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Advanced Micro Devices officially launched its bid to get into the living room this week, touting technical capabilities and a team of supporting computer manufacturers as it rolled out its "Live" media PC platform. Describing Live PC as a "full-featured, easy-to-use media center PC," AMD said the c...
China's standards body is crying foul over the rejection of its wireless encryption technology by the International Standards Organization, claiming an alternative from U.S. standards groups and Intel was railroaded through the international standards procedure. Reports from China indicate the Chine...
Confirming wide speculation on the price of its next-generation console, Nintendo said this week that its new Wii gaming machine will retail for under $250. The Japanese game company also said it would aim to ship six million of the new consoles during the first fiscal year of its availability. In a...
The new Internet top level domain ".mobi" went online this week, promising mobile device users a better, more reliable Internet experience with sites ending with the domain designed specifically for the smaller screens and other restraints of handsets. However, some industry observers claimed the wi...
Advanced Micro Devices unveiled new desktop processors this week that feature a new chip socket platform aimed at easing the update to newer DDR2 memory technology and processor virtualization. AMD said its new socket AM2 platform makes use of AMD chips -- such as the new Athlon 64 X2 5000 dual-core...
Internet encryption pioneer Phil Zimmermann has expanded his software solution to encrypt voice communications over the Internet to include the widely-used Windows PC platform. The Zfone Voice over Internet Protocol encryption comes at a time when privacy advocates and security-conscious companies a...
Dell announced along with its lackluster first quarter financial results this week plans to sell enterprise servers powered by Advanced Micro Devices processors. The new high-end, multi-processor servers from the world's largest PC manufacturer will feature AMD Opteron chips and will be available be...
Chip maker Micron touted its new image sensor silicon this week, calling it the world's first 8-megapixel image sensor packaged in a standard-sized 1 by 2.5-inch optical format, widely used in today's mainstream digital cameras. A camera using the sensor, unveiled by Micron in prototype form, would ...
Search giant Google, playing the odd role of challenger when it comes to Internet searches for video, updated its video upload service this week, promising users the ability to easily post, e-mail and embed video on Web sites and blogs. Google dominates the advertising-lucrative Internet search busi...
Server computers used by businesses have certainly gotten slimmer, lighter and more energy efficient in recent years. So have notebook PCs. Now it's the desktop's turn, as AMD, Intel and other chipmakers roll out silicon for sleeker desktop designs. AMD this week unveiled its roadmap for more energy...
Hoping to gain the same market success with the Palm operating system as it has with the Microsoft Windows version of its Palm Treo smartphones, PalmSource has released the Treo 700p, featuring the firm's older operating system in a new device. The Treo 700p bumps up wireless bandwidth with its EvDO...
Microsoft this week made available its first ever software patch for another vendor's product, plugging a critical Windows hole that endangered users of Adobe's Flash Player. Microsoft signaled the third-party patch may be the first of more to come, which has broad implications for security and othe...
Microsoft took sides with console competitor Nintendo at the E3 gaming conference in Los Angeles this week, highlighting the significantly lower price tags on both Nintendo's Wii and the Microsoft Xbox 360 compared to gaming powerhouse Sony's Playstation 3. The renewed fight for gamers' attention is...
You'd never know the latest gaming notebooks from Alienware, featuring new wireless and multi-core processor technology, were actually coming from the world's largest PC maker, Dell, and that is just the way Dell wants it. The computer giant does not want to drain down the boutique factor of Alienwa...
Sony is flexing its muscles at this week's E3 gaming conference in Los Angeles, showing off a motion-sensory controller and announcing pricing details for its much-anticipated Playstation 3 console. Sony Computer Entertainment President Phil Harrison announced the details of the next-generation PS3 ...
Nokia mobile phones will get the additional hardware they need to boost their ability to play music, mobile games and video, thanks to a new partnership with graphics-and-sound silicon provider ATI, the companies announced this week. Their long-term alliance will focus on increasing multimedia capab...
Mobile gaming player Nintendo has refreshed its handheld DS device by slimming it down, brightening its two screens, and dropping the price to US$129. The Japanese giant has been selling the DS Lite in Japan since March, enjoying overwhelming demand there. Its U.S. release, slated for next month, wi...
Many business and IT leaders view headlines regarding worries of a bird flu or other outbreak as just that: headlines. However, despite their wide-open opportunity to actually become prepared for such an outbreak or pandemic which, if it were to happen, could significantly stifle workers and product...
Electronic Arts is teaming with "Doom" creator id Software for a new, made-for-mobile role-playing game dubbed "Orcs & Elves," announced this week in anticipation of the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles next week. The new game was created "exclusively for mobile phones" by id Softwar...
Old school business meets new school technology in the partnership of corporate speakerphone giant Polycom and Voice over Internet Protocol provider Skype, which has produced a portable speakerphone featuring high-quality voice communication and audio functionality. The Polycom Communicator will com...
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