After the Yahoo! Board of Directors reviewed and rejected Microsoft’s unsolicited proposal earlier this week, Jerry Yang, Yahoo! founder and CEO detailed to stockholders in a letter the exact reasons why. On February 1, 2008, Continue reading “Jerry Yang Sends Letter to Stockholders Regarding Microsoft Bid”.
Nvidia, the world’s second-largest maker of computer-graphics chips, reported a 57 percent increase in fourth-quarter profit after boosting its share of the market. Net income rose to $257 million, or 42 cents a share, from Continue reading “Nvidia profit advances 57% after market-share gains”.
Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! What better way to celebrate than by browsing through our forums and reading hardware reviews from around the web? The exerpt below comes from Virtual-Hideout’s review on the Foxconn G33M-S Micro-ATX Continue reading “February 14 News from Around the Web”.
U.S. scientists have developed a microfiber fabric that generates its own electricity, making enough current to recharge a cell phone or ensure that a small MP3 music player never runs out of power. If made Continue reading “Microfiber fabric makes its own electricity?”.
When it comes mixing and matching different types of graphics card and running them in either SLI or CrossFire mode you are bound to have a number of problems. You will not find too many people advising in trying this, but the video card companies are working hard at making this work. Today, we are looking at ATI’s budget friendly Radeon HD 3850 and Radeon HD 3870 graphics cards to seeing how they work together in CrossFire.
OCZ Technology Group, today announced its partnership with Cyber Evolution (CEVO), a premier national online gaming organization that attracts teams from across the country to compete in the hottest PC and console title tournaments. In Continue reading “OCZ Technology Group Sponsors eSports Organization Cyber Evolution”.
Aimed at preserving the “open architecture” of the Internet and preventing content providers from being subjected to “unreasonably discriminatory practices by broadband network providers.” Rep. Markey introduced new legislation today to help keep net neutrality! Continue reading “Rep. Markey offers net-neutrality bill”.
Yahoo Inc’s second-biggest investor urged Microsoft Corp to raise its $42 billion bid for the Web pioneer and warned Yahoo it has few options left, raising the pressure on them to seal a deal. In Continue reading “Major Yahoo investor urges Microsoft to raise offer”.
NVIDIA today announced that it has completed the acquisition of AGEIA Technologies, Inc., the industry leader in gaming physics technology. AGEIA’s PhysX software is widely adopted with more than 140 PhysX-based games shipping or in Continue reading “NVIDIA complets the acquisition of AGEIA Technologies”.
The Kingston DataTraveler HyperX is the fastest USB Flash drive that Kingston has to offer with a read speed of 30MB/s and write speed of 20MB/sec. Legit Reviews takes a look at the first HyperX based USB Flash drive from Kingston and compares it to several other brands to see how it does in performance tests on a notebook computer. Read on to see how it does!
Today at the GSMA Mobile World Congress, AMD announced an expanded portfolio of products and technologies to enable such popular, media-rich applications as mobile TV, 3D games and high-fidelity audio, delivering immersive entertainment to tomorrow’s Continue reading “AMD Unveils New Mobile TV Solution at GSMA Mobile World Congress”.
The personal computer game industry has trailed behind its console brethren in recent years as easy-to-play games on the Nintendo Wii or online games on the Xbox 360 have stolen the excitement. Companies with a Continue reading “Gaming Alliance stumps for PC”.
British electrical goods retailer DSG International Plc said on Tuesday its offices had been raided by the European Commission, as part of an investigation into possible market abuse. An EC spokesman said the raids were Continue reading “DSG offices raided by EU as part of Intel probe”.
The online site VR-ZONE is reporting that Nvidia has informed their partners that the launch date for GeForce 9800 GX2 has been pushed back to March 11th, but it seems the latest and greatest video Continue reading “NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 video card to launch on March 11th”.
NVIDIA yesterday introduced the NVIDIA APX 2500, a breakthrough applications processor that enables intuitive 3D user interfaces and engaging high-definition video on connected Windows Mobile phones. The APX 2500 applications processor delivers an unprecedented 10 Continue reading “Nvidia APX 2500 chip enables 3D and hours of high-def playback on Windows Mobile handsets”.
