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1. Apple's new Macs better be cheap

   (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

   ... effect, to wait for the new ones. Last time Apple updated its consumer line of personal computers it cut prices, but buyers continued to pay a premium for the Apple logo. Opinion: It's no surprise that ...

2. ARM rules the smartphone roost

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   ... some ARM Cortex A8-based chipsets to appear in devices within the next update, and platforms like Qualcomm’s Snapdragon or Nvidia’s Tegra to emerge later in 2009 as manufacturers seek to add greater multimedia ...

3. Intel confirms problem with solid state drives

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... People with the problem will get a firmware update to fix the bug within two weeks. Said Intel: "If a user has enabled their BIOS drive password, we are advising them not to disable or change their BIOS ...

4. Consumer electronics spending expected to drop by 7.7% in 2009

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has updated its 2009 sales forecast. The organization expects the first annual drop in revenues since 2001, which are expected to be about $165 billion in ...

5. Update: Intel drops WiMax chip due to “major drop in demand”

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... a capacity vs. coverage race against 3G technologies such as HSPA and EVDO.   Article updated at 11:55 am with statement provided by Intel.    ...

6. Mac and iPod sales both down 16% in February

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   ... in three years. NPD blamed January's drop on the long overdue hardware refresh of Apple's consumer Mac desktops that Apple updated just a week ago.The research firm also predicted flat Mac sales for ...

7. UPDATED: PC shipments fall more in 2009, should recover in 2010

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   On Thursday, IDC updated its PC shipment forecast stating that shipments would decline much further in 2009 prior to gradually recovering in 2010. Computer manufacturers should expect shipments to decline ...

8. Report: Netbooks the next big portable thing

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   ... piece of computing equipment for many. "PDA's began our reliance on instant accessible data while traveling," said ABI's Kevin Burden. "When PDA functionality converged with cellular voice, smartphones ...

9. UPDATED: Qimonda: German memory maker declares bankruptcy

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

     A $422 million rescue package sought after by Qimonda in December failed to materialize. In light of hard economic times, depressed DRAM prices and their inability to secure financing in time, German ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      IDC updated its PC market forecast and there were few surprises and if you have been following the industry and the general economic drama of recent weeks you already know the bottom line. The ...

11. Intel preps mobile processors for higher clock speeds

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... said that there will not be any form, fit and function changes between the stepping conversions, however, system builders will have to apply a BIOS update. This new BIOS will support the new stepping and ...

12. Nehalem shipping, ready to launch in November

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... to the use of a reanimated and updated Hyperthreading technology. ...

13. CherryPal delayed again

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ...  In an update provided by the company, we were told that a “glitch with the graphics processor” was found, which “absolutely needed to be addressed.” I company now believes that it will be shipping the ...

14. Madden NFL 09 can’t save August game console sales

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... shipments life to date: Wii crosses 12 million mark; Market share update Life-to-date shipments Click here for an enlarged version of this image The Wii’s growth curve is dropping a bit, but ...

15. Apple rocks. And puts us to sleep.

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... nano paints a perfect picture of Apple – the company does not take risks with its hardware anymore. A careful redesign, one or two new features, done. A bit like Toyota releasing a new Corolla. Update ...

16. Apple refreshes its iPod touch

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

      Apple used its Let’s Rock event today to update its touch-based media player. The new iPod touch comes with a more rounded stainless steel design that resembles the appearance of the iPhone 3G, ...

17. Update: AMD posts another huge loss, trading halted, announces new CEO

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      AMD announced its seventh consecutive quarterly loss. AMD lost $1.189 billion during the quarter, including a $920 million write down of ATI operations. Dirk Meyer has been announced as new president ...

18. Seagate boosts hard drive storage capacity to 1.5 TB

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... about 30 months ago. Seagate said it is also updating its 2.5” drives soon with 5400 rpm mainstream models and 7200 rpm performance versions offering up to 500 GB of capacity. Both Momentus drives are ...

19. Xbox 360 hits 10 million unit sales in the U.S.

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ...  Sony today said that it has sold 12.81 million PS3 consoles so far. The company did not break out U.S. sales. Updated April game console sales numbers are expected to be released by market research ...

20. 3G iPhone to debut in T-minus 60 days?

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... the iPhone ("Will we ever see an iPhone killer"), other players will eventually catch up. Apple needs to update iPhone's hardware to match specs of competing handsets and innovate further in order to widen ...

21. Intel fires up new Atom processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... of different versions of popular software such as Adobe’s Flash for different versions of cellphones, smartphones and PDAs. This is not just a pain in the you know what for developers but it limits the ...

22. PDA market still shrinking dramatically with no end in sight

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... - with “handheld” being defined as a PDA without cellphone capability - isn’t much fun. Once again, the shipment volume of such devices declined significantly in the third quarter of ...

23. UPDATE: Seagate reports Q3 2007 revenue and products shipped both up

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Preliminary quarterly earnings are reported for the period ending September 30, 2007.  UPDATE:  Seagate is operating at capacity.  Expects to be capacity constrained in Q4 2007. Scotts ...

24. Intel’s engines raking in $10.1 billion in Q3

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Q3 revenue is $300 million above the high-end target provided firm’s updated in September.   Net income was $1.9 billion, up 43% from $1.3 billion one year ago. The company said that the growth ...

25. DisplaySearch lowers LCD TV shipment forecast for 2007

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    ... and smaller panels is weakening, according to a recent report from JP Morgan. The updated panel forecast is in line with iSuppli's most recent forecast for large-size LCD TV panel shipments in 2007, ...

26. Intel Q2 report: “Broad family” of 45 nm CPUs shipping by the end of 2007

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... For comparison: The mobile business currently made a profit of $1.25 billion on revenues of $3.30 billion in Q2 2007. Restructuring update Intel executives attribute a part of the increased profitability ...

27. Apple iPhone Launch

    (Event Coverage/Event Coverage Features)

    ...  Apple iPhone sells for $800... on eBay (6/1) Merrill Lynch: iPhone shipments to total four million this year (6/1) Toshiba preps release of Satellite HSDPA PDA phone (5/30) ...

28. Update: Qualcomm phone chips banned in US

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... circuit board modules or carriers containing them." The ban also includes actual devices, like cell phones and PDAs, that contain the offending chips from Qualcomm. According to research firm iSuppli, ...

29. Computex 2007

    (Event Coverage/Event Coverage Features)

    ... market Kingston rolls out DDR3 memory Pretec announces 64 GB SSD AMD introduces low-power Athlon X2 processors, DTX spec First system vendors demonstrating AMD’s Barcelona processor Update: ...

30. Intel fires up upgraded mobile Core 2 Duos

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... us, it may seem that Intel launched its Core 2 Duo T-series processors not too long ago and the Santa Rosa “update” may appear almost unnecessary. Intel still holds the unquestioned lead in ...

31. Intel claims 2-year lead over AMD’s 45nm CPUs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Intel is betting large parts of its business for the next two years on its upcoming 45 nm process technology. At an analyst meeting today in New York, the company updated its vision on how to “return ...

32. IDF: Intel’s mobile platform goes quad-core, adds WiMax

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... for Intel’s mobile processors just two or three years ago. But just like Intel says that Santa Rosa “unlocks” the Core 2 Duo, the immediately following platform update scheduled for ...

33. Analysis: AMD loses dominance in U.S. retail channel to Intel

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... In volume space for desktop retail, Duboise said that an AMD comeback will require a “significant” update to the firm’s roadmap to “challenge Intel and re-commit to the value space ...

34. PDA market continues dramatic decline

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Personal digital assistants (PDAs) without cellphone functionality are driven more and more into a niche market. Framingham (MA) - Personal digital assistants (PDAs) without cellphone functionality are ...

35. AMD CPU prices rebound after weeks of drops

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... jumped way back up in price to around where they were in the beginning of November.   Click image to enlarge. For those who are unfamiliar with our processor price/performance updates, the ...

36. Small- to medium-size display shipments reached record high in Q3 06

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

      Shipments of small- to medium-size displays reached around 510 million units in the third quarter of 2006, up 13% on year, led by mobile phones, PDAs, games and multi-function printers (MFPs). ...

37. Windows Vista security flaw uncovered

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... with Microsoft's monthly security updates. No legitimite attacks have yet been reported as a result of the new flaw. Windows Vista, which Microsoft touts as the most secure operating system it has ever ...

38. Vista, Office launch hits Nasdaq

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Today at its stock trading home, the Nasdaq building, Microsoft cut the ribbon on the anticipated updates to Windows XP and Office 2003 as the business versions of Vista and Office 2007 made their official ...

39. Vista, Office 2007 to debut with business version releases today

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... consumers in January, round out a sweeping release of updates over the past few months for Microsoft's most widely used applications. Redmond (WA) - The wait is over, at least for business customers, ...

40. Marvell rolls out Intel's next-gen Xscale processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... of the Monahans processor have sparked little excitement. Count in that Intel has provided few updates and virtually no information on Monahans since August of last year and it may not be surprising that ...

41. Comparing Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360 execution: Focus makes the difference

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... perhaps, a little harder to use than they need to be. The software inside the box seems relatively rough compared to the Xbox 360 but the 360 has now had a number of updates and the Playstation 3 remains ...

42. Sony launches Playstation 3 in the U.S.

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... waiters PS3 fans quit jobs and postpone engagement to wait in line - Video Taiwan gets 500 PS3 consoles for launch, U.S. PS3 allocation reduced again? Best Buy boots Burbank PS3 line - Updated with Picture ...

43. HTC to ship Ipaq rx5915 to HP in October

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      High Tech Computer (HTC) is expected to begin volume shipments of the Ipaq rx5915 GPS-enabled PDA to Hewlett-Packard (HP) this month, according to market sources. High Tech Computer (HTC) is expected ...

44. Dell blames cooling assembly for XPS 700 delays

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... system, the XPS 700, has been pegged as the culprit responsible for shipment delays, a series of which has plagued the product since its announcement late last May. UPDATE 8 August 2006 5:50 pm ET Round ...

45. UPDATE: AMD acquires ATI for $5.4 billion

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    AMD bets $5.4 billion on its future: The company today announced that it will acquire ATI to "fight against the monopoly" and to create application specific platforms in the commercial, mobile and consumer ...

46. Smartphones post yet another record quarter

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Shipments of smartphones, also referred to as "converged devices," continue to increase on a rapid pace. According to a report released by IDC, unit numbers surged by 67.8% in the first quarter of this ...

47. Global WiMAX CPE shipments to reach 10 million units in 2007, says Alcatel

    (Networking/Networking Brief)

    ... notebooks, handsets and PDAs and expectations of price cuts for WiMAX CPE products in 2007, probably as much as by 50%, are expected to push up global shipments of WiMAX CPE products next year, Cullen ...

48. Worldwide handheld PDA market continues to decline :IDC

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Following a holiday quarter in which worldwide shipments of handheld devices topped two million units, the worldwide market for handheld devices began 2006 with its ninth consecutive quarter of year-over-year ...

49. Samsung's Q1 UMPC to start selling at Best Buy

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... from competitors, resembles an oversized PDA with laptop-like components. A Celeron M ultra-low voltage CPU running at 900 MHz gives the Q1 enough power to run some productivity applications, but the lack ...

50. Intel's profit drops 38% on decreasing processor sales

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    UPDATE 6:30 PM EST - Intel Q1 earnings result met the expectations of investor, but lower processor, chipset and flash memory sales brought the first substantial revenue and profit decline in several ...