Redbox announced Thursday that it will raise the price of its nightly rentals for DVDs to $1.20 from $1.00 per night. The change goes into effect at most locations on Halloween, Oct. 31, the company Continue reading “Redbox Raises DVD Rental Fee 20 Percent!”.
AMD recently announced revenue for the third quarter of 2011 of $1.69 billion, net income of $97 million, or $0.13 per share, and operating income of $138 million. The company reported non-GAAP net income of Continue reading “AMD Reports Third Quarter Results Were Up!”.
Despite recent troubles, Netflix is a major force on the Internet, accounting for 32.7% of peak U.S. downstream traffic, according to a new report. Sandvine Intelligent Broadband Networks’ report analyzed 200 Internet service providers in Continue reading “Netflix Uses 32.7% of All Internet Bandwidth During Peak Hours”.
The Hewlett-Packard blog now states that their PC business is staying put as an HP product. It looks like HP has decided against spinning off or selling its PC division a plan first brought to Continue reading “HP Won’t Spin Off Personal Computer Unit “.
Intel Corporation is making using a solid-state drive (SSD) easier with the introduction of its latest, Intel Solid-State Drive Toolbox 3.0! New features of this release include: The ability to make firmware updates under Microsoft Continue reading “Intel Releases Solid-State Drive Toolbox 3.0”.
With Halloween just days away a number of really interesting geeky costumes have been found across the internet. This is one of the more interesting ones! A guy named Tyler Card built a fully-functional DSLR Continue reading “Giant Nikon D3 DSLR Camera Costume For Halloween”.
Enermax today announced two new aluminium products that have been designed for use in offices around the world. The new products are the Aurora Lite RF Wireless keyboard and the 3.5″ HDD enclosure Brick with Continue reading “Enermax Announces Aluminium Keyboard and HDD Enclosure Brick”.
Asustek Computer and Gigabyte Technology, facing weak market demand in Europe, the US and China, are expected to fail to achieve their motherboard shipment goals for 2011 and only ship 22 million and 17.5-18 million Continue reading “ASUS & Gigabyte To Miss Motherboard Shipment Targets For 2011”.
Sony Corporation and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson today announced that Sony will acquire Ericssons 50 percent stake in Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB (Sony Ericsson), making the mobile handset business a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony. As Continue reading “Sony To Buy Ericssons Share of Sony Ericsson For EUR 1.05 Billion”.
OCZ Technology today announced certification of the Talos 6Gbps SAS SSD products with Nexenta Systems NexentaStor unified storage solution software, and will be showcased together at the upcoming OpenStorage Summit, October 26-27 in San Jose, Continue reading “OCZ Talos SAS 6Gbps SSD Now Certified By NexentaStor Software”.
LSI Corporation today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SandForce, Inc., the leading provider of flash storage processors for enterprise and client flash solutions and solid state drives (SSDs). Under the Continue reading “Chipmaker LSI Plans To Buy SandForce For $322 Million”.
AMD started a marketing campaign this week for their VISION technology and a risque video caught our attention this evening on YouTube. AMD says that with VISION Technology, AMDs multi-core CPU and GPU technology platform Continue reading “AMD Promotes VISION Technology w/ Touch my Bottom Video!”.
Apple has been granted a patent on unlocking a smartphone or tablet using a touchscreen gesture. The application, which was filed in June 2009, covers a range of commonly used techniques including swiping and pattern Continue reading “Apple Patents Touchscreen Unlock Gesture – Patent 7657549”.
Today Ubisoft and twofour54 Abu Dhabi announced the upcoming opening of a new Ubisoft development studio in Abu Dhabi. This marks the first time a major games publisher has established a direct presence in the Continue reading “Ubisoft To Open First Major Video Game Studio in Abu Dhabi”.
MSI announced the Z68MA-G43 (G3) motherboard based on the Intel Z68 chipset for LGA1155 CPUs today. The new motherboard will be the first in the industry to adopt the next-generation PCI Express Gen 3 high-speed Continue reading “MSI Announces Z68MA-G43 G3 Motherboard”.
