The Sony PlayStation is a household name around the world. Now the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has awarded the PlayStation an Emmy, aside from that what I also found interesting is Sony Continue reading “Emmy for Sony PlayStation 3D work”.
VIA Technologies and Mini-box announced the VoomPC family of compact, high performance yet affordable x86 car PC kits aimed at driving telematics mainstream. Based on low power VIA EPIA Mini-ITX mainboards, the x86 platform of Continue reading “VIA & Mini-box Announce VoomPC: Sub-$300 Car PC Kit”.
Epox have released a new NVIDIA nForce4 SLI motherboard. This is nothing new, but support for AMD’s socket 754 is. This is the first SLI motherboard to support AMD’s socket 754, also the first to Continue reading “Epox launches SLI motherboard for AMD Socket-754 CPUs”.
Dell Inc. will stop its practice of sending low-end computers to customers homes without charge in order to cut costs, the company said Thursday. We will add this to our list of reasons to build Continue reading “Dell ending free home delivery of computers”.
ATI silently lowered its warranty down to 1 year for ALL of their desktop graphics cards. This shouldn?t have any impact on the warranty that offered by third party companies like Sapphire, ASUS, or VisionTek Continue reading “ATI Technologies Cuts Video Card Warranty To One Year”.
Samsung have started work on expanding their Hwaseong semiconductor facility, at a cost of $33 Billion. According to EETimes their total expected investment will be $860 million by 2012. LONDON ? South Korean electronics giant Continue reading “Samsung breaks ground on $33 billion chip campus”.
More than 60 percent of Americans who use the Internet at home now do so with a high-speed connection, a new study finds. That’s a jump from 51 percent a year ago. Nielsen/NetRatings says 86 Continue reading “Broadband Internet use grows to 60% in U.S. homes”.
Korea-based LG Chem, a mother company of the well known LG Group, aims to be the first in the world to commercialize fuel cell technology to power notebooks. According to the company, it has already Continue reading “LG Chem aims to be first to market in notebook fuel cells”.
The BlackBerry handheld device has now found a new CPU. Intel are to collaborate with Reseach in Motion, the makers of the BlackBerry, on their new cpu. The BlackBerry will use Intel’s XScale architecture, which Continue reading “Intel, Research In Motion Collaborate on Next-Generation BlackBerry Devices”.
Rambus shares spiked today in response to a court filing seeking a dismissal of litigation in Virginia against vs. Samsung, the world’s second-largest chipmaker and the largest memory manufacturer. Shares of Rambus (RMBS) are up Continue reading “Rambus Chips Away at Samsung Suit”.
Nicholas Negroponte, the co-founder of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, detailed specifications for a $100 windup-powered laptop targeted at children in developing nations. At 500Mhz and a one gig of memory Continue reading “$100 laptop moves closer to reality thanks to MIT”.
McDonald’s Restaurants (Taiwan) yesterday celebrated sales of its home-grown rice burgers, which topped 5 million units six months after hitting the market, saying the local taste may be available in McDonald’s worldwide soon. I have Continue reading “Are McDonald’s rice burgers set for global domination?”.
As reported earlier Apple now admit that some iPod Nano’s have a problem. The good news is they say it only affects a very small amount of Nono’s sold. Accprding to The BBC Apple are Continue reading “Apple admits to iPod Nano faults”.
A news story on Forbes.com talks about how Microsoft lost $4 billion in four years on the Xbox. I’m sure Microsoft is not worried though as they have $40 billion in cash and over the Continue reading “Xbox drained $4 billion in four years from Microsoft’s profits”.
Another day, another inbox full of news from around the web. In this issue we get looks at a VOIP phone, the gorgeous NI8-SLI from Abit, an interesting article discussing hackers, and the completed worklog Continue reading “September 27th News From Around the Web”.
