In the wake of personal navigation devices’ success, cellular carriers have started to offer on-board and off-board navigation solutions, as well as a range of LBS (Location Based Services) such as friend finder and local Continue reading “More Than 550 Million GPS-Enabled Handsets Will Ship by 2012”.
HP and EDS today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase EDS at a price of $25.00 per share, or an enterprise value of approximately $13.9 billion. The terms Continue reading “HP to Acquire EDS for $13.9 Billion”.
In addition to its GPU production, AMD is planning to also outsource CPU production to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in the second half of this year, according to industry sources. Although Hector Ruiz, CEO Continue reading “AMD planning to outsource CPU production to TSMC in 2H08”.
AMD today announced enterprise customers now have more choices for rack-mount and blade systems based upon Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors with the launch of eight new innovative servers from Sun Microsystems. All systems are specifically Continue reading “Sun Microsystems Offers Quad-Core AMD Opteron Based Systems”.
Swiss cooling solutions provider ARCTIC COOLING today announced the launch of the Accelero XTREME 9800, a new exceptional cooler of the Accelero Xtreme series for the latest nVIDIA GeForce 9800 series graphics cards. The Accelero Continue reading “Accelero XTREME 9800 Helps Improve GeForce 9800 GTX Cooling by 33%”.
AMD today introduced the industry’s first energy-efficient x86 server processors with four processing cores and an integrated memory controller all in a low 55-watt ACP thermal envelope. Blade and rack systems based on five new Continue reading “AMD Announces Five New 65W Low-Power Opteron HE Processors”.
Installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 sends some PCs into an endless series of reboots, according to posts to a Microsoft support forum. Jesper Johansson, a former program manager for security policy at Microsoft and Continue reading “Microsoft Windows XP SP3 cripples some AMD based PCs”.
Research in Motion officially took the wraps off the highly anticipated and much-rumored smartphone, complete with a new name. The “Bold” is in reference to the smartphone’s gorgeous display, but it’s also bold in that Continue reading “RIM unveils BlackBerry Bold/BlackBerry 9000”.
Google plans to switch some of its servers over to solid-state drive-based (SSD-based) storage supplied by Intel in order to lower electricity consumption, according to sources at memory makers. The more power efficient SSDs will Continue reading “Intel gains SSD orders from Google, say sources”.
Inspired by the Corsair Performance Analysis of 4GB versus 2GB of memory we figured it would be fun to see for ourselves how gaming performance is impacted by adding more system memory. We got our hands on a 2GB and a 4GB set of Corsair DOMINATOR PC2-9136C5 memory modules and set off to see what happens to the average framerate in nine games at 1920×1200.
Brooke Crothers over at CNET Networks got a chance to speak with NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang this week about why NVIDIA is going after Intel so publicly. It seems that Jen-Hsun is upset that Intel Continue reading “Nvidia CEO discusses his beef with Intel – Larrabee Ticks Him Off”.
In what has to be mixed news for anyone who uses a BitTorrent client, Judge Florence-Marie Cooper of the U.S. District Court awarded the judgment to the Motion Picture Association of America, the MPAA announced Continue reading “Judge Hits TorrentSpy With $111M Damages”.
Playing video games does not turn children into deranged, blood-thirsty super-killers, according to a new book by a pair of Harvard researchers. Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson, a husband-and-wife team at Harvard Medical School, detail Continue reading “Video games don’t create killers, new book says”.
AMD is planning to launch its 45nm server processor Shanghai in the second half of this year, which features HyperTransport 3.0, instruction-per clock enhancement (IPC) and will have its L3 cache increased from 2MB to Continue reading “AMD Reveals Its Future Server Lineup”.
Circuit City, the electronics retail chain, has effectively put itself up for sale. Circuit City announced today that it has hired Goldman Sachs & Co to help explore strategic alternatives, and would allow the video Continue reading “Circuit City Opens Its Books to Blockbuster”.
