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Delhi (India) - The Open Document Format (ODF), an XML-based file format for office applications standardized by OASIS, gained some weight today with IBM announcing support for the technology in the upcoming version of its Workplace Managed Client software.
Intel pulled back the curtain Friday on some of its future research projects to continue making transistors smaller, faster and less power-hungry out as far as 2020.
Beirut Arab University (BAU) in Lebanon has selected UniversiTools software to manage its full scheduling needs across university campuses in Lebanon and Egypt.
According to a report released by Netcraft, the Internet continued its rapid pace of growing domains in February. The firm said that it was able to track responses from 77,568,868 sites in early February, which represents a growth of about 1.38 million sites within the past month. However, much of the growth apparently comes from an increased activity to "park" domains for simple reasons of advertising revenues or resale: Netcraft reported that it found a total of 2.8 million new hostnames, while additional active sites were estimated at just 237,000.
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Danielle LeDuc recovers revenue, confirms compensations and forecasts at Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Surveillance cameras will be getting a boost, a light-intensity boost that is, from Hitachi Kokusai Electric"s new EM-CCD cameras. EM-CCD (electrons multiplying charged coupled device) intensifies the incoming image, thereby increasing the low light sensitivity to .012 LUX.
Abit announced a new cooling technology for performance motherboards. According to the manufacturer, "Silent OTES" uses a heatpipe technology to transfer unwanted heat from the North Bridge to the fins of a collection module. From there, heat is exhausted outside of the case by air flowing from the CPU fan. The company claims the cooling technology operates "totally silent" while offering "excellent" cooling efficiency.
Info-Tek Corporation, the producer of GeCube-branded graphics cards today released a new series of video cards, the GeCube Radeon X700Pro SilenCool series. The X700Pro series is configured with a dual-sided heatpipe and heatsink, to provide quiet and effective cooling while still offering the powerful 3D performance required by many of today"s 3D games.
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MSI displayed at Computex an ATI X800XT-based graphics card that integrates an AGP as well as a PCI Express interface. The X800XT chip commonly offers native PCI Express support only, but an added AGP bridge on the backside of the board, makes the "RX800 Series / Geminium VIII" an interesting solution for users who want to stick with AGP for now and upgrade to PCI Express sometime in the future.
Elpida announced today that it will offer a 512 Megabit DDR Digital Consumer DRAM device that specifically targets consumer electronics applications. The memory differs from regular DRAM through lower power consumption. Power savings are promised to be about 30 percent when compared to regular DDR DRAM, which was achieved "by re-designing the circuitry using advanced 90 nm process technology," Elpida said.
Los Angeles (CA) - XCOR, a small aerospace company based in Mojave, Calif., today unveiled plans to launch itself into the era of space tourism with a two-seat suborbital spacecraft. "Lynx" could be operable within two years and give people an "affordable" view on the Earth"s atmosphere below.
Honda UK has launched a car that can drive itself on motorways and dual-carriageways, the British equivalent of freeways. When it is in self-drive mode, the new Honda Accord ADAS automatically accelerates and decelerates, and can steer around bends. However, its Advanced Driver Assist System (ADAS) self-drive technology only works on motorways and dual-carriageways.
It"s not the first Mac mini clone announced, but it"s the first one you can actually buy: Performance PC maker Voodoo PC today introduced a "premium" mini PC that closely resembles the shape of the Apple original, but can be customized with various colors and designs. The "Idol" comes with higher-end components than the Mac mini and starts at $900.
The worldwide PC market continued its solid expansion, in the first quarter of 2006, with year-on-year growth of 12.9%, despite an expected decline from growth of 15.9% in 2005, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). Nearly all regions were in line or slightly ahead of forecasts for the first quarter, helping boost worldwide shipment growth for the first quarter to 12.9%, slightly higher than IDC"s March forecast of 11.8%.
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Samsung claims it is first to offer a 512 MByte microSD card. company expects to have a 1 GByte version by the end of the year and a 2 GByte card in 2006 available. SanDisk offers the new 512 MByte microSD card for $70; a 256 MByte model is priced at $45. (THG)
Professional golfer "Fuzzy" Zoeller Jr. is suing a Miami company over alleged false Wikipedia entries. Zoeller claims a computer at Josef Silny & Associates was used to add allegations of drug and alcohol abuse to Zoeller"s Wikipedia entry. Josef Silny has hired a computer consultant to investigate the matter.
Micro-Star International (MSI) anticipates it will reach monthly shipments of 1.5 million motherboards in the second half of this year, up from about one million units in the first half, and the motherboard maker may reach full production utilization by July, according to company chairman Joseph Hsu.
Stock traders and flight simulator addicts will probably drool over Seamless Display"s new triple-monitor display. The Radius320 display uses special lenses to virtually erase the pesky seam lines between the monitors and gives an almost uninterrupted picture.
Microsoft"s latest upgrade to the Windows operating system was a long time coming. Analysts are expecting the makers of the PCs that run the system and the chips that execute its commands will have an additional wait before seeing any significant boost to their bottom lines.
Mars - Spirit came across an interesting spot of pure silica this past May. It literally ran right over it. Since then, scientists have been trying to figure out what might have caused it. Two theories include a previous water source which dissolved the silica and then deposited it, along with acidic steam springs emanating from deep within Mars. In preparation for the coming long, cold Martian winter, Spirit is being parked at a safe place near the previous silica discovery with the hopes of sending back more images for additional analysis.
On-Demand Compliance Software Firm Re-brands with New Name, Tracker Corp, and Corporate Website, trackercorp.com
Tokyo (Japan) - Toshiba is the next data storage giant announcing its entry into the increasingly popular solid state disk (SSD) storage market.
Micro-Star International (MSI) and Gigabyte Technology today introduced motherboards that support AMD"s AM2 platform and the Nvidia nForce 500 series chipsets, while Biostar announced its TForce 590 SLI Deluxe and TForce 570 U Deluxe motherboards for the new platform. MSI said that it has three K9N-series motherboards available, including the K9N Diamond, the K9N SLI Platinum and K9N Ultra.
In an unprecedented move, LandMark ASP Solutions, announced new, lower pricing on some of its most popular products and services.
Just about a week after announcing upcoming availability of AMD"s FX-60 processor in its performance systems, Alienware added Intel"s most recent Extreme Edition processor, the 65 nm dual-core 955 chip to its website.
AMD is preparing to adjust its marquee processors for use in embedded applications.
Higher than expected demand "towards the lower end" of the desktop and notebook discrete (standalone) market as well yield issues caused graphics chip maker ATI to slash its revenue forecast for the current quarter. The company said it will see about $530 million in sales, which is about five percent lower than originally expected. Gross margin is estimated at 29 percent, operating expenses at $143 million.
Budapest (Hungary) - Scientists at the Eē¶tvē¶s Lorē”nd University in Hungary have developed a computer that can "translate" dog barks. We put translate in quotes because the machine can only detect the dogs" general mood at the time. Scientists claim the readings are 43 percent accurate - something which doesn"t seem that great, but they add most humans would not have done so well.
Thedy Brezault, MedEZ President/CEO has been chosen to be included on one of the 11 member workgroups for the upcoming certification development cycle.
Quixel Research" front projector market review for the third quarter 2005 reveals that the low cost 16:9 front projector segment was the driver behind the market increase in the third quarter.
The battle between Blu-ray and HD-DVD to control the high-definition DVD market could be solved by a laser that can read the two competing formats.
The US computer scientists who discovered a significant security flaw in one of Sony BMG"s CD copy protection systems have discovered that the flaw is still present in the patch released by the record company yesterday.
Nvidia has scheduled its G72 graphics processing unit (GPU), which will be manufactured using 90nm process technology, to be introduced in early 2006, according to sources at Taiwan graphics card makers. The G72, a 90nm version of the G70 GPU, will compete with the 90nm R-series from ATI Technologies, which today announced the launch of its long-awaited R520, RV515 and RV530 GPUs.
New Nvidia 40-nm GPUs are just for OEMs.
Boston (MA) - Windows Vista will launch together with a new version of Microsoft Office - which will bring a dramatic interface redesign and change the way we use the software on a day-to-day basis. Join us on a tour through some of the new features in Office 2007.
Washington (DC) - Owners of analog TV sets can send off their application for a free converter box beginning tomorrow, to prepare for the digital switch over that happened in February 2009.
This year, 80 million DVD burners and 10 million DVD recorders will be sold, and each customer will use 40-50 DVD discs a year on average, resulting in an estimated global demand of 3.5-4.5 billion DVD discs in 2005, according to Ritek company spokesman Eric Ai.
Microsoft will ally with Toshiba, Victor of Japan, NTT DoCoMo and five other companies to offer music and video distribution services and media players to compete against Apple Computer.
With the 2008 International CES opening with more than 2,700 exhibitors spanning a record 1.85 million net square feet of exhibit space, CEA president and CEO Gary Shapiro took the opportunity to make a call for free trade. Shapiro projected that CE industry sales would jump to $171 billion in 2008, a 6.1% increase over 2007.
Tegra 2 is coming at CES. Get ready for something more hardcore than the Zune HD.
ATI"s next-generation desktop graphics processor, R520, has already been claimed to have been scheduled for a June launch, but a leaked channel roadmap suggests we can expect to see the RV530 following not long after and the RV515 in the Autumn.
Microsoft will introduce a search engine better than Google in six months in the United States and Britain followed by Europe, its European president said on Wednesday.
Luminus Devices is demonstrating a variety of consumer and professional display products illuminated by PhlatLight LED technology, including large screen LCD backlight units, projection TVs and several categories of front projectors, at this week"s 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) taking place from January 7-10 in Las Vegas. Luminus is showing its PhlatLight LED backlight unit (BLU) for LCD TVs featuring Luminus LEDs integrated with Microlens light guides from Global Lighting Technology, using only eight chipsets to edge light a large screen LCD display instead of the hundreds or thousands required to achieve adequate brightness and uniformity with conventional LEDs.
AMD to demonstrate the third dimension.
Chicago (IL) - Undecided between Blu-ray and HD DVD? Time is likely to wipe out one of the two, but if you don"t want to wait and place a safe bet, a hybrid player may be the player for you. Next to LG, Samsung is the second company to officially confirm plans for such a device: The technology would simply be drawn from a joint venture with HD DVD backer Toshiba.
Bangkok (Thailand) - An estimated 1.6 million visitors will gawk at very expensive cars, eye-searing color schemes and beautiful show girls at this year"s Thailand International Motor Expo held just north of Bangkok. The region"s second largest car show - just behind the Tokyo motor Show - hopes to slow the region"s slump in auto sales by adding some glitzy shows and great faces to the window shopping experience.
The first product based on IBM/Toshiba/Sony"s Cell processor has shipped, reports Mercury Computer Systems. Mercury"s Cell Technology Evaluation System (CTES) is a 470-pound behemoth with one or two dual-Cell blades running Linux. It targets defense, medical, and industrial inspection markets.
Intel updated its microprocessor menu yesterday, adding a number of juicy new items to its bill of fare.
San Francisco (CA) - The Core buzz presented during IDF blurred several other important announcements - including the long awaited release of the LaGrande security spec. The creator of the spec told TG Daily that La Grande won"t be hitting home computers in the near future - as it remains a developing platform that could cause privacy concerns.
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The Open Document Format has been approved as an international standard by the International Standards Organization, a move that supporters say will serve as a springboard for the adoption and use of ODF around the world. The ODF allows the retrieval of information and the exchange of documents without regard to the application or platform in which the document was created. The format is supported by Corel, IBM, Novell, Opera Software, Oracle, Red Hat and Sun Microsystems.
By the end of the decade more than 41 million North American business users will spend over $10 billion annually on wireless enterprise data services, with enterprise mobile e-mail to eclipse SMS as the prime revenue generator as early as 2009, according to research firm Strategy Analytics. Instant messaging (IM) and "presence" are also identified as hot trends as businesses realize the benefits of a mode of real time non-voice mobile communications, and ranks of Internet-savvy young adults enter the workforce.
New figures from market analyst Market Research show that Intel shipped 81.7 percent of all desktop, server and notebook processors based on the x86 instruction set in the first quarter.
The Internet added 4.4 million new hostnames during July - the single largest gain of new sites in a single month, according to Internet services firm Netcraft. The growth surpassed the previous records set in June of this year, which saw a 3.96 million site gain.
Plymouth (MN) - DVD production is usually a slow and boring process requiring you to stare at a burner and then label the disc. Primera"s promises to end this boredom with it new automated CD/DVD duplicator and labeler. The Bravo SE Disc Publisher can burn and label up to 20 discs in one session. It can even print virtually waterproof labels.
There"s talk that the latest batch of AMD"s Radeon HD 4830 GPUs may be the last, as many partners wouldn"t even let the chips come in through the front door. As it stands, it looks as though the 4830 will be heading out to the pasture soon.
San Jose (CA) - Adobe does not waste any time to take advantage of the new additions in its product portfolio. After having announced that federal regulators have approved the $3.4 billion acquisition of Macromedia last Friday, the company today announced two bundles that combine Macromedias most successful and more mainstream products with Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium (CS 2 Premium) package.
Culver City (CA) - The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has picked the first eleven teams for next year"s Urban Challenge race. In the race, robotic cars from each team will have to complete an urban, obstacle filled 60-mile course in less than six hours. In return for giving up some technology rights, each team will receive up to $1 million in funding before the race.
The upcoming 2007 Mercedes S-Class won"t just be stylish and fast, but it will also be smart. For around $80,000 to $130,000, the new model will get you from 0 to 60 mph in 5.4 seconds and have a collision detection system that will help avoid crashes when you are about to crash. Computer geeks can also plug PC Cards into the dash.
The Pentium 4 6xx series has not been officially announced yet, however one of our readers spotted processors on the website of an etailer: ZipZoomFly.com offers
NEC LCD Technologies, together with its sales and marketing channels in the Americas and Europe, NEC Electronics America and NEC Electronics (Europe), has introduced a new 22.5" amorphous-silicon WUXGA TFT LCD module. The new module features Full HD (1920ē1080) resolution, high luminance of 460 candelas per square meter (cd/m2), a wide color gamut of 97% NTSC, and a double frame rate of 120Hz to improve motion picture performance, highlighted the company.
Samsung Electronics, the South Korean chipmaker, is planning to spend $33 billion expanding output and building a research and development plant by 2012.
Monitis Inc., a leading provider of affordable easy-to-use enterprise-class systems management software as a service, today released a new notification channel: tweets. Monitis has begun using Twitter to alert users of network failures.
Worldwide microchip sales reached 18.1 billion US dollars in February, up 15.8 percent from the same month a year ago, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA)said on Monday.
Fujitsu today announced plans to build its second 300mm wafer fab in Mie, central Japan. The addition to an existing 90nm plant will produce 65nm semiconductors and become operational in July 2007, Fujitsu said.
Miami (FL) - An independent businessman from Miami has developed a pair of shoes with a built-in GPS sensor, which can be used to send a distress signal in case the wearer gets lost or cannot get to his cell phone. The shoes are planned to be available in March.
Palit has announced its new custom designed addition to the GT200 series, the GTS 250 2 GB, 1 GB and 512 MB.
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Hewlett-Packard (HP) needs to convince more Taiwan-based makers of optical discs to increase production of Lightscribe CD-R and DVD discs in order to remain competitive against Labelflash, the other competing direct disc labeling technology, according to makers of optical discs in Taiwan. More than 70 PC vendors or makers of optical disc drives having adopted the technology since it was first offered in 2004.
ATI posted the fifth Catalyst driver package for this year. Version 5.5 includes an updated driver for Windows XP x64 Edition, Windows XP, Windows 2000 as well as Linux. The package also comes with an updated Control Center and a new Multimedia Center.
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Demand for monitor panels will pick up and average selling prices (ASP) will stabilize in the second half of the year because of seasonality, Intel"s price cuts for its desktop CPUs, and panel makers" expected refusal to Dell"s demand for price reductions in the 17" segment, according to industry sources. With prices in some monitor panel segments already lower than their production costs, the makers are unlikely to accept Dell"s latest demand that they cut their 17" monitor applications to under $100, which is even lower than the material cost for the segment, the sources said.
The oversupply ratio of LCD monitor panels is expected to widen in the first quarter of 2006, as the period is a traditional slow season for the segment and panel supply will continue increasing, according to Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT).
The Virus Bulletin, the leading e-publication in the field of viruses and related malware, certifies Frisk F-PROT Antivirus on Windows XP Professional
Supply of 19" widescreen LCD monitor panels is now tight, with Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) claiming that orders within the segment are stronger than expected.
At the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) here, Japan"s Seiko Epson presented a paper on a flexible, 8-bit asynchronous microprocessor, based on a low-temperature, poly-silicon TFT technology.
Taiwan"s first-tier motherboard makers Asustek Computer, Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI) collectively shipped 7.778 million motherboards in April, up 18.6 percent on year, according to the makers. Among the vendors, only MSI saw an on-year decline in its April motherboard shipments.
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San Francisco (CA) - The reorganization of business units at Intel also affected traditions at IDF: For the first time in several years, it was not the former CTO Pat Gelsinger who presented the outlook. Justin Rattner, former director of the firm"s microprocessor development and newly appointed head of the corporate technology group informed us about tech that is cooking in Intel"s labs.
Rising K8-compatible chipset shipments for notebooks helped Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) reach gross margins of 31.35% in the first quarter, up 9.45-percentage points on year, according to the company. The chipset maker anticipates another sequential jump this quarter.
The KDE Project today announced the latest version of its open-source office suite. KOffice 1.5 now uses the Oasis Open Document format as the default file format. The majority of the programs directly compete with applications in Microsoft"s Office suite. In addition, the suite has improved accessibility features including mouseless operation and text-to-speech translation.
Spyware Terminator, one of the world"s most popular free antispyware programs, delivers new features to users.
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Taiwan-based graphics-card makers Asustek Computer, Gigabyte Technology, Micro-Star International (MSI) and Albatron will begin volume shipments of their SLI-ready PCI Express (PCIe) x16 graphics cards based on the new NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX graphics processor unit (GPU), previously called the G70, at the end of this month or the beginning of July, according to the companies.
Naomi J. Summers is recognized for professional and academic achievements
A new software suite from ArcSoft promises to turn standard definition into high definition.
Western Digital (WD) announced availability of its 400 GByte Caviar SE16 harddrive for desktop computers. The device comes with 16 MByte cache and a platter speed of 7200 rpm. The company promises a data transfer rate of 150 MByte per second, following SATA specs. The new drive is priced at $280 and is available through WD"s online store.
Nvidia today announced its own DVD playback software which is targeted to work in conjunction with Microsoft"s Windows media Player and the Windows Media Center Edition. According to the company, the software is first to receive the "Designed for Media Center Edition" in its segment.
ATI"s Radeon X550 chip doesn"t appear on the company"s website, but that hasn"t stopped Taiwanese vendor Info-Tek announcing a pair of graphics cards based on the part.
AMD"s drive to 64-bit processors surprised everyone with its speed, even as detractors commented that there would be little or no performance gain on the desktop without a 64-bit OS and 64-bit applications. Whatever the doubts within the industry, Intel lost little time in offering its own version of AMD64, in the form of the EM64T extensions.
Low-cost femtocells could emerge as an attractive alternative to voice over Wi-Fi (VoFi) in future homes, according to research firm Strategy Analytics. PicoChip has developed inexpensive baseband processors for very low-cost femtocell base stations that can be installed in the home, noted the research firm.
Samsung Electronics has signaled that high-density NAND flash prices might rebound from as soon as July as the market enters the hot season, sources at local memory module makers stated. The makers were echoing comments made by Samsung memory business unit president Hwang Chang-Gyu"s during his visit to the recent Computex 2005 IT show.
Renesas Technology anticipates that its dual-core microcontroller (MCU) for automotive vehicles could hit the market by 2010 at the latest, and possibly as early as 2008. The the new solution will help to enhance the functionality of electronic components that will be deployed within an increasingly complex driving environment.
Los Angeles (CA) - Another move as it tries to brand itself as a safe site for children is that Myspace will begin showing users when Amber alert has been called in their zip code, after teaming up with the law enforcement program.
Mark Russinovich couldn"t understand how the rootkit had sneaked onto his system. An expert on the internals of the Windows operating system, he was careful when it came to computer security and generally had a pretty good idea of what was running on his PC at any given time. And yet the security tool he was using to check his PC was pretty clear: It had found the rootkit cloaking software typically used by virus and spyware writers. After a bit of detective work, Russinovich eventually tracked down the source: a Sony BMG Music Entertainment CD titled Get Right with the Man, performed by country music duo Donnie and Johnny Van Zant.
Despite a slow start to the PC market"s high season, PC-related chip designers still expect that orders from OEM clients will rise significantly in September, driving shipments up 20% for the third quarter, industry sources indicated. Sources at a major supplier of quartz oscillators said judging from the order visibility for July and August, demand in the PC market is warming up, particularly for the clone segment, due to dropping CPU prices.
Open war between the two sides championing differing next-generation DVD formats appears likely, following failed peace talks.
Ready to take the leap into liquid cooling or phase change cooling, but not quite ready to figure it all out yourself? Thermaltake presents us with its Xpressar RCS100. Graphics Cooling solution to follow.
Although LCD panel makers wish to increase their prices for the notebook segment, downstream vendors are aggressively resisting the hikes, with prices likely to stay flat in April compared to March, according to WitsView. WitsView said demand for notebook panels will gradually rise, as notebook OEM shipments are expected to increase an average of 2% per month in the second quarter.
London (England) - Mobile music, video, and online content services, currently still kind of a niche market, will reach a revenue of $150 billion per year by 2011, according to a new report by research firm Informa Telecoms & Media.
Gigabyte announced a new addition to its product lineup. The GeForce 6200-based GV-N62128DE is targeted at users who intend to upgrade from an integrated graphics chipset to a discreet graphics solution. Features of the card include support for DirectX 9.0, Shader Model 3.0, as well as Nvidia"s PureVideo to improve video quality on the screen. The card will become available during this month. Pricing has not been announced. (THG)
Microsoft has launched the updated version of its MSN Spaces blogging software, Live Spaces, which it says allows users to connect with their friends online in real time.
St. Louis (MO) - Sony"s robotic Aibo dog is just as effective as a real dog in curing loneliness. According to a study conducted by the St. Louis University, elderly patients in a nursing home became attached to the dog after several weeks of playing with the non-pooping plastic pet.
Honeywell said it is suing 34 companies over alleged infringement of its LCD patents.
Asustek Computer, Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), Micro-Star International (MSI) and Gigabyte United have all recently released graphics cards based on Nvidia"s new GeForce 9600 GT GPU. Asustek has focused on performance with the EN9600GT TOP/HTDI/512M and EN9600GT/HTDI/512M.
.Net technology enhances ERP functionality and boosts productivity.
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Bangkok (Thailand) - Thailand is genetically engineering a new form of rice that can resist almost everything short of a nuclear attack. Ok, maybe it"s not quite that tough, but scientists at the National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology say their new rice can take three weeks of flooding, excessive saltwater and even fend off bugs and disease.
Georgia Tech researchers have shrunk an optical device called wavelength demultipler (WD) by combining into one crystal three unique properties of photonics crystals. This optical discovery opens the way to sophisticated and cheap biosensors mounted on "lab-on-a-chip" devices - sensors to run blood tests, detect chemicals in water supplies or for drug testing.
TwinMOS Technologies will start manufacturing DDR2-800 DRAM modules in small quantities later this year, probably in June, the company said at CeBIT. On its booth at the trade fair, TwinMOS has been displaying a working system using DDR2-800 modules. The company claims that this system is the fastest PC at this year"s CeBIT.
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Motherboard maker Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) recently reached an agreement with Lenovo to develop server motherboards, according to the Chinese-language Commercial Times Under the deal, Lenovo will provide R&D and design capabilities, while ECS will manufacture the products and use its distribution channel to sell the server boards, though not under the ECS brand, the paper indicated.
Washington (DC) - The Federal Communications Commission has issued fines against Wal-Mart, Sears, Circuit City, Target, Best Buy and others for failing to meet requirements concerning the digital TV conversion next year.
TGI announced today the debut of TGI"s ERP Insights blog.
Advanced check printing software helps businesses control expenses during the recession - and consumers can qualify to get it all for free with a special offer.
Partnership to expand brand in the residential construction industry
ExcelCalcs.com helps engineers and scientists get the most out of Microsoft Excel and using the results of user survey concluding in May 2009 they have quantified, for the first time, the productivity benefits for members in financial terms.
ELEKS Software, a Ukrainian IT services and product company, has supplied a Customs system (CAESAR II) to Jersey, a self governing British Crown Dependency
1.6 Terabytes on a single disc.
eazybusiness have just launched the ultimate suite of cloud apps with over 20 business management and productivity applications aimed at small and medium sized businesses.
Arbour Group Teams with Oracle to support FDA software validation requirements providing pre-populated templates to support FDA validation requirements for the Oracle E-Business Suite.
A mathematical formula based on logarithms now proves undeniably that the God concept is absurd. The formula I named FFG demonstrates mathematically that absolute certainty is absurdity.
Bay Area satellite office to drive company growth in 2009
DMC Software have started the year as they means to continue by transforming their TotalCare IT Support offering to meet the changing needs of the small to mid-sized business.
DEAC has become the official partner of world-wide known virtualization solutions company VMware in Latvia. Therefore, DEAC can offer its clients new opportunities in rendering the virtualization services.
Get your Office 2010 beta on today!
Appoint IT has announced today they have selected Scio Consulting to design and develop Appoint IT, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) appointment scheduling application for the healthcare and service industry.
Prime Technologies and Integrated Project Services introduce a comprehensive program for enterprise and local level calibration management
KWizCom is proud to announce that all new releases of KWizCom"s SharePoint and Dynamics CRM add-ons are compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Standard (WCAG).
The video games industry suffered a significant drop this past month despite Thanksgiving and Black Friday kicking off the spend-thrifty holiday season.
Hitachi"s two new Ultrastar drives have blazing spindle speeds of 15,000 RPM.
Seagate today started shipments of the Barracuda XT, which boasts the fastest SATA connection yet.
A new iFunia.com website has been released which offers a full range of high-quality multimedia software for Mac users.
It"s the biggest 2.5-inch HDD yet.
Intel SSDs still hold the market for the ultimate in performance, but that could change very soon.
Hidden in a plethora of over 20,0000 iPhone apps... the newly released Whiteboard app still hopes to see some "Apple Love". Just 5 days after being released though, Whiteboard was cracked and made available for free on Jail broken iPhones.
Is your PC good enough to run MW2?
Newgen participated as Bronze Sponsors at MEFTEC 2009, world"s leading banking financial technology event.
Xynomix consider the importance of utilising Business Intelligence (BI) and supporting underlying database systems to improve customer retention and value.
Backing up the successful Mac Beta version last month, Mikogo has released its cross-platform remote control feature for Mac users. Companies can now employ Mikogo from both Mac and PC computers for not only web conferences but also remote support.
"Jitbit Software is a software company founded in 2002 comprising team of like-minded software developers.
OCZ and Super Talent have both announced new availability of high-performance solid state drives this week, proving that there"s no stopping the SSD trend.
In a press conference yesterday Intel offered a few more tidbits of information on the six-core Gulftown chips it plans to launch later this year.
Would Heart be proud of this version of Barracuda?
If you are looking for new ERP or MRP application and your company is reasonably small (including mid-size office buildings inhabitants)....
New company logo design software version now supports automatic generation of Windows (XP/Vista) screensavers.
Itņs been a rough past week for Seagate, and even more so for owners of new large-capacity Seagate hard disk drives.
MrTed Ltd happily announces the appointment of Mr Rick Vigilis as Senior Manager of Operations for North America
Taipei (Taiwan) - Intel has begun offering NAND flash-based solid state disk drives (SSDs) for mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and entry-level desktop and notebook computers, referred to as Nettops and netbooks. They might not offer a whole lot of capacity, but they are one of the first SSDs we can actually call affordable.
California based Super Talent Technology made waves yesterday when it announced that all of its latest MasterDrive MX SSDs are to be priced under $1000.
California based Super Talent Tuesday announced the launch of a new line of mini PCI-Express SSDs that were designed explicitly for the Asus Eee PC.
Backing up the recent and impressive Mikogo Mac Beta release that sparked online enthusiasm across the globe, the free desktop sharing tool announces its upcoming remote control feature for Mac users.
Is the IT industry following suit along with the economy? The Wall-Street blues, Corporate entities closing up shop and the big banks buying out other big and small banks ņ could this be happening in the IT world too? In short, yes ņ however we are not saying this potential buy out fits the exact scenario. It could though.
8-megapixel resolution images, traditionally restricted to high-end digital SLR cameras, will soon be possible with small point-and-shoot cameras and cell phones, thanks to a new sensor developed by Micron. The CMOS chip will also eliminate lag between taking pictures.
Sharp announced that its has developed the first LCD panel that can display three different images simultaneously on a single screen.
Credits increased global penetration and new product offerings for seventh year of profitable growth.
Listen, Learn, Share and Refine - daratechPLANT Conference Key in Shaping Future Technology
Business Process Outsourcing Company Uses CentRealTech"s One Click System for Title Production Process
XBOSoft, China"s largest independent software testing company, has developed a partnership with BMBO Europe in the Netherlands that expands marketing and sales activities for off-shore software testing services.
Transoft Solutions" Innovative New Roundabout Software Impresses Webcast Participants, Leads to Quick Sales
Microsoft Dynamics GP ERP and MRP is robust and flexible platform for barcoding, consignment, warehouse management, picking up ecommerce.
Even if Silverstone still aims at high end cases in aluminum, we noticed a big change. The manufacturer unveiled numerous PC Home Theater cases the previous years, but was much less enthusiastic this year, like its competitors. It seems this kind of product is growing out of style. We just found a mainstream unnamed prototype meant to come out in June.
Corsair Memory is saying that it will launch the world"s fastest DDR2 and DDR memory solutions for Intel and AMD platforms at CeBIT 2006 in Hannover, Germany. Rated at 1066 MHz, the new TWIN2X1024-8500 from Corsair targets Intel users, while the TWINX2048-4400PRO at 550 MHz is aimed at the AMD platform.
Striving to expand its presence in the global market, SoftServe, a leading multinational software development and consulting company, announced its membership in the UK-based National Outsourcing Association (NOA).
The new add-in for MindManager MS Project Adapter enables users to work with MS Project data in MindManager - without having MS Project installed.
While they won"t be on the same scale as other major update rollouts, Valve is will soon tweak two classes in its smash hit Team Fortress 2.
Premier Properties Of The Space Coast, Inc. Announces The Worldwide Release Of DBA Assist 6.1 For Oracle 7.x, 8.x, 9.x, 10.x
IBM PC Bus, ISA, EISA, math co-processor, floppy disk. So many forgotten terms, from years ago.
A recent casting call in Los Angeles reveals that Monolith is currently working on F.E.A.R. 3.
Honestech"s VHS to DVD Premium integrated software and hardware solution enables novices and professionals alike to create, edit and archive movies in HDTV and Blu-Ray DVD"s
We"ve got a sneak peek at what Intel"s land looks like at Computex.
It"s getting pretty solid.
Dell has finally confirmed plans to sell an Android-based smartphone in China and Brazil.
While most computer companies faced hard times last year (especially in the fourth quarter of calendar 2008), Apple saw growing sales throughout the period. That said, things took a downturn in January 2009.
Talk about uber-coolness: yesterday Silicon Mountain unveiled Allio, a 42-inch HDTV with integrated PC and Blu-ray player. Yeah baby.
hSenid Mobile, a leading mobile applications developer in Sri Lanka, will partner with Red Hat, the worlds leading open source technology solutions provider to participate in the largest conference for the mobile industry which is to be held in Barcelona from the 16th - 19th February 2009.
Autologica S.A. has announced the launch of its "DMS in 12 payments" campaign.
Hardly late breaking news regarding the defective Nvidia mobile chips in MacBook Pros. Nvidia originally assured Apple that its Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT based MacBook Pros had narrowly averted the defect ņ Apple now counters back saying it was actually not so lucky.
Intel is now shipping the N280 version of its popular Atom processor to OEMs for use in netbooks.
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New technology available for professionals to helps families avoid foreclosure while increasing their earnings.
WorldSharp Technologies, Inc. announced the 2008 Version of WorldSharp 1042-S Preparation System with Electronic Reporting is shipping. 1042-S is the Tax Form is filed for a Foreign Person"s U.S. Source Income Subject to Withholding.
Microsoft Dynamics GP Great Plains customization work traditionally is being done in Dynamics GP Dexterity. Dexterity itself is essential part of Great Plains ERP architecture:
Typically, when we think of a computer worm, we immediately think of a normal, code-based virus. If only that were the case. One gentleman"s computer had a real, live worm, crawl into his laptop and do some serious damage.
Not quite instant-on, but very-quickly-on.
Origramy Ltd. has released version 2.10 of FlyCharts - cross-platform chart flash component that gives the possibility to create compact flash interactive chart, flash dynamic graph or animated diagram for your website professionally and on the fly.
New KLAS report looks at how ambulatory EMRs stack up against expected meaningful use requirements
Those are some mighty fine numbers you"ve got there, AMD.
The demand for regulatory compliance services continues at a high level. This phenomenon is due to increased regulatory enforcement from the FDA and other global enforcement bodies.
If you are looking for new ERP, replacing small business accounting (Peachtree, Small Business Financials, Quick Books) or walking away from ERP application...
The Cell-Mate has the capacity to make you look like a complete knob. Really, it does.
Employee Web Usage Monitoring Software Now Incorporates Bandwidth Monitoring, Automated E-mail Reporting, Scheduled URL Tracking and More.
Swiss startup Collanos Software receives prestigious award in San Diego
Intel still giving itself a six-month window for release of Lynnfield.