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In order to defend its entry-level notebook market, Intel is planning to launch two 65nm Merom-based processors for its Centrino 2 platform (Montevina), according to sources at motherboard makers.The CPUs include the Celeron 585 with a core frequency of 2.16 GHz priced at $107 in thousand-unit tray quantities, and Celeron 575 at 2 GHz and $86.
Framingham (MA) - NAND flash-based acceleration technologies for computers will beginning to surface with the release of Windows Vista and promise to shorten OS boot and applications load times as well as reduce the power consumption of mobile computers. But the first generation of the technology may not deliver on its promise, a report published by IDC suggests.
Pricewatch - If you go out and purchase an average desktop PC today, you will end up with a dual-core system in most cases. But there have been quad-core computers on retail shelves for some time now and we have been seeing these PCs being offered for close to $800, which is generally considered the barrier between mainstream and so-called premium PCs. More such PCs are one the way - but what if you want to upgrade your dual-core system with a quad-core CPU? How expensive are these CPUs and are they actually getting cheaper? TG Daily took a closer look to find out.
Although Intel is experiencing heavy GP chipset (915GM) inventory pressure as it transitions to the Napa platform, industry players noted that the chip giant may gain relief from Microsoft, which has approved the 915GM chipset - as well as the desktop 915G IGP chipset - for supporting the Vista operating system (OS).
NAC Locator - a NAC enhanced Google Maps for mobile devices now runs on Palm Pre to provide maps, satellite images, local searches and turn-by-turn driving/walking directions to all locations no matter whether there are street addresses or not.
Mountain View (CA) - Thanks to its financial backing from Google, Youtube now plans to offer live video streaming by the end of 2008.
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SyberWorks, Inc., a leader in custom e-Learning Solutions and the Learning Management System industry, today announces the next episode of the e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series, about a tool used in learning theory, "Facilitative Tools."
Knoxville (TN) - The University of Tennessee (UT) has received a $65 million grant from the National Science Foundation Supercomputing for a next-generation computing system and will spend the money on a Cray system that is scheduled to go into operation next year.
Rochester (NY) - Physicsts at the University of Rochester have created an extremely simple, elegant device which can capture generated ultra-cold polar molecules by the truckload. The new device greatly simplifies an existing complex process that, according to the report, only four labs in the world were capable of performing. This new process is not only faster and less costly, but it also results in a continuous, near perfect yield of their desired molecules. Scientists believe this ability will help them develop exotic crystals and eventually stable quantum computers.
People have tried to reduce or eliminate jetlag ever since the invention of air travel. Some use special protein diets while others blast themselves with "daylight" spectrum lights. Now Airbus, the European jumbo jet maker, has filed for a patent on a jetlag reducing airplane seat.
Intel anticipates that when Dempsey is released in the first quarter of the next year, the Xeon will have a front side bus of 1066 MHz and start life at 3.80 GHz, with other flavours clocking at 3.60 GHz, 3.40 GHz and 3.20 GHz.
Following Sony"s launch of its BDU-X10S, its first Blu-ray Disc (BD)-ROM drive, BD-ROM is expected to become the mainstream among all BD formats in 2008, according to leading Taiwan-based makers of optical disc drives. The Sony BDU-X10S is an internal PC BD-ROM drive featuring 2x playback of Blu-ray discs as well as 8x playback of DVD-ROM and 24x for CD-ROM discs, the sources indicated.
Irvine (CA) - Gateway today announced what it claims to be the first 21" high-definition widescreen display with DCDi support.
Taiwan-based memory module maker Transcend Information recently introduced a high-density 1 GByte miniSD card, and emphasized that the high performance of the card is ideal for handheld applications.
Mountain View (CA) - D-Wave"s quantum computer demonstration this week has generated lots of buzz, but some experts doubt the authenticity of the demo. At the Computer History Museum in Mountain View California, company reps solved Sudoku problems and calculated seating plans, but some university researchers and corporate scientists need to see more data to be convinced. They are also concerned about D-Wave"s lack of peer research and of the test"s remote nature.
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Palo Alto (CA) - Hewlett-Packard (HP) today released first details about a "hybrid" nano-CMOS chips that could lead the way not only to much smaller chip structures and extend the physical limits of Moore"s law, but also continue the trend to a substantial decrease of power consumption in semiconductors.
Market research firm Gartner believes that the global semiconductor market will be "gradually improving." Cautious investment in incremental capacity additions will keep the market in a pattern of modest growth during the next few years, the firm said on Thursday.
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Cambridge (MA) - Batteries provide power for most of our daily gadgets, but they are bulky and must be replaced often. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology"s Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems (LEES) are studying a new breed of ultracapacitors, which use carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to generate and store energy at the atomic level. Their goal is to make use of the unique properties of CNTs to produce batteries that are both longer-lasting and faster-charging.
Armonk (NY) - IBM announced availability of what the company calls the first "generally available" computer system with a Cell processor. While the CPU is best known as the power plant of Sony"s upcoming Playstation 3 console, it is marketed as a viable resource in computing-intensive fields, such as the medical, defense, animation, aerospace and oil industries, as well.
Chicago (IL) - When Nvidia announced in early July that it has noticed a higher than normal failure rate in some of its notebook chips, investors reacted concerned, sending the company stock down 22%. The stock recovered after Nvidia apparently demonstrated good control of the issue and a one-time charge of almost $200 million. But what seems to be a closed chapter and a black eye for the company could be a much more serious problem that is just taking off: Several industry sources confirmed to TG Daily what has been reported by some publications for some time: In contrast to Nvidiaò€™s claims that only a limited number of GPUs are affected, sources indicated that "most" recent Nvidia GPUs carry the problem and a chance of failure, pushing the potential damage into stratospheric regions.
Yorktown Heights (NY) - IBM today announced a hardware-based technology that is squarely aimed at preventing the unauthorized use digital content on consumer electronics medical devices and defense systems. Built directly into the processor "SecureBlue," the technology promises to provide much more robust content protection than software-based DRM systems available today.
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In a recent test of a credit union"s network security, consultants working for East Syracuse, N.Y.-based security audit firm Secure Network Technologies scattered twenty USB flash drives around the financial group"s building. Each memory fob held a program - disguised as an image file - that would collect passwords, user names and information about the user"s system.
Munich (Germany) - The European Union and the European Space Agency (ESA) today sent the first satellite of its Galileo system into space. Galileo is planned to grow into a civil, globally available positioning system that provides more accurate and more reliable localization data than the current Global Positioning System (GPS).
The Associated Press (AP) is reporting that Intel has moved up the shipment of its Tulsa processor, which will succeed the current Xeon MP 7000 series with Paxville core. Instead of making the processor available in the fourth quarter of this year, Intel spokesperson Bill Calder said that the processor will ship already in Q3. It was unclear whether he was referring to actual product availability to end-users or to processor shipments to system builders.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has made comprehensive cuts in the prices of its processors, including the Opteron, Athlon 64, and Sempron CPUs. The price of the high-end Athlon 64 3800+ has been slashed by as much as 34%, according to the latest quotation received by Taiwan IT makers from AMD. The new prices became effective on February 15.
Intel is scheduled to restart production its entry-level 865GV chipset in the fourth quarter, as the chip giant has observed huge demand from the channel market, according to sources at Taiwan motherboard makers. In addition, the launch of Intel"s high-end 975X chipset will be pushed up from the first quarter of 2006 to the middle of this November, the sources indicated.
San Francisco (CA) - Yahoo has created a strategic partnership with Google and is reportedly in talks with AOL, while Microsoft may team up with News Corp to launch a new bid to take over Yahoo.
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OTOY demonstrated its game streaming service by running Crysis on an iPhone and using AMD"s latest GPU server-side.
Hannover (Germany) - AMD is ramping its 45 nm processors and visitors at the CeBIT tradeshow have a chance to see samples of 45 nm Opteron with Shanghai core and the 45 Phenom with Teneb at their first public demonstration.
Chip giant Intel is moving heaven and earth to deliver dual core technology, but according to a web cast its president Paul Otellini made to staff, there are limitations on AMD technology which could give the chip giant the edge.
In response to recent comments from Microsoft"s VP of marketing, Peter Moore, the company has issued a formal statement clarifying its position on next-generation DVD support for the Xbox 360 console.
Chicago (IL) - With national gas prices approaching an average of $3.40 per gallon, it
NEC LCD Technologies announced the successful development of a 3.5", quarter high definition (QHD) system-on-glass (SOG) LCD module (LCM) for mobile devices. Successful trial production of the new low temperature polysilicon (LTPS) LCM, which is ideal for all kinds of broadcasting equipment such as professional digital video cameras (DVC), began on October 1.
Las Vegas (NV) - All around Vegas there is to be found an enigmatic advertisement from Texas Instruments: "It"s all in the mirrors." They are referring to Digital Light Processing, something Texas Instruments invented in 1987 and which they are today putting to use in HD TV"s and projectors across the industry.
Eazybusiness have released a new version of the eazybusiness cloud which includes free email and a content managed website for all registering companies.
At first glance, Dan Kaminsky"s bright red-colored map of the world looks like a visualization of global population - but it"s actually a map of networks carrying Sony"s DRM software. The computer security expert estimated the number of infected networks and superimposed the data as red dots on a map of the world. The result is a impressively red globe. Kaminsky told TG Daily that "there could be three million or more infected computers."
Freescale Semiconductor, Nokia and Symbian are joining together to create what they claim is the first 3G mobile phone reference design using Freescale"s single core modem, targeted to run S60 software on Symbian.
At its annual press day, Google today assured analysts and journalists that the firm is still very much about improving search features. The company made four major announcements - "Co-op" that let"s users share their search expertise with other users, "Notebook" that can clip bits of information from web pages and store them online, a tool to research search trends and, perhaps most significantly, an updated version of Google Desktop.
Budapest (Hungary) - The University of Budapest has finished a new study that concluded that it is possible for a computer to analyze and talk back to dogs based on six main kinds of barks.
Samsung Electronics today switched on an enhanced design process that enables it to manufacture TFT and LCD displays that can be viewed at angles of up to 160-degrees.
Primera today said that it will be shipping a Blu-ray enabled disc publishing system in April of this year. The "Bravo XR-Blu Disc Publisher" integrates Pioneer"s BDR-101A Blu-ray Disc/DVD Recorder and can be loaded with up to 50 single- or dual-layer discs at a time.
Although NAND flash contract prices continued dropping in July, it appears Samsung Electronics has started applying the brakes on high-density 8Gbit parts, as prices for the segment are falling as much lower rate. Contract prices for the 4Gbit segment fell 14.7% from June and 2 Gbit prices fell 10.2 percent, while the 8Gbit segment saw a drop of only 7.7 percent, according to DRAMeXchange.
We think that today"s top of the line SSDs are very fast relative to what we"re accustomed to using from years with magnetic storage. But if for some reason that"s still not fast enough for you, there"s Fusion-io"s SSD technology that"s able to reach a blistering 1 TB per second transfer rate.
With the 19" widescreen panels generating higher profits than 17" standard panels, HannStar Display has begun producing for the segment, while AU Optronics (AUO) and Innolux Display will follow suit next quarter, according to the companies. Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) has been the leader in the segment among Taiwan panel makers, and the maker has benefited significantly from the rollout, sources said.
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AMD today announced that the company will offer Graphics Double Date Rate, version 5 (GDDR5) memory in the companyò€™s next generation of Radeon graphics cards and is working with companies such as Samsung Hynix and Qimonda to bring GDDR5 to the market.
Chicago (IL) - We can think of a million and one ways how to pamper your new Vista PC, but a keyboard would not have been on the top of our list. Microsoft"s wireless Desktop 7000 is a visual stunner that goes along well with the Vista design theme. Here"s a first look at what is easily one of the most attractive keyboard/mouse combinations on the market today.
Renesas Technology and Matsushita Electric Industrial have announced the development of a technique that achieves stable operation with 45nm process generation bulk CMOS for SRAM that can be embedded in SoC (system-on-chip) devices and microprocessors (MPUs). Tests of experimental chips with 512-Kbit SRAMs employing this technique have confirmed stable operation over a wide temperature range (-40 degrees C to 125 degrees C) and a larger operating voltage range margin with respect to process variations, according to the companies.
Autodesk is demonstrating the upcoming versions of 3ds Max 9 and Maya 8 at the Siggraph convention in Boston. Both applications will support 64-bit Windows operating systems and Maya 8 will support 64-bit on Linux. Since both applications are now made by Autodesk, geometries can be easily exchanged between the programs.
Digital photo buffs that find themselves shelling out a lot of money to have actual prints of their images may be in luck. Australia-based Faces.com officially launched in the United States on Thursday, giving these prolific digital photographers a low-cost option to store and print their photos.
The Register learned this afternoon that Intel has informed some clients that it will be discontinuing eight classes of lower-end Itanium 2 processors, and three classes of Xeon MP processors.
A new survey released by the Pew Internet and American Life Project suggests that 48% of Internet users are now using video sharing sites such as YouTube on a regular basis. This number is up 45% from a 33% share that was recorded by the organization in a similar study in December 2006.
The University of Tokyo"s Nanoelectronics Collaborative Research Center and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced the joint development of technologies that generate and measure single-photons, succeeding in observing the world"s first emission of single-photons in data transmission wavelengths.
Google said it has updated its Google Earth application that will allow users to get a better overview of the locations of the upcoming Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy. Google Earth now features impressive high-resolution imagery and placemarks of the competition venues, the Olympic villages Bardonecchia, Sestriere and Torino. The image data is complemented by a wealth of information about the events as well as an event schedule.
High Tech Computer (HTC) is expected to begin volume shipments of the Ipaq rx5915 GPS-enabled PDA to Hewlett-Packard (HP) this month, according to market sources. The Ipaq rx5915 will run under a Samsung Electronics SC 32442 (400 MHz) processor and Microsoft"s Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC OS, and has built-in WLAN 802.11 b/g and Bluetooth connectivity, TomTom"s Navigator 6 software and Tele Atlas" mapping information, according to HP and market sources.
Segway today announced that it has "voluntarily" recalled its Personal Transporters (PT). According to the manufacturer, "a condition has been identified in which the Segway PT can unexpectedly reverse the direction of the wheels which can cause a rider to fall." A software upgrade can avoid such incidents, the company said.
San Jose (CA) - In a bid to win hearts, minds and pockets of FB-DIMM users such as Intel V8, Skulltrail or Mac Pro users, Super Talent launched new FB-DIMM modules working at DDR2-800 speeds.
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Qimonda announced its technology roadmap down to the 30 nm generation and featuring cell sizes of 4FÒ², with production of 1Gb DDR2 slated for the second half of 2008. Qimondaò€™s Buried Wordline DRAM technology combines advantages including high performance, low power consumption and small chip sizes, according to the company.
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Yokosuka (Japan) - The USS Kitty Hawk and the Nimitz are headed to Taiwan for training exercises. According to Reuters, the carriers will be "responsibly positioned" off the coast just in case something happens (cough Chinese invasion cough) during this weekend"s elections.
Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced that the latest installments to the Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements software have been shipped to retailers nationwide.
Prices for monitor- and notebook-use LCD panels are starting to rise because of tight supply, while prices for TV applications are trending further downward because of oversupply, according to DisplaySearch"s latest figures for April. The research firm said that prices for monitor and notebook panels, after falling in the first quarter because of oversupply, are starting to go up as system integrators increase their orders based on optimism for the market.
Santa Clara (CA) - Current and future owners of Nvidia"s nForce 790i Ultra SLI and SLI chipsets own a piece of history: Nvidia confirmed to TG Daily that it is now focusing on delivering chipsets with integrated graphics.
Austin (TX) - The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin is now running the world"s most powerful supercomputing system for open science research. Ranger is expected provide more than 500 million processor hours of computing time to the science community, performing more than 200,000 years of computational work over its four-year lifetime.
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Nvidia"s driver for graphics processing units released hours ago supports graphics cards with 512 MB frame-buffer, it transpired. While currently there are no graphics cards with that lot of memory onboard, they are likely to be available in future and it may appear that in not too-distant-future.
Although digital photo frames are in many ways still thought of as a geek accessory or as a gift to bestow on a less technically inclined loved one, the market continues to show strong growth. According to Taiwan"s Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center (IEK), demand is expected to grow from about 12 million units in 2007 to 20 million this year. Looking to drive growth further, players in the industry are now trying to leverage Internet services to make digital photo frames easier to manage while perhaps even redefining how the devices are used.
With DrainStar(R), the smart design and calculation software for siphonic roof drainage, benefits are double: up to 60% of building costs can be saved, while reducing CO2 emissions at the same time.
While much of the country is baking in high summer temperatures, Canon is raining down printers - seven to be exact. All of the printers are in Canon"s PIXMA line-up with three being photo printers and the remaining four being all-in-one printers. The new photo printers can print pictures that last up to 100 years, while the all-in-one printers can print up to 22 black and white pages per minute.
Canon issued a safety advisory today for its PowerShot A530 and A540 digicams. Seems the area around the battery covers tends to overheat in certain situations. No reports of explosions, but you can get a bad boo-boo on your finger, and battery life will stink.
When you"re a digital camera enthusiast, missing a critical action shot can be embarrassing; but when you are a pro, a missed shot is costly. Sandisk has announced a new line of fast Compact Flash cards that could help eliminate missed shots. The Extreme IV cards will come in 2 to 8 GB sizes and have a top transfer rate of 40 MB/s.
Jon Peddie Research is currently running a survey on "PC usage and desires." Participants can pick up several prizes, including a Gateway 21" widescreen LCD with HDCP support, one of Nvidia"s new 7600GT HDCP graphics cards, several TV tuner cards, TV software, backup drives and a 1-yr subscription to the firm"s research report. Click here to take part in the survey.
Redmond (WA) - Microsoft increasingly is leveraging its MSDN Blogs to unveil news about upcoming products, especially developer tools as well as components of software such as Windows Vista and the Office suite. Program manager Brian Jones used his latest post to confirm to the community that the upcoming Office package will integrate support for Adobe PDF format in all core applications.
Microsoft has made available a new Community Technology Preview (CTP) of its forthcoming Windows Vista operating system.
The Internet continues to grow at an impressive speed. According to a survey conducted by Netcraft earlier this month, there are currently 88,166,395 sites available - 2.87 million more than last month. 14.1 million new hostnames - about 19% of all currently online hostnames - were added in the first half of this year. At a pace of more than 2 million new hostnames per months, it seems likely that there will be more than 100 million websites by the end of this year.
Solid state drives (SSDs) are the latest in hot tech upgrades these days, and rightly so. SSDs add huge boosts in performance to a system that is HDD bound, and the storage subsystem of a computer is the weakest link in its performance.
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With Intelò€™s Core i7 processors shipping later this month, enthusiasts around the world are drooling with anticipation. There is nothing as satisfying as putting together your own computer, watching it come to life, and for our readers, overclocking the bits out of it.
Nvidia will adjust its chipset roadmap following the acquisition of ULi Electronics, according to company president and CEO Huang Jen-hsun. Nvidia is looking to enhance its high-end chipset line for the Intel platform, but has no plans to participate in the entry-level segment for the short term, said Huang.
San Francisco (CA) - In a public session of a mobile communications industry trade show, a group of leading engineers led by representatives of Nokia and VeriSign announced an initiative to produce standards for digital rights management and secure platform for mobile devices, such as cell phones.
Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor launching a new social networking site for senior citizens. The site, Eons.com, is designed for anyone aged 50 and up and will focus on tips on love, finances and health. Members can also create and share their important moments and pictures with an online "Lifemap".
This week D-Link announced a new product called the DXN-221, which allows users to run Ethernet over existing coax cabling throughout their homes.
Sylmar (CA) - Almost all your electricity comes from a local power plant, usually of a coal, natural gas or nuclear variety, but in the future most of this electricity could come from high-efficiency solar cells. Spectrolab, a Boeing subsidiary, is currently producing cells that are almost 40% efficient and promise even higher efficiencies in the future. Company executives and engineers explained how the solar cells work and even gave us a tour of their Sylmar California factory.
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R580, ATI"s new high-end graphics processor based on the X1000 architecture has not been quite what one would call a secret for quite some time. The question really was when ATI would ship the boards carrying the chip. However, ATI"s CEO David Orton, recently told investors that the company would launch the processor during the second fiscal quarter, which ends on February 28.
Los Angeles (CA) - Car modders - people who hate anything slow, quiet and dim - have begun banishing their anemic incandescent dome lights with newer and much brighter LED lights. At the recent Hot Import Nights car show in Los Angeles we got a first impression on a new technology trend that not only provides much more light than your traditional lights, but last longer and uses far less energy as well.
Due to strong demand from PC OEMs, DRAM makers have seen their inventory time reduced to seven days, down from 10-14 days before, according to sources. DRAM contract prices have been soaring since the second half of July and a tight supply for DRAM parts still persists while DRAMeXchange recently said the tight supply will persist through September, the sources indicated.
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RentSmart Australia are now offering its consumers extra peace of mind at satisfaction when the rent a laptop or computer device using a flexible rent policy. RentSmart now offer online back up and a loaner computer or laptop if yours is broken.
Shipments for flat panel TVs and business displays in North America rose 9% on month, but the average street price dropped nearly 6% in June over the previous month, according to research firm Pacific Media Associates (PMA).
AMD has not been very talkative about its future product recently. While rival Intel is aggressively educating industry, press and the public about its product plans for 2006 and 2007, there is little what we know today about upcoming products beyond the planned 65 nm transition late in 2006 or early 2007.
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6:30 am (PST), 2/21/2008: Yesterday we asked why AMD might be lowering it"s prices on its HD 3800 line. Well, now you know. The price drop was in response to Nvidia"s new GeForce 9600 GT card. As of this writing, AMD"s new prices for the Radeon HD 3850 and HD 3870 have yet to hit the e-stores. However, you should soon see the HD 3870 dropping from $245 to $189 and the HD 3850"s price falling to $169 from $199 Compare Prices on GeForce Video Cards.
It"s all about tablets today! Asus" Eee Pad is rumored to be based on Tegra.
Taiwan-based industrial PC (IPC) maker Diamond Flower Electric Instrument (DFI) plans to add AMD embedded processors in its product lineup later in the year, according to sources at the company. Aside from Advantech and ICP Electronics, which already include AMD processors in their lineup, DFI also plans to use AMD processors in its IPC products starting from the third quarter of this year with a focus on the Micro ATX platform.
Data Center RevITalization combines networks, servers, storage and applications to create a more cost-efficient IT strategy and enhance business results.
BetaNews is reporting this morning that embattled pioneer DVR manufacturer TiVo has entered into a partnership agreement with search engine giant Yahoo. The partnership enables TiVo users to program their units remotely through a Web site provided by Yahoo, which will include Yahoo advertising. In return, Yahoo services will be made available through TiVo.
Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) has announced the production of a series of 14" full color PLED (polymer organic light-emitting diode) displays using ink jet printing.
Matrox Graphics has announced its DualHead2Go Digital Edition external multi-display upgrade device featuring digital outputs. The DualHead2Go Digital Edition connects to the VGA output of compatible notebook or desktop computers allowing display across two digital displays, according to the company.
Chicago (IL) - AMD may be closer to a Centrino competitor than many may have expected. According to a media report, AMD and ATI may be introducing a notebook platform, code-named "Yokohama," in the fourth quarter of this year to compete with Intel"s recently launched Napa64 platform, which includes the Core 2 Duo processor.
River Logic Further Distinguishes Itself by Earning Microsoft Competencies in Business Intelligence and ISV/Software Solutions
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Munich (Germany) - Infineon is the first company to announce a major contract to supply RFID chips that will be integrated in US passports. The chips will carry digital copies of the citizen"s picture as well as the printed documentation in the passport. Infineon promises that more than "50 individual security mechanisms" are protecting the data saved on the chip.
Study finds a major shift in the cost and scope of engagements and that third-party services firms fare much better than ERP vendors" own consultants
Intel has received an license to support CrossFireX on its upcoming P45 chipsets, according to sources at motherboard makers. Although ATI originally said it would be open to licensing CrossFire to those who wanted to, the acquisition of the company by AMD, followed by the resignations of Dave Orton and Rick Hegberg, former CEO and vice president of worldwide sales of ATI, respectively, sparked concerns among motherboard makers that AMD would completely cut its cooperation with Intel.
Tom"s Hardware has updated its popular VGA Charts that allow readers to compare the performance and value of two graphics cards in various benchmark disciplines side by side.
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Pixarra today released TwistedBrush Pro Studio version 16. With release 16 of TwistedBrush Pro Studio the major new feature called Solutions is introduced. A Solution in TwistedBrush Pro Studio is a system to accomplish complex tasks with a single click of the mouse or pen.
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As of January 20th 2010, Aalund NetSearch A/S, a leading provider of global business and market intelligence, is renamed as MarketScape A/S.
3Dsolar display devices are set to transform the way individuals experience multimedia content both at work and home. For the very first time, computer users will be able to view 3D objects hovering a few inches away from a screen that rotates 360 degrees - without wearing glasses. The stand-out feature is the way users will be able to manipulate the virtual image directly with their hands as they would a real object.
Striking Software, a company developing add-ons for Microsoft Flight Simulator X announce a screenshot competition to celebrate one year in business.
A number of Taiwan-based network-equipment makers, including Gemtek Technology, Accton Technology and Zyxel Communications, are expected to begin commercial shipments, albeit in small volumes, of mobile WiMAX products in the first quarter of 2007, although many market sources indicated that a real takeoff of WiMAX applications isn"t likely to come until 2008, according to market sources.
UPDATE 21 Oct 23:15 EST - Burbank (CA) - In a move that had been anticipated earlier this morning, as the Blu-ray Disc Association has confirmed to TG Daily, Warner Bros. has joined the BDA"s board of directors, and is making plans to release films on Blu-ray format videodiscs, when that format is made available.
In a press release issued this morning, Panasonic said it will cut the MSRP of six of its plasma TVs sold in the US, by between $500 and $1,000, effective 1 September. The company"s "entry-level" TH-42PD50U, whose MSRP had been $2,499, will now be marked at $1,999.
Single-board computers (SBCs) are gaining popularity in the embedded computing segment as well as in industries that ask for unusual and compact PC form factors. North Andover, Mass.-based Win Enterprises is offering a potent version of a SBC that can accommodate up to two single- or dual-core AMD Opteron processors on a board that measures 13.3" by 5.0".
The COROT space telescope, designed to search for planets not much bigger than Earth, launched into space at 1423 GMT on Wednesday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
ATI Technologies is gearing up to introduce a lineup of five new chipsets for the AMD Socket M2 K8 platform in 2006, industry sources indicated. The upcoming chipsets will be manufactured at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the sources noted.
OCZ announced a new high-performance DDR600 memory module. According to teh firm, OCZ"s PC-4800 Platinum Limited series with "Enhanced Latency technology" targets gamers, enthusiasts, and graphics professionals, the PC-4800 Platinum focuses on performance and stability and is capable of achieving speeds of 600M Hz at CL 2.5-4-4. (THG)
Minneapolis (MN) - If you have a gift card from last year that"s partially or completely unredeemed, you helped line retailers" pockets by over $3.5 billion.
The Japanese space agency is canceling its long awaited moon mission. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is recommending canceling the Lunar-A project which would have planted probes into the moon"s surface. Japan had been planning the mission for more than a decade and even built the mothership, which is falling apart from neglect.
It was once thought that a sub-compact car, or "micro cars" could never be successful in the United States. The phenomenal success of the Mini Cooper shattered that perception and now ZAP, based in Santa Rosa California, is offering their "Smart Car" to the United States. ZAP is already doing a brisk business in Europe, but will Americans go for a two seat car that looks like a golf cart?
San Francisco (CA) - The virtual residents of Second Life are experiencing a banking crisis of their own after recently announced ban on unregistered banks. As of January 22nd, unregistered banks won"t be able to offer interest or any return on investment. Now, virtual citizens are scrambling to pull their money out of banks and causing some institutions to close their doors.
Lite-On IT, the largest maker of optical disc drives (ODDs) in Taiwan, is planning production of DVD burners supporting the SATA (serial advanced technology attachment) interface standard, according to industry sources.
Chicago (IL) - According to a new survey by video game publisher Activision, nearly 80% of parents with children who play video games pay "close attention" to the ESRB rating system, conquering the conventional thought that the ratings do not have an impact on most parents.
Columbus (OH) - Games like Nintendogs, Catz, and The Sims, wherein players can take care of a virtual pet, is leading to a decline in ownership of real pets, according to the response from a new study.
The hard drive on Wednesday turned 50.
Rampant forest destruction, retreating glaciers and explosive urban growth have been highlighted by a partnership between the United Nations and internet search giant Google.
Lacie has upgraded its biometrically-protected SAFE hard drive line with a desktop edition, adding an internal firmware lock to help prevent data from being accessed if the actual hard drive is removed from the chassis.
Viewsonic announced a DLP (digital light processing) front-projector priced at less than $1000, for business and home use. The PJ558D projector meets customer demand for more versatile displays by featuring widescreen capabilities and a brightness of 2500 lumens, making the display optimal for viewing PowerPoint presentations, spreadsheets and movies.
Intel has won the initial leg of a horse race to get the first batch of dual core x86 64-bit processors into the hands of OEMs.
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Soil polluted by organic toxins can be blasted clean with ultrasound, say researchers in Australia. The method may prove to be more effective at cleaning up contamination from oil refineries, power stations and aluminium factories than existing methods.
Cambridge (MA) - Determining the difference between a level two and level three hurricane may be done in the future by measuring the sound instead of flying in airplanes in the middle of it at several hours throughout the day.
Unisys has lost a desktop computer used for its work with the Department of Veterans Affairs that contains personal information on as many of 38,000 veterans.