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Macronix International Company (MXIC) announced on November 29 that its co-developed phase change memory (PCM) with IBM and Qimonda has proven to be applicable in sub-20nm geometries, indicating that the present physical barriers of NOR flash production on 65nm can be overcome. Macronix noted that Intel has met certain physical bottleneck when shrinking the process node of NOR flash production to 65nm node and production has proven to be non-economical.
Mountain House (CA) - The story of RED reminds me of a story from the automotive industry. Back in 1963, Ferruccio Lamborghini complained to Enzo Ferrari about the quality of the clutch on his Ferrari 250 GT, and Enzo angrily answered: "You build tractors. How can you know how to manufacture a sports car?". Then, Ferruccio decided to beat Il Commendatore in his own game, and the tractor manufacturer turned into a company that builds fantastic sports cars.
Chicago (IL) - The Internet picked up the pace in February and showed stronger growth, approaching a total size of 160 million websites. Apache stopped the march of Microsoftò€™s IIS and is gaining share in global Internet server installations: More than half of the webò€™s servers are running on Apache.
Brand LCD-TV makers are offering more aggressive prices for their products in North America amid a traditionally strong season and support from panel makers, with prices for 40" and 42" models competing more fiercely than before. Prices for Philips-branded 42" LCD TVs have dropped to $1700 at Costco"s website, while LG Electronics (LGE) is promoting its 42" LCD TVs at $2000 at BestBuy.
Ex-console and game developer Atari late last week decided to sue three online game review sites that posted less than favorable reviews of its latest console game, Alone in the Dark for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. Norwegian review sites Gamereactor.no and Gamer.no as well German site 4gamers.de received letters from Atari to take down their reviews. Both Norwegian sites gave Atariò€™s latest game a ghastly 3 out of 10 rating and 4gamers.de slammed the game with a 68-percent conclusion.
Fears that a Microsoft digital music player and service could imperil the iPod"s market dominance are overblown, according to Shaw Wu, an analyst for American Technology Research in a report on Monday.
Santa Clara (CA) - Intel is firing up the second stage of its Core microarchitecture: Not quite four months after the company regained the performance crown in the desktop and DP server processor segment, Intel is first to launch CPUs with four cores: The Core 2 Extreme QX6700 rings in a new era for desktop processors, while the Xeon 5300 series spearheads the firm"s DP server lineup.M/b>
A lot of Sidekick customers are feeling the effects of the server outage that saw an unspecified amount of user data swallowed up by the cloud.
New York (NY) - Warner Music Group (WMG) and YouTube today announced a joint partnership in which Warner will distribute its copyrighted content through the increasingly popular video sharing site. Warner is the first company to announce support for YouTube"s new "content identification and royalty reporting" system, which YouTube says will be generally available by the end of the year.
CBS is expected to announce an advertising-supported broadband channel today that will air short-form programming and possibly some network shows after they air on CBS-affiliated stations.
Washington (DC) - NBC has announced that it is planning to air its nightly news program, NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams, in high definition, which would make it the only network news show in its timeslot to do so, according to a report on TVPredictions.com.
Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) today announced the availability of its SiS662 chipset, which is being spotlighted at CeBIT 2006. The company claims, without specifying any names, that the chipset has already entered mass-production with a number of customers.
Wishing that you did not have to deal with software-based firewalls installed on your PC, which are themselves prone to external attack that can make them appear to work when really they aren"t?
It"s the Microsoft tax.
Taipei (Taiwan) - The silicon wafers used for the solar cell industry have increased significantly in price this quarter. 6" wafers are currently priced between $9.20 and $9.30 each. The Taiwanese solar cell makers claim this is an unacceptably high price. When the wafers exceeded $9 in November there was an outcry. The additional 3% has pushed the price beyond $9, what was considered to be the ceiling. As a result, silicon solar cell makers are now forced to reduce the number of products they buy, sending ripples downstream to end-product retailers.
While preparing for listing on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE), Green Energy Technology reiterated confidence about its business outlook. The company said its silicon wafer order landing status is good, while thin-film solar cell volume production is on track, with aggressive sales contribution anticipated.
UK newspaper The Telegraph today reports that Microsoft is working on a music streaming service which it hopes to have ready by the end of this month. The Telegraph cites Peter Bale, executive producer of MSN who said, ò€œMusic is an important area for Microsoft. We are looking at launching a music streaming service imminently." Bale went on to say that it would be a similar service to Spotify, but that Microsoft is still examining how the business model will work.
We all get spam. Some of us get tons of the stuff and so, we recognize it more easily. When someone tries to sell me Viagra, I know not to click. Mostly because I"m a woman and have no use for that sort of thing, but also because I"m not a fool and those kinds of emails just scream spam-scam. Apparently not all of us can spot spam a mile away.
Indianapolis (IN) - A few web sites have compiled some top ten lists for 2007. The first is from NewScientist and is the top ten list of inventions. The second is also from NewScientist and claims to be a top ten list of videos, though not all of the links connect to videos. Still, here they are in the hopes of keeping the doledrums at bay. The third is from The Inquirer, where they make some predictions about what"ll be up in 2008:
London (England) - As a response to falling online music sales, UK-based EMI Group PLC, the largest music publisher in the world, has begun a campaign to allow its music online without any form of encryption, and is pressuring digital stores like iTunes to join in the effort.
Chicago (IL) - Georges Fornay, president of Sony computer Entertainment Europe, provided the first credible information on a possible price of Sony"s next-generation game console. According to media reports, Fornay predicted a price range of 500 to 600 Euro, which could mean a price of at least $500 and as much as $750 for US consumers.
IBM is filing suit against a former employee who wants to work for Dell, claiming that the new position would violate an agreement restricting his employment with rivals.
San Francisco (CA) - Stanley Burrell, better known as rapper MC Hammer, will come back into the music industry, but this time as the chief strategy officer of the new website DanceJam.com.
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Maxtor announced that it will equip its MaxLine III enterprise series as well as the DiamondMax 10 desktop harddrive family with a SATA II interface. The 7200 rpm harddrives will begin shipping this quarter and will be available with capacities up to 300 GByte, the company said.
The DRAM contract price is going to stay flat through July, after seeing prices steadily increase since April, according to DRAMeXchange. DRAMeXchange indicated that the DRAM contract price stayed flat in the first half of July, ending the consecutive growth trend seen since April.
China-based BOE Optoelectronics Technology (BOE OT) and Info Vision Optronics (IVO) are eyeing the 19" widescreen panel market, with IVO already starting shipping 19" widescreen panels in September, according to sources. However, Taiwan-based panel makers expect a limited impact on the short-term supply and demand balance for the segment since the initial amount of output from China-based panel makers will not be significant.
Lexus announced at the 2006 New York Auto Show that its new flagship sedan, the LS 600h L model, will be available with high-end Mark Levinson audio system that will integrate a hard drive to store audio files. A similar announcement was made last week by Infiniti, which said it will be offering a hard drive for its 2007 G35 sedan.
Acer"s total volume of notebook orders is estimated to exceed eight million units in 2006, slightly ahead of Toshiba with 7-8 million notebooks, according to sources at Taiwan notebook manufacturers. The Taiwan notebook vendor will likely become the world"s third-largest brand this year, bumping Toshiba to the fourth spot, indicated the sources.
The top-five notebook vendors - Dell, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Acer, Toshiba and Lenovo (formerly IBM) - are expected to grab a combined 70.5% share of the global notebook market in 2006, up from 60.1% in 2004, according to statistics compiled by Taiwan"s first-tier notebook manufacturers.
The Guardian has compiled some interesting facts about Cernò€™s LHC. Its tunnel is 27 km long. The scientists will experiment with particle beams consisting of almost 3000 bunches of 100 billion particles each. At full power, each beam will be about as energetic as a car moving at 1600 km/h.
Moscow (Russia) - Art Lebedev, developer and designer of the Optimus-103 keyboard, indicated in a recent post on the Optimus project blog that the OLED keyboard could be shipping in the first half of 2007. A major hurdle of the development, according to blog postings, appears to have been finding a manufacturer of OLEDs for the keyboard.
The convergence of Internet and TV was a theme at IDF this year and the stylish LLUON A1 PC is a step in that direction
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A rare piece of malicious software targeting Apple"s Mac OS X operating system - instead of the more common victim, Microsoft Windows - has been spotted online and appears to be spreading. Like many computer viruses, the bug lures people to click on it by posing as something else, in this case a file containing a picture of the next-generation Apple operating system.
One of the oldest peer-to-peer (P2P) services, iMesh, is offering instant messaging and an enhanced search function in its upcoming client. iMesh 6.5 will allow users to send messages and share songs with other users. In addition, friends can simultaneously listen to the same songs with the "Listen Together" feature.
ViewSonic is showcasing more than a dozen new displays at CES 2008, including desktop monitors; high definition (HD) 1080p LCD TVs, a complete line of digital photo frames and a high-end home theater projector.The VLED221wm, a 22" widescreen desktop monitor, sports a 12000:1 dynamic contrast ratio.
A destructive worm posing as a pornographic e-mail may already have infected hundreds of thousands of computers and could erase many everyday files on February 3, security experts warned on Tuesday.
Redwood City (CA) - Electronic Arts, together with in-flight entertainment company DTI Software, today announced a plan to provide multiple airline companies with in-flight versions of their software, largely headlined by The Sims 2. Software from EA"s Pogo.com will make up the rest of the initial list of available games.
While Microsoft still will not confirm there will be a third service pack for its Windows XP operating system, a preview version of the software update has been made available on the Web.
Wix.com, the Flash website builder is pushing its software up a notch in its newest version, coming out towards the end of the week, by developing deep linking capabilities with separate URL"s for each of its website"s pages.
Leading Sage and Microsoft Business Partner, DMC Software has introduced a series of weekly ACT! 2010 Webinars designed to update people with the latest product news, ACT! 2010 functionality and new features.
Chicago (IL) - Semi-Custom PC builder Velocity Micro introduced today the Vector GX Holiday Edition computer, and as the name suggests, becomes the company"s frontrunner for spiking holiday sales. The $900 PC has a set of performance-oriented features for PC enthusiasts.
Computer users are being invited to join the hunt for minute grains of star dust that a NASA spacecraft should return to Earth this weekend.
Las Vegas (NV) - LG said that it has lowered the price of its flagship 1080p TV - a 71" plasma unit.
Chicago (IL) - Ever wondered, if your current PC has enough horsepower to handle the next generation of multimedia? No, we are not talking about a Vista ready PC, but simply a system that is capable of displaying HD movies. Cyberlink has a surprise for you - get ready for a major overhaul or to throw out your PC, if you don"t own a dual-core processor.
Taiwan panel makers expect prices to decline less sharply in 2007 than in 2006, with average prices falling 20-25% for the year, and they also expect prices to decrease in a slightly slower pace in February than in January, according to sources with first-tier panel makers. The relatively milder declines in prices this year will be the result of panel makers" decision to start cutting output toward the end of last year, the sources added.
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Microsoft took a major step towards the release of Windows Vista on Friday, when Jim Allchin, co-president of the firm"s platforms & services division, announced that Windows Vista RC1 is done!"
Albatron recently unveiled its PX915P-2V, a new motherboard based on the LGA-775 Intel Pentium 4 processor featuring the Intel 915P chipset and two PCI Express (PCIe) graphics card slots.
Rejoice PC gamers, one of our (well, certainly mine) favorite franchises is making a return!
While meeting with Gigabyte at Computex, we were let in on a little bit of information regarding AMD"s unlock-block for new Phenom II CPUs.
Mozilla announced today that Firefox browser fans are underwriting four 30-second videos to air on U.S. primetime TV this month. The ads were produced by Firefox fans in response to this year"s "Firefox Flicks Video" campaign, which resulted in approximately 300 homemade clips about the browser.
Las Vegas (LV) - Ohh Christmas and a banana, even though Macworld is a bazillion miles away we can"t escape the ubiquitous iPod accessories here at CES Unveiled in Vegas. Duracell (yes, the battery makers) has launched their PowerFM iPod deck, with the aim of "conslodating the best features of all the iPod accessories on the market." Yes, well, I suppose if you"re late to the market the best bet is to just steal everything that"s there and make it better. A lesson learned by Microsoft, being used to help Apple"s minions. Irony.
San Francisco (CA) - A joint team of scientists from IBM, Macronix, and Qimonda today announced details about a new phase-change memory chip, which they claim marks the next step in finding a successor to the universal flash memory format. The non-volatile memory is estimated to be about 500 times faster than Flash, while using less than one-half the power to write data into a cell.
In 2007, discussions about adopting flat fluorescent lamp (FFL)/EEFL cooled down, while the market focus has been intensified for a CCFL-LED transition. The adoption of color gamut, environmentally friendly properties, thickness/weight ratios, form factor, contract ratio, and response time, which are considered strengths of LEDs, will have players looking to increase their adoption of LED BLU light sources for notebook and TV applications in 2008.
Cellular phones are no longer simple communications devices, but are usually miniature computers - Computer that could be susceptible to viruses. Traditional anti-virus companies like Symantec and McAfee already have AV products for mobile phones, and several other companies are hot on their heels. Two such companies, Massachusetts-based Kaspersky Labs and a Korean security firm AhnLab have announced plans to develop AV software for cellular phones running Symbian and Microsoft Mobile operating systems.
A teenage hacker from New Zealand believed to be the ring-leader of a cyber-crime gang has managed to nab himself some work courtesy of his exploits.
Albatron today announced the availability of its KM51 motherboard series, first unveiled in December 2005, for the AMD Socket-754 platform. The two motherboards support Nvidia"s latest-generation IGP (Integrated Graphics Processor) chipsets
Millions of World of Warcraft fans will finally get their own movie. Blizzard Entertainment and Legendary Pictures have announced an upcoming live-action movie based on WoW. Almost no other details have been released, with Blizzard Entertainment saying that further details about the director and cast, "will be revealed in the months ahead."
Las Vegas (NV) - At its pre-CES press conference, Sony spent very little time talking about the PS3, which is kind of surprising considering it is the first big event for Sony since the release of the console in November. However, it remained confident about the future of the system.
Asustek Computer recently introduced its EAX1800XT TOP graphics card, which incorporates ATI"s flagship Radeon X1800XT VPU (video processing unit) to provide video capability needed for robust PC video systems. Availability is slated for the middle of December, with no suggested retail price available yet, according to the company.
Some people still think standard-def DVD is "good enough" compared to Blu-ray Disc.
Intel SSDs now a little cheaper, but still not cheap.
Washington DC - Two new studies published in Science magazine claim that biofuels use could actually increase the amount of greenhouse gases in our planet"s atmosphere. Researchers say converting forests and grasslands to ethanol producing corn or oil palm plants could actually double the CO2 levels over the next thirty years.
Online Employee Scheduling Software Raises the Bar on Speed and Ease of Use
Samsung Electronics has developed a flexible LCD panel prototype that measures 5 inches across the diagonal, and intends to commercialize products based on the technology by 2007, a company spokesperson says.
NEC Display Solutions of America recently announced the launch of its 52" LCD MultiSync (LCD5220) full high-definition wide-screen display designed for digital signage applications. The new LCD5220 supports the 1080p HD standard and the ultra-thin bezel (19 millimeters / 0.7 inches allows a more seamless picture when used in multiple-display, video-wall implementations.
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FBI agents have recovered a stolen Veteran Affairs laptop that was taken during a May 3 home burglary. The laptop contained personal information, including Social Security numbers, about more than 26.5 million military personnel. FBI officials claim that the data had not been accessed.
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CMS Products is shipping its "copy2go-Xpress" software that promises to search and backup media files on a hard-drive. Harddrive capacities have grown tremendously in the last year and some consumers are having a hard time keeping track of their many image, audio or movie files. Copy2go-Xpress allows users to search the entire drive for different media types: photos, music, or video and then back the files to another drive or accross a network.
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Are you tired of losing your small USB keychain drive? Walletex has begun selling Wallet Flash, which is a credit card sized USB flash drive that easily fits in your wallet. The drive comes in 128 MByte to 2 GByte capacities.
Samsung Electronics called for the standardization of LCD glass sizes among display makers worldwide and has proposed new mother glass substrate size standard for next-generation liquid crystal displays (LCDs).
San Francisco (CA) - Think your shiny new cellphone has a crisp display? Think again. Samsung is first to demonstrate actual VGA resolution on a cellphone-sized 1.98" display. Samsung says that the display shows ten times more detail than your average 40" high definition LCD TV.
AU Optronics (AUO) and Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) recently became suppliers of 32" (and other smaller-size) LCD TV panels for Samsung Electronics, according to an unspecified Samsung Executive quoted by the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN).
It seems that Dell isnò€™t the only one looking to strip Psion of its ò€œnetbookò€ trademark. Now Intelò€™s part of the liberation party.
"Let"s put things that shouldn"t go in water in water," seems to be a slightly recurring theme here at the moment. Apart from Foxconn putting all their motherboards in big tubes with running water down the outer glass sheet, which only got amusing when the water stopped flowing, and others with their crush proof USB drives, Vission has the Iceman; a totally rigged, outdoor friendly computer.
Newly updated SharePoint Password Change becomes one of the most expected SharePoint password management tools.
Asustek Computer was the only first-tier maker to see on-year motherboard shipment growth in March and for the first quarter of this year, as Elitegroup Computers (ECS), Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI) saw a decline in their shipments from last year, according to shipment totals released by the companies.
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Tektronix announced today its new TLA7012 portable mainframe and TLA7016 benchtop mainframe logic analyzers. The mainframes are compatible with all TLA modules and provide throughput that is at least three times faster than previous mainframe models enabling faster data analysis and more rapid zooming, searching, filtering and scrolling, Tektronix said.
Kingston memory demonstrated an Intel Core i7 920 system (YouTube) this week packed with 24 GB of DDR3 of the company"s ValueRAM memory. The goal of course, was to show off how stable the system can be with a total of nine virtual machines running simultaneously. The cherry on top was having Crysis run on one of the nine VMs.
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New Unit Extends High-Definition Video, Audio, IR and RS-232 Signals Over Single Fiber up to 1,200 Feet for Home Theater, Digital Signage and Professional Applications
Recently IBM announced that it was shuffling its deck of executive cards and now a similar announcement has come through from AMD.
Chicago (IL) - After Samsung, Dell is the second major company that tells its customers that Vista may need more system memory than what Microsoft is listing in its system requirements. According to a report in the Seattle Post Intelligencer (SPI), chief executive officer Kevin Rollins promoted an upgrade to 2 GB.
DafaPoker, Asia"s No. 1 Poker Room, is delighted to announce its participation in the much-awaited twelve-day festival of poker - the 2009 Asian Poker Tour Macau.
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FarStone Technology, known for their refined backup and recovery software, has announced that DriveClone System Recovery Software will fully support Windows 7.
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Vancouver (WA) - The man who hacked a notebook computer during the ConSecWest conference in Washington listed the item for sale on Ebay, saying the exploit of the operating system "is most likely still present."
This fall, people in South Korea will get an opportunity to take 1000 wheeled robots for a test drive with their cellular phones. The government sponsored project called the ubiquitous robotic companion (URC) runs from September to December and will place the remote-controlled robots in households and kindergarden facilities.
Infineon Technologies has released commercial silicon-based low noise amplifier (LNA) products that the company said offer a better performance-price ratio compared to Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) alternatives while also helping mobile phone suppliers to comply to 3GPP regulations. At the 3GSM World Congress 2007 in Barcelona, Infineon announced availability of its latest LNAs, the BGA700L16 and the BGA734L16, which are based on a combination of Infineon"s proprietary silicon germanium carbon (SiGe:C) process with an additional feature of low resistance on-chip ground contact.
Westlake Village (CA) - While Intel is busy bringing its next processor generation, based on the Merom core, up to speed, AMD is adding the final touches to its DDR2-based Socket M2 Athlon 64 platform, TG Daily has learned. AMD is preparing 12 M2 processors for Q2 launch, spanning the Athlon 64, X2, FX and Sempron series of CPUs. Part of the launch will be an Athlon 64 X2 5000+ and an Athlon 64 FX-62 chip.
Miami (FL) - With today"s lifting of Nvidia"s 9800 GX2 NDA, system builders are announcing desktops powered by the dual-processor graphics card. Alienware, known for their expensive and beefy, computers, is one of the first ones out of the gate with their upgraded Area-51R desktop. Featuring the GeForce 9800 GX2 card and the Nvidia 790i Ultra SLI motherboard, the system will set you back several thousand dollars if you configure all the priciest options.
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Creative Sensor Incorporated (CSI), a Taiwan-based maker of color contact image-sensor modules for multi-function peripherals, will invest about $3.1 million in a production line for liquid lenses, with small-volume shipments slated to begin by the end of 2006, according to company president Doris Hsu.
As those at Skype are fond of reporting, many millions of Web surfers worldwide have downloaded the company"s client; indeed, it"s available in 27 languages. A few million of these folks have even gone so far as to use it to either instant message or make unlimited voice calls to other Skype users on a daily basis. Today, with its rollout of the beta Skype 2.0, all those millions of folks could conceivably upgrade and start making free video calls too.
Demand for Microsoft"s Ultra-Mobile PCs (UMPCs) will really depend on whether technical issues such as excessive power use can be resolved, sources at Taiwan PC manufacturers indicated, who hinted that Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) may also become involved in this potential market. Microsoft"s "Origami" project fulfills the UMPC concept as a new category of consumer devices and features the Windows XP Tablet edition OS with mobile-ready technologies.
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Today, solar cells are not a very efficient way to produce electricity, even if the source of energy is free. They can be manufactured from thick crystalline silicon wafers (300 microns thick) or thinner non-crystalline ones (about 2 microns thick). But "thin" cells built are less efficient than "thick" ones, even if they"re cheaper to produce. But now, researchers at Iowa State University have found a way to boost the performance of these solar cells by 40 to 50 percent. And as they can be produced with the same manufacturing processes than previous ones, they"ll remain cheap.
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LG Philips LCD is to invest five billion dollars in new facilities to produce next-generation flat panel displays in order to strengthen its global market leadership.
The SD Association (SDA), the organisation that oversees the SD memory card format, has formally taken on board the TransFlash specification and renamed it MicroSD.
A group of security vendors today announced they have joined forces to reduce confusion surrounding identifying and eliminating spyware.
ATI today confirmed that it is shipping samples of "all next generation mobile parts" to ODMs and OEMs for qualification purposes. The company indicated that more than one mobile chip is heading into the market, but did not say which actual models the product line will include. While it was unclear when notebooks will be available with processors of the X1000 family, ATI said that vendors currently are "readying for production".
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Due to back-to-school and year-end holiday demand, the average selling price (ASP) for 19" LCD monitor panels is expected to increase $3-5 next month, according to Taiwan-based panel and system makers. Prices for 19" LCD monitors stabilized in the second half of July to stay at $135, according to research firm WitsView Technology.
Planning your roadmap to Core i7? Kingston has just announced it is launching its HyperX Triple Channel DDR3 kits today, with 3GB kits to ship first, 6GB kits to ship following shortly.
With 19" widescreen panels generating higher profits than 17" standard panels, research firms and panel makers are projecting different degrees of replacement of the 17" panels by the 19" widescreen segment.
Brussels (Belgium) - European Commission spokesperson Jonathan Todd confirmed to Reuters today that the EC has denied Microsoft"s request for an extension to its 15 February deadline for turning over interoperability documentation for Windows. Also denied yet again, Todd confirmed, was Microsoft"s repeated request for access to correspondence between Commissioners, their appointed trustees, and third-party experts who, Microsoft has claimed, waived their right to confidentiality.
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Microsoft plans to offer a souped-up version of its upcoming Exchange Server 2007 messaging software for businesses that will include access to extra anti-virus and anti-spam technology.
Las Vegas (NV) - 1080p is really what you should be looking for in a new high-definition HDTV, but the next generation is just around the corner: Westinghouse showcases a 2160p - commonly referred to as a Quad HDTV. If you think this TV is expensive, you are absolutely right.
Ahsay Systems Corporation, the developer of the leading Ahsay Backup Software, now offers a professional design service that helps backup service providers and resellers to enhance brand identities.
Oversupply of large size TFT LCD panels will likely surpass 10% in 2006 amid aggressive capacity ramps from Korean and Taiwanese LCD panel makers, according to a DisplayBank press release.
Amid component-shortage concerns surfacing the motherboard industry, Asustek Computer remains confident on its fourth-quarter business outlook, expecting to start delivering PlayStation 3 (PS3) game consoles and expecting strong orders from Apple. Asustek stressed that the component issue is not only limited to the company, but it affects the industry as a whole.
IEEE has put on hold its review of a wireless technology favoured by Qualcomm due to a squabble involving Intel, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The two major DRAM vendors that are participating in Computex Taipei 2006, Qimonda (the former memory business unit of Infineon Technologies) and Nanya Technology, and A-Data Technology, which was recently again ranked by iSuppli as the number three DRAM-module supplier globally and number one in Asia, are showcasing DDR3 modules at the show. Although DDR3 is still far from being supported by chipsets, it now provides an opportunity for DRAM vendors and memory-module houses to differentiate themselves from the competition, leveraging their membership in an unofficial DDR3 club as a sort of technology advantage.
Third-party chipset suppliers including Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) and VIA Technologies could suffer from Intel"s resuming production of its 865-series chipsets, as Intel"s current 865-series offerings are priced only slightly higher than equivalent chipset series from SiS and VIA, according to unspecified motherboard makers in Taiwan.
Washington (DC) - The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced its third annual robot race, the DARPA Urban Challenge - or as some are calling it, "Grand Challenge 3." While the first two races had autonomous vehicles kicking up dust in the desert, this race will have vehicles drive through a mock city and merging into moving traffic. The top prize for the fastest vehicle to complete the 60-mile course in less than 6 hours will be a cool $2 million dollars. Participants can also compete for government research funding.
A Chinese businessman has created a quandary for the Chinese government after buying a MiG-21f jet fighter on eBay.
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