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1. OECD says there's signs IT market is recovering

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Tuesday, 28 July 2009

   ... fallen far less than revenues. Taiwan had a very large slump in flat screen and semi products but have picked up by around three percent year on year. In June-July 2008, growth was 20 percent. This graph ...

2. HP to axe 5,700

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 28 May 2009

   ... the next two years. A company spokeswoman said the job cuts were related to HP's global job cut program, and result from falling demand. She declined to say how large a share of the job cuts would ...

3. ChangeWave: MacBook sales up in next 3 months, HP and Dell down

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Thursday, 19 February 2009

   ... but sales of desktops continue free-falling across the board as consumers turn to much cheaper netbooks, now representing better than one in six of all notebooks sold. Chicago (IL) - This month's ChangeWave ...

4. Top 10 people in technology

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Sunday, 28 December 2008

   ... the company were low. Declining revenue and falling morale, as well as a corporate scandal created one of the least attractive of its kind in the country. However, the former NCR CEO was able turn the ...

5. PC market growth expected to slow to a crawl in 2009

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 03 December 2008

   ... expectations for 2008 and beyond. The first paragraph ends with these two sentences:   “IDC expects worldwide PC shipments to grow just 3.8% in 2009 with shipment value falling by 5.3%. This is considerably ...

6. NIST releases final report on 9/11 WTC7 collapse

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

   Friday, 21 November 2008

   ... column 79 to see if it would still bring the entire building down at free fall speeds without damage caused by the collapse of WTC1 and WTC2. The investigation team concluded that "the column’s failure ...

7. Intel spooks investors with profit warning

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 12 November 2008

     Intel today said that it fourth quarter revenue will fall short of expectations. The company’s new sales estimate is 15% below its previous guidance. Earlier today, an analyst trimmed his earnings forecast ...

8. Buy an acre of lush lunar landscape for only $29.95

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Tuesday, 14 October 2008

   ... did that on July 21, 1969, just about three weeks before I was born. Whereas the United States made good on JFK's assertion, China's plans have fallen back a little. They now include a manned trip to ...

9. U.S. broadband: Desperate ideas of an industry that resists change

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Friday, 13 June 2008

   ... than their fair share of available Internet resources at the time.” This limit will remain in place “until their usage falls below established bandwidth usage thresholds or until network congestion ends.” ...

10. Iridium: It’s back, stronger and more convincing than ever

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Sunday, 16 March 2008

    ... industry as well as the large wireless carriers to accelerate their innovation efforts?  200803161   The fall of the old Iridium LLC There is an interesting story behind every great ...

11. Toshiba’s $1 billion HD DVD adventure?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 14 March 2008

    ... from major movie studios, retailers and rental outlets within six weeks.    Read also: HD DVD's Rise and Fall - a timeline  ...

12. “A LAN party by gamers, for gamers” – PDXLAN 11

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 26 February 2008

    Getting smacked in the head with a ball usually is a bad thing, but for hundreds of PDXLAN attendees over President’s Day Weekend it was a chance to have fun and win gigabytes of RAM sticks.  For ...

13. AMD: To merge or not to merge?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Thursday, 14 February 2008

    ... nForce 680i-Intel 45nm Penryn fallout only reminded us of the fragile relationship between the two. SNAP continued to take place even after the AMD-ATI buyout, with a war that engaged AMD people against ...

14. Can we screw up WiMax, too?

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Wednesday, 26 September 2007

    ... some unknown variables that have only been addressed vaguely or not at all. They all fall mainly into Sprint and Xohm (the name of Sprint's WiMax unit) territory: Much of the success depends on decisions ...

15. 43% of Intel’s profits a result of monopoly, AMD claims

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 02 August 2007

    ... manufacturers could save about $81 billion over the next decade, if the microprocessor market were open to competition. The lion’s share of this number $61 billion would fall into the hands of consumers ...

16. A comparison of next-gen display interfaces

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 31 July 2007

    ... pull your monitor out of your car where it's been sitting all night in the icy cold.  When you plug it in, will the interconnect work? Cyclic Humidity – Over time as humidity levels rise/fall, ...

17. IBM, HP extends in lead in server market, Dell returns to growth

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 23 May 2007

    ... another quarter of heavy losses with shipments falling 15.5% and revenues declining 1.5%. “The competition remains intense in this portion of the market as it continues to face declines.” Hewitt ...

18. Jack Thompson goes after Halo 3

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 23 May 2007

    ... currently in beta testing and is expected to be released in the fall.  ...

19. Analyst opinion: Will Steve Jobs have to leave Apple?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 02 May 2007

    ... very first phone, fall well short of customer expectations or be trumped by a competitive offering from a real phone company. The phone market today bears little resemblance to the MP3 market when the ...

20. Opinion: Who needs DRM?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Tuesday, 20 February 2007

    ... through a regular CD. DRM evolved into a tool that automatically assumed that every music download would fall into the hands of a criminal who has nothing else to do than to mass-distribute purchased ...

21. Could the SEC spoil Apple's upcoming party?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 04 August 2006

    ... upcoming quarterly earnings report. That report has typically been the prelude to all the other good news that falls thereafter, such as new product rollouts, some of which may come as soon as Monday. ...

22. Apple credits Mac for a stellar quarter as Ipod sales growth moderates

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 19 July 2006

    ... believing Apple may plan to delay its fall releases, they could also be changing their tune today. How are we doing? Take part in our TG Daily reader survey!  ...

23. Grand theft auto: Gizmondo founder arrested on suspicion of stealing crashed Ferrari

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 10 April 2006

    ... twice in the mid 1990s on mob-related charges. In an editorial last February, our Aaron McKenna detailed the story of Gizmondo, Tiger Telematics, and their dramatic rise and fall. The Ferrari Enzo is a ...

24. Intel's LaGrande security technology not coming to consumer PCs

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 09 March 2006

    ... it remains a developing platform that could cause privacy concerns. If it wasn't directly related to the Core Microarchitecture, it wasn't a big deal at IDF this week. The UMPC, touted back at the Fall ...

25. Thinking about upgrading to 11n now? Think Twice

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Tuesday, 31 January 2006

    ... the introduction of consumer networking products based on its draft 802.11g chipset back at the Fall 2002 Comdex show. Since that gamble paid off handsomely for Broadcom on 11g, they're trying for a repeat ...

26. EC, DOJ, NY state pressure Microsoft to turn over interoperability docs

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 24 January 2006

    ... how the company's Windows operating system could be made interoperable. Microsoft's original deadline would have fallen tomorrow. The Statement of Objections puts in writing the legislative body's grievances ...

27. SBC will become AT&T on Monday

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 18 November 2005

    ... following: AT&T spun off its Western Electric and Bell Labs division in 1995, thus forming Lucent. (Avaya was spun off from Lucent in 2000.) In 1993, after having appeared to fall behind its competition ...

28. Firefox keeps gaining ground on Internet Explorer

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 11 May 2005

    ... falling to 88.9 percent of the market, according to San Diego research firm WebSideStory. Firefox, which is distributed for free by the Mozilla Foundation and worked on by thousands of volunteers, rose ...

29. DDR2 prices drop as inventory swells

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 10 December 2004

      Prices for DDR2 chips have recently fallen to US$5.50 per chip from US$6.50-7.00 a month ago due to excess inventory, according to sources. Prices for DDR2 chips have recently fallen to US$5.50 ...

30. Market research firm: Monitor-panel ASPs drop to new low

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 23 November 2004

      The ASPs (average selling prices) of 17- and 15" LCD monitors have fallen to record lows, according to Taiwan-based WitsView Technology. The ASPs (average selling prices) of 17- and 15" LCD monitors ...

31. Nintendo to Offer New "Legend of Zelda" Game as Giveaway

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Sunday, 13 April 2003

    ... GameCube console units, falling short of its forecast of 10 million. The new "Zelda" game is very popular and sold more than 600,000 copies just in pre-sales before its launch at the end of March. Nintendo ...

32. Rumors of Microsoft and EA Vying for Sega Grow

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 28 February 2003

    ... Corporation are apparently separately considering the possibility of acquiring Sega Corporation, the Japanese videogame manufacturer. Sega has fallen on leaner times since its heyday in the 1990s. Sega's ...

33. Combined Hewlett-Packard & Compaq Miss Quarterly Revenue Projections

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 27 February 2003

    ... analysts attributed the revenue shortfall to the fact that the mega merger of the two companies is not working out. HP shares fell 15.4% percent to $15.37 on the NYSE, which is the lowest its stock has ...

34. Hitachi To Unveil Disk Hard Drive Plans

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 06 January 2003

    ... in San Jose, California, reportedly will announce the expansion of the storage capacity of IBM's smallest disk drives. By Fall 2003, Hitachi will reportedly begin selling a one" square disk drive unit ...

35. December notebook panel contract price decline reported

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 13 December 2002

    ... fall to US$180-190 and US$205-215, respectively, down by US$5 and US$10 from last month, according to the Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun. Weak business notebook demand coupled with increasing supply from Taiwanese ...

36. Intel Projects Higher Revenue than planned for Q4

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 09 December 2002

    ... representative of an "average" quarter; consumer sales have not fallen off as Intel thought they would in October of this year. Intel had originally expected Q4 revenue to be between $6.5 and $6.9 billion. ...

37. MacWorld Expo/Tokyo 2003 Cancelled

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 09 December 2002

    ... of the producers of Fall Comdex 2002 in Las Vegas may also have contributed to the decision of the IDG World Expo's producers.  ...

38. ECS to reposition DeskNotes

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 03 December 2002

      Responding to the continuing falling prices of TFT LCD panels, Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) said it will begin selling "panel-less" DeskNotes next year, allowing customers to purchase either ...

39. Nvidia unveils K8-supporting single chip

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 22 November 2002

    ... integrated into the south bridge chip (media communications processor, MCP). Nvidia demonstrated the product for the first time to certain customers at Comdex Fall 2002. More here at DigiTimes  ...

40. Comdex Producer may file for bankruptcy protection

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 22 November 2002

      Key3Media Group, the producer of the annual Fall Comdex fete in Las Vegas, has announced that it may not have the resources to cover its debt payments and may be forced to file for bankruptcy protection. ...

41. NV30 to enter mass production by year-end

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 18 November 2002

      Nvidia's much-talked-about NV30 graphics chip will finally make its debut on November 18 at Comdex Fall 2002. Nvidia's much-talked-about NV30 graphics chip will finally make its debut on November ...

42. Springdale and K8-based boards to appear quietly at Fall Comdex

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 18 November 2002

      Although motherboards using Intel's Springdale chipset and the K8-platform from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will be at the top of Taiwanese board makers' exhibition lists at Comdex Fall 2002, their ...

43. Dell to Release New PDA at Comdex

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 05 November 2002

    ... application programs technology. The Axim X5 will be unveiled at Fall 2002 Comdex in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 18th. Sources close to Dell report that Dell's Axim X5 release will include two devices, ...

44. Dual-channel chipset boards for workstations and servers shown at APAC IDF

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 16 October 2002

      Motherboards supporting Intel's upcoming Granite Bay, Placer and Plumas 533-based chipsets were showcased on October 15 at the Asia-Pacific Intel Developer Forum (APAC IDF) Fall 2002, signaling ...

45. Intel to unveil new XScale PXA processor at APAC IDF

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 14 October 2002

      Intel is expected to introduce a new XScale PXA processor of higher clock speed at the Asia Pacific Intel Developer Forum (APAC IDF) Fall 2002, being held in Taipei from October 14-15. Intel is ...

46. SiS vs. UMC - and the winner is: Intel?

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 10 October 2002

    ... VIA has seen sales of its P4-based chipset motherboards fall off as Intel scares VIA's customers with potential involvement in the suit. Having gone to other markets VIA now faces a panicked group of motherboard ...

47. Dell To Unveil New $199 Pocket PC At Comdex?

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 09 October 2002

    ... this point have sold from as much as $600. With Dell moving into this space prices are going to fall which could present some real challenges for Palm devices.  ...

48. Nvidia said to debut NV30 at Comdex Fall in November

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 04 October 2002

      Nvidia has reportedly decided to officially introduce its top-end NV30 chip at the Comdex Fall exhibition, to be held in Las Vegas from November 18-22, after delaying the roll-out for months to ...

49. DDR contract prices may rise 5% as SDRAM's falls 20% in one month

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 04 October 2002

      Samsung Electronics and Hynix Semiconductor are seeking to hike DDR contract prices for early October up 5%, following their 5% boost in late September, reported the Seoul-based Electronic Times. ...

50. 3GHz Pentium 4 Requires New Motherboards

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 12 September 2002

      One of the more interesting sessions at Intel's Fall Developer Forum 2002 covered the requirements for thermal management of the upcoming 3.06GHz Pentium 4. One of the more interesting sessions ...