Microsoft, Mountain Dew, Fox, and Best Buy announce partnership in a new consortium to launch the Championship Gaming Series in 2007. Also, three gaming tournaments will be broadcast exclusively on DirecTVIRECTV in 2006. Based on Continue reading “Championship Gaming Series Announced”.
Infineon Technologies today unveiled handset chips equipped with its 65nm CMOS process technology and said that products with this new technology are expected to be market-ready towards the end of 2006. Infineon developed the technology Continue reading “Infineon unveils 65nm handset chip”.
XFX, a worldwide presence in the manufacture of nVIDIA-based graphics cards, recently announced a partnership with Auravision, Inc., the master licensor for Fatal1ty Brand Products. Under the agreement, Fatal1ty will collaborate with XFX on the Continue reading “XFX Announces Partnership with Fatal1ty”.
First-quarter profits jumped more than 41% at Nvidia, topping the Street’s expectations. In the period ending April 30, the graphics chipmaker on Thursday said it earned $90.7 million, or 23 cents a share. That was Continue reading “NVIDIA First-Quarter Profits Jump 41 Percent”.
Three of the world’s largest memory chipmakers have agreed to pay $160 million to settle a private lawsuit alleging that they conspired to fix prices for the DRAM chips used in personal computers. The private Continue reading “Memory Chipmakers Settle Antitrust Suit”.
Google announced new features Wednesday that it said will let ordinary people influence its famously secret search algorithms, as well as see what the entire world is searching for at any given moment. That new Continue reading “Google opens up with new features – Trends and Co-Op”.
Toshiba has introduced the first laptop capable of playing next-generation, high-definition DVDs. The Qosmio G35-AV650 supports the HD DVD format, which Toshiba helped develop, and also plays standard DVDs. Its dual drive can write data Continue reading “Toshiba unveils first HD DVD laptop – Qosmio G35-AV650”.
Fudo over at The Inq believes that ATI is working on an answer to Quad SLI and planning to release their quad solution this summer. No word on pricing or naming yet, but the rumors Continue reading “ATI Soon to Offer Quad Crossfire GPU Solution”.
Internet regulators reject plans to create a domain for pornography websites ending with the .xxx suffix. No big shocker here! Advocates of the exclusive domain had argued that it would make it easier for web Continue reading “Plan for .xxx domain dropped”.
Yahoo Inc. and NBC Universal Television’s Telemundo said on Wednesday that they will merge their Web properties targeted at the U.S. Hispanic market into a joint Internet business, Yahoo! Telemundo. The two companies said they Continue reading “Yahoo, Telemundo form US Hispanic Web business”.
Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates on Tuesday announced a new cross-platform gaming service that integrates games played on cell phones, Xbox 360 consoles and the upcoming Windows Vista operating system. The “Live Anywhere” service will Continue reading “Microsoft announces ‘Live Anywhere’ online gaming service”.
Apple Computer Inc.’s iTunes Music Store has started selling TV programs from Fox Entertainment Group’s networks, including shows such as ”24.” Shows for sale will cost $1.99 each to download and will come from the Continue reading “First WB Movie Downloads now we have Fox shows sold at iTunes for $1.99”.
Warner Brothers is to start selling film downloads via the internet using the same technology once blamed for helping people swap illegal copies. The Hollywood studio has reached a deal with the web company Bit Continue reading “Warner Brothers to start selling movie downloads”.
Alienware has introduced two new ultra-powerful mobile systems loaded with dual NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GPUs: the 17″ Aurora m9700 and the 19″ Aurora mALX. As Alienware’s most powerful desktop replacements to date, the Aurora Continue reading “Alienware Launches New SLI Notebooks: Aurora m9700 and Aurora mALX”.
It is rumored that Intel has separated their memory and processor production, which is making some industry analysts believe that Intel might spin something off. Since Intel isn’t going to spin off their processor line Continue reading “Rumor: Intel might sell memory chip unit”.