA771 based Core 2 Extreme QX9775 processors. These 3.2GHz, 45nm, quad-core processors have 1600MHz bus speeds and when paired together make a platform with eight cores and offer a total of 25.6GB/s of bandwidth. This is one serious system!
NVIDIA today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AGEIA Technologies, Inc., the industry leader in gaming physics technology. AGEIA’s PhysX software is widely adopted with more than 140 PhysX-based games shipping Continue reading “NVIDIA TO ACQUIRE AGEIA TECHNOLOGIES”.
Microsoft has wrapped up development of two major products, Windows Server 2008 and the Service Pack 1 update to Windows Vista, CEO Steve Ballmer told financial analysts Monday. “Both products have released to manufacturing today, Continue reading “Microsoft Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 Finalized”.
AMD expects to launch its triple-core Phenom 8400 and 8600 at CeBIT 2008 along with its low-power quad-core Phenom 9100e, however the quad-core Phenom 9700 and 9900 CPUs, which were originally scheduled to launch at Continue reading “AMD to showcase triple-core CPUs at CeBIT 2008”.
Intel Corporation and Micron Technology Inc. today unveiled a high speed NAND flash memory technology that can greatly enhance the access and transfer of data in devices that use silicon for storage. The new technology Continue reading “Intel and Micron Develop the World’s Fastest NAND Flash Memory With 5X Faster Performance”.
