The debate over whether technology addiction, and especially Internet addiction, is a real mental disorder has been going on for years, but it seems to be gaining ground. At its annual conference last month, members Continue reading “Are gadgets, and the Internet, actually addictive?”.
At SIGGRAPH 2007 today, AMD announced five new high-performance ATI FireGL workstation graphics accelerators for CAD, DCC and medical imaging professionals. The ATI FireGL V8650, FireGL V8600, FireGL V7600, FireGL V5600, and FireGL V3600 graphics Continue reading “AMD Unveils FireGL Workstation Graphics Accelerators”.
After a quarter-century of fighting for control of the PC, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are massing their forces on a new battleground. The rival chipmakers are busily deploying engineering resources and making strategic investments Continue reading “AMD and Intel Rivalry Moves to Hand-Held Market”.
Infineon Technologies AG, Europe’s second-biggest semiconductor maker, will cut its stake in an unprofitable memory-chip unit to ‘significantly’ less than 50 percent by 2009, putting a timetable on its sale of the shares. Infineon will Continue reading “Infineon to Cut Qimonda Stake to Below 50% by 2009”.
Mobile phone giant Nokia will start to use Microsoft’s copy protection software to boost the use of wireless entertainment, like music and videos, the two companies said Monday. Nokia, the world’s largest cell-phone maker, will Continue reading “Nokia to tuck in Microsoft DRM software into S60 cell phone”.
Lenovo Group Ltd, the world’s No. 3 PC maker, said on Monday it plans to start selling laptop computers preloaded with Linux software from Novell Inc. instead of Microsoft Corp’s operating system. The laptops, which Continue reading “Linux makes its way to Lenovo laptops”.
A U.S. congressional committee plans to investigate whether or not Yahoo lied during testimony over its role in a human rights case in China that sent journalist Shi Tao to jail for 10 years. Shi Continue reading “Congress to probe Yahoo over jailed China journalist”.
Motherboard makers predict that AMD will retain production of the CPU portion of its Fusion processor at its own fabs or that of Chartered Semiconductor until at least 2009, with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) Continue reading “TSMC reportedly to make only GPU part of AMD Fusion”.
A Hynix Semiconductor PR spokesperson has refuted claims made in a recent report that Apple has turned to Samsung Electronics to fill NAND flash orders originally placed with Hynix, due to Hynix running into production Continue reading “Hynix claims no NAND flash orders shifted from Apple”.
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) has more than halved the retail price of its Vista home basic computer operating software package in China to 499 yuan ($66) from 1,521 yuan, and the price of Continue reading “Microsoft halves Vista retail price in China”.
Computer manufacturer Dell Inc. closed its Roseburg, Ore., call center on Thursday, five years after it opened. More than 200 employees learned about yesterday morning that they had lost their jobs. “It’s a difficult decision Continue reading “Dell closes Oregon call center after 5 years”.
Intel just recently cut prices on processors of every make on July 22 and July 29. The price drop on the Intel Quad-Core Xeon E5335 processor was 52%, so Intel has really been slashing prices trying to get lure in customers during the back to school shopping rush. Read on to take a look at how drastic the price cuts were and when the next rounds of cuts are due!
Microsoft Corp. welcomed the decision, announced today by the Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG), to introduce a new work item for the standardization of Microsofts HD Photo file format. Formal balloting of this work item Continue reading “Microsofts HD Photo Could Be Next-Gen ‘JPEG XR’”.
Rupert Murdoch is set to achieve his decades-long dream of running the venerable Wall Street Journal after Dow Jones & Co.’s board agreed to News Corp.’s $5 billion buyout bid on Tuesday. The board decided Continue reading “Dow Jones OKs sale to News Corp. for $5 Billion”.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) set the conditions for next year’s wireless spectrum to auction on Tuesday, putting open-access rules on a third of the spectrum. The FCC voted to require that the winner Continue reading “FCC embraces open access for 700MHz auction”.