Ubuntu 7.04, or ‘Feisty Fawn’, is still set to be officially released out of beta this Thursday. Also, in case you haven’t heard, the successor to Feisty Fawn is Gutsy Gibbon for Ubuntu 7.10. For Continue reading “Ubuntu 7.04 to be Released Thursday”.
ntel may be plunging ahead with manufacturing plans in China, but its research-and-development arm isn’t moving at quite the same pace. Engineers at labs in Beijing and Shanghai are working on important research into areas Continue reading “Intel R&D on slow boat to China”.
Intel has scheduled to boost the proportion of dual-core processors in its product line up in the second quarter and will launch the quad-core Core 2 Extreme QX6850 in the third quarter, according to sources Continue reading “Intel to boost dual-core processor supplies in 2Q, will launch QX6850 in 3Q”.
The next version of Intel’s Centrino notebook platform, called Santa Rosa, will hit the market next month, but the company is already looking ahead to other products, including an updated “Santa Rosa refresh” and a Continue reading “Intel offers look beyond Santa Rosa – Centrino Notebooks”.
This Week’s Web Reviews The new Foxconn N5M2AA-EKRS2H is an inexpensive solution for overclocker and all-rounder. Although the nVidia nForce 4 chipset is meanwhile somewhat outdated, Foxconn developed a good alternative to the latest Socket Continue reading “April 6th through April 14th News from around the Web”.
Sony Corp. has discontinued the 20-gigabyte PlayStation 3 game console so it can focus on a more popular – and expensive – model that has a bigger hard drive. Since the launch of the PlayStation Continue reading “Sony discontinues 20GB PlayStation 3 game console”.
Sanjay Kumar, the former chief executive of Computer Associates, has agreed to pay almost $800 million in restitution to investors who lost money because of the company’s accounting fraud. Kumar, who is scheduled to begin Continue reading “Former Computer Associates executive to pay $800 million in restitution”.
Apple has confirmed a previous report that the next release of its OS X operating system (OS), Leopard, will be delayed from its originally scheduled launch “in Spring.” Apple said it will now distribute near Continue reading “Apple confirms Leopard delayed until October – Blames iPhone”.
IBM will link chips together in a relatively new way that the company says will improve performance and cut power consumption. The technology, called through-silicon vias, or TSV, involves connecting different components–processors and memory, for Continue reading “IBM To Replace System Bus w/ TSV”.
Beyond3D revealed the future Intel discrete graphics plans with slides from the Visual Computing Group. The architecture is based on 10+ mini-cores that has 10mm2 die size and 6.25W TDP each. Each core has 16-wide Continue reading “Intel GPU Architecture Mapped Out”.
Bigfoot Networks has recently introduced the Killer K1, a new, more affordable version of its flagship gaming product, the Killer NIC. Legit Reviews takes the Killer NIC and Killer K1 out for a few frags on Windows XP and Windows Vista to see how it does. Instead of bounce of charts showing ping time LR invited a half dozen gamers over to see if they could tell a difference or not. The results might be shocking to some and this is a must read for any gamer.
Web search leader Google’s market share inched up to 64 percent of all queries among U.S. Internet searchers in March, gaining further ground against Yahoo and Microsoft, a survey released on Wednesday by Hitwise found. Continue reading “Google draws 64 percent of search queries”.
Do you have an old computer sitting around the basement just collecting dust? Don’t throw it out just yet as it might be worth thousands of dollars! The pride of his collection is an Apple Continue reading “There’s history and money in obsolete computers”.
Google hopes to woo more developers to its Web services software platform with a 27-hour-long “Developer Day” on May 31. To spark more interest in its development tools and APIs (application programming interfaces), the company Continue reading “Google plans global developer day”.
Following a recent report that motherboard makers Micro-Star International (MSI) and Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) announced strong shipment and revenue figures for March, Asustek and Gigabyte Technology also reported rising revenue and shipment figures for Continue reading “Motherboard makers see March shipments and revenues up”.
