...closes its Developer Forum with a visionary keynote
that provides a glimpse into Intel’s labs and how the company’s
engineers think about how technology could shape the world in five, ten
or - in t...
Friday, August 22, 2008 00:01
You can’t have enough RAM, as is often said in
the computer world, and Intel has demoed 16 GB RAM sticks at its Intel
Developer Forum in San Francisco. The RAM is made by Hynix and uses
Thursday, August 21, 2008 21:15
Benchmarking and overclocking the upcoming Intel
Nehalem processor is going to be tricky business, but Francois Piednoel
says we will see “dramatic” speed increases. At the Intel Developer
Thursday, August 21, 2008 00:05
Want to get an extra hour of battery life out of
your laptop? At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel’s
executive vice president and general manager of the mobility divisio
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 16:18
...vice on 15 nonstop transcontinental flights, allowing passengers to send e-mail, chat by IM and browse the Internet at 36,000 feet. For $12.95, you can spend six hours surfing the web instead of watch...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 15:18
Laptop the ft is a nightmare for businesses and
individuals alike and it’s often said that the most valuable part of a
laptop isn’t the drive or the screen, but your data. Yesterday,
Intel’s
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 14:52
... Keyboard and SideWinder X5 Mouse,
priced around $80 and $60, respectively. Microsoft claims it has "the
first-ever" switchable key pad that can be attached to the left or
right side of the keyboa...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 14:01
...rs and actresses handling live action scenes in EA's upcoming Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 title. The video game publisher is bringing togethe r an interesting combination of "award-winning actors...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 13:43
Analyst Opinion - Given the number of problems the iPhone had, the
device was lucky to have been brought to market by Apple. Any othe r
company would be dead in the market. Battery life is ter
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 12:43
News about the much anticipated Nehalem processor architecture coming
out of this year’s IDF Fall are not quite as comprehensive as expected
and given the Q4 launch date of the first CPUs, th
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 11:39
...etails about Intel’s upcoming dual-core Atom processor have been published by German website heise.de. The magazine said that the CPU is likely to be called Atom 330 and will debut with a the rmal desi...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 08:51
A sunglass wearing Pat Gelsinger acted cool,
but revealed little during his keynote speech at the Intel Developers
Forum in San Francisco. Intel’s senior vice president and co-general
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 19:14
Intel announced that the first Nehalem processors to be made available will be desktop processors (Core i7) and high-performance server products code-named Nehalem-EP. Intel said it is planning to
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 17:13
...inted out that notebooks with 12" to 14" 16:9 aspect ratio panels will not enter mass production until the second quarter of 2009. In the second half of 2008, first-tier notebook vendors will focus on...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 08:50
As the release of AMD's 45 nm processors Shanghai and, more
importantly, Deneb is drawing closer, we are getting a better idea of
what to expect from AMD’s next generation of CPUs. The HyperT
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 01:55
Mobile phone manufacturers are always spinning new ways to get you interested in the ir phones. Sanyo is the latest to do so, unveiling its new Katana Eclipse with customizable lighting effects.
Monday, August 18, 2008 14:42
...es publishers to inject contextual
text or image ads into individual feeds distributed by FeedBurner, the
world's largest RSS distribution service that was acquired by Google
more than two years ag...
Monday, August 18, 2008 10:33
Opinion – IDF is just around the corner and Intel will provide a flood
of new information about its upcoming Nehalem (Core i7) processor as
well as its 32 nm and 22 nm successors, new archite
Friday, August 15, 2008 17:10
...reps HTC "Dream" for an October release and is expected to launch its
own application store alongside the handset. However, the Dream faces
an uphill battle, since first reports claim that the devic...
Friday, August 15, 2008 13:52
The re is no denying that the initial news about Windows 7, Vista’s
successor, weren’t especially great for Microsoft. Vista is by far not
as successful as Microsoft would have hoped and Windo
Friday, August 15, 2008 11:00
Many iPhone 3G owners don’t quite experience the twice as fast, half
the price cellphone the y were promised. Connectivity problems are
reported to be impacting the 3G experience, ranging from
Thursday, August 14, 2008 16:07
...t seem to be part
part of Intel’s IDF presentation program next week and provide some
information on the continuation of Intel’s tick-tock strategy until
2012 and 22 nm processors. Chicago (IL) – F...
Thursday, August 14, 2008 11:07
Analyst Opinion - This week I have been spending some time with AMD
listening to an update of the ir workstation and server roadmap. AMD’s
message: We are healthy and we are executing on
Thursday, August 14, 2008 00:35
...earchers from Clemson University have discovered a way to make
surfaces much more durable and protect the m from damage in the case of
severe impacts: The path to virtually unbreakable surfaces may l...
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 15:15
If you are tired of walking into AT&T stores and tired of being
explained the advantages of “direct fulfillment” iPhone 3Gs, you will
soon be able to purchase Apple’s smartphone in your n
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 09:21
Analyst Opinion - I was watching the Olympics over the weekend and
couldn’t help but cheer when the US swim team beat the French. Going
in, the U.S. team was clearly overmatched – yes, the y h
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 00:27
Balancing on two wheels, the shiny UBot-5 scurries
around the Los Angeles Convention Center like it owns the place. Made
by students at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the robot
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 18:49
Following the release of the annual report of the Aerospace Safety
Advisory Panel (ASAP), NASA announced that it is realigning its
Constellation program milestones. “Realigning” means that th
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 15:37
Dell is having much more fun with its products lately, which is
especially visible with the bright colors the company has added to many
of its products. Now the se colors and new shapes are ex
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 13:32
Owners of a GeForce 8-series or higher graphics card can squeeze more
eye candy out of the ir hardware as Nvidia has released a demo pack
consisting of a full game, acceleration demos and Stan
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:57
A new 17” mobile workstation will join Lenovo’s Thinkpad family in
September: The W700 is Lenovo’s first 17” workstation notebook, the
first with a palm rest digitizer and one of the first no
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:23
Hector Ruiz’ time at the AMD as we know it today is coming to an end.
Ruiz recently stepped down from his role as CEO, but kept his position
as chairman of the board with the purpose of launc
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 00:01
Intel will open the doors to its Fall developer forum in San Francisco
next week. The new Nehalem micro-architecture, which will first surface
in Core i7 high-end desktop processors in the fo
Monday, August 11, 2008 13:18
The secret that allows objects to become completely invisible to the
human eye has been one of the big quests of science, but remains a
mystery can only be achieved through special effects in
Monday, August 11, 2008 10:43
Intel today unveiled the brand of its upcoming processor: Nehalem, the
successor of the Core 2 Duo CPU series, will be introduced as “Core i7”
later this year and the company hopes that the n
Sunday, August 10, 2008 14:00
Pricewatch – HD DVD players are gone for almost half a year and the
victorious Blu-ray format is plugging along, but the re seems to be few
convincing incentives for consumers to actually make
Friday, August 08, 2008 15:18
Interview – Lots of graphics tech tradeshows are on the calendar for
the coming weeks - Siggraph 2008 in Anaheim, IDF Fall in San Francisco,
Games Convention in Leipzig and Nvision 08 in San
Friday, August 08, 2008 01:06
This morning Dell announced the company has achieved its goal of carbon
neutrality in less than a year’s time and five months ahead of the ir
schedule. Dell has done this by using a combinatio
Thursday, August 07, 2008 15:08
Scientists are gearing up to launch the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) a
17-mile long particle accelerator that debuts with the promise to
enable science to look deep into the origins of the uni
Thursday, August 07, 2008 14:38
The Internet relies on trust, but what if all that
trust comes tumbling down? That’s exactly the problem noted security
researcher Dan Kaminsky described today in his Black Hat talk abo
Wednesday, August 06, 2008 20:15
Big U.S. transportation companies are obviously hearing the noise
coming from T. Boone Pickens’ campaign. Larry Burns, GM vice president
of research and development, recently revealed on the
Wednesday, August 06, 2008 14:40
The legendary Bill Waterson comic got an unexpected cartoon hack by DC Comic's MAD Magazine. In MAD's take, Calvin and Hobbes appear as Calvin and Steve Jobs. Apple's CEO is portrayed dually, as a
Wednesday, August 06, 2008 14:01
Considering the big news coming out of Intel this week (Larrabee) and
the expected big News from Nvidia within the next two weeks (x86 CUDA),
AMD is under pressure to match its rivals: AMD is
Wednesday, August 06, 2008 12:59
Mozilla, developer of the Firefox web browser, is asking
people from around the world to participate in the creation of what
could become a next-generation browser. The first ideas posted on
Wednesday, August 06, 2008 11:13
Lenovo has revealed more information of its upcoming netbook models, the 10.2-inch IdeaPad S10 and 8.9-inch IdeaPad S9. Both netbooks will launch in the China market in September with availabili
Wednesday, August 06, 2008 09:01
...earlier this week, sparking
speculation how this new technology will stack up to what is already
out the re in the market. We had some time to digest the information and
talk to developers - and it ...
Wednesday, August 06, 2008 00:01
... This week should be very exciting for PC gamers as
Intel is publishing its Larrabee paper, detailing the upcoming
x86-compatible cGPU, AMD is hosting its annual CTO Summit in Reykjavik
(Iceland), ...
Monday, August 04, 2008 14:44
Anothe r Bond film, anothe r Bond phone. That seems to be the trend in
recent tie-ins between mobile phone manufacturers and the James Bond
movie franchise. The latest to date is a special edit
Monday, August 04, 2008 13:43
...e much stronger than expected earlier this year, as
semiconductor sales showed a solid performance in the first half of the
year. Notebooks are generally believed to be responsible for the
surprise...
Monday, August 04, 2008 09:57
The re are more signs that Google’s honeymoon period is coming to an end
and increasingly has to deal with less comfortable business matters. As
Viacom wages as legal battle with the company,
Friday, August 01, 2008 10:59