With 3rd quarter sales, revenue, and earnings posted and evaluated, several surprising facts come into play. iSuppli, a market research firm, has evaluated desktop and laptop sales, and for the first time ever, laptop shipments... More...
We all know looking at porn on the internet can be a risky affair, but scammers have recently put a new angle on such activities. In a new online striptease, a voluptuous blonde who promises... More...
In the only raw performance test figures revealed yesterday by Intel Senior Vice President Pat Gelsinger at Fall IDF in San Francisco, preliminary tests of the company's forthcoming quad-core "Harpertown" architecture Xeon 5400 show it... More...
Wireless provider Sprint Nextel Corp. on Wednesday said second-quarter profits dropped sharply on takeover costs and expenses tied to its planned rollout of a WiMax network. The Reston, Virginia-based company, with operational headquarters in Overland... More...
Lexmark Chairman and CEO Paul Curlander Tuesday defended his company's spending on research and development compared to rivals like Hewlett Packard. Curlander's comments came as he acknowledged Lexmark suffered a "disappointing" second quarter, during a... More...
Facing a market glut of microprocessors and weak corporate demand for PCs running Microsoft's new Windows Vista OS, Intel hopes to stay profitable by producing new chip designs faster than its competitors, Intel CEO Paul... More...
A day after rival Seagate Technology announced plans to ship a 1-Tbyte hard drive in the first half of this year, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies said it would release its first 1-Tbyte drive within three... More...
"Sure, it would have been great to see this game on a next-generation system rather than the aging PlayStation 2, which might have helped cut lingering load times and delivered sharper visuals. But dated technology... More...
Mozilla Corp. has released Firefox 2.0 Release Candidate 2 (RC2), but may be beat in the race to final by Microsoft, which said that Internet Explorer 7 would ship in October. Firefox 2.0 RC2 went... More...
That seems to be the philosophy of many of today's companies, but MP3 player maker Creative may have a case on their hands in the latest in the long run of Creative vs. Apple wars.... More...
Antivirus software could be ill-prepared to protect corporate networks from the latest Windows vulnerability--innocent-looking JPEG files that contain security attacks. According to Mikko Hypponen, director of antivirus research for F-Secure, antivirus software will strain to... More...
WISE BIRDS tell us here in Vienna that ATI and at least some of their knowledgeable partners don't feel so bad about NV40 Ultra. Even though the NV 40 Ultra, Geforce 6800 Ultra is a... More...
Last Friday's U.S. District Court decision calling the Recording Industry Association of America's legal tactics against the law is sure to stoke the fires of the ongoing music wars. The decision handed down... More...
INTEL TOLD US on Tuesday that it would be a week or so before it would be able to post the BIOS download for the "anomaly" in the 3GHz/Canterwood combo that initially led it to... More...
THE COMBINATION OF an AMD Barton and the Nvidia Nforce 2 will beat Intel 3GHz+ Pentium 4 processors "with or without hyperthreading", according to internal documents seen by the INQUIRER. And both AMD and Nvidia... More...
Or... Steve Ballmer tells a bunch of people in London that they see Linux as a threat and are addressing it. Although Microsoft cannot compete against Linux on price, the company will... More...
The Nforce2 chipset to be announced in the middle of next week has a claimed advantage over Via's DDR 400 chipsets of around 20 per cent, according to information from a Taiwanese mobo manufacturer who... More...
Everyone seems to have given up on software company Novell. In the early 1990s, the company held as much as 75 percent of the market share for server operating systems with its... More...
AMD's drive for desktop dominance will see the company ship what it will undoubtedly claim is the equivalent of a 3.4GHz Intel processor, when it ships its first desktop 0.13 micron Hammer chip in the... More...