Hewlett-Packard snatched the top position in global PC shipments from rival Dell by a slight margin in the third quarter. That’s the finding market researchers Gartner and IDC reported separately Wednesday when they released their Continue reading “HP overtakes Dell in PC market – Thanks to ~15% growth”.
Visa International and MasterCard Inc. have stopped accepting credit card transactions for purchases of online music made on a Russian Web site accused of selling music illegally, officials for both payment systems said Wednesday. Now Continue reading “Credit card firms cut off AllofMP3.com”.
Executives of Samsung Electronics and Hynix Semiconductor have been indicted as part of a U.S. government investigation into price fixing in the memory chip business, the Department of Justice said. A federal grand jury in Continue reading “Samsung, Hynix execs indicted over price fixing”.
Advanced Micro Devices said Wednesday that it grew its sales sequentially 9% in the third quarter, beating Wall Street estimates and matching rival Intel’s pace of growth during the same period.But the ongoing price war Continue reading “Margin Woes Crush AMD – Fell 4%”.
Intel will upgrade its Centrino technology to Centrino Pro, with the launch to come with the availability of Microsoft Windows Vista OS, notebook makers said. Similar to the chip giant’s marketing investment in Centrino, a Continue reading “Intel to spend US$300 million in Centrino Pro push”.
Following the NVIDIA press release at DigitalLife 2006 last week, where Microsoft announced the Windows Vista logo program, NVIDIA has posted the WHQL certified drivers for a broad range of their GPUs on on the Continue reading “NVIDIA First GPU Company to Ship Windows Vista Drivers”.
Apple computer has warned Windows users that in the past month it has shipped iPods from its factory carrying a virus. Around 25 cases have been reported so far and Apple assures its customers that Continue reading “Microsoft blamed for Apple virus”.
American and Russian scientists announced on Monday that they had discovered a superheavy element, known as 118, albeit one that has only existed in three different atoms lasting a fraction of a second over months Continue reading “Scientists Add New Element To The Periodic Table- 118 ununoctium”.
he music industry has launched a fresh wave of 8,000 lawsuits against alleged file-sharers around the world, escalating its drive to stamp out online piracy and encourage the use of legal download services. The International Continue reading “Music industry in 8,000 new file-share lawsuits around the world”.
This month Legit Reviews is promoting the Folding For ATI Graphics Cards contest in our community forums and so far the contest is a success. Right now in the F@H points per CPU challenge Cadaveca Continue reading “Legit Folding Contest – A Chance to Win ATI Graphics Cards!”.
Intel’s first quad-core desktop processor, the Core 2 Extreme QX6700, which is scheduled to be released next month, will sell for US$999 in 1,000-unit quantities, according to sources at Taiwan motherboard makers who are familiar Continue reading “Intel Core 2 Quad Prices Leak! QX6700 – $999 Q6600 – $851”.
LG Electronics, the world’s No. 4 mobile phone maker, on Wednesday unveiled a new handset model aimed at repeating the success of its premium Chocolate phone and building market share. “The new version of the Continue reading “LG unveils new Chocolate phone”.
Intel Corp. said late Tuesday that third-quarter profit plunged 35% from a year ago as the world’s largest chipmaker faced stiff competition from its smaller rival, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. The world’s largest maker of Continue reading “Intel Earnings Beat Expectations, but stiff competition remains”.
In case you didn’t notice the ATI Radeon X1950 Pro reviews that were posted around the web here is a list of those that we have been reading today. Read ours of course, but also Continue reading “ATI Radeon X1950 Pro Reviews Around The Web”.
OCZ Technology Group today announced the addition of PC2-6400 Gold Rev.2 GX DDR2 to the popular gaming oriented Gold XTC series. OCZ Technology now offers a complete line of gamer-grade XTC DDR2 solutions ranging from Continue reading “OCZ Technology Announces PC2-6400 Gold Rev. 2 GX Memory Modules”.