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1. Steam bans Modern Warfare "grey market" keys

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Saturday, 21 November 2009

   Activision demands, Valve follows Steam has reportedly implemented a total ban on "grey market" keys used to unlock CD copies of Modern Warfare 2.  According to Voodoo Extreme, both Steam and Activision ...

2. Weekly hardware roundup

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 21 November 2009

   ... (ORNL) - features six-core AMD Opteron processors that deliver 2.3 petaflop/s theoretical peak performance and 1.75 petaflop/s performance on the Linpack benchmark. As expected, Intel responded to AMD's ...

3. ATI reveals Radeon 5970 overlocking details

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 21 November 2009

   ... stay within the PCI Express specification. In doing so, we would stay compatible with the majority of the high-end power supplies in the market with 6-pin and 8-pin power connectors. On the other hand, ...

4. Gameloft chooses iPhone over Android

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... - thanks to a lack of marketing." 
However, Bonsack also noted that MacWorld has reported on a "steady exodus" of smaller developers from the iPhone platform - due to Apple's "often murky" policies.  ...

5. Auto roti maker wins Intel prize

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... to make rotis from scratch but while there are frozen rotis in the supermarket, this unit is about the size of a microwave oven and it kneads, flattens and then roasts the roti. It can make one every two ...

6. Nokia trims research and development division

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   It says streamline Finnish phone giant Nokia said that it is to reduce the number of people that work in its R&D division - with 330 people affected in Denmark and Finland. Nokia said that this number ...

7. Dell disappoints despite chip up-tick

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... Dell's overall strategy is the right one. The majority of its revenues come from the corporate market place, and that sector is still showing some reluctance to place big replacement orders. Compared ...

8. Sony takes on Apple's iTunes

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   Confirms plans to launch online app and music store Sony has confirmed plans to launch an online store that will sell music, movies, books and applications. 
The virtual marketplace will also allow users ...

9. Microsoft claims "fantastic" Windows 7 sales

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   ... times." However, Ballmer conceded that Microsoft could definitely "improve" its market position on US college campuses - where rival Apple maintains a strong presence. 

 "Window 7 gives us a real ...

10. Nvidia remains "committed" to gaming industry

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    HPC market is not its primary focus Nvidia has reiterated its strong commitment to the gaming industry. Company spokesperson Bryan Del Rizzo told TG Daily that rumors of Nvidia abandoning gaming for the ...

11. Rumor: Sony planning Firefox PS3 port

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... market Microsoft: Xbox 360 has the "best" FPS games   ...

12. The world waits for Google's Chrome OS

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... it work in the marketplace. Linux, of course, has had some success but the number of operating systems that have dropped off the mortal coil is legion. Well, there's a lot of them, anyway - from BeOS to ...

13. Gaming hardware to hit $27 billion next year

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... that the gaming hardware market, which includes systems, accessories and upgrades has received a boost by higher than anticipated consumer demand. And next year looks to be even brighter. Ted Pollak, ...

14. Lab-on-a-chip provides instant disease diagnosis

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... than previous tests. It uses capillary forces to draw blood or serum through the chip and checks for the presence of disease markers - typically proteins specific to particular diseases. It can test for ...

15. Microsoft accelerates JavaScript with IE9

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... SunSpider benchmarks measured Google's Chrome as 10 times faster than IE8, while Mozilla's Firefox outperformed the veteran browser by nearly four times. 
"In the past, Microsoft has pooh-poohed JavaScript ...

16. TechCrunch crucified over Google phone rumor

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... has flat-out denied what he's suggesting," stated Raphael. "The company described the notion of the Google Phone as little more than 'market rumor' when the concept first re-entered the news cycle several ...

17. Nvidia and Asus tout 3D Vision notebook

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... endorsement of Vision. "Nvidia's 3D Vision technology provides the best 3D experience that we have seen, and we look forward to bringing this technology to market on notebook panels. [We are] fully behind ...

18. Microsoft Bing grows its market share a bit

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    Google does too The latest report from Comscore shows that Bing is edging its way upward in the search engine market in October. But it's not at Google's expense - it appears to be Yahoo that's suffering. ...

19. Apple laptops less reliable than Asus, Toshiba, Sony

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... that Apple's in the middle of the pack," commented Vince Tseng, vice president of marketing at Square Trade. "What was surprising was that ASUS came out on top." HP, which shifted more notebooks last ...

20. Six rules are laid down for Intel to obey

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... inducements to customers in exchange for an agreement to buy all CPUs from it alone, whether on a geographic, a market segment, a product segment or on a distribution channel basis. 2) Intel must not ...

21. Chrome OS: Lame Copy or Amazing new OS?

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... products that already do this that have been in market for some time.   There are two prominent products in market that do pretty much the same thing only potentially better.    Both products have similar ...

22. Electronic Arts closes Pandemic Studios

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ... experienced a significant demographic shift, with casual and social gamers outnumbering their hard core counterparts. Hilleman - who made his remarks at Hot Chips 2009 - explained that platforms such ...

23. Nvidia showcases Fermi-based Tesla GPUs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    2.5 TFlops of raw compute power Nvidia has debuted an advanced line of Fermi-based Tesla GPUs for the high performance computing (HPC) market. An Nvidia spokesperson told TG Daily that the Tesla 20 ...

24. T-Mobile starts selling Sidekick phones again

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    But price is somewhat cheaper The phone hit by a Microsoft server crash over a month ago is now back on the market - and it's cheaper. Sidekick is back up for sale on the T-Mobile web site but now it ...

25. ARM accelerates Android mobile development

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ... with our solution center that will act as hub, or central directory for Android developers," added Bruce. 
See Also Dell touts Mini 3 Android smartphone Motorola Droid snipes at iPhone's market share ...

26. Semiconductors to bound back next year

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    ... today, chip revenue will in 2010 will reach $255 billion - around the same figure the market generated until the credit crunch crunched everything. According to research analyst Bryan Lewis, all the indications ...

27. Intel would like to give AMD a Glaswegian kiss

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    ... market share. It's completely obvious from the conference calls that Intel is determined to compete just as fiercely in the X86 marketplace as it always has.  It admits no guilt, and insists that ...

28. Innolux becomes new LCD giant

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    ... billion for Chi Mei putting it ahead of the existing market leader in Taiwan, AU Optronics. And it also puts more power in the hand of Terry Gou, who not only heads up Innolux but is also the founder and ...

29. Michael Arrington resurrects enigmatic CrunchPad tablet

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    ...  "For mass-market couch-surfing, [$300-400 is} too expensive. The Archos Android tablet and iPod Touch have already set the pricing bar (and possibly the sizing) for home-based sofa-surfing devices. [However], ...

30. AMD powered Jaguar wins supercomputer race

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    ... National Laboratory (ORNL) - features six-core AMD Opteron processors that deliver 2.3 petaflop/s theoretical peak performance and 1.75 petaflop/s performance on the Linpack benchmark. Spokesperson ...

31. Sprint launches Palm Pixi smartphone

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Sunday, 15 November 2009

    ... iPhone 3GS challenges RIM's control of smartphone market Dell touts Mini 3 Android smartphone Motorola Droid snipes at iPhone's market share 
Apple plans iPhone lockdown  ...

32. Apple outflanks Psystar in crushing legal victory


    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Saturday, 14 November 2009

    ... judgment on trademark infringement and trade dress is denied. "So that means damages ahead for Psystar on the copyright issues just decided on summary judgment, at a minimum. In short, Psystar is toast, ...

33. Weekly hardware roundup

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Saturday, 14 November 2009

    ... International Corporation (SMIC) has resigned. According to Digitimes, Richard Wang left immediately, while David NK Wang was appointed as CEO and president of SMIC with immediate effect. DRAM market ...

34. LucidLogix preps Hydra SoC for early 2010 launch

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Saturday, 14 November 2009

    ... and previews seem to indicate that the benchmark results of the Hydra 200 are quite similar to those of SLI and CrossFire. Can Lucid be expected to improve the Hydra's performance? Kimberly Stowe: "Lucid ...

35. Google: Better ethics than the Vatican?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Saturday, 14 November 2009

    ... threatening the Church. No one is asking church members to do anything different than they currently do. Nothing will change except a local ordinance. Clearly forgetting Jesus's admonition in Mark 12:17, ...

36. Dell touts Mini 3 Android smartphone

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 13 November 2009

    Not an iPhone killer Dell has announced plans to introduce yet another Android-based smartphone into an already crowded mobile marketplace. 

According to Dell spokesperson Ron Garriques, the Mini 3 will ...

37. Audi gives up designing cars

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 13 November 2009

    Asks Interweb users to do it for themAudi, the car manufacturer that unexpectedly gave BMW new street cred by poaching all the crap and inconsiderate drivers who used to give Beemers a bad name, has asked ...

38. Apple tablet will have a pen

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Friday, 13 November 2009

    ... to the world that its huge lemon, the Apple Newton, was not a complete joke, but rather ahead of its time.   The Newton was also a pen based tabletish device but it was laughed off the market.  If the ...

39. Real Hi-Fi for the computer

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Friday, 13 November 2009

    ... It is not the first crack that B&W has had at getting into the low end of the market. It sells the Zeppelin iPod speaker system, and expanded its presence last month with the Zeppelin Mini. The MM-1 ...

40. Churchill, Hemingway and Golding were failures

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 13 November 2009

    ... often. Talking about the "might of the German army" lost him marks because the computer assumed that Churchill had intended to say "might have", instead of using "might" as a noun. Graham Herbert, deputy ...

41. Wii regains top hardware spot as PS3 sales slip

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ... strong," Fils-Aime told Reuters. "We have seen some holiday seasonal pickup, which means consumers are out and buying." See Also Nintendo poised to "regain control" of console market Gamers ditch Xbox ...

42. Intel maintains innocence despite $1.25 billion cash payoff

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ...  As such, the company has agreed to adhere to the following marketing practices: Intel shall not award, offer, grant pay or extend any discount, rebate or other financial or non-financial benefit, ...

43. Qualcomm intros first 3G/LTE chipsets

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ... will allow mass market commercial deployment of two nextgen network technologies for better data capabilities for mobile devices. LTE - which stands for long term evolution - is supported by a large number ...

44. Intel-AMD deal doesn't end the bitter war

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ... Intel will not be able to use inducements to force exclusive dealing, delaying or prohibiting companies from marketing or advertising AMD products, withholding benefots from vendors. AMD and Intel have ...

45. Bill Gates says people get paid too much

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ... of $600,000. Gates himself, chairman of the board, only collects $616,667 and a bonus of $350,000. Mark Hurd, chairman, president and CEO of Hewlett Packard, picks up $1,437,500 in salary and a bonus ...

46. HP has $2.7 billion to buy 3COM

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    And you don't..... The Wall Street Journal reports that HP is going to buy 3COM for $2.7 billion. Not only does 3COM make HP even bigger and more powerful, but it also opens up the Asian market, one of ...

47. AMD says Fusion will knock Intel for six. Or five

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    ... life, and have ATI Stream application acceleration.  AMD may well introduce a five CPU system. The third generation processor for the ultrathin market is codenamed  Nile. It will be available in the first ...

48. The cloud turns CIOs into services entrepreneurs

    (Networking/Networking Opinion)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    ... Deloitte's audience, this kind of IT upheaval is exciting. It makes their jobs more interesting. They'd be even more excited if they spent a bit more time with Mark White, chief technology officer in ...

49. Markus Kastenmeier

    (Contact / Company Contacts)

    Markus Kastenmeier, Webmaster,  ...