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1. Modern life is rubbish

   (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

   Sunday, 22 November 2009

   ...  Wuthering Heights I'll give you an example. We buy new workstations to replace old ones, and naturally they're high-end, custom-specced monsters that can hopefully cope with the demands of the work.  ...

2. 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 ...

3. B&N's Nook is the victim of its own success

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... & Noble says on its web site that any orders made today have an expected ship date of January 4 2010. There's a heap of pent up demand, obviously. Or an undersupply. And guess what happens now? People ...

4. 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, ...

5. Thieves scrump thousands of Apple iPhones

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   ... satisfy demand over the holiday period. Mobistar says it's blacklisted the serial numbers of the stolen phones, so that they can't be used on its network. But this won't stop them being used: iPhones ...

6. Otellini, Barrett others sued by shareholder over antitrust

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Tuesday, 17 November 2009

   ... as defendants in the case. The filing alleges that attempts made over 18 months through demand letters, and in one case a meeting with the counsel for the Audit Committee, to start an investigation into ...

7. Audi gives up designing cars

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 13 November 2009

   ... users for input on the topic of connectivity, the Audi Design Team received overwhelming demand to stay in touch with users' digital worlds - even behind the wheel. Taking this insight to heart, the design ...

8. Intel maintains innocence despite $1.25 billion cash payoff

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 12 November 2009

   ... restricting, or agreeing to be limited or restricted in, its freedom to satisfy any or all of its demand from microprocessors for Computer Products through the customer's: a) Exclusive use of X86 Microprocessors, ...

9. Traveling with the MacBook Air Butt Kicking Dell Adamo 9.99

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 10 November 2009

   ... is only about two hours.   That’s not enough but I flew on Virgin America.  Not only did they have a ton of TV shows and Movies (on demand) that I could watch to keep me from actually doing ...

10. Motorola Droid snipes at iPhone's market share

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 10 November 2009

    ... demand - they've taken the right steps and picked a good partner with Google on the Android side." However, MKM Partners analyst Tero Kuittinen sounded a more cautionary note during an interview with ...

11. Firefox 'most insecure browser'

    (Security/Security Features)

    Tuesday, 10 November 2009

    ... and user-demanded behavior that makes them choose usability over security. That being said, all are trying to be better." Web metrics company Net Applications puts IE as the most-used browser, with about ...

12. Nook put into shade by delays

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Monday, 09 November 2009

    Cross the eyes and dot the ts Heavy demand for the Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader means some customers won't get their gizmos until December 11th. That's according to the Wall Street Journal. It said that ...

13. Murdoch plans to block Google News

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 09 November 2009

    ... certainly because he doesn't own one. As reported by us last month, UK news aggregator NewsNow has already started a campaign against publishers demanding payment for linking to their stories. Now News ...

14. Nvidia reports 3Q revenue jump

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 06 November 2009

    ... rose slightly from the $897.7 million figure posted during the same period a year earlier. "We continued to make progress in the third quarter with healthy market demand across the board," said Jen-Hsun. ...

15. Gamer hardware to turn war into a game

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 02 November 2009

    ... the robots try to defuse bombs. Novint Technologies' CEO Tom Anderson said that as the demand for unmanned military robots continues to grow, Novint's touch technology will play a crucial role in enhancing ...

16. Mobile phone market shows signs of recovery

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 30 October 2009

    ... older devices at significantly lower prices. For many, this was enough to spur demand and push volumes higher." He said: "The mobile phone market is showing the first signs of improvement since the onset ...

17. Wii don't want no Nintendo consoles

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Thursday, 29 October 2009

    ... Nintendo said a lack of new software titles was causing demand to fall. Last month Nintendo slashed the price of the console by one fifth in the USA. However, Nintendo does not yet need to weep too ...

18. Intel, Numonyx trumpet phase change memory breakthrough

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 29 October 2009

    ... density, scalable arrays and NAND-like usage models for PCM products in the future. This is important as traditional flash memory technologies face certain physical limits and reliability issues, yet demand ...

19. Shortage of chips threatens LED supplies

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    Strong demand for LEDs for backlit applications and lighting has created a shortage in the supply chain that will last until the first quarter of 2010.Strong demand for LEDs for backlit applications ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    ... proportion of its total notebook shipments has dropped from 50 percent to 30 percent and that demand for ultra-thin notebooks has been weaker than expected, but still expects ultra-thins to account for ...

21. Large area TFT-LCDs continue to grow

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 26 October 2009

    ... and many brands continue to purchase panels to refill inventories. Moreover, LCD TV demand is picking up in Europe and North America, driving panel shipments to a record high of 15.6 million in September."This ...

22. Toshiba hunts for rare metals in Kazakhstan

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 23 October 2009

    ...  Demand for rare earth, said Toshiba, is increasing because they are used in electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles and there's a need for stable supplies of the stuff. Toshiba and Kazatomprom ...

23. Microsoft Q1 revenues down 14 percent

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 23 October 2009

    ... quarter and particularly by the strong consumer demand for Windows,” said Chris Liddell, chief financial officer at Microsoft. “We also maintained our cost discipline, which allowed us to drive strong ...

24. Nvidia: Windows 7 "dramatically improves" GPU performance

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 22 October 2009

    ... announced DirectX 11 Fermi architecture will be well aligned with these new gaming titles. But, power gaming with Windows 7 extends beyond new visual effects," added Burke. "Today's gamers demand more ...

25. DRAM makers bang DRAM shortage drum again

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    ... the rest of this year and there will be shortages during 2010. The reason VP Pai Pei-Lin gave was that PC replacement demand will outpace capacity. The DRAM manufacturers, including Nanya, are hoping ...

26. Amazon: Windows 7 is 'the biggest pre-order product of all time'

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    ... as the biggest grossing pre-order product of all-time at Amazon.co.uk, and demand is still going strong," says Brian McBride, Amazon UK MD. "Over the past three months, only Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol ...

27. News aggregation sites threatened with legal action

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 20 October 2009

    ... and think that gives them the right to demand money and control. “Our value though is independent of their content. We don't distribute their content. We're providing a service that determines which ...

28. U2 gig to be streamed live on U2ube

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 20 October 2009

    ... will be available in the usual You Tube way, as video-on-demand, following two full replays - after the live stream - on both U2.com and You Tube. As a fellow musician once remarked: U2 have been together ...

29. Oracle Sun takeover ‘like putting fox in charge of the hen house’

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    ... is now investigating the implications of the deal. MySQL creator Michael 'Monty' Widenius demanded yesterday on his blog that Oracle should vow to divest itself of MySQL in order to resolve antitrust ...

30. Salt crystals promise improved data storage

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    ... that light can be used to trigger crystal formation," said Dr Andy Alexander of the University’s School of Chemistry. "We have refined this technique and now we can create crystals on demand. The researchers ...

31. Judge protects Verizon ringtones from greedy publishers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 16 October 2009

    ... consumers who roll down their car windows with the radio on, who take a radio to the beach, or who sing 'Happy Birthday' to their children in a public park. Remember, ASCAP once demanded royalties from ...

32. Moving to Windows 7 will be "inevitable" - report

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 15 October 2009

    ... following its release, but corporate demand is not expected to gain momentum until the end of 2010," said Charles Smulders, managing VP at Gartner. "An overdue PC hardware upgrade cycle and the economic ...

33. AMD makes loss, but profits from it

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 15 October 2009

    ... sequentially by 18 percent, although compared to 2008, its revenues fell by 22 percent. Dirk Meyer, AMD's CEO, said: "Strong demand for our product and platform offerings combined with disciplined execution ...

34. Acer claims it will knock Dell off pole position

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 14 October 2009

    ... generally, saying that demand for PCs was increasing.The report is here (subscription needed).  ...

35. FCC scrutinizes Google Voice restrictions

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 09 October 2009

    ... millions of dollars in universal service subsidies," said Whitt. Whit also criticized AT&T's alleged demand for web applications, including Skype and Google Voice, to be treated the "same way" ...

36. Congress demands FCC probe of Google Voice

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 08 October 2009

    ... include Republican Steve Buyer and Democrat Charlie Melancon, also demanded that FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski examine the "nature and function of Google Inc's voice service."As TG Daily previously reported, ...

37. Free Software Foundation goes mad

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Thursday, 08 October 2009

    ... which is demanding that the World and its dog should boycott Windows 7 and use this afternoon’s version of Linux instead. Until tomorrow morning, of course, when a new one will be along. The FSF has ...

38. Intel: Xeon 5500 servers are "cash machines"

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 06 October 2009

    ... sentiments, noting that clients, particularly in the oil and gas industry, continued to demand fast computing solutions. Kucic added that his company had provided Wolfram Alpha with HPC Xeon 5500-based ...

39. Apple threatens Woolworths over new logo

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 05 October 2009

    ... supermarket chain in Australia, adopted a new logo in 2008 and on-the-ball Apple lawyers have just noticed it looks a bit like the Cupertino gadget maker’s. Apple has demanded that IP Australia, the ...

40. Chips showed stronger sales in August

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 02 October 2009

    ... prices have risen sharply for DRAM, they still haven't reached $2 a chip. South Korean exports are expected to soar in September, aided by demand from Apple for its iPhone.  ...

41. Nvidia and "Starting the Next Age of Personal Computing"

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Opinion)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    ... on its ear and the existing gaming giants seem to be reading Mad Magazine and saying “What Me Worry?”.   The promise of the service is to provide graphics on demand and while it initially targets ...

42. TSMC ramps production to build Intel Atoms

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 25 September 2009

    TSMC is to ramp monthly production at its 300mm Fab 14 in southern Taiwan to 6,000 wafers by the end of 2009, and 35,000 wafers in 2010, due to demand for Intel's Atom chips, say industry observers. ...

43. GameTree ports PC-based content to HD television sets

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 25 September 2009

    GameTree has partnered with Intel to offer an on-demand gaming platform for HD TV. The platform - known as GameTree.tv - is expected to run on Intel CE media processor powered set-top boxes and other ...

44. Iranian Science Minister fakes article

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Friday, 25 September 2009

    ... with Computers said the article had been "retracted" online. The news has created a storm in Iran where scientists have banded together to demand his resignation. An Iranian neuroscientist based at the ...

45. Windows 7 won't help PC sales until next summer

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 24 September 2009

    ... until the middle of next year at the earliest, say notebook makers. Overall demand is not expected to pick up until the second half of 2010, when large enterprises and governments begin to expand their ...

46. Intel outlines future of interactive television

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Thursday, 24 September 2009

    ... available," said Rattner. "We'll need much more sophisticated ways to organize content and provide it on demand. Intel Labs researchers are working on evolving technology so people can get the TV content ...

47. Toshiba targets high-end gamers with Qosmio X500

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 23 September 2009

    ... GTS 250M with 1GB of GDDR5 video memory."Gaming and high-definition content creation continue to drive high-performance PC demand and Toshiba is extremely committed to serving those markets," said Toshiba's ...

48. Intel debuts Nehalem mobile chips

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 23 September 2009

    ... that delivers Internet-server like speed, right in their laps for the most demanding tasks, from intense gaming to digital video editing and social media applications." Perlmutter explained that turbo ...

49. DDR3 memory shortage set to end

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 22 September 2009

    ... has tightened due to a faster-than-expected pickup in demand. He told DigiTimes that Samsung is allocating more capacity to DDR3 in order to meet the demand. The production being pushed is the ...

50. Activision delays Blur release over multiplayer concerns

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 21 September 2009

    ... has reaffirmed its 2009 outlook provided on August 5, 2009 - due to global demand for Modern Warfare 2 and strong attach rates for the recently launched Call of Duty: World at War map packs."The company ...