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While we may know of the Atom CPU right now as the brains inside nearly every netbook on the market, Intelò€™s got more diverse aspirations for its tiniest current processor.
Winners Received Prizes Including the TMPGEnc Super Bundle Software
New software released today decreases time servers are down for maintenance, reduces storage costs, and simplifies data center management.
Redmond (WA) - While retail employees were busy stocking shelves and setting up displays during the early hours of the morning, some customers were already purchasing their copies of Windows Vista and Office 2007 without leaving their computer chair, as the two new applications have joined Xbox 360 and Zune content in the expanding world of digital downloads, with Microsoft offering the OS and business software through the Windows Marketplace for the first time.
More and more NAS servers and appliances for home users and SMB are appearing on the market, and it is getting increasingly difficult to find the best one. Typically, manufacturers are proud of the hardware they use, as faster XOR processing power will result in better RAID 5 performance. 3Gen claims to be the fastest one with its IntelliNAS DT40, which is based on a Celeron D430 at 1.8 GHz and 512 MB RAM (upgradeable to 4 GB). However, we are sure that Thecus and QNAP would object and suggest one of their own products.
Santa Clara (CA) - Researchers at Intel and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) today said they have succeeded in building the world"s first hybrid silicon laser using standard silicon manufacturing processes. The technology could be become a key enabler to make photonic interconnects in mainstream communications and computing devices a reality.
We"ve been trying to avoid the whole Twitter-gate drama that"s been unfolding over the last 72 hours because we know how much you don"t want to hear about Twitter but this little detail is not related to the Twitter hacking, despite presenting significant security issues for the company.
Backing up data is an important part of keeping your sanity.
Inatech achieves world-class recognition for its commitment to Oracle technologies
Matsushita, best know for its Panasonic consumer brand, claims it has developed the first chipset that enables future optical drives to playback and record Blu-ray media (BD) as well as common DVD and CD formats.
Physicists at Imperial College London are developing a new optical disc with up to one TeraByte storage capacity. All 350 scheduled episodes of The Simpsons, totalling 8,080 minutes of film, could be easily stored on the new disk, dubbed MODS - for Multiplexed Optical Data Storage - by the Imperial College team. The first disks could be on the shelves between 2010 and 2015 if the team are able to secure funding for further development.
ARM on September 6 announced that Samsung Electronics has licensed ARM Jazelle software technology for deployment in the Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray Disc (BD) player. The ARM Jazelle Java Technology Enabling Kit (JTEK) software licensed by Samsung was originally developed for the mobile handset market.
Pre CES 2007 coverage - San Diego (CA) - Bringing out what many tepid consumers have been looking for in the next-generation DVD war, LG Electronics has announced that it is working on a device that will play both Blu-ray and HD DVD discs.
HP is reportedly in talks with Intel regarding the restrictions in place on the Atom processor.
Congrats to winners of our AMD SBM contest Round 2!
Scotts Valley (CA) - Seagate announced that it has begun shipping its Momentus 7200.2 2.5" hard drive with a 3 Gb/s SATA interface.
There"s no doubt that many enthusiasts are waiting to see what the final version of Microsoft"s Windows 7 operating system will look like when shipped.
San Francisco (CA) - A sunglass-wearing Pat Gelsinger acted cool, but revealed little during his keynote speech at the Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco. Intelò€™s senior vice president and co-general manager of the Digital Enterprise Group did talk about the upcoming power saving features in the Nehalem processor and boasted about recent supercomputing records broken by the companyò€™s Xeon processors.
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Palo Alto (CA) - HP has updated its compact desktop PC offering for businesses with two new models - and its first PC that can be ordered with a NAND flash-based solid state disk (SSD) drive.
The software development company Mobile Effort announces a major price decrease on their mobile tools.
You were going to preorder it regardless anyway, right?
Microsoft has announced that the companyò€™s long-standing multimedia encyclopedia, Encarta will be discontinued on Halloween 2009. With Wikipedia and the Encyclopedia Britannica available, we assume not too many of you will be upset save for the nostalgic few who remember using it as a reference for school assignments back in the day.
Notebooks are all the rage these days, becoming increasingly smaller, more light weight, and just overall faster and better. It"s no wonder notebook sales have taken over desktop sales recently.
During a recession people resign themselves to the fact that theyò€™re going to have to cut down on some luxuries -- and more often than not, gadgets and hardware find themselves on the list of items people canò€™t afford to buy but can well afford to live without.
US federal judge dismissed the patent infringement claims filed by Rambus against German memory chipmaker Infineon Technologies, the companies said Tuesday.
Microsoft has been slapped with a fine of approximately $11.8 million for price fixing its popular Office Home and Student 2007 suite at a recent retail promotion.
Tokyo (Japan) - Researchers of the Keio University Institute for Advanced Biosciences and Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus announced development of a "new technology" that enables "long-term" data storage in bacterial DNA. According to JCN Newswire, the scientists were able to create "artificial" DNA that could preserve digital data within their genome sequence.
When is a standard not really standard? When itò€™s the proposed IEEE P1901 standard for powerline networking, which the IEEE Standards Associationò€™s IEEE P1901 Working Group will once again take under consideration when it meets in San Francisco November 4 through 6.
Framingham (MA) - Notebooks will continue to drive the growth of the PC market, analysts of market research company IDC believe. Despite fewer PC replacements and slower economic growth, the impact of portable devices may be big enough to lift the market into double-digit growth.
IDC has lowered forecasts for world PC sales in 2005, citing a cautious outlook in the US and delayed recovery in Japan for the adjustment.
Philips is the next in line to announce a Blu-ray PC drive. The company said that it will be intorducing the 2x writer, which will be able to write and read 25 GB and 50 GB Blu-ray media.
Las Vegas (NV) - Dell CEO Michael Dell announced that the company will be offering an inexpensive, around $2 - $6, option when buying a new computer to plant a tree which should offset the energy consumption of that machine.
San Francisco (CA) - Getting pulled over by the Highway Patrol usually means a yellow citation paper. Intel is one of the exhibitors here at GDC and they faked us out with their own very convincing virtual ticket that was given to their Skulltrail systems.
Sony has announced that it will invest approximately $371 million toward strengthening its lithium ion battery production operations. This is the first phase of investment in lithium ion batteries Sony is undertaking as part of efforts to reinforce core areas of its component and semiconductor business over the next three years.
Nvidia has joined the SOI Industry Consortium, the organization announced today. The SOI Industry Consortium was founded in 2007 with the goal to accelerate the development and adoption of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technologies.
Lacie today announced a stylish, external harddrive that comes with a host of features to protect content stored on the device. The "SAFE Mobile Hard Drive" allows users to safeguard files through biometric access technology as well as DES- or Triple-DES-based hardware encryption with 56- or 128-bit keys.
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Analysts earlier this year were very cautious about predicting revenues for the semiconductor industry. On paper, 2006 could have spelled disaster for the industry - and Microsoft"s decision to delay Windows Vista into 2007 was to be only one factor that was seen as a possible reason for consumers to delay PC purchase decisions, which has a significant impact on semiconductor revenues.
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Wired today released its annual Vaporware list and if you"ve been somewhat interested in tech there may be few surprises. Among the winners are the games Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl and Spore as well as GT4 for PSP, the mobile applications Skype for Symbian and TivoToGo for Mac as well as general candidates such as "the" iPod killer and SED TVs.
Researchers from Core Security Technologies yesterday grew weary of waiting for Apple to release a patch for vulnerabilites in Appleò€™s iCal application, which they discovered several months ago.
Sharp announced the development of its high-contrast ratio in-car LCD applications and highlighted that the contrast ratio of 1500:1 achieves the industry"s highest level. The contrast ratio of the latest solution triples the 500:1 contrast from a previous version.
Today AMD launched its 45-nm Quad-Core Opteron line of processors, featuring low power consumption with high-end results.
Sunnyvale (CA) - AMD announced on Wednesday that it began its first revenue shipments of AMD 64 processors that have been manufactured at Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing in Singapore. AMD uses Chartered as contracted manufacturing partner to support increased demand for its microprocessors.
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Orange Panel PC with Intel Celeron & Intel Core 2 Duo Processors.
Just last week the Pirate Bay four were told that their appeal for a retrial had been denied. This week, the Pirate Bay is bouncing back and revealing VideoBay, the sitesò€™ video streaming project.
Most major LED makers in Japan, South Korea and the US have successfully implemented LED chips for backlighting used in 15- to 20" LCD monitors and LCD TVs, with plans for larger-sized LED-powered backlighting in development, according to various sources.
The world"s first specialty robot shop will be opening in Nagoya Japan in October. The Mainichi Daily News is reporting that the "Robot Mirai Department" store will be offering about 1000 robots and robot accessories. State of the art, two-legged walking robots will also be sold.
Windows 7 to be more green.
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The Mozilla Corporation has said it is not happy with the ballot option that will allow Windows 7 users in the European Union to choose which browser they would like to use.
Nintendo of America filed for a patent to cover voice to text chat conversion. Patent application 20060025214 was filed in July 29, 2004 with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), but has only appeared on the agency"s website recently. Nintendo believes that voice to text conversion could enhance online games by altering color and font size of text depending on the tone and amplitude of the speaker"s voice.
For those of you that are familiar with anti-piracy measures implemented within the new flagship operating system from Microsoft, you may know that some changes have taken place since its release ò€“ most notably with the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
Santa Clara (CA) - Ahead of the Super Computing 2006 (SC06) conference, which will open its doors on November 11, Intel announced new server cluster software tools and provided more information about its Clovertown quad-core processor, which industry sources expect to debut on November 12.
Ottawa (ON) - Some decisions take time. Answering the question whether to implement support for the Open Document Format in its Word Perfect software or not, took Corel more than a year. At last, the long-time supporter of ODF today announced that it will update WordPerfect Office to support the XML-based ODF as well as Microsoft"s Open Office XML format.
NASA"s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) has released new data that shed light on the age of the Universe. Phil Plait from Bad Astronomy has compiled the data collected over a five-year period and came up with a number that points to an age of the Universe of about 13.73 billion years.
Redmond (WA) - Microsoft"s servers are experiencing technical problems today and millions of Hotmail and Xbox Live servers were unable to log in as of 12 noon today. Microsoft says this is a world-wide outage and is investigating the cause.
Sunnyvale (CA) - AMD has updated its server processor roadmap with single-die 6-core and dual-die 12-core Opteron processors. The new processors will be manufactured in a 45 nm process that will be introduced with the Shanghai quad-core later this year.
Chicago (IL) - A new study released by Net Applications indicates that a decreasing percentage of the Internet population is using Windows as their operating system. It appears that Mac OS X could soon be listed in the double digit-range, while Windows could fall below the 90% mark.
Nokia expects good growth in third generation (3G) mobile handset sales next year with global volumes set to double, Chief Financial Officer Rick Simonson said on Friday.
Nvidia has partnered with four motherboard makers to push the sales of 915PL chipset-based motherboards that bundle GeForce 6200 Turbo Cache-based graphics cards, according to sources at Nvidia Taiwan. The four makers are Asustek Computer, Gigabtye Technology, Micro-Star International (MSI) and Albatron Technology.
Mikogo announces the launch of its website in Chinese, German and Portuguese, which will not only make it easier for participants to join Mikogo sessions from the homepage, but will also encourage the use of Mikogo within a growing global community.
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Leeds (UK) - Even what we perceive to be foolproof IT systems will never be able to safeguard sensitive information, according to researchers from the University of Leeds. The "human autopilot" gets the blame.
Palo Alto (CA) - Stanford University"s Folding@Home project today announced a new software that will enable the use of graphics cards within the distributed computing project. Project leaders will tap into the floating point horsepower of graphics chips and hope to see a massive jump in processing power that can lead to more research results in less time.
EntropySoft is once more working towards simple transfers between content repositories, either on-premise or in-the-cloud.
Looks as though Blizzard is sticking to its guns in regards to making Battle.net the multiplayer destination for all of its games.
London (England) - The cable/satellite network FX is unveiling a new idea to make sure that everyone watching the station will not miss its station promos, even those who fast-forward through commercial breaks at 12 times the regular speed. And the idea to accomplish that goal is less high-tech than you may think.
Santa Clara (CA) - Sun today launched three new workstation models: There are two AMD Opteron models, which, the company hopes, will increase its target market. The third new workstation is based on the Sparc processor and isn"t expected to reach many new customers: Instead, Sun believes the Ultra 45 will keep its existing 64-bit crowd happy.
Geosemble leverages Oracle Spatial to deliver unique geospatial text visualization to government and commercial enterprise users.
A shortage in the supply of NOR flash could have caused shipment delays and slow sales of Apple Computer"s of iPod nano in the past two or three weeks, according to sources at Taiwan IT makers. Rumors that a supply shortage of certain parts has caused shipment delays and slow sales of the iPod nano have been circulating for a while.
Las Vegas (NV) - The upper-crust of earphone design is to be found coming from companies such as Shure; who sell high-quality noise cancelling, in-ear, headphones for which you can drop up to $500 for the pleasure of owning. With companies such as Creative coming to the market with more consumer-friendly products, Shure is now seeking to attract the consumer with higher-than-normal quality headphones without the more-extortinate-than-normal prices.
While the worldwide market for array processing equipment for TFT-LCDs grew 34 percent to reach $4.2 billion in 2004, a combination of several factors will drop the growth rate to only 3 percent in 2005, according to a recent report from The Information Network, a US-based market research company.
Herat (Afghanistan) - The United States Army is dazzling Afghani drivers with laser light in a bid to prevent accidents with its convoys. Convoy crews have been testing out the GLARE weapon-mounted laser by shinning the beams into the windshields of slow and dangerous cars. So far the makers of the laser system, B.E. Meyers and Company, say the tests are a resounding success.
Biostar Microtech, a Taiwan-based manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and barebones, announced today the availability of its GeForce 7300 GT-based graphics cards in DDR2 and DDR3 memory versions - the V7302GT21 and V7303GT21.
US-based LED developer Cree said that it has developed a new white LED that puts out light at almost ten times the efficiency of your average incandescent light bulb. According to Cree, its white LED achieves a rating of 131 lumens per watt, while a 60 watt light bulb typically circles around 14 lumens per watt.
Blizzard today activated the 1.10 patch for World of Warcraft, which promises to make the game less repetitive for veteran players. Also, new content such as better armor sets and realistic weather have been added and several dungeons have been altered to provide more of a challenge to players who have completed them several dozen times in a row. But while the new content may temporarily satiate WoW"s six million plus players, the patch also tries to balance out the game by modifying several classes and significantly altering the player-on-player battlegrounds.
Sunnyvale (CA) - AMD introduced three new media processors that promise to enhance the graphics and video capability of cellphones.
New Enhancements Significantly Reduce Implementation Times and Costs
Demand for LED backlighting used in small- to medium-size panels for applications such as low-cost PCs and digital photo frames are expected to increase by 20-30% in 2008, according to industry sources in Taiwan. The cost of LED backlighting in the small- to medium-size segments is currently almost the same as that of cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) backlighting, according to sources at Taiwan-based LED makers Everlight and Unity Opto.
Rearming your Windows 7 will let it run freely for 120 days without activation. Neato!
Intel plans to push the market for mini PCs by promoting sales of motherboards based on the Mini-ITX form factor developed by VIA Technologies, starting in the second quarter of this year, according to sources at Taiwan motherboard makers. According to Intel"s roadmap, the Mini-ITX will be one of the form factors for the platforms based on entry-level processors, and Intel will also recommend that PC makers use Mini-ITX motherboards for the production of small- form-factor (SFF) PCs, the sources indicated.
Xbit Labs posted a brief story on a document titled "AMD Athlon 64 Processor Power and Thermal Data Sheet," which has been made available on AMD"s website. According to the PDF file, the processor runs at a core clock of 2600 MHz core-clock and comes with 2 MB of cache.
HSBC Division Employ Tracesmart"s Proprietary Existence System
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Markham (ON) - AMD"s has raised its bet and placed its chips in a cutthroat chipset market: To gain ground on Nvidia and Intel, the manufacturer decided to put a fully-fledged GPU into its next mainstream integrated chipset 780G, which could win the company lots of new customers. But it could cost AMD lots of discrete graphics card sales as well and cut deep into its profit margins. Will AMD win and what does the 780 mean to you?
Cedar Rapids (IA) - Boutique PC builder Biohazard has added a new flagship system to its portfolio: The Rapture machine comes with phase-change cooling, which promises sub-zero operating temperatures for the CPU and GPU.
DRAM makers may see their expansion projects complete ahead of schedule as tight supply of equipment is easing amid a more conservative change in pure-play foundries" attitudes towards capacity expansion, according to industry sources. A previously rosy outlook for the semiconductor industry sent DRAM makers and pure-play foundries increasing their orders for equipment for capacity expansion.
AVnex Ltd. is a software publisher that has been in the market for over eight years; they are pioneers in developing and distributing audio and video morphing software as a worldwide business.
And ultra-affordable SSD? We"ll see.
Ever since late 2004, the shadow of an Intel chipset shortage has hovered over the motherboard industry. Although Intel now claims the situation has improved, motherboard makers still claim they expect to see a 20-30 percent shortage this quarter.
Having recently launching its first dual-core Celeron E1000 series CPU, E1200, Intel is ready to launch another family member with a faster core frequency in the second quarter of 2008, according to sources at motherboard makers. Intel is planning to launch E1400 with a core frequency of 2 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, L2 cache of 512 kB, and maximum TDP of 65W.
Ultriva Expands Internal Kanban module with Operation Sequencing and OEE
Acerò€™s first Android netbook is is a dualboot machine.
Carbon nanotubes have enticed researchers since their discovery in 1991, offering an impressive combination of high strength and low weight. Now a new study suggests that they also act like super-compressible springs, opening the door to foam-like materials for just about any application where strength and flexibility are needed, from disposable coffee cups to the exterior of the space shuttle.
But what about the wallpapers?
Myspace.com is a virtual home for many teenagers and young adults, but around 200,000 users will be sad to find out that their profile pages have been deleted. News Corp, the parent company of Myspace.com, said it has deleted pages that it considered to be hateful or "risquç©". Schools and parental groups have voiced concerns that Myspace pages have crossed the bounds of decency. In some cases, Myspace.com users have even been arrested for their postings.
Axia Software to Release Asset Investment Solution in French and Russian
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OrangeHRM aims to be the world"s leading open source HRM solution for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) by providing a flexible and easy to use HRM system affordable for any company worldwide.
AOL improved its security software portfolio in an effort to differentiate itself from other internet service providers - mainly services that offer online access for less money. The new "Safety and Security Center" translates into automatically updated anti-virus software, spyware protection, a firewall, and phishing protection, which AOL promises to especially protect broadband users "from new and emerging threats."
Hopefully you are not using a friends computer to read this report. Microsoft has just issued a patch marked as ò€˜Criticalò€™ which applies to Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003 ò€“ and another patch marked ò€˜Importantò€™ for Windows Vista and Serer 2008.
Washington (DC) - In the wake of urgent calls since the nation"s hurricane disasters to reform federal government response to disasters, a bill introduced in the US House of Representatives last week would effectively separate Internet infrastructure protection from civil infrastructure (sewer, utilities, public services) protection, by elevating cybersecurity to an assistant secretary-level post.
Is Nvidia working on a CPU?
Last week Steam was offering The Orange Box for $9.99 for one weekend only. This weekend, theyò€™re spicing things up by offering gamers 24 hours of L4D for free.
Apple on Tuesday opened up its online store just a little bit, enabling customers to buy products and have them delivered to another country.
Washington (DC) - Google this week began a new push in Washington, lobbying for more airwaves and bandwidth access for wireless Internet. It"s part of the online giant"s push to create a new standard of wireless Web access.
To promote the first production run of its PCIe-enabled pico-BTX XPC model SB86i, Shuttle Computer will bundle a free BTX CPU cooler with each barebones system, according to sources. Although the sources claimed the 5000 units will begin shipping next week, the company refuted the claim and stated that the systems will not begin shipping until mid-December, although they will be available in retail outlets before Christmas.
Infiniti today unveiled the next generation of its G35 performance sedan, which will offer drivers a few new gimmicks when it goes on sale in November this year. Besides a 300-plus horsepower engine, paddle shifters, push-button ignition, touch-screen navigation and a rear-view monitor, the G35 will offer a high-end Bose audio system that integrates a digital audio converter (DAC) that lets users rip audio CDs and create digital audio files.
Santa Clara (CA) - Intel today introduced the first processor based on its "Core" architecture: The Xeon 5100 rings in the beginning of the end of the Netburst architecture - a power hungry technology that was introduced more than five years ago and brought the company down to its knees. Core"s mission is to restore Intel"s competitiveness and lay the foundation for the firm"s future.
Santa Clara (CA) - Intel continues to quietly but consistently expand its open source Linux driver initiative. The company recently added support for the just released 965 version, which is currently shipping as a new-generation chipset for Core 2 Duo computers.
Galaxy has crammed two 55nm G92 GPUs on one PCB.
The design of in-ear headphones that come as standard with many portable music players, can cause users to crank their music up to damaging levels, research suggests.
Your computer should run this.
As much of a sign of the new year as the big ball in New York City is the sighting of the first spread of a computer worm. In this case, it hit users in the form of an e-mail with the subject line "Happy New Year!"
Dell is expected to release its XPS 600 DT series worldwide by the first quarter of 2006, whereas the availability of the XPS 600 notebook line that comes with a 20" panel display has not been revealed, market sources said.
Lite-On IT has beaten rival first-tier optical disc drive (ODD) competitors, such as Sony and Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology (TSST) by launching what it claims to be the world"s first 20x DVD burners. Lite-On IT has launched two super multi models, the LH-20A1P and the LH-20A1H, both of which feature 20x write-once DVD+R/-R, 12x write DVD-RAM.
T2 sues 3D Realms.
The DRAM market has a glimmer of hope after a dreadful 2007. Analysts expect a rebound in 2008 as DRAM supply begins to normalize. Global third-party DRAM module suppliers are expected to see a rise in shipment this year to a total of $8.9 billion, a 9 percent gain from $8.1 billion last year. In 2007 DRAM manufactures ramped up production and invested heavily in new fabs, as they essentially bet their business on the success of Microsoft Windows Vista to drive demand. Unfortunately, Vista had a lukewarm introduction.
Samsung SDI plans to volume produce 2- to 2.6" QVGA active-matrix (AM) OLED (organic light-emitting diode) panels in the first quarter of 2006, according to sources at the maker. The company revealed during its recent investors conference that it is now developing 2" class QVGA AM OLEDs.
Los Angeles (CA) - Over the weekend, visitors to the official Blu-ray Disc website were sent to the official HD DVD website instead, apparently the work of a format-biased hacker.
Although Windows 7 Starter Edition will likely be the least used version by readers of this site, its artificial limitations do have our attention.
Intel has said that it worked with Google on the companyò€™s Chrome OS.
Second Life developer Linden Labs released a few numbers last week, revealing that its users have spent one billion hours socializing and building the virtual world. Unlike most MMORPGs, Second Life isn"t necessarily a task-oriented game, nor does it offer any kind of role-playing elements. In fact, many will argue that it"s not a game at all, but a virtual social website. Linden Labs agrees, comparing its creation with other popular destinations.
Intel has released several new mid-range processors all based on its 45nm process technology from both the Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad lines. PC gaming vendors are expected to manufacture new systems based on these processors shortly.
The number of IPTV subscribers will reach a moderate 29.5 million worldwide in 2010 from a small base of five million in 2006, with global revenues from IPTV services increasing from nearly $1.5 billion in 2006 to $9.3 billion in 2010, according to consulting firm Ovum. These modest numbers reflect the fact that IPTV will continue to represent a number of challenges for operators well after being launched - challenges which include understanding and accessing content, Ovum said.
The worldwide subscriber base for Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services is expected to expand by a factor of more than 26 from 2005 to 2010, spurring a competitive battle between video providers both old and new, research firm iSuppli predicts. Global IPTV subscribers will grow to slightly more than 63 million in 2010, rising at a stunning compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 92.1% from 2.4 million in 2005, noted the firm.
Stuttgart (Germany) - Mercedes-Benz today announced its two first hybrid vehicles, both of which will be using conventional lithium-ion batteries, as opposed to nickel-metal versions that are used for example in the Toyota Prius or the upcoming Porsche Cayenne Hybrid .
The fate of the proposed .xxx internet domain for sex sites, which has drawn fire from US conservative groups, remains in limbo, according to the head of the group that oversees the web domain system.
Redmond (WA) - Reuters this morning reported that Microsoft could soon be offering free online versions of its word processing and spreadsheet applications from its "Works" suite of applications. The online would be supported by ads embedded into software - much like Google Spreadsheets and Writely.
The software as a service (SaaS) market is projected to achieve $8 billion in 2009, almost a 22% increase from 2008 revenue of $6.6 billion states a recent study from research giants Gartner
The Hypertransport Technology Consortium today released the third generation of the Hypertransport chip-to-chip interconnect. The new version 3.0 increases the total available bandwidth from 22.4 GB/s in version 2.0 to 41.6 GB/s. The initial specification released in 2001 provided Hypertransport 1.0 with a bandwidth of 12.8 GB/s. The 1.4 GHz dual data rate (DDR) maximum clock of HyperTransport 2.0 is extended to up to 2.6 GHz in version 3.0
Nvidia is preparing to launch its new Nforce 4 chipset for Intel. Just as our German friends suggested, there is a big implication that Nvidia chose Nforce 4 for Intel as the official name for its new chipset. The company will present it and show it to the world at the Intel Developer Forum, which starts this coming Tuesday.
Creating the First Online Ordering Platform Designed Specifically for Small and Medium Sized Restaurants
No time to waste at Transmeta: After hinting that it may stop manufacturing processors and shift and IP licensing model earlier this week, the company now introduced an evaluation platform and a reference design kit for the Efficeon processor. The kit is described as "manufacturing-ready reference design comprising schematics, PCB layout, bill of materials, reference design guide and drivers with BIOS support available from multiple BIOS vendors".
Dena Point (CA) - During a meeting of financial and technology analysts, AMD chairman and CEO Hector Ruiz told an audience he would be willing to pare down his company"s consumer market segments, including high-performance desktop PCs, in order to devote more energy to growing the company"s lucrative, high-quantity commercial processor market.
Thereò€™s usually not a lot of sparkly things to be found at Computex and for the folks that attend Computex thatò€™s just fine.
At the ongoing Computex 2005 show in Taipei, Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) is showcasing its PF88 Extreme Hybrid motherboard, which allows users to adapt their PC to a number of different computing platforms by adding a SIMA converter card to the motherboard.
AMD will announce at an event on April 21 in New York that the first dual-core Opteron processors are available, months ahead of schedule, sources familiar with the situation said. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chipmaker also is expected to announce its dual-core chips for personal computers will go on sale in June.
Games evolve along with the hardware that they"re developed on, naturally. However, much of what makes a great game enjoyable, hasn"t really changed too much.
Aspire Systems Releases its Upgraded Solution Accelerator - Propel
An Asus EeePC packing Nvidia"s Ion 2, anyone?