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1. Nvidia reports 3Q revenue jump

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... revenue and was up 11 percent quarter-over-quarter.    Consumer and entertainment business - represented 7 percent of total revenue as the first Tegra-based products, Microsoft Zune HD and Samsung's M1, ...

2. Notebook benchmarks fail to convey performance, price

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... problems. The first is that people who use notebook PCs have all sorts of applications they use – if you’re doing serious number crunching or graphics work, you are going to want to buy a machine that ...

3. Prosthetic hand gives sensation of touch

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   ... a prosthetic hand to existing nerve endings, allowing the user to actually feel it. Robin af Ekenstam of Sweden, the project's first human subject, has not only been able to complete complicated tasks ...

4. AMD culls Phenoms

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... 2009 and will completely stop shipments in the second quarter of 2010. The Phenom II X4 965 (3.4GHz/140W) and 925 (2.8GHz/95W) CPUs will make its final walk in the first quarter of 2010, while orders ...

5. Why Apple should license Windows 7

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Let's start out by saying that hell would likely freeze over before this happened... Let's start out by saying that hell would likely freeze over before this happened but then I can recall just a few years ...

6. MSI plans Tegra e-book, talks up notebook shipments

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   MSI chairman Joseph Hsu let slip that the company is currently working on an Nvidia Tegra-based e-book reader, but details won't be released until sometime in the first half of next year. MSI chairman ...

7. TG Daily: A readers' Guide

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

   Opinion: A few months back, we took the brave - some might say daft - decision to allow readers to post comments on TG Daily stories without an editor approving them first. Not many sites do this. OK, ...

8. Geeks Are Losers

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   ... he's the first US president who knows how to use a Blackberry. Whether it's a book fantasizing about a world in which Google executives run the United States or another tome that suggests geeks are ...

9. Nokia, Apple suit reeks of desperation

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   ... first introduced. if it did, then why didn't it stamp on Apple hard then? It doesn't matter. The whole matter is now in the hands of the courts and Nokia has fired a broadside across Apple's bows. Justice ...

10. The best IT vendor CEO of the decade is...

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... (and re-emergence) of others who led the companies that drove those changes. So, who was the greatest of the great IT vendor CEOs in the initial decade of the 21st century? First, let's eliminate the ...

11. Windows 7 won't be successful until 2011

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... Dimensional Research published a study of 1,142 IT professionals about their planned adoption of Windows 7. A mere 16% said they were planning to upgrade in the first year of its release. And if Microsoft ...

12. WiMAX has failed, industry guru claims

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ... said that Intel challenged the view that LTE rules or will rule in the future. While LTE made its first phone call in June this year, it is a wired connection, and LTE isn't wireless yet.Hauser was speaking ...

13. High tech won't save the economy this time

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... on the business driven by constant mergers and acquisitions and IPOs in the tech sector. Tech has been the engine of our growth for the past two decades. But that engine is petering out. The first sputtering ...

14. Adobe brings Flash to future phones

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... aimed at smartphones and smartbooks and Toshiba will be one of the first companies to launch products using the technology. Adobe said that Flash Player 10.1 is aimed to optimize graphic processors for ...

15. AMD talks up graphics as Nvidia kicks off GPU conference

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... being the first tier and Select the third. The company reckons the new system will provide meaningful differentiation across tiers and reward AMD’s highest-performing partners based on their sales records ...

16. Nvidia teams up with Microsoft for HPC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... to bear on what will be highly parallelizable computational problems." "The scientific community was one of the first to realize the potential of the GPU to transform its work, observing speedups ranging ...

17. Apple App Store downloads pass two million mark

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... for the first time. Apple also scored in third place for the Apple name itself and in the #4 spot with the iPod. When a consumer toy knocks an achingly-beautiful car from the top of the coolest things ...

18. AT&T slams Google for 'systematically' blocking telephone calls

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... and for all, the patently unlawful 'traffic pumping' schemes that drive carriers to block calls in the first place. Regardless of how the Commission ultimately addresses traffic pumping, the Commission ...

19. Intel and Apple are at the crossroads

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... better. Generally the firm falls into decline or stagnates; don't forget, Apple actually had a warning, as it didn’t do particularly well the first time Steve left.Apple’s crossroad is to find a way to ...

20. Intel debuts Nehalem mobile chips

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... others, Intel has revolutionized the laptop PC processor, delivering performance when you need it, energy efficiency when you don't," said Perlmutter. "For the first time, mobile users can choose a laptop ...

21. MCCI showcases 270MB/s USB 3.0 system

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ...  "The gap between generations can be attributed to two primary factors. Firstly, the same technological advances that applied to CPUs and GPUs were noticeably absent from USB development. Secondly, the ...

22. Intel accidentally previews Larrabee, Gulftown

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... video and running 3D in a 'far-future' configuration. Westmere - Intel's first 32nm processor - will be showed off, with AES encryption on-chip, Turbo Boost and hyperthreading.Finally, Maloney will talk ...

23. Intel shows off 22 nanometer, optimistic about future

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Intel does. Two years ago Intel introduced the world's first 45 nanometer process, and to date the competition - that is to say AMD - has shipped zero. 32 nanometers is here now and makes it possible to ...

24. EU publishes lurid details of Intel antitrust ruling

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... (rather than distributors), and on HP postponing the launch of its first AMD-based business desktop in Europe by 6 months. For example, in an internal September 2004 HP e-mail, an HP executive stated: ...

25. Point Grey debuts USB 3.0 digital video camera

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Point Grey has announced plans to showcase the "world's first" SuperSpeed USB-enabled digital video camera at the 2009 Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco. Point Grey has announced plans to ...

26. AT&T invests in Intel snooping technology

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... the support with its Tech Support 360 service, which AT&T claims 100,000 businesses have deployed. AT&T will launch the service in the first half of 2010, the companies said. The problem for many ...

27. Super Talent uncorks storage bottleneck with RAID SSDs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Super Talent Technology has confirmed that it will be shipping the first PCI Express RAIDDrive SSDs in early October. A company spokesperson told TG Daily that RAIDDrive was designed to break the throughput ...

28. Oracle and Sun showcase 'world's fastest' database machine

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Oracle and Sun have introduced the "world's first" online transaction processing (OLTP) database machine. According to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, Exadata 2 is the "fastest machine" for both data warehousing ...

29. What's at the heart of HP’s Laptops and Lenovo’s Best Student Tablet

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... addition Lenovo has announced what may be the perfect student laptop or close to it in its X200 we’ll close with why that is.  First to HP. Netbooks HP has the broadest line of Netbook products two ...

30. Activision unshackles platform gaming with untethered systems

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... what the untethered Guitar Hero does is it maybe equals the playing field a little bit more and gives you leverage with first parties on downloadable content and the business model," Kotick told IGN. "But ...

31. Microprocessor diversity threatens X86 hegemony

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ...  8.9% -0.1% -0.9% "Intel benefited as the global PC market took a small first step toward recovery in the second quarter, ...

32. Wintel alliance fires first shots of OS war

    (Software/Software Features)

    The old Wintel alliance is going strong again with both Intel and Microsoft taking the stand to peddle Windows 7. San Francisco (CA) - The old Wintel alliance is going strong again with both Intel and ...

33. AMD eroded Nvidia's graphic board share

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... spend money again. However, in Q2 2009 the market for integrated graphics on motherboards did better than for add-in boards. AMD's unit share of the market rose from 31 percent in the first quarter of ...

34. AMD takes lead in discrete mobile graphics

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... more units sold quarter-over-quarter in the first six months of 2009. According to AMD, the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4530 and ATI Mobility Radeon 4670 have scored over 200 design wins including the HP ...

35. Nokia to put Microsoft Office on its cellphones

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... while she or he is on the move. According to news.com, which first reported the news, Microsoft's Mac Business Unit is expected to make an announcement tomorrow. Office for the iPhone? Perhaps not. ...

36. Time Magazine develops time machine

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... but the folks from Time Magazine had an ace up their sleeves - they were reporting on the story from the future. Ann Arbor in Michigan became the first sizable town in the US to lose its only daily newspaper ...

37. Scientists act out Aesop's fable

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... got it right on their first try, whilst the other two birds needed a second go. They were also highly accurate, adding the exact number of stones needed to raise the water level to the necessary height. ...

38. Win7 'showstopper' bug fails to materialize

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... system) NTFS volume quickly gobbled up 2.1GB of memory, but levelled out there until the utility finished, as illustrated below. In the first screenshot, Chkdsk is 10 percent complete and has processed ...

39. Etre reaches a 20 year milestone

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... anticipating that 600 industry leaders from over 40 countries will tip up.I haven't been to all the Etre conferences but I was there for the first and attended many of them. I'll be going to the 20th one, ...

40. Intel lets Facebook users put spare time to good use

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... It is the first time that it has been offered through social networking sites. Intel has written an app called Progress Thru Processors, enabling Facebook users to donate their PCs available data processing ...

41. Snapdragons snap at Intel's heels

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... Firstly, carriers do not want to be in hock to Intel and would prefer some measure of independence. Secondly, while notebook and netbook manufacturers have to take account of Intel's wishes because of ...

42. Flies get a go on flight simulator

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... is held in place by a teeny-tiny halter, so that electrodes can register the reactions of its brain cells. The first results show one thing very clearly: the way flies process the images from their immobile ...

43. Engineers rewrite Asimov's three laws

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. • A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. • A robot must protect ...

44. Steve Ballmer and Paul Otellini to headline 2010 CES

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Ballmer will open the 2010 CES on January 6 at 6:30 pm local time in the Hilton Center. Otellini will appear on the same stage on January 7 at 4:30 pm. Ballmer opened the tradeshow for the first time ...

45. Intel delays Pine Trail-M - report

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... the T101 Android based netbook after the launch of Microsoft Windows 7, in late October. The news wire gives no reason why Intel has decided to delay Pine Trail-M until the first quarter of next year, ...

46. AMD eats into Nvidia, Intel graphics market share

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... report, JPR says that the channel - that is to say the distribution and reseller market - stopped ordering graphics cards and made sure their inventories of existing cards were depleted and hoped the first ...

47. Updated: Intel formally appeals $1.45 billion antitrust fine

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... of First Instance in Luxembourg and was filed today. We believe the European Commission's decision in the Intel case is wrong and ignores the reality that the microprocessor market is highly competitive, ...

48. Intel lowers SSD prices with 34nm manufacturing process

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Drive (SSD) product line. The move to 34nm is expected to lower SSD prices by up to 60 percent due to a reduced die size and advanced engineering design. "Our goal was to not only be first to achieve ...

49. Irish eyes not smiling at Intel

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... year or the first quarter of next year. Apparently there would be 'multiple changes in the timeline' for the 1270 line - something that physicists the world over would be interested in, not to mention ...

50. Sun sets on Sun Microsystems in prophet warning

    (Software/Software Features)

    Self proclaimed "innovator" Sun Microsystems predicted that its fourth quarter loss will be bigger than it first anticipated. But Oracle is set to ride into the gulch and save it from its own sins of ...