It’s been a rough start to the year for Intel’s stock. After only two weeks of trading, the chipmaker’s shares are down more than 12% in 2008, closing Monday at $23.08. Now, the company will Continue reading “Intel Faces Demand Doubt – fourth-quarter earnings reported today!”.
In its early stages, Electronic Arts’ forthcoming and much-anticipated game Spore was code-named Sim Everything, a play on its heritage as the newest game by The Sims creator Will Wright. But now, “sim everything” has Continue reading “Coming to the Mac in 2008: ‘Spore’ by Electronic Arts”.
Consumer electronics maker Toshiba Corp said on Monday it is slashing prices of its HD DVD format players by between 40 to 50 percent as major Hollywood studios move to embrace Sony Corp’s Blu-ray format Continue reading “Toshiba cuts HD player prices in Blu-ray fight”.
Intel is planning to launch 15 45nm notebook CPUs for its upcoming Centrino platform, Montevina, which is currently scheduled to launch in May this year. Eight of the CPUs will be smaller package size models Continue reading “Intel to launch 15 Montevina CPUs in May”.
There are those who have been waiting all year for Apple Computer’s “Next Big Thing”, and for those people, the 24th Annual Macworld Conference & Expo is the place to be. Even with last week’s Continue reading “24th Annual Macworld Conference & Expo Kicks Off Today”.
As those who wanted to have high-speed AMD Phenom processors ask why the chipmaker decided to delay their desired microprocessors, the maker of central processing units just claims that hardly anyone expects high-performance chips by Continue reading “AMD Says Customers Demand Low-End Power-Efficient AMD Phenom Chips.”.
China Mobile Ltd. said it ended talks to sell Apple Inc.’s IPhone in China, stalling Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs’s plans to introduce the handset in the biggest market by users. Rainie Lei, a Hong Continue reading “China Mobile Ends Talks With Apple to Sell IPhone”.
Microsoft has made Vista’s Service Pack 1 near-final “release candidate” available for download to the general public, after initially choosing to restrict it to 15,000 beta testers when it debuted last week. The update is Continue reading “Near-final Microsoft Vista SP1 goes public”.
IBM said its fourth-quarter profits and sales were better than analysts expected thanks to strong results from its operations in Asia, Europe and emerging markets. Shares of IBM rose 9.6% to $107.01 on the news. Continue reading “IBM’s Earnings Top Estimates”.
Intel has recently released details of its Shelton’08-based low-cost notebook platform (Basic Platform) to partners and has set the launch schedule for the third quarter this year, according to sources at PC makers. The platform Continue reading “Intel Shelton’08-based low-cost notebooks to launch in 3Q08”.
Find Tweaknews’ Zerotherm Hurricane HC92 CU 8800 VGA Cooler Review and other reviews from around the ‘net by visiting our forums! “In the final analysis, ZEROtherm’s Hurricane HC92 Cu 8800 VGA cooler showed a marked Continue reading “January 14 News from Around the Web”.
One of South Korea’s most influential company’s is being investigated for alleged bribery. An independent team investigating bribery allegations against South Korea’s Samsung group has searched the house and private office of its chairman Lee Continue reading “Samsung chief’s office searched in bribery probe”.
PNY has been around for quite a while in the memory and video card market. Most enthusiasts would normally think of PNY as a budget part, but with the release of their XLR8 series, PNY hopes to capture some of the enthusiast market. Can they do it? Let’s take a look at one of their 2GB kits that is rated to operate at 1173MHz and find out on both AMD and Intel based systems.
ExPreview has released some early spec’s and benchmarks for Nvidia’s upcoming mid level 9600GT. First GeForce 9 series card to hit the market in February is NVIDIAs GeForce 9600GT. Do not be fooled by the Continue reading “NVIDIA GeForce 9600GT sneak peek and early bench”.
We haven’t able to confirm this, but we’ve heard it now from a couple of people: Hitachi, the Japanese conglomerate, is talking to Toshiba and Fujitsu about forming a new company dedicated to hard drives Continue reading “Hitachi to form hard drive company with Toshiba, Fujitsu?”.
