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Laptops beat desktop shipments in Q3 2008

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:50:05 +0000

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... Read more...

Scammers Use Stripteases to Beat CAPTCHAS

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:03:22 +0000

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... Read more...

Intel: Harpertown Xeon Performance Will Beat QC Opteron

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:49:05 +0000

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... Read more...

Sprint-Nextel Q2 Profits Beat Expectations

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:48:07 +0000

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... Read more...

Is Lexmark Spending Enough On R&D To Beat HP?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:35:06 +0000

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... Read more...

Intel pitches plan to beat chip glut

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:20:55 +0000

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... Read more...

Hitachi Aims To Beat Seagate To Market With 1TB HDD

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:40:55 +0000

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... Read more...

If you can't beat em Join em! PS2 Bully review

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:09:39 +0000

"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... Read more...

Microsoft's IE 7 May Beat Mozilla's Firefox 2.0 To Market

Steven Parker — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:39:36 +0000

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... Read more...

If You Can't Beat Them, Sue Them

Joe Cashman — Tue, 16 May 2006 21:45:53 +0000

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.... Read more...

JPEG exploit could beat antivirus software

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:40:37 +0000

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... Read more...

Radeon X800PRO will beat NV40 Ultra

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 08:20:39 +0000

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... Read more...

The Lawsuit Beat Goes On

Wed, 24 Dec 2003 17:29:16 +0000

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... Read more...

Mobo partners beat Intel to 875P fix

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 25 Apr 2003 08:43:51 +0000

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... Read more...

AMD and Nvidia claim 400MHz bus will beat Pentium 4

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:59:28 +0000

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... Read more...

Monkey Boy tells a bunch of Cockney Sparrows that they'll beat the Penguin

Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:26:30 +0000

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... Read more...

Nforce 2 to beat Via's DDR 400 by 20%

Sun, 14 Jul 2002 03:39:13 +0000

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... Read more...

Could a resurgent Novell beat Microsoft to the .NET?

Wed, 26 Dec 2001 15:15:50 +0000

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... Read more...

AMD plans to beat 4.4GHz desktops

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sun, 11 Nov 2001 14:13:32 +0000

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... Read more...