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Forrester Group recently presented the results of a 3 months study about digital music sells on Apple"s iTunes, and the conclusions don"t look that good for the Cupertino-based company.
Kyocera today announced a compact mass-market LCD, which the company is aiming at industrial applications. The TCG085WV squeezes a resolution of 800x480 pixel into an 8.5" form factor, which compares to a 640x480 resolution of comparable products.
Asustek has released the Z7S WS workstation motherboard, equipped with dual 771 sockets. The board utilizes the latest Intel 5400 chipset and also supports fully buffered DDR2 800 MHz dual-channel memory, dual PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots; and comes in the compact CEB form factor.
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.
Seattle (WA) - Amazon.com was represented in an auction in Sotheby"s yesterday, and the online retailer became the proud owner of a never-before-released handwritten book from J.K. Rowling, for around $4 million.
Prices for 17" LCD monitor panels have continued to reach record lows in the first half of this month, with the ASP (average selling price) falling to $145, down from $149 in the second half of last month, according to WitsView Technology.
Los Altos (CA)
That Apple will forge a path into the videogame console hardware scene is a "distinct possibility", said Prudential analyst Jesse Tortora.
Industry Leading Providers Team Up to Provide High Volume Push eBilling
Although the expected buzz at the upcoming Computex Taipei 2005 show from May 31 to June 4 will be the competing dual-core desktop CPU offerings from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), motherboard vendors have warned that the new processors may not help motherboard sales in the short-term.
Intel"s forthcoming Pentium D, the company"s first dual-core processor for desktop PCs, was already on display in a small electronics shop in Tokyo on Tuesday.
BizSpark Startups can now leverage Scio"s experience designing and building .NET based, fully commercialized multi-tenant Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings.
With Microsoft"s official announcement of the next-generation Xbox 360 console this week, ATI has decided to disclose some of the architectural details of the graphics processor that it created for the system. I had a brief but enlightening conversation with Bob Feldstein, Vice President of Engineering at ATI, who helped oversee the Xbox 360 GPU project. He spelled out some of the GPU"s details for me, and they"re definitely intriguing.
Surprise! It"s not Westmere.
San Jose (CA)
Acer will introduce Intel vPro technology to its Veriton Professional business desktop PC lineup in order to enhance productivity and efficiency of small-, medium-, and large-businesses. Acer indicated that the introduction of vPro technology will be one of the most cost-effective evolution of currently available technology, according to Maarten De Haas, Acer America"s vice president, marketing and product management.
Due to back-to-school demand and hot season effects, most Taiwan-based panel makers, including AU Optronics (AUO), Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) and Quanta Display, plan to raise prices for their LCD monitor or notebook panels, according to the Chinese-language Apple Daily.
Global PDP (plasma display panel) shipments rose only 3% sequentially in the second quarter of 2006 to 2.4 million panels, according to research firm DisplaySearch, noting that the growth was 8% slower than PDP manufacturers" aggregate forecasts.
San Jose (CA)
TFT-LCD panel makers are expected to suffer from serious inventory issues throughout this year, with LCD-TV panel inventory likely to reach 15 million units in 2006, according to estimates from Taiwan-based panel makers. The global supply for LCD-TV panels will total 55 million units in 2006, while worldwide demand for LCD TVs will only attain 40 million units, Taiwan-based panel makers noted.
"What is the best way to copy iPhone files to computer? Now with the newly released ImTOO iPhone Transfer software, all iPhone files backup process is simple and secure."
Samsung Electronics has begun producing a 7" LCD for the WVGA display market for mobile devices using a single-chip packaging solution, according to the company. The LCD is aimed at high-end multimedia products such as handsets for digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB), portable multimedia players (PMPs), portable DVD players and portable navigation systems, said Samsung.
Burut released new fodder for your GPU. Kreed is a fist person shooter based on a new developed 3D Engine with lots of DX8 shader usage.
The US hosted more than one third of the websites containing malicious code identified during 2006. The country also relayed more spam than any other nation last year, according to a study by net security firm Sophos.
Intel today introduced the Mobile Intel Pentium 4 processor 548 supporting Hyper-Threading Technology for the portability market segment.
According to a report published on Germany"s WinFuture.de, Intel"s successor of the current mobile "Napa" platform is developed under the code name "Santa Rosa." While Napa consists out of the Core Duo processor and the 945 chipset, Santa Rosa will be compatible with the recently launched Core Duo chip as well as the next-generation "Merom" processor and a chipset WinFuture says will be called "Crestine." However, we believe Crestine actually will be "Crestline" to stay in line with Intel"s recent tradition to name its mobile chipsets after pretty areas in California.
Search engines are dominating our use of the Internet, according to research from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
Atlanta (GA) - Taking the "school" out of old school, Fox Sports has announced that it will begin to air sports content on the Web, and offer digital downloads, beginning today. Initially, live streaming programming will include only college football bowl games.
PowerSports Xpress Management today announced their integration with Carfax to provide Vehicle History Reports to its network of dealers through the VehicleXpress Dealer Management System.
Yes, it will run Crysis.
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.
We already have sub-$100 16X speed DVD burners, but 20X burners should be readily available later this year, according to Digitimes. Major PC makers like HP and Dell are looking into the speedier burners for upcoming models.
Google"s share of search queries has grown to 47 %over the last three years. But, the no-frills homepage isn"t pulling searchers away from Yahoo!, whose busy portal page has held runner-up status over the same time period, but rather from the chronically third-place MSN.
Indianapolis (IN) - There"s an article over at The Inquirer by Charlie Demerjian that I think should be read by many. In that article, Demerjian states hearing little rumblings from off-the-record sources, those confirming problems with either Intel"s 45nm process technology or products. While it is definitely nothing concrete, it"s also not nothing.
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.
Autologica announced that its new website solution for dealers, Dealer Web Manager, has been adopted by over 100 dealerships in the first month since its launching.
Sunnyvale (CA) - Almost one month after AMD signaled it would respond to Intel"s then-forthcoming Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme releases with substantial price cuts, based on the latest performance data from Tom"s Hardware Guide, TG Daily now projects that average street prices for Athlon 64 X2 processors now fall as much as 41.4% below the price/performance curve set by comparable Intel processors.
Chicago (IL) - Art Lebedev today announced that it has begun shipping Optimus Maximus keyboards.
Chicago (IL)
Micronas, a supplier of application-specific IC system solutions for consumer electronics, has announced the launch of the MicMamba 2D-XC, a dual-tuner DVB-T ExpressCard 54 reference design for PCI-Express-based notebook computers.
RealNetworks is moving today to increase the visibility of its Rhapsody music service, hoping to gain more paying subscribers with a greater presence on blogs and other Web sites.
Nvidia pokes at Intel"s Insides.
Gibbs, a UK-based manufacturer of amphibian vehicles announced a four-wheeler that cannot only crawl through rough terrain on land, but also speed through water, as it is capable to convert itself to a jet ski in as little as five seconds.
Redmond (WA) - Microsoft has been working on its own image format for some time: First information about the Windows Media Photo format became available a little over a year ago. Now Microsoft is ready to let users test the new format, renamed to "HD Photo," in Adobe Photoshop CS2 and CS3.
Global DRAM output continued to escalate in October with total output reaching 685.8 million 256Mbit equivalent units, which represents a sequential growth of over 9%, according to figures from DRAMeXchange. Despite memory makers being conservative about the acceptance of DDR2 in the market, figures indicated that global DDR2 output continues to ramp regardless of those uncertainties.
IBM this week pitched its Power processor family as a de facto standard for consumer electronics, cars, communications kit and computers by launching a consortium to promote the platform to Far Eastern manufacturers.
Intel is on track for a second-quarter roll-out of its 946GZ and 946PL low-end chipsets to replace the 945GZ and 945PL, according to industry sources.
Intel on Thursday canceled plans to introduce its highest-speed desktop computer chip, ending for now a 25-year run that has seen the speeds of Intel"s microprocessors increase by more than 750 times.
Portland (OR)
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.
FabulaTech to Deliver New updated Version of USB over Network 4.0
Parents who want to pick up their kids at school in one New Jersey district now can submit to iris scans, as the technology that helps keep our nation"s airports and hotels safe begins to make its way further into American lives.
Google unveiled on Wednesday a Web site dedicated to literacy, pulling together its books, video, mapping and blogging services to help teachers and educational organizations share reading resources.
Samsung today said that it will invest 1.76 trillion South Korean Won (approximately $1.72 billion) to complete the second phase of its 7G LCD panel fab. While the first stage of its "7-1" line has a capacity to process 60,000 glass substrates a month, 7-2 will add 45,000 in the first half of 2006 and another 45,000 in the second half of next year. Total output will reach 150,000 substrates with a size of 1,870 x 2,200 mm (73.6 x 86.6 inches) each.
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Chicago (IL)
Sources claimed chip company AMD has several X86-based Geode products on the boil, codenamed Castle, Snowmass and Dragonfly.
Monitis Inc., a leading provider of affordable easy-to-use enterprise-class systems management software as a service, today announces release of monitoring agent for FreeBSD.
Albatron has released a bridge card that allows users in an AGP 8x card in a PCI Express mainboard. The device breathes new life in a technology that will be phased out over the next year.
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.
New York (NY) - After having been the symbol for home video entertainment for more than 40 years, the U.S. market penetration das dipped below the penetration of DVD players for the very first time. Nielsen Media Research reports that 81.2% of U.S. households owned a DVD player in Q3 of this year, while 79.2% are still using video recorders.
The worldwide electronics industry in the first quarter reduced its excess semiconductor inventories at a rate that was dramatically faster than expected-sending a positive signal for future chip-market growth, market research firm iSuppli says.
Like the rest of the economy, shipments of computer graphics chips were way down for the fourth calendar quarter of 2008.
AMD will upgrade its Athlon 64 X2 and 64-FX processor lines early next year - potentially the chips" final Socket 939 incarnations before the company debuts its M2 interconnect in Q2 2006.
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.
Zurich (Switzerland) - Researchers have found that organic transistors, those made of plastic, often have some form of molecular defects when created. This natural side effect of the manufacturing process can be fixed in many ways, however, by leaving the newly formed circuits in a high vacuum chamber for several days. Many of those defects actually heal themselves, resulting in increased performance and lower power consumption.
Samsung uses the International Meeting on Information Display 2005 conference, currently held in Seoul, to show its most recent devices. Among the products are several products that have been part of press releases but have not been shown to the public. This includes a monstrous 82" LCD TV panel that offers 180-degree viewing angles and a color saturation of 92 percent, according Samsung.
When you make the operating system that runs on the overwhelming majority of the world"s PCs, there are a few things that go along with the massive market share. One of them is people who want to run your OS without paying for it. With the release of Vista, Microsoft is pulling out a new tool from its antipiracy toolbox.
As previously expected, HP and IBM launched new servers to accompany the launch of Intel"s Xeon DP dual-core chips, code-named Paxville.
Nvidia announced today that its ION platform was named as the "Best Enabling Technology" during last week"s CES "09 expo.
Having developed flat fluorescent lamp (FFL) backlight units (BLUs) for 32" LCD TVs, Samsung Corning plans to start volume producing FFL BLUs for 40" and 46" TVs soon, the company said. The 32" TV-use FFL BLUs have been booked by Samsung Electronics, and Samsung Corning plans to boost its FFL BLU capacity from one million units per year to two million, with second-stage construction plans also under way, the BLU maker said.
Bluetooth meets NetStumbler as Network Chemistry released BlueScanner, a free Windows utilities that scans for Bluetooth devices. We talked to Andrew Lockhart, author of BlueScanner, to find out how he developed the program and what the program is good for.
Although multiple factors, including excess supply, are conspiring to drive down pricing for large-size LCD panels in the first half of 2006, availability is expected to tighten during the last six months of the year, leading to better market conditions for suppliers.
Move over GPU.. literally, move over, as the RTPU is the next step up on the technology ladder, bringing added photo-realism to gaming and other graphics-intensive applications without the huge processing load.
New Toshiba notebooks use special hardware to make YouTube less ugly
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Disk drive maker Maxtor reported a worse-than-expected loss for its fourth quarter, on declining revenue - problems its top officer says are related to a cost structure that is too high.
Aliso Viejo (CA) - Eeye Digital Security today announced a free version of its Blink computer security software for personal use. The application gives users protection against identity theft, worms, trojans, and other possible hacks, in an "unobtrusive, integrated and deeply-layered" agent, the first of its kind to be offered for free, said Eeye.
Intel plans to continue to ship its entry-level 865-series chipsets in the first quarter of 2007, with an amount to account for 10% of its total chipset shipments, according to sources at Taiwan motherboard makers. The motherboard makers feel that Intel"s latest 865 series roadmap could affect their sales in the second half of this year, although the move is aiming at protecting Intel"s market shares in the entry-level and OEM segments.
Apparently, AMD"s Sabine platform will support DirectX 11 and UVD Technology when released in 2011.
The graphic chip industry posted yet another strong quarter with a year over year increase in shipments of almost 41 percent. Of the 14.6 million graphics processors sold, 24.4 percent were mobile graphics chips, setting a record mark of the segment. Shipments of integrated graphics chip-sets for notebooks outpaced those of discrete (stand-alone) mobile graphics processors in Q1 05, showing sequential growth of 12.6 percent and annual growth of 71.2 percent.
Sunnyvale (CA)
Mozilla today released the download of its email client Thunderbird 1.5. According to the developers, the update culminates a year of feedback from readers and now integrates an automated update feature, greater spam control, a built-in phishing detector, improved support for RSS and podcasting as well as a real-time spell-checker.
Naomi J. Summers is recognized for professional and academic achievements
DRAM chipmakers anticipating stable February prices are in for a disappointment as contract prices are being negatively affected by a larger-than-expected drop in demand from international PC OEMs, and contract prices have fallen 10% since the latter part of January, sources said yesterday.
Boise (ID) - Micron claims it has built the smallest DDR2 memory chip so far: The 1 Gb device has a die size of just 56 mm÷².
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.
Since late last year, several DRAM makers have begun requesting that testing houses cut their DDR2 memory testing times by 20-40% amid cost concerns, according to sources.
Tewksbury (MA) - Avid today released a new version of its 3D animation and character creation software Softimage. The software, which is often used for animation in video games as well as for movie sequences, now integrates with the rendering application Mental Ray 3.5, supports easier transfer of animation and motion capture data from and to other 3D programs, brings some workflow enhancements and a new tool allows artists to distort and morph images and sequences.
Customers of Intel have been tipped the wink on proposed pricing of Smithfield dual core 840 (3.2 GHz), 830 (3 GHz), and 820 (2.8 GHz) processors, and at the same time the chip giant has settled on a date for the launch of its 6XX range.
Looks like Nvidia"s upcoming GeForce GTX 275 is peeking out of its cage, gracing online retail shops.. or at least, that was originally the case.
Los Angeles (CA) - Retired Air Force pilot John Wojnaroski can"t seem to get away from flying and he"s been constructing the "ultimate" flight simulator with authentic screens, switches and even throttle controls. Using scavenged passenger jet parts and the "FlightGear" open source simulator platform, Wojnaroski"s simulator can emulate most jumbo jets and can even perform instrument approaches along with around the world flights.
Security researchers discovered that new malicious code spread through the black market is making its way onto some of the largest corporate Web sites in the world. San Jose-based Finjan, a security company specializing in Web gateway solutions, announced today that it uncovered a database containing more than 8700 harvested FTP account credentials, including usernames, passwords and server addresses, spread through a malicious toolkit, which cyber criminals use to harvest the information.
A light that lasts 20 times longer than a conventional bulb and is 75% more energy efficient has been developed by researchers.
Chicago (IL) - There is an incredible amount of enthusiasm in the field of alternative energy sources these days. We are seeing new "breakthrough" announcements almost every day, but a great part of this research is decades away from being a viable technology for everyday use. But we also have news about more realistic approaches: For example, a scientist from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (UMass) claims to have reached a critical milestone in the creation of biofuels with traditional gasoline characteristics. And: The conversion apparently can happen with "almost" no carbon footprint.
Santa Clara (CA)
Improves loan management, bank account oversight, hedge analysis and FX netting.
Samsung has shown off its fourth generation wireless technology by sending data to a speeding bus. At a wireless technology conference in Jeju South Korea, the company demonstrated multi-megabyte/sec speed transfers to a refrigerator-sized receiver. Samsung claims the prototype can receive data at up to 100 Mb/s.
Tokyo (Japan) - Honda has upgraded its "humanoid" robot to allow Asimo to interact with other robots and humans.
Thalwil (Switzerland) - U-Blox, a Switzerland-based developer of GPS receivers, said that it has developed one of the first Galileo tracking devices.
Honeywell said it is suing 34 companies over alleged infringement of its LCD patents.
Las Vegas (NV) - Some people take CES all too seriously. There are lots of vendors at the show who know how to have a little fun and still make a dollar. We have picked three examples.
Fresh search teams prepared to join the hunt for a San Francisco man who set out on foot Saturday to find help for his stranded family in Oregon"s snowy coastal mountains.
A comparison of data mashup to more traditional data warehousing approaches
First-tier motherboard makers Asustek Computer, Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI) collectively shipped about 7.9 million motherboards in June, up 27.8 percent from 6.18 million units during the same period of last year.
Toshiba and Memory-Tech said this week that they plan to bring to market a hybrid DVD disc that can be used both for standard-definition and HD content.
When LG Electronics launched its Super Multi Blue Player at the recent CES exhibition, it signaled an exit strategy from the "war of the high-definition disc formats," according to research firm ABI Research. By creating a player that will accommodate both HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs, the Korean manufacturer may have created a precedent that the rest of the industry will have to follow. ABI Research forecasts that such universal players will become the norm, not the exception, benefiting confused consumers unwilling to commit to one DVD camp or the other.
Santa Clara (CA)
Apparently, BFG has released a passively cooled 9800 GT card to US online retailers without officially announcing its shipment.
An undertaker in Northern Ireland has begun broadcasting funerals over the internet so that people can mourn a deceased loved one no matter where in the world they are at the time of the funeral.
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.
SLI is finally embracing Intel.
Backing up our story this morning about whether Core Duo-based Mac users will perceive the "2 - 3x" performance improvement in their software, Macworld is reporting this afternoon that in its own tests with native (compiled for Intel) Mac applications, performance improvements were only in the 10 - 25% range.
A leaked circular issued by Nvidia says that the company will display the upcoming GeForce GTS 250. It sure looks purdy!
Qsan will showcase P300H (Redundant iSCSI RAID controllers) and P500H (Redundant 10GbE iSCSI RAID controllers) in the upcoming Computex Taipei 2009 exhibition.
Most of us are well aware of the 45nm processors that AMD is expected to roll out beginning this year. However, a lot of tech sites have been posting information that contradicts information found elsewhere.
Celerant Partners with DigitalPersona to Decrease Fraud and Increase Accountability
A little late on this one, but we wanted to spill the beans anyway.
Just don"t try to put water in it.
Computex is a show about everything computing, and then some. If you manage to make it to the show, you"ll find a host of companies showing off PC chassis of various sizes and configurations.
Range of Records Management Services and Top Support Were Leading Factors
TestSoft Inc. Releases Explicore Continuous Improvement Software
Bay Area satellite office to drive company growth in 2009
Online retail outlets including Newegg have pulled Intel"s brand-spanking-new 34nm X25-M G2 "Postville" SSDs from their websites just days after becoming publicly available, according to a blog from OEM system builder Puget Systems. The company said that removal of the SSDs stem from a firmware defect discovered in the first batch shipped last week.
More information has surfaced in regards to the unannounced Postville SSDs from Intel.
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.
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.
A Director at the Mozilla Foundation praised Microsoft"s Bing and says the decision making engine offers more in terms of privacy than Google.
Letterbox Animation Studios launches Softimage resource library that offers tutorial downloads, free of charge.
The new mSATA connector will enable credit-card sized SSDs.
Corsair discovers that Indilinx Barefoot controller and Samsung MLC NAND flash memory are good ingredients.
Richard V. Agnello has devoted 15 years to the information technology field
Version 11 of VSS Pro staff scheduling software includes a new hours column, schedule editing, soft options, employee skills report, query report, and much more.
SyberWorks, Inc., a leader in custom e-Learning Solutions and the Learning Management System (LMS) industry, today announces the launch of their new web site.
SanDisk today demonstrated its new line of G3 SSDs, which it claims is state of the art.
Toshiba has announced a new series of 2.5-inch hard disk drives that offer capacities up to 500 GB, increased durability, reduced noise and a lower power consumption.
Disaster recovery planning is critical in order to respond in the event of an unplanned outage (disaster) such as a fire, flood, explosion, hurricane, tornado, earthquake, crime, loss of power, etc. Persson Associates now offers an easy to use, low cost product to start the plan development process.
With the ever increasing demand for more storage by users that are always on-the-go, Fujitsu launches a set of hard drives at half of a terabyte (500 GB).
Last week Tomò€™s Hardware had covered a bit about the freezing problems with Seagateò€™s Barracuda 1.5TB drives. We would like to update readers with the response that Tomò€™s Hardware has gotten directly from Seagate.
Vovici, Top Gun of survey software companies serving nearly 60% of the Fortune 500 companies, continues to pursue higher levels of excellence by reaching out to smaller companies.
Would Heart be proud of this version of Barracuda?
Not to be outdone by the impending release of OCZò€™s high-performance Vertex series of solid-state drives, A-DATA has announced a new 256 GB SSD that features the same 64 MB of internal cache as OCZò€™s product.Ò The company was showing off the SATAII SSD 300 Plus, as well as its mammoth 512 GB XPG SSD, at this yearò€™s Cebit show in Hanover, Germany. The loss of capacity isnò€™t that bad of a deal if you look at it like a fat runner shedding weight; A-DATA is boasting speeds of up to 250 MB/secÒ and 160 MB/sec on the driveò€™s sustained reads and writes, respectively. That"s 20 MB/sec faster reads than the company"s XPG SSD.
Quality Ingredients Corporation recently purchased ProcessPro Premier to meet their ERP solution requirements. Quality Ingredients uses the most advanced technology to provide their customers with healthier, better tasting, and easy to use products.
Super Talent today released its SSD upgrade drives, which it is aiming squarely at users of the Asus Eee PC line.
Bar Code Graphics is proud to become a member of ACP - The Association of Coupon Professionals. As the largest provider of digital coupon barcode symbols, Bar Code Graphics is uniquely qualified to provide technical direction and education with the new GS1 DataBar coupon requirements.
Itò€™s been a rough past week for Seagate, and even more so for owners of new large-capacity Seagate hard disk drives.
The new version 7.0 of AV Voice Changer Software line has been officially announced by Avnex Ltd., just a few days before this year"s big fun holiday, April Fool"s Day. Details about the functions and new features and upgrades can be found at www.audio4fun.com/promotion.htm.
On Monday, Intel filed a lawsuit against Nvidia, which apparently stated that the chipset license agreement the two companies signed four years ago does not extend to Intelò€™s future generation CPUs with integrated memory controllers.
ImmigrationTracker has released the new I-129 form within hours of it being posted to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) web site.
Diablo III This Year?
12 GB of memory in a gaming notebook. Excessive? Asus says no.
To get the day started right, here are a few gaming nuggets regarding Warhammer Online, Majesty 2 and some whacked-out hospital game. Got anything that belongs here? Send it here.
Observer Platform Seamlessly Tracks Network and Application Performance in Virtual and Physical Environments
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Las Vegas (NV) - As Microsoft launched what it hopes to be an annual conference devoted to the topic of Web-driven applications and services - using Microsoft technologies, of course - Chairman Bill Gates took advantage of the opportunity to announce the immediate availability of Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 7.0, for immediate download from the corporate Web site.
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.
Redmond (WA) - Microsoft has issued an advisory for a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Word that, while "very limited" in scope, could lead to damaging attacks without an official fix yet.
Microsoft this week fixed a widely reported flaw in its Internet Explorer browser that had been used by attackers over the past few weeks to take over the PCs of unsuspecting users. The flaw was one of four IE bugs fixed Tuesday in Microsoft"s regularly scheduled software update, which also addressed some problems caused by Sony"s XCP copy protection software.
It"s a hackinbox!
Trading Software Pty Ltd, a leading software provider to professional stock traders around the world is proud to announce the release of Pairtrade Finder Version 2.50727, state of the art pair trading software.
Cooperation instead of competition: Emsi Software in Austria and Tall Emu in Australia have announced a new and very close technology partnership.
Hyperic HQ Version 4.1 improves Web services administration/configuration and MySQL plugin performance
While less than a penny to manufacture and costing nothing compared to other office products, a paperclip saved is money earned.
Foxit is proud to announce an updated version of Foxit Reader V3.0 Build 1506. Foxit has fixed three major vulnerabilities below which would cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.
Achieves dramatic processor improvement while simultaneously lowering costs
Open Source Business Foundation securely creates a bridge between Java and .NET
Microsoft Dynamics GP is becoming very popular ecommerce ERP and accounting back office. This trend is probably related to success of eConnect SDK
In Microsoft Dynamics GP, formerly known as Great Plains Dynamics and eEnterprise, when you are launching it in production for the first month, Sales Tax accruals, accurate reporting is essential
Zotac has two Nvidia Ion motherboards for the Japanese market
Some of you guys have been asking for booth babes over the last couple of days and we figured the only decent thing to do would be honor that request.
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.
The Chinese government has confirmed that its plans to roll out filtering software on all PCs sold in mainland China has not been canceled.
High-end case maker Lian-Li has found the solution to adding double slot cards to a motherboard"s lowest slot: They"ve added more slots!
Security Experts from ESET conduct special training sessions for ADAOX"s Middle East channel partners
iBUYPOWER"s latest gaming rig - the Gamer Fire 600 - is based on the latest AMD Socket AM3 platform, one of the first in the industry.
You may have seen from our front page hardware features that there"s a new Intel Atom CPU and platform in town.
Cadac Organice BV announces the release of Organice Publish 2008 R2 brings a number of enhancements including an administration site with an overview of all jobs
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.
AMD today released the Athlon X2 4850E, a new processor in its dual-core 45-watt portfolio. The processor is designed to operate in quiet and space-constrained environments, such as small form factor and home entertainment center (HTPC) PCs.
Infonic is proud to announce their document management software for Proof of Delivery that enables business with the ability to capture and manage their PoD better than before.
White Mountain Technologies has launched UniversiTools Career Center solution, which integrates with its other management modules for universities and institutions of higher education.
KWizCom granted CARE, a leading humanitarian organization, an open license of KWizCom add-ons for SharePoint.
Microsoft Dynamics GP, formerly known as Great Plains Dynamics and eEnterprise - this ERP and MRP application has large number of installations and it is implemented across USA, Canada, Mexico, Spanish speaking Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, UK.
Remember Gamer Grub? Inventor Keith Mullin claims his ò€œcognitive performance snacksò€ will ò€œboost your brain and speed your reaction timeò€ to make you a more competitive gamer. Iò€™ve since had an opportunity to sample the product, and while I donò€™t think it did much to enhance my IQ or make me quicker on the draw, it did a terrific job of satiating the munchies.
Pricewatch - Over the last several months, 28" and 30" LCD monitors have drastically
Leading value-added Software and Technology distributor Interactive Ideas launch first in a series of montly focus on the trends in IT, the first one focusing on Virtualisation. Visit http://www.testdriveinteractive.com/virtualisation to learn more.
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.
If you have Dynamics GP or former Great Plains Dynamics eEnterprise implemented in your organization there is a good idea to understand your options to add such things as EDI, ongoing integration or one time data conversion.
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Leader in Console Server Solutions recognized with Sun, Novell, Red Hat, as top open source company in the channel
Markham (ON)
Need to transport your Xbox 360 console to a friend"s house but don"t have a roller suitcase that will fit the system? No problem, Atlantic has you covered with Gaming on Wheels. Want to carry your PlayStation Portable or DS Lite in the pouring rain without damaging it? You can do that, too, with GameSEAL.
Intel helped Microsoft make Windows 7 faster.
Milpitas (CA)
Phoenix (AZ) - Adtron last week announced that it will begin offering what will be the largest solid-state disk (SSD) drive on the market - matching the capacity of the upcoming mainstream hard drive capacity in notebooks. Unfortunately, the drive will be priced well out of consumer reach.