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”.
Japanese electronics company Sanyo Electric and computer vendor Lenovo Group are discussing how to pay for the recall of over 200,000 laptop PC batteries, and may end up sharing the burden. The recall is unrelated Continue reading “Sanyo, Lenovo discuss laptop battery recall costs”.
Reports from Taiwan’s graphics card manufacturing industry are revealing that AMD’s recently announced delay of its upcoming flagship graphics processing unit (GPU), the R600, was not just a shock and disappointment to fans of the Continue reading “Graphics partners try to keep the faith as AMD pulls the rug on CeBIT”.
Stocks dropped on Thursday on renewed inflation worries and as a rise in the yen stirred concern that investors were being forced to unwind carry trades in a repeat of Tuesday’s global market rout. The Continue reading “Ouch – Market drops at open on carry trade worry”.
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”.
A three-layer HD DVD disc with enough room for about 7 hours of high-definition video is still under development and hasn’t been submitted for approval to the DVD Forum, the standard’s governing body, despite reports Continue reading “Toshiba says 51GB HD DVD still under development”.
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”.
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”.
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”.
Chip maker Intel Corp. said on Monday it was appealing an Internal Revenue Service tax adjustment related to export sales that could increase its tax due by $2.4 billion from 1999 through 2006. Now that Continue reading “Intel Appeals Potential Tax Bill of $2.4 Billion”.
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”.
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”.
AMD today introduced the AMD 690 series chipset, the company’s first chipset to bring together the combined strengths of AMD CPU and platform technology with the industry-leading features of the ATI Radeon(tm) X1250 GPU. Legit Continue reading “A New AMD Platform Integrates ATI X1250 Graphics – Welcome the 690 Series!”.
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”.
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””.