In the latest version of Skype, a product of eBay Inc – users found 10-way conference calls, but only if Intel hardware was used. AMD users were treated with just a 5-way option. Both Skype Continue reading “Skype Features Intel Only Code — AMD Gains Ammo”.
Time Warner Inc.’s AOL plans to sell programing on its Web site by the middle of this year, a top executive said, as it hastens to secure a place in the market for video-on-demand over Continue reading “AOL to add paid downloads to free service”.
It took the market about 20 minutes on Friday to figure out that Intel’s midquarter warning was bad news for Advanced Micro Devices as well. It seems that the math isn’t adding up and if Continue reading “AMD’s Stock Catches Intel Chip Flu”.
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has agreed to pay $612.5 million to patent holding company NTP to settle a long-running dispute that threatened to shut down the popular wireless e-mail service. This is great news Continue reading “$612 Million Deal Ends BlackBerry Shut Down Threat”.
After studying the use of cell phones and other portable electronic devices on commercial aircraft, a team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers has concluded that passengers are regularly violating the ban on using the devices Continue reading “Cell Phone-Using Passengers Risk Airplane Safety”.
China is ramping up creation of a parallel system of net domains to tempt more Chinese people to go online. By using Chinese language net domains it aims to reach those people who do not Continue reading “China Looking Into Chinese Net Domains”.
A middle school student faces expulsion for allegedly posting graphic threats against a classmate on the popular MySpace.com Web site, and 20 of his classmates were suspended for viewing the posting, school officials said. Just Continue reading “Student suspended for viewing MySpace posting”.
Intel appears to be preparing to launch is ultra-mobile PC on 7 March, if the umpc.com website is anything to go by. It will be interesting to see just what Intel has planned on this Continue reading “Intel to unveil ultra-mobile PC on March 7th at IDF”.
Rahul from Voodoo PC believes that Dell might think about buying Alienware to help their enthusiast image in our community. When you look at why it would work it all makes sense, but who knows Continue reading “Rumor: Voodoo PC Claims Dell May Buy Alienware”.
Intel Corporation today announced that first-quarter revenue is expected to be between $8.7 billion and $9.1 billion, as compared to the previous expectation of between $9.1 billion and $9.7 billion, primarily due to weaker than Continue reading “Intel First-Quarter Revenue Below Expectations”.
Any site that has a popular forum is at risk of getting spammers or posting bots to register and advertise for whatever. Over at the LR Forums we have been dealing with this since the Continue reading “US Government warns of paid auto-surfing”.
Four Hynix employees will do hard time and together pay $1m in fines after agreeing to plead guilty to US Department of Justice charges that they conspired to fix memory prices, the DoJ said yesterday. Continue reading “Hynix to plead guilty to DRAM price-fix charges”.
Gateway has agreed to pay Hewlett-Packard $47 million to settle a patent litigation between the two companies. It’s amazing to see Gateway go from $81 a share in 1999 to just over $2.25 a share Continue reading “H-P, Gateway Settle Litigation For $16.7 Million”.
Did you know that the worldwide customer base for World of Warcraft (WoW) is now at more than 6 million players. If you want to talk about a company that has changed the face of Continue reading “World of Warcraft Has 6 Million Players”.
ATI Technologies today launched the CrossFire Xpress 3200 chipset-delivering the enthusiast gaming platform of the future. Developed from the ground up for multi-GPU gaming, the CrossFire Xpress 3200 chipset enables the world’s fastest gaming performance, Continue reading “ATI Technologies Launches the CrossFire Xpress 3200 Chipset”.