Brisk demand for graphics chips boosted Nvidia’s sales and profit in the first quarter, sending the company’s shares up in extended trading. Nvidia said its bottom line popped 44% year-over-year to $132.3 million in net Continue reading “Nvidia’s Profit Jumps 44 percent year-over-year”.
THQ has put out a new patch for its post-apocalyptic first-person action game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, fixing a large number of bugs not covered by the previous 1.0001 update. The patch weighs in at Continue reading “1.0003 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. patch released – 31 Bug Fixes”.
Michael Dell never imagined his work would end up in a museum when he was sitting in his college dorm room in 1984, dreaming of building and selling his own personal computers. Now, one of Continue reading “Original Dell PC added to Smithsonian collection”.
Intel Capital, the venture capital arm of Intel Corporation, kicked off its eighth annual CEO Summit today with the announcement of six investments totaling $31 million. The deals, all led by Intel Capital, include: China-based Continue reading “Intel Announces Six New Global Investments”.
Three labor unions holding Apple stock in pension funds have put proposals on the company’s ballot that would require options to be priced on the day they are granted; give shareholders a nonbinding vote on Continue reading “Activists Aim at Apple”.
Nvidia has announced a new family of Nvidia GeForce 8 series of graphics processors targeted at the newly evolved notebook PC market. These new GPUs (graphics processing units) help power notebook PCs with their multimedia Continue reading “Nvidia announces new GeForce 8 GPU for notebook PC”.
Electronic Arts posted a wider quarterly loss on Tuesday and forecast fiscal-2008 adjusted profit below expectations, saying its widely anticipated video game, Spore, could be delayed. Redwood City, Calif.-based Electronic Arts said it taken out Continue reading “EA posts loss, says ‘Spore’ could be delayed”.
Royal Philips Electronics and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) have jointly announced that TSMC has filed a registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with an offering of TSMC shares held Continue reading “Philips to sell TSMC shares worth $2.5 billion”.
News From Around the Web “ZEROtherm’s new fanless BTF95 CPU cooler is a bold move by a relative newcomer in this market. The butterfly design is somewhat kitschy, but I was pleasantly surprised by its Continue reading “May 3rd to May 8th News From Around the Web”.
OCZ Technology Group today unveiled a unique memory kit for AMD enthusiasts and power users. The new PC2-5400 Titanium modules were designed exclusively for the AMD AM2 platform and are custom-tailored to the extended column Continue reading “OCZ Announces AMD AM2 Optimized Memory Kit”.
Hewlett-Packard raised its fiscal second-quarter expectations Tuesday, citing strong showings from its personal systems group and server business. The computer hardware and software giant said that for the quarter ended April 30, revenue should be Continue reading “H-P Boosts Second-Quarter Guidance”.
Users looking to add more DRAM (dynamic RAM) to their PCs are likely to continue to see bargains throughout May and June, as prices of the memory chips continue to crash. Contract prices of the Continue reading “DRAM price crashes through $2 – Memory Bargins To Be Found!”.
Today NVIDIA Corporation introduced the NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS graphics processing unit (GPU), a new, faster, entry-level GPU. This video card is a step above integrated graphics cards and will be priced below $50, which Continue reading “NVIDIA Launches The GeForce 7200 GS Video Card”.
Kingston Technology Company, Inc. today announced the launch of MobileLite: a 9-in-1 USB card reader that helps mobile consumers navigate multiple expansion memory card formats more easily when moving between mobile phones, digital cameras, PCs Continue reading “Kingston Announces MobileLite 9-in-1 USB Reader”.
Dell is backing the Windows-Linux partnership set up by Microsoft and Novell. As part of the deal, Dell will buy Suse Linux Enterprise Server certificates from Microsoft for corporate customers that are not already using Continue reading “Dell joins Microsoft, Novell in Linux collaboration”.