19:43 03.01.2006
D-Link and Skype are joining forces in Internet calling. The two companies have announced their cooperative effort in developing the DPH-50U USB adapter which allows consumers to plug any regular home phone into your computer to make free VoIP phone calls using Skype. Here are just a few of the features you can expect from the...
"You forgot about Poland!" Europe is seen as being the fast growing market for LCD TVs through at least the end of the decade. To help satisfy the thirst for LCD panels, 3M is building a new manufacturing facility in Poland to produce LCD optical film: 'We are building the plant in Wroclaw to be near our customers, such as L.G. Philips...
The "iPod Effect" seems to still be in full force and is infecting Apple's notebook lineup. The company is expecting to boost shipments by 42% taking its share of the notebook market from 3.9% to 4.7%: Apple is projected to ship 3.27 million notebook computers worldwide next year, an increase of 42 percent compared to 2.29 million units...
Japan wants a piece of the search engine market so the government and some of the country's leading tech companies are banding together to take on Google and Yahoo!. Considering the revenue generated from advertising with search engines, it's surprising that they didn't act sooner: The financial paper Nihon Keizai Shimbun said today...
Intel and Micron plan to take the flash memory market by storm with a new joint venture to be announced today. Apple Computer is seen as taking a huge chunk of the NAND flash output from IM Flash Technologies. Intel, Micron and Apple may be seen as big winners in this new venture, but Sandisk is likely to be hurt the...
While not an all out kick to the curb, Hewlett-Packard has decided to set aside its Blu-ray exclusive status and embrace the HD-DVD format as well. The battle continues with Intel and Microsoft being strong supporters of HD-DVD and Sony and the gang supporting Blu-ray: "This integration will reduce development...
Bill and Melinda Gates along with Bono have beed named Time magazine's "Persons of the Year." While Bill Gates is known as being the brain child of Microsoft and the richest man alive, he and his wife are also known around the world for their humanitarian efforts. And we can't forget Bono. The U2 front man has dedicated massive...
AMD has never been one to let Intel's misfortunes go unnoticed. The Sunnyvale company is happy to note that a recent ruling in the Tokyo District Court will give it more ammuniation in its ongoing court case against Intel. Materials confiscated in searches by the Fair Trade Commission of Japan (JFTC) during raids at Intel and...
FiringSquad sends word of a new driver from ATI that aims to bring it back to the forefront in video quality. In fact, ATI seems quite pleased with themselves in regards to the performance of the driver: ATI considers Catalyst 5.13 as the first driver that unlocks the AVIVO technology present in the Radeon X1800, but it's more...
Microsoft has a big year ahead of it and an analyst firm has listed the top ten hurdles for the company to overcome in 2006. Not surprisingly, explaining Vista's viability to consumers is priority one: "Windows Vista could offer large organizations improvements in software development, security, reliability, systems management and...
There's a new worm, Dasher, targeting Windows 2000 operating systems just in time for Christmas. There are also two new Internet Explorer exploits that have been reported. Two variants of Dasher are now in circulation, F-Secure said today. Both versions install software that then tries to infect other...
