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1. ATI reveals Radeon 5970 overlocking details

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 21 November 2009

   Hybrid approach wins out ATI has revealed a critical engineering decision that led to the successful production of its Radeon HD 5970 graphics card. "When we were first designing the 5970, we came to ...

2. Auto roti maker wins Intel prize

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... minutes. The first prizewinner is Ihealth of China's Tsinghua University, came up with a biodegradable bone screw technology, and picked up a check for $25,000 from the Intel Foundation. Second prize ...

3. Google rolls out Chrome OS source code

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   ...  "First, it's all about the web. All apps are web apps. The entire experience takes place within the browser and there are no conventional desktop applications. This means users do not have to deal with ...

4. IBM simulates cat, maps human brain to improve chip tech

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   ... performed the first near real time cortical simulation of the brain exceeding the scale of a cat cortex and with one billon spiking neuros and 10 trillion individual learning synapses. And if that wasn't ...

5. EU ombudsman slams Intel antitrust ruling

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   ... anti-trust investigations are fully documented." Intel submitted its complaint on 10 July 2008. In its first allegation, it claimed that the Commission failed to take minutes of a meeting with a senior ...

6. Intel would like to give AMD a Glaswegian kiss

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   ... competition between the two companies. What's AMD gained? First of all, it has $1.25 billion in the bank, its ability to spin off and use Global Foundries as its fab is now assured, and it has a continuing ...

7. Intel claims it's driving supercomputers. Not AMD

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   ... released in the first half of next year. Intel also said that it's introducing a beta program for Ct technology, a method of using parallel programming in C and C++ by creating auto generated code across ...

8. Michael Arrington resurrects enigmatic CrunchPad tablet

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   ... to be fair, I don't think Mike Arrington expects the Crunchpad to be selling millions and he understands that the home 'pad' market is just taking off. So this, like many other first attempt projects, ...

9. AMD powered Jaguar wins supercomputer race

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   ... of 563.1 teraflops/s. 
 Frueheh added that AMD was planning to debut a line of 8- and 12-core x86 processors during the first quarter of 2010. The processors, which are codenamed "Magny-Cours," will ...

10. Weekly hardware roundup

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Saturday, 14 November 2009

    Analog joystick mouse and crashing Hackintoshes This past week was a busy one at TG Daily. We covered a number of hardware-related topics, including the very first OpenOffice joystick mouse, crashing ...

11. How TG Daily is put together

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ... My favorite application is the metal detector [10:19:12] Evil Spinola: You should have installed the bullshit detector app first and saved on buying the other 299 [10:19:57] Good Spinola: no! Some of them ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    ... plans (14 pictures) The important points are these: Danube will appear in the first half of 2010,and will have a 45 nanometer quad core with DX10.1 IGP. It will support seven hours resting battery ...

13. Nvidia: Fermi production schedule remains on track

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 09 November 2009

    ... GT300 to April 2010. "TSMC has accelerated the improvement of its 40nm process and AMD is expected to launch entry-level Radeon HD 5600/5300 GPUs in the first quarter of 2010," wrote Monica Chen of Digitimes. ...

14. Nvidia reports 3Q revenue jump

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 06 November 2009

    ... 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, ...

15. Notebook benchmarks fail to convey performance, price

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 05 November 2009

    ... 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 ...

16. Prosthetic hand gives sensation of touch

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Thursday, 05 November 2009

    ... 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 ...

17. AMD culls Phenoms

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 03 November 2009

    ... 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 ...

18. Why Apple should license Windows 7

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Tuesday, 03 November 2009

    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 ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    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 ...

20. TG Daily: A readers' Guide

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Monday, 26 October 2009

    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, ...

21. Geeks Are Losers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 23 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

22. Nokia, Apple suit reeks of desperation

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 23 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 16 October 2009

    ... (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 ...

24. Windows 7 won't be successful until 2011

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

25. WiMAX has failed, industry guru claims

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Wednesday, 07 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Monday, 05 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

27. Adobe brings Flash to future phones

    (Software/Software Features)

    Sunday, 04 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 30 September 2009

    ... 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 ...

29. Nvidia teams up with Microsoft for HPC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 28 September 2009

    ... 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 ...

30. Apple App Store downloads pass two million mark

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Monday, 28 September 2009

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Saturday, 26 September 2009

    ... 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 ...

32. Intel and Apple are at the crossroads

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 23 September 2009

    ... 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 ...

33. Intel debuts Nehalem mobile chips

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 23 September 2009

    ... 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 ...

34. MCCI showcases 270MB/s USB 3.0 system

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 22 September 2009

    ...  "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 ...

35. Intel accidentally previews Larrabee, Gulftown

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 22 September 2009

    ... 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 ...

36. Intel shows off 22 nanometer, optimistic about future

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 22 September 2009

    ... 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 ...

37. EU publishes lurid details of Intel antitrust ruling

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 21 September 2009

    ... (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: ...

38. Point Grey debuts USB 3.0 digital video camera

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Friday, 18 September 2009

    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 ...

39. AT&T invests in Intel snooping technology

    (Security/Security Features)

    Friday, 18 September 2009

    ... 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 ...

40. Super Talent uncorks storage bottleneck with RAID SSDs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 16 September 2009

    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 ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 15 September 2009

    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 ...

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

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Tuesday, 15 September 2009

    ... 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 ...

43. Activision unshackles platform gaming with untethered systems

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 15 September 2009

    ... 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 ...

44. Microprocessor diversity threatens X86 hegemony

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 14 September 2009

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

45. Wintel alliance fires first shots of OS war

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 02 September 2009

    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 ...

46. AMD eroded Nvidia's graphic board share

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 26 August 2009

    ... 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 ...

47. AMD takes lead in discrete mobile graphics

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 17 August 2009

    ... 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 ...

48. Nokia to put Microsoft Office on its cellphones

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 11 August 2009

    ... 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. ...

49. Time Magazine develops time machine

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 10 August 2009

    ... 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 ...

50. Scientists act out Aesop's fable

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Friday, 07 August 2009

    ... 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. ...