Hitachi Global Storage Technologies plans to announce Monday it has developed technology that will quadruple the storage capacity of desktop hard drives within the next two years. The new reading-head technology will allow the company Continue reading “Hitachi to cram 4TB on desktop hard drives by 2009”.
With Hynix Semiconductor being cited by some publications as saying that Taiwan DRAM makers should bear the responsibility for the recent plummet in the price of DRAM, Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) chairman Fank Huang protested Continue reading “PSC blames Hynix for recent DRAM price plummet”.
The release of Vista has many people wondering if they should venture off into a new operating system such as Linux or OSX. Many may look to make a change, but decide not to because of feelings of being tied to Windows for their applications. But what if you could run both? Read on as we take our Mac notebook and run OSX and Vista on the same machine thanks to Boot Camp.
Electronic Arts Inc. today announced an agreement with Elevation Partners to acquire VG Holding Corp. — the owner of both BioWare Corp. and Pandemic Studios. This acquisition gives EA a strong competitive position in key Continue reading “EA To Acquire BioWare and Pandemic Studios”.
Nintendo Co Ltd expects to keep its Wii video game console priced at $249 for the time being since it is selling all of the units it makes, a senior U.S. executive said on Thursday. Continue reading “Nintendo to keep Wii console price at $249”.
Wal-Mart Stores could increase sales by $287 million by fixing just a small portion of its inventory problems using RFID (radio frequency identification) technology, and that could be just the start, an executive said Friday. Continue reading “Wal-Mart eyes $287M RFID benefit – Find Missing Stock”.
Jonathan Tsang, president for sales and marketing at Asustek Computer, has revealed that the company will announce the price tag for its Eee PC on October 16. He also noted that prices for the product Continue reading “Asustek: Eee PC price no lower than $200”.
ITC patent infringement probe will target both drive makers and companies that use hard-disk drives in their products, including HP and Dell. The probe will target both drive makers and companies that use hard-disk drives Continue reading “U.S. trade body launches hard-disk drive probe – Patent Infringement”.
When Cisco Systems decided to enter the Second Life virtual world, things didn’t turn out exactly as the network equipment supplier expected. I guess people don’t want to visit Cisco when in their second life. Continue reading “Companies altering virtual world strategies – Second Life”.
Compal Electronics saw its notebook shipments increase 56% on year to 2.1 million units in September, bringing the notebook shipments for the third quarter of 2007 to 6.1 million units, up 19% on year, according Continue reading “Compal notebook shipments hit high in September”.
Find news from around the web by visiting the Legit Forums, including this review of Intel’s X38 chipset by HotHardware.com! To test the new X38 chipset, we obtained a pair of enthusiast class motherboards, the Continue reading “October 11 News from Around the Web”.
If you were to ask just about PC enthusiast “What thermal paste should I use” you would always get one answer. Today we looking at a new thermal paste from AI Technology that is looking to dethrone that one answer, read on to find out if it can. We try it out on a couple different heat sinks to see how it performs on of our test systems.
OCZ Technology recently announced the latest addition to the award-winning OCZ NVIDIA SLI certified series, the worlds first 4GB PC2-6400 SLI-Ready DDR2 modules. Optimized specifically for the latest generation nForce platforms, this series features an Continue reading “OCZ Announces 4GB NVIDIA SLI Certified DDR2 Memory Kits”.
As part of its commitment to supporting and contributing to open standards, AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced its participation in the Eclipse Foundation. AMD will add its rich expertise and history of collaborative innovation to the Continue reading “AMD Helping Unite Power of Open Source and Multi-Core”.
Gateway announced plans to acquire European PC maker Packard Bell Monday, in the latest sign of consolidation in the PC industry. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, although Gateway said the deal is expected Continue reading “Gateway to Acquire Packard Bell – Terms Unknown”.
