Ford Motor Co. on Monday said it will cut 25,000 to 30,000 jobs in North America and idle 14 manufacturing facilities through 2012, hoping to turn around the money-losing unit. Not a good way to Continue reading “Ford Motor Co. to cut 25,000-30,000 jobs”.
ATI’s original plan was to launch its new Radeon X1900 (R580) cards together with its new chipset with the codname RD580 together, but The Inq. says that is not the case. The ATI Crossfire Radeon Continue reading “Rumor: ATI Crossfire RD580 delayed till February”.
Mobile phone giant Nokia has teamed up with other technology firms to promote the DVB-H technology standard for mobile TV, Nokia said on Monday. Looks like the three companies have enough monies behind them to Continue reading “Nokia, Motorola, Intel form alliance for mobile TV”.
AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced today that Dirk Meyer has been promoted to president and chief operating officer of AMD. Meyer previously served as president and chief operating officer of AMD’s Microprocessor Solutions Sector (MSS) business. Continue reading “AMD Promotes Dirk Meyer to President and COO”.
AMD has cut the prices on many of their popular desktop and mobile processors this morning. The AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ processor took a 19.9% price slashing and can now be bought for $643 Continue reading “AMD Cuts Athlon 64 X2, Turion, and Sempron CPU Prices”.
The time has come to get ads on your cell phone and actually like it! It seems that some cell phone users are being offered the chance to send text messages for free in return Continue reading “Cell Phone Ads in Exchange For Text Messages”.
The price premium DDR 400 enjoyed over DDR2 533 has shrunk to 1.4%, as DDR contract prices remained flat in the second half of January, while 512Mbit DDR2 533 prices increased to US$4.09! The most Continue reading “DDR2 Memory Prices Continues to Increase”.
Happy Birthday Mr. PC Virus! Beleive it or not computer viruses have been around for 20 years now! The term computer virus dates from 1984 and was coined by US computer scientist Fred Cohen even Continue reading “Happy 20th Birthday Computer Viruses!”.
A tiny Massachusetts company named TVMyPod is selling iPods that come with movies and TV programs already loaded on them, a practice that raises questions of legality as it addresses consumer demand for convenience and Continue reading “TVMyPod Sells IPods Pre-Loaded with Videos”.
Another round of news from around the web. This time the leading article is on the Gigabyte X1800 XT 512 MB video card, which looks to be a hefty performer. Overclocked by a healthy margin, Continue reading “Jan 22nd News from Around the Web”.
If you are wondering what is going on in the WiFi industry the new standard is still in the works and it’s looking like 802.11n will make it! At four times the speed of current Continue reading “Wi-Fi 802.11n Standard Still Coming”.
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is exploring new types of onboard memory for its chips as a way to bump performance and squeeze more out of its manufacturing plants. Time will tell if this makes it Continue reading “AMD Eyes Chip Memory Expansion with Z-RAM”.
In a move that is sure to get ATI steaming, several online retailers have X1900 cards for sale – today. Looking at Froogle we find that 8 retailers are carrying the ATI Radeon X1900 XTX. Continue reading “ATI Radeon X1900 family already on sale”.
German chipmaker Infineon Technologies expects to post a first-quarter loss as selling prices slumped for DDR2 memory chips. Now that DDR2 prices are on the rise this might be the last loss due to DDR2 Continue reading “Infineon Technologies Expects Quarterly Loss”.
Ever get tired of people telling you talking on the cell phone will give you a tumor? A new study shows that using a mobile phone does not increase the risk of developing the most Continue reading “No link between cell phones and common tumor”.