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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. Gateway takes on Apple's iMac

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 07 October 2009

   ... digital media card readerIntegrated 802.11 b/g/DRAFT-N Wi-Fi 10/100/1000 (Gigabit) LAN6 USB 2.0 ports (2 side / 4 rear)1 eSATA portHybrid TV tuner with remote control ...

3. Porsche to build hybrid car

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 15 September 2009

   ... offers performance and a cruising range similar to that of current sports cars in the market," he said. "We are therefore taking the first step in this direction with a full hybrid - in the Cayenne, the ...

4. The death of the netbook

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

   Wednesday, 01 July 2009

   ... about a new class of hybrid drives which combine flash and magnetic media to significantly increase drive performance and related battery life. Windows 7 will be in production and the software actually ...

5. Iron Will Technologies debuts sensory glove for gamers

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Wednesday, 03 June 2009

   ... and CH Products. D-BOX D-BOX previewed its newly designed GPH-120 hybrid motion platform for dedicated gamers. A D-BOX E3 rep told us that the $3,500 system utilizes Motion Code Technology to simulate ...

6. Big Blue claims 8x SSD performance hike

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 21 May 2009

   ... Facility Storage Management Subsystem (DFSMS) provides 'targeted data placement' on SSDs in an IBM zSeries and DS8000 environment. As the company expects most customers to operate a hybrid environment ...

7. GM goes green with hybrid Hummer

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Wednesday, 20 May 2009

   ... uncomfortable about its lack of green credentials. Last summer, Rick Wagoner, GM's chief executive officer, announced plans to review the Hummer brand, saying "all options are on the table." The hybrid ...

8. DDR SSD claims a massive 300,000 IOPS

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Sunday, 03 May 2009

   ... product to look to. The DDRdrive X1 is a PCIe Gen 1-based hybrid SSD, combining 4 GB of DDR memory and 4 GB of NAND flash memory. The DRAM portion is used to take advantage of speed when needed while ...

9. Electric cars: the shocking truth

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Thursday, 30 April 2009

     Opinion: Why electric and hybrid cars are an environmental dead-end. For years, people have been waiting for clean, efficient eco-friendly electric cars to arrive. Hybrids like the Toyota Prius ...

10. Sanyo releases powerful hybrid bicycle

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Tuesday, 21 April 2009

    Japanese firm Sanyo said it has released a hybrid bicycle which with the aid of its Eneloop battery can help you pedal half as hard to get where you want to go to.Tokyo (Japan) - Japanese firm Sanyo ...

11. 100 mpg automotive X PRIZE contest underway, 136 vehicles, $10M

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Friday, 10 April 2009

    ... actual final race taking place in May, 2010.The breakdown of entrants fall into the following fuel categories:32 - Fuel electric / battery36 - Hybrid (gas or diesel) / electric23 - Gasoline13 - Diesel11 ...

12. iPhone OS 3.0: A thousand new APIs for developers

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 17 March 2009

    ... satellite, hybrid and map views, pinch zoom, geolocation, etc.As expected, Core Location now supports turn-by-turn directions by leveraging location information obtained via GPS, Wi-Fi hotspots and cellular ...

13. LG Versa: Unboxing the "iPhone Beater"

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 03 March 2009

    ... is utilized to remove the Versa's back panel. Once you've removed the back panel from the device you can then insert it into a hybrid keyboard/case, which is composed of texturized plastic which looks ...

14. A view of CES: Storm clouds give way due to a little Apple-sourced magic

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Monday, 12 January 2009

    ... HP Firebird.  You had to see this water cooled marvel with hybrid graphics, which pulled only about 150 watts of power and was dead quiet. Designed to sit on top of your desk and probably the lightest ...

15. CES 2009: Nvidia releases GeForce GTX 285 and GTX 295 for high-end

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 08 January 2009

    ... card is 4.4 inches x 10.5 inches on a PCI-e 2.0 x16, supports Quad-SLI, PhysX, CUDA, has HybridPower, GeForce Boost, DirectX 10, Open GL 2.1, one 6-pin power connector, one 8-pin power connector, maximum ...

16. CES 2009: MSI debuts U115 hybrid notebook

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 06 January 2009

      As expected, MSI chose CES to take the wraps off the U115, a netbook that combines a solid state disk drive with a traditional hard drive as storage media. Las Vegas (NV) - As expected, MSI chose ...

17. MSI to show hybrid-storage netbook at CES

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 05 January 2009

      MSI this morning confirmed that its much anticipated Wind U115 and U120 netbooks will be on display at CES. The U115 will be the first netbook that can run a traditional hard disk drive (HDD) ...

18. MSI announces netbook with hybrid storage system

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Tuesday, 30 December 2008

    MSI has announced the U115 Hybrid netbook that is capable of operating both a solid state drive (SSD) and hard drive simultaneously. The U115 Hybrid uses an SSD to run Windows while storing files ...

19. Why there isn’t an $800 MacBook Air-like product

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Thursday, 04 December 2008

    ... is they did this to themselves.     The tech market hybrid problem In effect, this isn’t very different from the hybrid/price/efficiency decisions that screwed the auto industry.  It isn’t ...

20. UPDATE: Removing a major hurdle to wide acceptance of battery powered vehicles

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Opinion)

    Friday, 21 November 2008

    ... limited range. Another is expense. Most battery-only vehicles will get you about 75 miles, and hybrid solutions are very pricey. Still, 75 miles is enough to commute back and forth to work each day even ...

21. Michael Dell to present keynote at Supercomputing Conference 2008 today

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 18 November 2008

    ... begins discussions beyond Petascale computing, into Exascale and Yottascale. Yesterday, Convey Computer issued a stunning press release demonstrating a new form of hybrid computer. They worked with ...

22. Apple expected to refresh its iMac on November 10

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 03 November 2008

    ... Higher-priced iMacs are expected to ship with the 9400M and an additional 9000-series GPU in a Hybrid SLI setup. However, Mac OS X currently does not support Hybrid SLI in software: The new Macbook Pros ...

23. Fighter jet engine to power 1000 mph car

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 23 October 2008

    ... speeds the wheels act like powerful gyroscopes.Power plantThe power will come from the first ever mixed power plant of a hybrid rocket motor and a jet engine that is currently used on the Eurofighter Typhoon. ...

24. Leaked 2010 Prius pictures confirmed by Toyota

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 17 October 2008

      Recently published photos of the third-generation 2010 Toyota Prius have been confirmed by Toyota to be authentic. However, Toyota declined to provide additional information about the new hybrid ...

25. Apple unveils new MacBook

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 14 October 2008

      Apple refreshed its consumer MacBook notebook earlier today. The updated model runs on Nvidia hybrid graphics and comes with 2 GB memory and a 250 GB hard by default. There is a new glass trackpad ...

26. Apple fires up new MacBook Pro

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 14 October 2008

    ... thanks to a single-die hybrid graphics chip. It also features hard drive, processor and display upgrades and is manufactured from a single piece of aircraft-grade aluminum using a new manufacturing ...

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

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 14 October 2008

    ... the MacBook Pro will come with two Nvidia GPUs, one for normal battery and another for extra performance when the notebook is plugged into a power socket. The two chips will also combine to support Hybrid ...

28. Seagate SSD release date slips into 2009

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 10 October 2008

    ... for such drives yet. Seagate traditionally follows mainstream demand with its product releases. Seagate’s flash strategy so far has been limited to hybrid (flash/HDD) hard drives, which have been positioned ...

29. Rumor round-up: New Apple laptops

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 10 October 2008

    ... and Hybrid Power, Hybrid SLI and Hybrid Performance features. TUAW claims, citing "various sources," that Nvidia is deeply involved in new Macbook Pros and is indeed showcasing pre-production models within ...

30. 4000 hard drives in the palm of your palm with Fusion IO’s flash card

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 08 September 2008

    ... worth of storage capacity and a simple add-on increases this to two-thirds of a terabyte.   Furthermore, add a disk controller and this thing becomes a hybrid drive controller that can hook up to ...

31. Hitachi kicks out triple media Blu-ray camcorder

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Brief)

    Monday, 11 August 2008

    Hitachi unveiled a new three format "hybrid" Blu-ray Disc camcorder which will let you record onto BD media. It is called the DZ-BD10HA and it will cost you around $1000 when it surfaces in September. ...

32. Dell’s Studio Hybrid reignites the passion for the desktop PC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 29 July 2008

    ... more time and money into the visual appearance of some of its computers, Dell has unveiled interesting PC designs with unique features in the past. But the new Studio Hybrids have a much broader range ...

33. AMD’s best idea in years: Want to play?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Sunday, 18 May 2008

    ... graphics chipset, hybrid graphics solutions as well as Radeon HD 3450-series graphics cards are not part of the Game! Experience program since these products are not able to deliver a “decent quality” ...

34. Eurocom assembles server notebook

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 12 May 2008

    ... space to integrate up to six hard drives for up to 3 TB of storage space (960 GB of hybrid hard drives or 384 GB with SSDs), which will be available in the September time frame.   The D90xC is not ...

35. Bill Gates uses 10,000 times the energy of the average American, MIT says

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 28 April 2008

    ... is: How are you going to spend that money?” For example, buying a hybrid car may save you gas money, but people are likely to spend that extra cash something that may have an even larger carbon footprint, ...

36. Concurrent Programming: A solution for the multi-core programming era?

    (Software/Software Features)

    Sunday, 20 April 2008

    ... in software (STM), hardware (HTM) or both (Hybrid). In case, a conflict is detected, the transaction is rolled back and executed again. Although, TM can provide more speed-ups in some cases, it can perform ...

37. Has Lenovo created the “perfect” laptop?

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Friday, 22 February 2008

    ... first look at the X300). So, what makes this X300 a better Macbook Air and what can we expect from this category in the long term. How will Intel’s Silverthorne, hybrid graphics, ready-boost/turbo memory/hybrid ...

38. A Porsche hybrid? Does that make sense?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 20 February 2008

    ‘Hybrid’ has become a very political term these days: Whether you like it or not and whether it is true or not, it implies low gas consumption, reduction of green house gases and clean(er) air. Most ...

39. HD DVD’s rise and fall: A timeline

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 19 February 2008

    ... 13 Microsoft to offer Xbox 360 with built-in HD-DVD drive Digi Times   Oct 10 NEC ships hybrid Blu-ray/HD DVD chip TGD  ...

40. Intel, Micron sample 200 MB/s flash memory

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 01 February 2008

    ... MB/s, up from 40 MB/s and 20 MB/s in today’s NAND flash memory. Micron claims that this performance increase will speed up hybrid hard drives by a factor of 2 – 4x, movie transfers in digital ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 30 January 2008

    Gateway todate officially announced its new high-end retail desktop PC offering. The new GM and GT models include AMD Phenom quad-core processors and the higher-end model comes with a hybrid Blu-ray / ...

42. AMD releases sub-$100 graphics cards

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 23 January 2008

    ... as this series will support AMD’s hybrid graphics technology – which allows a system to take advantage of the combined performance of an integrated graphics chipset or shut the discrete card ...

43. Major Chicagoland retailer drops HD DVD support

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Tuesday, 22 January 2008

    ... hybrid HD DVD/Blu-ray player.   ...

44. Google.org focuses on climate change, poverty and emerging threats

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 17 January 2008

    ... around the idea of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and vehicle-to-grid technology. A request for investment proposals has been handed out; the organization said that it will invest amounts ranging from ...

45. AMD to ship RS780 in China first due to driver issues

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 16 January 2008

    Although AMD has already completed the hardware for its next generation IGP chipset, RS780, the company is still waiting on drivers to support its new Hybrid CrossFireX technology. As a result the company ...

46. Wrap-up: All stories and slideshows from CES 2008

    (Event Coverage/Event Coverage Features)

    Friday, 11 January 2008

    ... graphics/mobo company you’ve never heard of HD DVD vs. Blu-ray: The battle of the CES booths Hybrid SLI to promote motherboard/graphics card bundling in new Nvidia Additive ...

47. Hybrid SLI to promote motherboard/graphics card bundling in new Nvidia Additive Brand strategy

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 09 January 2008

    Nvidia recently informed its hardware partners of its "Additive Brand" strategy, a new marketing move which takes advantage of the company's recently announced Hybrid SLI technology to help ...

48. Update: The Black Friday Shopping List

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 21 November 2007

    ...  Canon 8 MP, 6x optical zoon $209.99 Circuit City Digital Camcorder Hitachi HDD Hybrid $299.99 Circuit City Digital Camera Panasonic ...

49. Tech Tour Intel: Gainestown spotted in the microsurgery silicon debug lab

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 06 November 2007

    ... in Hybrid mode, showing both the image and the "roads," which are part of the circuit design.  These computer assisted cues allow the operators to verify they're working on the chip ...

50. TG Video: Aftermarket lithium-ion battery pack squeezes 150 MPG from a Toyota Prius

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 18 October 2007

    ... folks that brought you the batteries in the Killacycle – this aftermarket kit converts the car into a plug-in hybrid and allows it to run on electric power for the first forty miles of a trip.  ...