The European Union’s top security official lauded Google Inc’s. decision to scale back how long it keeps personally identifiable data accumulated from its Web users as a step towards addressing privacy concerns. The world’s top Continue reading “Google addressing privacy concerns with data retention limit”.
pple is planning to launch an online movie rental service by fall, though the company is meeting resistance from some Hollywood studios concerned about piracy, people familiar with the plan told the Associated Press on Continue reading “Video rentals next for Apple”.
Toshiba has lowered its sales target for high-definition DVD players on slower-than-expected sales in the U.S., putting a damper on the prospects in one of its growth businesses. The Japanese electronics group now expects to Continue reading “Toshiba drops sales target for HD DVD players”.
Taiwan smartphone maker High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC) said on Tuesday it will launch one of its own-brand touch-screen phones in the United States by the end of the year, as it seeks to compete Continue reading “Taiwan’s HTC to launch iPhone riva”.
Adam Vitale pled guilty Monday to sending unsolicited e-mail to 1.2 million AOL LLC subscribers, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Michael J. Garcia said. Vitale, 26, resides in Brooklyn. Sentencing is Continue reading “AOL spammer pleads guilty”.
The video-game publisher Take-Two beat estimates in its second quarter, but sales fell from a year ago, and the company guided lower for the coming quarter, as it announced a restructuring plan to cut expenses Continue reading “Take-Two Outlook Dims as Sales are Down”.
DRAM spot market was quite last week as most buyers attended Computex Taipei. DRAM spot price was on a mild decline, with DDR2 eTT slipping 8% to US$1.6. Branded 512Mb (64Mb*8) DDR2 price slowly eroded Continue reading “Tight low-density NAND Flash chips supply spurs price up”.
AMD is now shipping ATI Radeon HD 2400 and ATI Radeon HD 2600 graphics processors in volume to its board customers. The ATI Radeon HD 2400 and ATI Radeon HD 2600 deliver feature-rich DirectX 10 Continue reading “ATI Radeon 2400 and ATI Radeon 2600 Video Cards Now Shipping”.
A California judge gave TorrentSpy until Tuesday to appeal her decision to force the company to hand over visitor information. The movie studios may have discovered a new and powerful weapon in their war on Continue reading “MPAA accuses TorrentSpy of concealing evidence”.
IBM has offered to buy Telelogic, a Swedish developer of software development tools, in a cash deal valued at 5.2 billion Swedish krona, or about $745 million, the companies announced Monday. IBM plans to make Continue reading “IBM offers $745 million for Telelogic”.
Despite the persistent drop in DRAM contract price, Power Quotient International (PQI) saw its DRAM module shipments continued picking up in May, according to sources at the company. PQI noted that the magnitude of the Continue reading “PQI sees continued DRAM module shipment growth”.
Our final day of exclusive Computex 2007 coverage uncovers some very interesting products being introduced by ASUS, Thermaltake, and VIA. We were the last reporter standing on this closing day of the conference and were privileged enough to get an inside peek on some great new products. Once again, this is a must read for hardware enthusiasts.
YouTube just rolled out a change to its embedded player. Now, when you mouse over a playing video, everywhere but on YouTube.com itself, you get a fancy list of related videos across the bottom of Continue reading “YouTube: Now even better for the short-attention-span set”.
With the latest computer hardware being shown off at Computex 2007, it’s been a busy week in Taiwan trying to see everything that is coming out. Today we take a look at what Gigabyte, PC Power & Cooling, OCZ Technology, Super Talent and Antec are up to and talk about their latest and greatest products. This is a must read for all those that love new hardware!
This morning at Computex, Intel held a very small and private tech session that was aimed at showing off what a pair of their upcoming 45nm Penryn processors could do in their famed V8 test system. With a pair of 3GHz Penryn processors locked and loaded in the V8 machine, Intel set off to show the raw power of their upcoming processors. If Intel was trying to bury the hatchet firmly in AMD’s back they might have succeeded this morning.
