pple and Dell laptop owners travelling on Virgin Atlantic international flights are being asked to remove the gadget’s batteries before take-off. This will limit laptop use as the majority of seats on Virgin jets are Continue reading “Virgin Atlantic Airways bans ‘fire hazard’ Dell and Apple laptops”.
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced 20 lawsuits against resellers allegedly engaged in the distribution of infringing software and software components. The lawsuits, filed against 20 defendants throughout the United States, are against companies that allegedly Continue reading “Microsoft files 20 software lawsuits in nine states”.
An oxygen generator on the international space station overheated and spilled a toxic irritant Monday, forcing the three-man crew to don masks and gloves in the first emergency ever declared aboard the 8-year-old orbiting outpost. Continue reading “Space station crew cleans up toxic spill”.
Toshiba said Tuesday it would replace about 340,000 laptop computer batteries made by Sony, the latest in a string of Sony battery woes. The batteries, used in Dynabook and Dynabook Satellite laptops manufactured between March Continue reading “Toshiba recalls 340,000 Sony laptop batteries”.
Intel is expected by the end of this month to officially name its Kentsfield quad-core desktop processor as the “Core 2 Quadro,” with the first model to be an Extreme version, the Core 2 Extreme Continue reading “Intel quad-core Kentsfield to be named Core 2 Quadro, expected in November”.
The Inq is reporting that they believe that the ATI R600 will be consuming an insane 250 Watts of power per card when they are released to the public. Running ATI Crossfire with this system Continue reading “Rumor: ATI’s R600 will consume over 250W (500W CrossFire)”.
Segway Inc. is recalling all 23,500 of the self-balancing scooters it has shipped because of a software glitch that can make its wheels unexpectedly reverse direction, throwing off the rider — and in at least Continue reading “Segway recalls all scooters; software problem can cause falls”.
The Inq is reporting on rumors that AMD has removed FB-DIMMs from their roadmap for 2008, which doesn’t shock us as Intel was the major force behing getting FB-DIMMs out the door and to the Continue reading “No Shocker Here – AMD Not Going To Use FB-DIMMS”.
Toshiba and Micron Technology have agreed to settle all pending NAND flash memory-related litigation between Toshiba and Lexar Media, which Micron acquired in June. Under the deal, Toshiba will purchase certain of Micron’s semiconductor technology Continue reading “Micron, Toshiba Settle Lexar Litigation”.
The nonprofit group behind a popular blacklist used to block spam has been hit with a multimillion-dollar judgment, but the order may not be enforceable. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Continue reading “Spam fighter hit with $11.7 million judgment”.
Competition from snazzy consumer electronics and the absence of Microsoft’s Vista operating system this holiday season will force PC vendors to reduce prices, pushing PC revenue down 2.5% for the year. Worldwide revenue in the Continue reading “PC Sales Under Pressure – Expected Decrease in Revenue”.
Corsair’s DOMINATOR memory series features Dual-path Heat Xchange
(DHX) technology and has the world?s first PC2-8888 C4 (1111MHz at CAS Latency 4) speed rating on a production pair of 1 GByte modules. Today we take the XMS2 PC2-8888C4 modules out for a spin and see if they make a difference when it comes to system performance. Hold on tight because these modules reached over 1220MHz at 4-4-4-12 timings!
The Inq claims that ATI and OCZ Technology have teamed up to produce some 1333MHz memory, but guess what no launch dates or chipsets have been mentioned. Legit Reviews has been able to use Corsair Continue reading “Rumor: OCZ and ATI working on 1333MHz DDR 2 memory”.
Taiwan-based EMS giant Foxconn Electronics (the registered trade name of Hon Hai Precision Industry) currently has no plans to acquire Quanta Computer, according to JT Wang, chairman of Acer. While of the opinion that it Continue reading “Rumor: Foxconn has no plans to acquire Quanta Computer”.
Elitegroup Computer System Co yesterday said that it will start supplying motherboards to chip giant Intel Corp in a deal designed to tap into China’s massive Internet cafe market. “Intel has chosen us to supply Continue reading “ECS to make mobos for Intel to help break into internet cafes”.
