The Bush administration has accelerated its Internet surveillance push by proposing that Web sites must keep records of who uploads photographs or videos in case police determine the content is illegal and choose to investigate, Continue reading “Justice Department focuses on image-sharing sites”.…more
AMD today showcased a single-system, Accelerated Computing platform that breaks the teraflop computing barrier. At a press event in San Francisco, AMD demonstrated a “Teraflop in a Box” system running a standard version of Microsoft Continue reading “AMD Demonstrates They Can Break The Teraflop Barrier”.…more
Beginning next month, Google plans to give advertisers the ability to prevent their pay-per-click ads from being shown to competitors suspected of repeatedly clicking on the ads to drive up their cost. Companies that sell Continue reading “Google to offer more click fraud protection”.…more
The European Commission warned Microsoft on Thursday it faced further fines in its long-running antitrust battle with Brussels, this time for seeking unreasonable prices from software makers for vital data. “The Commission’s current view is Continue reading “EU warns Microsoft of possible further fines”.…more
Samsung Electronics announced today that it has begun mass producing the industrys first 1Gb DDR2 DRAM using 60nmclass process technology. Use of the new process technology is a significant milestone in that it increases production Continue reading “Samsung begins volume producing 60nm DRAM”.…more
Video-game publisher Take-Two Interactive restated its financial results for fiscal 2006 late Wednesday and blamed the higher-than-expected loss on the video-game industry’s transition toward next-generation platforms such as Sony’s PlayStation 3, Nintendo’s Wii, and Microsoft’s Continue reading “Take-Two Interactive Reports Loss of $91.4 Million”.…more
Kingston Technology Corporation, the world’s largest independent memory module manufacturer, today announced revenue figures for 2006 climbed to $3.4 billion — a $400 million increase from 2005 sales — exceeding initial forecasts and marking the Continue reading “Kingston Technology 2006 Sales Jump to $3.4 Billion”.…more
Corsair today launched the new Flash Voyager GT line of USB drives designed for the user who demands the highest performance in a USB memory product. Complementing the revolutionary Flash Voyager USB drives, the new Continue reading “Corsair Steps Up Performance On USB Drives”.…more
The success of Google opened Microsoft’s eyes to the riches available in Web advertising, the chief technologist for the world’s largest software maker said on Tuesday. “This very clearly caused an inflection point within our Continue reading “Microsoft says Google success a “wake-up call””.…more