TDK now shipping 25 GB Blu-ray recordable media
TDK seems to be the first company in the world to publicly sell Blu-ray recordable discs. Add comment
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Voodoo PC Benchmarks “Windows” Mac
Rahul Sood of Voodoo PC seems to have managed to pull off the net's first benchmark on a MacIntellitosh with Microsoft "Windows" installed. Add comment
AMD’s Fab 30 “works at 150%” Capacity
AMD seems to be very proud of its Fab 30 located Dresden Germany, as it is running a record pace at 150% capacity which means Fab 30 is pumping out 30,000 wafers starts per month. Add comment
Going the SAS Storage Way
Over at Toms Hardware a nice review of Serial Attached SCSI has been written. Toms Hardware discusses this new business class storage technology, and compares apples to apples across the board. Add comment
Google Earth To Get Discovery Video
Discovery, which operates more than 100 networks in 170 countries, will be streaming feeds of historic landmarks such as Yellowstone National Park, the Great Wall of China and Trafalgar Square from Google Earth. Add comment
Blue Screen of Death on Mac
Dbaxter over at Dealcather.com presumably is the first man documented online to have a BSOD ”Blue Screen of Death” on a Mac system after using Apple's Boot Camp. Add comment
Earthlink and Google give free Wi-Fi
Wi-fi in San Francisco will finally meet Mayor Gavin Newsom's promise of free internet spanning over the entire city of San Francisco. Add comment
Microsoft buys Lionhead Studios
[url=http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2006-04-06T113618Z_01_N06350235_RTRUKOC_0_US-MEDIA-VIDEOGAMES-MICROSOFT.xml]Reuters[/url] reports that Microsoft has purchased game maker Lionhead Studios, the British game development studio responsible for the "Fable" video game. Add comment
Emachines New DVD Burning Lineup
Emachine announced today 4 brand spanking new desktop computers all equipped with dual layer DVD burners starting of at $350.00USD Add comment
Maxtor Fires 900
Drive maker Maxtor, which is about to be bought by its rival Seagate, has said that it will wipe 900 jobs from its operation in Singapore. Add comment
Netflix sues Blockbuster
Online movie-rental service Netflix has sued Blockbuster claiming its rival copied its way of doing business. Add comment
DDR Prices Firm “Thanks Intel”
Since the 865G chipset clearance, spot market pricing for both DRAM and NAND flash showed positive growth in the week from March 29 to April 4, according to figures posted by DRAMeXchange. Add comment
IBM & Kilocore Technology
If it's the number of cores that gets computers excited these days, then IBM may have its hands on the ultimate processor. Together with Rapport, a Silicon Valley startup, the company previewed the Kilocore1025, a processor with a total of 1025 cores that promises not only to boost processing speed but also to operate at low power levels. Add comment
AMD Turion X2
According to the Italian site DinoXPC, AMD will have dual core Turion X2s out in the second half of the year. But the names have changed from what has been previously announced. Add comment
7900 GTX Quad SLi In Retail
The day has come. Nvidia has finally shipped Quad SLI cards. Actually you have to buy two of those cards to claim that you have Quad SLI system. The only problem is that there is no single review out so you won't precisely know what are you getting. Add comment
Nintendo Wants a New DS
One of the key engineers behind the DS Lite says that Nintendo is working hard to rebuild the handheld console. Kazuo Yoneyama, who was talking to hacks from Nintendo Online, said one the key features of the redesign is improving the machine’s battery life, durability, reducing its size and weight. Add comment
Apple & Windows XP
You can go to the Windows ball on an Apple Intel Mac, the firm said today. It is making available a download of Boot Camp, which lets people dual boot on Macinteltosh machines. The download will be built into the next version of Mac OS X, 10.5, said Apple. Add comment
1GHz CPU Beats 3.6GHz Xeon
Anandtech introduces us to the Sun T2000 Coolthreads server which is based on the Ultrasparc T1 CPU. This 32-thread, eight-core 72w processor, running at a mere 1GHz, is dubbed revolutionary by Sun Microsystems. Add comment
AMD Begins First Revenue Shipments @ Fab 36
AMD (AMD) announced that in March it began first revenue shipments of AMD64 processors manufactured at Fab36 in Dresden, Germany. AMD rampedthe new 300 millimeter (mm) fab to 90 nanometer (nm) volume production in record time, hitting every major milestone on schedule and beginning production at mature yields. Add comment
Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW 24″ Monitor Review @ Short-Media
Short-Media guru RADA has written a review of this monitor after a year's experience using it. Add comment
Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW 24″ Wide-Aspect LCD Monitor Review
The overall picture can only be described as amazing. All games were run at 1200x1600. I am pleased to report that I saw absolutely no ghosting or lagging. Add comment
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