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 Although the nVidia nForce 4 chipset is meanwhile somewhat outdated, Foxconn developed a good alternative to the latest Socket Continue reading “April 6th through April 14th News from around the Web”.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”.
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”.
Due to hit shelves in the very near future, the GeForce 8300 GT has been pictured in Taiwan. The card is physically shorter than even the venerable 6200 and has a small fan on it. Continue reading “GeForce 8300 Spotted in Taiwan”.
The new management at Take-Two Interactive has unveiled a “100-day plan” for revitalizing and restructuring the video game publisher’s business. As part of the plan, interim CEO Ben Feder said in a Tuesday conference call Continue reading “Take-Two Interactive has unveiled a “100-day plan” for revitalization”.
Microsoft Game Studios and Bungie Studios today confirmed the multiplayer beta of Halo 3 will debut to audiences worldwide via Xbox LIVE on May 16 at 5 a.m. PDT and run through June 6 at Continue reading “Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta Coming May 16 for Xbox 360 Users”.
Apple Inc.s announcement Monday that it has sold 100 million of its iPod music players marks more than just a business milestone for the once-struggling computer company. Apple said Monday that it had sold 100 Continue reading “An Apple milestone: 100 million iPods sold”.
Advanced Micro Devices lowered sales expectations for the second time in a month and pledged to cut hundreds of millions of dollars worth of costs in the face of a brutal price war with archrival Continue reading “Price war hurting chip maker AMD”.
