It was a tale of two companies in the semiconductor industry in 2006, with leading chip supplier Intel suffering a revenue decline, while rival AMD nearly doubled its sales, according to iSuppli. Everyone expected this, Continue reading “Intel suffered but AMD surged in 2006, iSuppli says”.
In dropping felony charges against former Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman Patricia Dunn over the HP spying scandal, the state of California acknowledged Wednesday that despite the bravado and bluster of its charges, it just didn’t have a Continue reading “Anticlimactic end to HP case – Charges Dropped”.
Google will start making its records about users’ searches anonymous after 18 to 24 months under a policy announced Wednesday. Until now, the dominant search company has indefinitely retained a log of every search, with Continue reading “Google to make search logs anonymous”.
Samsung Electronics on Thursday unveiled an upgraded version of its ultra mobile personal computer (UMPC) in a move to boost disappointing sales. I hope that the battery on this one really does last longer than Continue reading “Samsung tries again with new ultralight PC”.
The guys over at VR-Zone shot us over an e-mail letting us know that they have a glimpse on the performance of the upcoming GeForce 8600 GTS and 8600 GT graphics cards. The cards look Continue reading “nVidia GeForce 8600 GTS & GT Pictured & 3DMark06 Scores Told”.
During a recent press event in Hong Kong, Rudy Provoost, CEO of Philips Consumer Electronics said the company has decided to phase out of the PDP (plasma display panel) TV market and focus on LCD Continue reading “Philips pulling out of PDP TV market”.
Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday said its Live online service, which has attracted 6 million Xbox 360 console gamers, will be open in May to PC gamers who use its new Windows Vista operating system. It Continue reading “Microsoft service to link console, PC gamers online”.
U.S. stocks sold off at midday Wednesday, breaking an early standoff between bargain hunters and bears. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 101 points, or 0.8%, to 11,975, putting it below 12,000 for the first Continue reading “The Dow Drops Below 12,000”.
SanDisk beats out Samsung in releasing a “large” capacity solid state drive for notebooks. The benefits are faster read/writes, less power consumption and less risk of damage due to kinetic shock. The SanDisk SSD SATA Continue reading “SanDisk intros 2.5-inch 32GB SSD hard drive”.
I hope that everyone is having a great month and I just wanted to interrupt your daily life to let you know that we have posted up this months forum contest if you haven’t already Continue reading “March 2007 Drawing – Three 2GB Super Talent DDR2 800MHz Kits”.
MTV owner Viacom Inc. said Tuesday it has sued YouTube and its corporate parent Google Inc. in federal court for alleged copyright infringement and is seeking more than $1 billion in damages. Shares of Google Continue reading “Viacom Sues YouTube For $1 Billion”.
OCZ Technology Group announced the addition of an 1010W power supply to the GameXStream family. Building on the acclaimed performance and features of the OCZ NVIDIA SLI-Ready GameXStream series, the new 1010W configuration offers a Continue reading “OCZ Technology Announces the 1010 Watt GameXStream Power Supply”.
E-mail messages from some of Intel’s most senior executives are among those that should have been preserved but were not after the chip-maker was sued for alleged antitrust violations by Advanced Micro Devices, according to Continue reading “Paul Otellini e-mail among those missing in AMD case”.
Cisco says it has agreed to acquire closely-held NeoPath, a file management and network storage developer. The deal gives Cisco more file server technology to beef up its storage and data infrastructure product offerings. Terms Continue reading “Cisco Buys Network Storage Developer NeoPath”.
Kingston Technology has stopped selling NAND flash disk drives that support U3, the platform advocated by SanDisk, due to the observed cost pressure from royalty payments, according to sources at the company. A quick look Continue reading “Rumor: Kingston stops selling U3 products”.