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1. Adobe upgrades Flash player with improved HD support

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 17 November 2009

   ...  Microsoft takes on Adobe with Silverlight 3 AMD says Fusion will knock Intel for six. Or five  ...

2. Windows 7 sales outpace Vista adoption

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 05 November 2009

   ... week," added Baker. 
 See Also Intel: Windows 7 offers "improved" performance and stability Windows 7 upgrades crash and burn Is Windows 7 too good for Apple to FUD? How Microsoft blindsided vulnerable ...

3. Kingston accelerates Windows with 40GB SSD

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 26 October 2009

   ... score of 13,883, while a standard 7200RPM hard-disk only managed to rack up a score of 3,708.  The test system comprised an Intel DG45ID desktop motherboard, Core 2 Duo E6550 desktop process @ 2.33 ...

4. Elektrobit upgrades MID design with haptic technology

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Monday, 21 September 2009

   Intel Developer Forum 2009 - Elektrobit has upgraded its MID reference design with support for 3D, plasma desktop and haptic technology. Intel Developer Forum 2009 - Elektrobit has upgraded its MID reference ...

5. Dell starts to sell uninterruptible power supplies

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 09 September 2009

   ... PowerEdge T110 and T310 tower servers and the R210 and R410 rack servers which are based on Intel's Xeon 3400 CPUs. The T110 is aimed at small businesses with a desktop sized chassis, while the PowerEdge ...

6. Windows 7 faces an upgrade uphill struggle

   (Software/Software Features)

   Monday, 13 July 2009

   ... Intel and AMD, who reported that corporations and large organizations were keeping a tight control on their purse strings with server chip shipments being particularly affected.When asked how IT departments ...

7. Teardown reveals thin profit margin on Mac Mini

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 29 June 2009

   ... Mini is $376.20, a number that climbs to $387.14 when manufacturing costs are added. Everything beyond that, including the cost of intellectual property, royalties and licensing fees, software, software ...

8. TG Daily’s Dads and Grads Product Giveaway: Play along and win!

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 19 June 2009

   ... PC or Mac running iTunes •    One internal 640 GB hard disk drive; provides room to expand using one of the four USB2.0 ports •    Intel® Atom 1.6 GHZ processor with 1 GB ...

9. Apple upgrades MacBook with faster processor, larger hard drive

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 27 May 2009

   Apple has upgraded its white MacBook with a faster processor and larger hard drive. The 13-inch MacBook now features a 2.13GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor along with a 160GB hard drive. The lower-end ...

10. CE3100: Intel squeezes yet another chip out of the old Dothan core

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 25 May 2009

    During my most recent visit to Intel’s headquarters, I was able to catch up with Eric Kim, the company’s senior vice president of the digital home group and Intel’s third push into the consumer electronics market. ...

11. AMD posts controversial virtualization value math

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Thursday, 07 May 2009

    Opinion – AMD has its hands full to counter Intel’s Xeon 5500 processor, which is considered the highest performing server processor these days. Intel’s chip has some obvious weaknesses which AMD could ...

12. Light at the end of the tunnel may not be an approaching train

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 28 April 2009

    Intel and Nvidia have performed surprisingly-well in the first quarter, according to new figures from Jon Peddie Research. Intel and Nvidia have performed surprisingly-well in the first quarter, according ...

13. Ubuntu 9.04 'Jaunty Jackalope' release on April 23

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 13 April 2009

    ... Matt Cutts shows us how fast JJ can load using an Intel X25-E Etreme Single-Level Cell (SLC) SDD. The X25-E has a 75 microsecond latency, and up to 250 MB/s read speeds, and 170 MB/s write speeds. From ...

14. Apple upgrades servers with Nehalem processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 07 April 2009

    Apple is now offering its XServe products with Intel’s Xeon 5500 processors, formerly code-named Nehalem. Apple claims that the updated XServe provides almost twice the performance per watt of the previous models.Cupertino ...

15. Apple's dumb Genius finally gets smarter

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 25 March 2009

    ... about items in your iTunes library to Apple's servers. Gathering intelligence about personal viewing habbits of over half a billion iTunes users enables the engine to recommend entertainment content ...

16. The next iPhone looms on the horizon

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 25 March 2009

    ... why Apple should build its own iPhone system-on-a-chip Apple acquires 3.6% of Imagination to secure graphics tech for future iPhone Intel increases share in Imagination to 3.06%, countering Apple's ...

17. Apple tax on the latest Mac gear: 40 percent

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 05 March 2009

    ... increased performance in iMacs and up to 7 percent in Mac mini. The modest gain doesn't come as a surprise since new iMacs and Mac minis are still based on the now two-years old Intel Core 2 Duo mobile ...

18. Apple tweaks MacBooks, Time Capsule, AirPort Extreme and keyboards

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 04 March 2009

    ... to create a guest network. Apple also posted the AirPort Client Update 2009-01 update for Intel-based Macs running Mac OS X 10.5.6 that fixes issues with roaming and network selection in dual-band environments. ...

19. Updated Mac desktops arrive March 24, as does a "pleasant surprise"

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 02 March 2009

    ... overdue updates to the Mac mini and iMac are just three weeks away, along with a major Mac Pro refresh that brings Intel's Nehalem CPU and ATI Radeon GPUs to the table. There's also a "pleasant surprise" ...

20. Marvell's Plug Computer: A tiny, discrete, fully functional 5 watt Linux server

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Tuesday, 24 February 2009

    ... wrote in the press release, "There is no doubt that home networks needs to become more intelligent and easier to use by offering value added services for the consumer. We have created an open computing ...

21. Intel to pour $7B into 32 nm factory upgrades

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 10 February 2009

    Today, Intel said it will invest $7 billion over the next two years to deploy new 32 nm manufacturing capabilities. The money will be used to upgrade existing factories in Oregon, Arizona and New Mexico. ...

22. UPDATED: AMD: Three new Socket AM3 chips, two are Phenom II X3

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 09 February 2009

    ... a full 30 watts lower for the CPU alone, and is less than Intel's 125 watt TDP. The DDR3 memory has shown better throughput. DDR2-1067 5-5-5-15, for example on Xbit Labs page 7, shows 12.37 GB/s in ...

23. Acer ships 10.1" netbooks

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 06 February 2009

    ... of memory, storage capacity or screen size are observed.Also, there will be substantial hardware upgrades as we hear that Intel will soon be launching a new Atom processor (N280) with Diamondville cor ...

24. Panasonic upgrades select Toughbook rugged computers

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 27 January 2009

    ... Computer Solutions Company in a statement. "Panasonic has always created rugged mobile devices that offer exceptional viewability in all environments." Also included are upgrades to Intel's Centrino ...

25. Throw your hard drive away, Google's Gdrive arriving in 2009

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 19 January 2009

    ... but with more intelligence: Its service keeps your files seamlessly synced across desktop, web and mobile worlds. The latter client also allows you to access files from your desktop using a Windows ...

26. Apple's Mini DisplayPort to become a part of DisplayPort 1.2 specification

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 14 January 2009

    ... put forth by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA). It is being pushed by Nvidia, AMD and Dell, which offer DP video cards and monitors. HP, Philips, Samsung, Lenovo, Nvidia, Intel, Microsoft ...

27. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo looking to bypass Net Neutrality with money

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 15 December 2008

    ... is currently valued at about $18 billion). To put the financial position of Google, Microsoft and Yahoo in perspective, Intel (the largest chip maker in the world) is valued at around $82 billion ...

28. Samsung upgrades speed and capacity of SSDs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 20 November 2008

    ... time are unlikely to hit retail, but will go to system vendors instead. Samsung declined to comment on the pricing of these new drives - which would be interesting to know since we know that Intel charges ...

29. Apple expected to refresh its iMac on November 10

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 03 November 2008

    ... received Intel’s fastest dual-core processor, the 2.26 GHz X9100, ahead of its formal release and in time for the last iMac refresh, there isn’t really a faster CPU Apple could get from Intel at this time. ...

30. Why Macbooks matter

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 14 October 2008

    ... chipset before. All of those feature have a certain unique touch to it that will allow Apple to market its notebooks as being “special”. Especially the way how Intel was dropped may provide an indication ...

31. Apple fires up new MacBook Pro

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 14 October 2008

    ...  According to Jobs, the 9400M runs "up to 5 times faster than Intel Integrated graphics," with a real world performance being "3 to 8 times" faster than what Intel offers. Apple adds the GeForce 9600M ...

32. Last minute rumor round-up: New Apple notebooks

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 14 October 2008

      With only minutes to go before Apple unveils its new Mac notebooks at the Apple Town Hall on Apple's Cupertino campus, we receive last minute spyshots and information about Apple’s new notebooks. ...

33. Rumor round-up: New Apple laptops

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 10 October 2008

    ... changes are expected to focus on Intel’s Montevina platform with a new "Socket B" logic-board to accommodate second-gen Penryn processors with a 1066 MHz front-side bus and clock speeds between 2.26 GHz ...

34. Apple preps Macbook upgrades and a mysterious "Brick"

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 15 September 2008

    ... from 80 GB), Intel’s Penryn processors and more SSD storage capacity. It will be interesting to see which way Apple will go: Will it stay with companies such as Samsung and go all the way to 128 GB or ...

35. Intel set to introduce mobile quad-core processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 11 August 2008

      Lots of new processors will be announced next week at the Intel Developer Forum. Among them will be two special processors for enthusiast notebooks. San Francisco (CA) – Lots of new processors ...

36. Surprise: Apple sues Mac-clone maker Psystar

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 15 July 2008

      Apple is no longer putting with a small Florida business that has hacked Mac OS X Leopard to run on cheap Intel-based PCs: Psystar made headlines by offering "cheap Mac alternative", teasing Apple ...

37. MacBook Pro prototype case leaked, maybe

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 08 July 2008

    ... generally proved false in the past. Apple has introduced the MacBook Pro two and a half years ago, replacing the aging PowerBook Titanum G4 model. It brought new Intel-based architecture and the trademark ...

38. Psystar challenges Apple server with Xserve clone

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 23 June 2008

    ... are offered in 1U or 2U rack-mount versions, mostly matching Xserve in terms of hardware, and topping it in software. The OpenServ 1100 integrates Intel’s 2.5 GHz quad-core Xeon processors with 45 nm ...

39. Asustek to expand Eee brand

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 16 June 2008

    ... potentially turn the system into a set-top box or an Apple TV-like device. Inside the white box, Asus uses an Intel Atom processor and 802.11n wireless connectivity. The computer also has Memory Stick, ...

40. Nvidia rolls out 236 watt graphics card design

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 16 June 2008

    ... the company has ever product: The die size is 576 mm2 – more than five times larger than Intel’s 45 nm dual-core processor with Penryn core. The GTX280 comes with a 1296 MHz core, 1107 MHz memory as ...

41. Update: Apple upgrades iMac, gets Intel’s Montevina CPU early, sort of

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 28 April 2008

      Apple today announced refreshed iMacs and is offering an unannounced Intel processor as part of the package: The systems can be ordered with a "special" processor that matches the specifications ...

42. What Apple products are safe buys today

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 15 April 2008

    ... – when Intel will be trying to convince Apple to transition to the Moorestown MID platform. If you want a fancy iPod now, buy the touch and stay away from the Classic, if you don’t need 80 or 160 GB of ...

43. What Apple products you should not buy today

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 14 April 2008

    ... 2 Duo starting at 2.1 GHz with 3MB of shared L2 cache, an 800MHz front-side bus (up from 667MHz) and Intel GMA X3100 graphics chip that is used in 13” MacBooks. Mac mini was even subject of speculations ...

44. Tim Sweeney, Part 3: Unreal Engine 4.0 aims at next-gen console war

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 12 March 2008

    ... trends these days? Sweeney: When it comes to the PC, Intel will implement lots of extensions into the CPU and Nvidia will integrate many extensions into the GPU by the time next-gen consoles begin to ...

45. New EeePC will get Intel’s Atom processor

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 10 March 2008

    Asus’s chief executive officer has revealed juicy details about the upcoming EeePC. Jerry Shen told Laptop Magazine that he prefers Intel’s Diamondville processor over Via’s Isaiah chip. Slowly but ...

46. AMD: To merge or not to merge?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Thursday, 14 February 2008

    ... by step.   AMD's success Before Intel managed to kick ego-boasting, sleeping-on-laurels AMD with its brilliant Core 2 architecture, a lot of people thought that AMD's success was all up to the ...

47. Update: Blu-ray and HD DVD support demystified

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 31 January 2008

    ... and, as a result, are often much more tangled up in this HD opinion battle than we’d prefer to. Just as is the case with Apple-Windows PC, Nvidia-ATI/AMD or Intel/AMD, one day you are being accused ...

48. Update 2: Gateway ships new retail desktops with AMD quad-cores

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 30 January 2008

    ... considered the entry-point to the mainstream segment of desktop PCs. This model replaces last season’s GT5628, which came with an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.4 GHz) CPU, 3 GB memory, an Nvidia GeForce ...

49. Asus Eee PC – pc power in the palm of your hands

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 18 December 2007

    ... installation will only recognize 1 GB of memory, but an upgraded kernel is available that will recognize 2 gigs of RAM.  A new kernel will also allow you to “overclock” the Intel processor ...

50. Apple's Leopard leaps highest of all Mac OS sales

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 18 December 2007

    ... continue to be impressed with Apple's delivered upon mantra of "it just works".  Many critics are unhappy with the lack of hardware upgrades, previously (before switching to Intel processors), ...