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From DailyTech: It's been a long four years, but AMD has finally hits its stride after its acquisition of ATI Technologies way back in 2006. After agreeing to purchase ATI for $5.4B, AMD was besieged with quarterly losses stemming from the purchase, constant pressure from NVIDIA in... |
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From DailyTech: The first sign of the shift to mobile computing could perhaps be seen when laptop sales surpassed desktop sales for the first time ever in the last calendar quarter of 2008. Or perhaps it was when was when cell phone subscribers surpassed land line subscribers in... |
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From InfoWorld: The bidding war for storage vendor 3Par continued to escalate Friday, with Hewlett-Packard submitting a new offer of $30 per share, or $2 billion. The offer topped a $27 per share bid made by Dell earlier in the day. HP's board has approved the offer, but 3Par's has... |
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From X-bit Labs: In line with the trends for ultra low-power servers, Advanced Micro Devices said that it would test its processors based on the Bobcat micro-architecture in server environments. Considering the fact that AMD already has very low power chips for servers, feasibility... |
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From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. early on Friday announced that third-quarter revenue will be below the company’s previous outlook. The company now expects third-quarter revenue to be $11.0 billion, plus or minus $200 million, compared to the previous expectation of between $11.2 and $12... |
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In the early days of the Intel Atom, despite being a low cost platform, many users found themselves wanting more than what the GMA950 integrated graphics are able to provide. Thankfully for us, NVIDIA stepped into the scene with the ION -- which opened up many new doors for many netbook, nettop and integrated system users alike. The NVIDIA ION platform not only allowed for better graphics performance, but also took some pressure... |
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From InfoWorld: A new version of the malware that crippled Windows PCs last February sidesteps safeguards designed to block rootkits from hijacking machines running 64-bit editions of Windows, researchers said Thursday. "A new era has officially dawned; the era of x64 rootkits,"... |
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From PC World: Google's latest Gmail phone calling feature hit the ground running with over one million phone calls placed from Gmail in first 24 hours the feature was available, Google said Thursday via Twitter.The big question is how many will make Gmail calls in the following 24... |
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From CNET News.com: Stop us if you've heard this before: Dell says 3Par has agreed to a buyout proposal. On Friday morning, Dell announced that storage company 3Par has accepted Dell's third acquisition offer, this one at $27 per share, which puts the total value of the cash offer... |
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From DailyTech: The MPEG LA organization, owners of the h.26x video codecs have announced that licensing of the h.264 video codec will remain permanently royalty free for those who provide free internet video to end users. Previously the moratorium on licensing fees was set to... |
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