It has come to our attention that Intel has started laying off people today. One ex-Intel employee said that they saw entire marketing divisions get cut, so this is the real deal and no joke. Continue reading “Intel Lays Down The Hammer In Marketing – Mass Layoffs”.
The endless struggle between good and evil has spilled into cyberspace. Online criminals are becoming dramatically more organized, efficient and dangerous. This continuing battle, largely unseen by everyday Internet users, became briefly visible last week Continue reading “Cybercrooks turn attention to home PCs”.
Top executives from the security firm McAfee went on the offensive this week against Microsoft, saying Vista will be even less secure for customers than previous versions of Windows. The day after McAfee took out Continue reading “McAfee cries foul over Microsoft Vista OS security”.
Japanese electronics maker Fujitsu said on Wednesday that it would recall 287,000 notebook PC batteries made by Sony, bringing the number of Sony batteries recalled to more than 7.5 million. Besides Fujitsu, Dell, Apple Computer, Continue reading “Fujitsu to recall 287,000 Sony batteries”.
Consumers will still have to wait a few years before they can swap the batteries of their cellphones for more environment-friendly fuelcells, the world’s top handset maker Nokia said on Tuesday. “It is not a Continue reading “Fuelcell-powered cellphones years away”.
Marvell Technology’s shares were sinking a day after the chipmaker said third-quarter revenue will be less than expected and told investors it will restate past financial results because of discrepancies in its past stock-option grants. Continue reading “Marvell Shares Hammered After Bad News – Down ~15% Today”.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is proceeding to switch 90% of its desktop-processor production to the 65nm node by the end of 2007, according to motherboard makers familiar with AMD’s latest roadmap. In mid-2008, AMD is Continue reading “AMD to be at 45nm in 2008”.
Global sales are up, but analysts are concerned that the strong increase will lead to slower growth next year. Global sales of semiconductors rose 10.5 percent to a record $20.5 billion in August from the Continue reading “Chip sales rise to record $20.5 billion”.
In a double-dose of bad news, Marvell said third-quarter revenue will be less than expected and told investors it will restate past financial results due to discrepencies in its past stock-option grants. Shares of Marvell Continue reading “Marvell Tech Cuts Revenue Outlook”.
Netflix, the popular online movie rental service, is planning to award $1 million to the first person who can improve the accuracy of movie recommendations based on personal preferences. To win the prize, which is Continue reading “Netflix offers $1 million for a better review”.
Nvidia is expected to announce the world’s first DirectX 10-compliant graphics chip, the GeForce 8800 (codenamed G80), in the middle of November, graphics card makers revealed. However, despite the advantage of early launch, demand for Continue reading “Nvidia to launch DirectX 10 chip in mid-November”.
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. and ATI Technologies Inc. today announced that the Fair Trade Commission of Taiwan has cleared the proposed acquisition of ATI by AMD. This is a good start, but by far not Continue reading “AMD/ATI Merger Receives Merger Control Clearance in Taiwan”.
The open-source Firefox Web browser is critically flawed in the way it handles JavaScript, two hackers said Saturday afternoon. An attacker could commandeer a computer running the browser simply by crafting a Web page that Continue reading “Hackers claim zero-day flaw in Firefox”.
The Aerocool Xfire is a massive heatpipe cooling solution that can be used Intel LGA775 and AMD K8 platforms granted that the Xfire can fit. This heat sink stands at 100mm tall and 120mm wide and uses a white 120mm fan with quad white LED’s to keep the ~100 cooling fins nice and cool. Legit Reviews takes the Aerocool Xfire out for a test drive on our Intel Core 2 Duo test platform and give our honest thoughts on the Xfire.
Dell Inc. said Thursday it will launch a free computer recycling program in the U.S. on Friday. It only works on Dell systems and Legit Reviews fully supports Dell’s latest move to become green! Dell Continue reading “Dell starts free computer recycling program in the U.S.”.
