At least two top-tier motherboard makers are no longer expecting to hit their board shipment targets for 2011. [......]
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GameStop is the place you go to for used game trade-ins, new titles, new and used hardware, accessories, and things of the sort, most of which are related to consoles (save for a sad one-sided rack of PC games). [......]
After somewhat of a rough start to the year, chip designer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) bounced back in the third quarter and posted a 7 percent sequential and 4 percent year-over-year increase in revenue of $1.69 billion, net income of $97 million on earnings per share of $0.13, and operating income of $138 million. All of these figures are higher than the ones posted in the same quarter one year prior, and that's in large part because of AMD's Accelerated Processing Units (APUs)[......]
As hard drive component suppliers struggle to recover from recent flooding in Thailand, Acer revealed during an investor conference that it has no choice but to charge more for its products. Acer sees little to no alternatives when the cost of hard disk drives spikes by as much as 20 percent, costs that are ultimately passed on to the consumer. "We have seen a hard disk price rise so we have started to raise prices on future orders to cope with the rising cost," Acer President Jim Wong said, according to Reuters [......]
Hewlett Packard went bonkers there for a short while and actually considered selling or spinning off its Personal Systems Group (PSG) so it could focus on servers, printers, and software. Fortunately for HP, newly appointed CEO Meg Whitman quickly reversed course on what could have been a disastrous heading for the world's No. [......]
Not only is the honeymoon state over and done with between Sony and Ericsson, so is the entire marriage that formed the Sony Ericsson union. Sony on Thursday announced it will acquire Ericsson's 50 percent stake in the mobile partnership, effectively making the mobile handset business a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony. Sony Chairman Sir Howard Stringer called this "the beginning of something..[......]
The new GT780DX gaming laptop from MSI is being billed as "the ultimate weapon in battle," and one look at the spec sheet shows why. It's a 17-inch notebook outfitted with a second generation Intel Core i7 quad-core processor, Nvidia's near top-of-the-line (in mobile) GeForce GTX 570M discrete graphics with 1.5GB of GDDR5 memory, and supports up to 32GB of DDR3 system memory. [......]
Samsung said it shipped 28 million smartphones during its third fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2011, which represented a 40 percent increase on-quarter and 300 percent year-on-year. Perhaps just as important, Samsung raced ahead of Apple in smartphone sales, which sold 17 million iPhone devices in the same time frame. Samsung's continued global rollout of its flagship Galaxy S II smartphone is doing particularly well and has sold more than 10 million units in the five months since its introduction, Samsung said[......]
The future of PC graphics What's next for graphics? Why, Graphics Core Next, of course. Thanks, AMD, for that nicely pallindromic way to start off a feature[......]
Hello, and welcome to this week's edition of WEEK! IN! TECH! That's right: we've taken a leaf out of Nokia's book, and that book appears to be called THE BIG BOOK OF SHOUTING. [......]
We've teamed up with Huddlebuy.co.uk – the friend of entrepreneurs and start-ups – to bring you an exclusive competition. The company is giving away a MacBook Air and one of 20 two year subscriptions to LoJack for Laptops, the laptop recovery tool – worth almost £1,800 in total. Huddlebuy is giving away a 128GB, 11.6-inch MacBook Air worth £999[......]
After leaving the markets hanging for a few weeks, HP has finally clarified its future plans in the PC business: it’s in. [......]
The fragmentation that exists on the Android platform is an annoying side effect of Google's open-source ecosystem, and we'll be reminded of that once Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) slowly rolls out to certain devices, while others are left out in the cold. Such will be the case of the Nexus One, a phone Google said is simply "too old" for a major OS update. [......]
Can't get enough brushed aluminum in your daily life? You're in luck because it just so happens Enermax is interested in catering to your fetish with a pair of peripherals that should serve as nice complements to your brushed aluminum desktop tower or notebook PC. The first is the Aurora Lite RF Wireless Keyboard (KB010W-B) and the second is a portable 3.5-inch hard drive enclosure Enermax oddly calls a 'Brick.' The Aurora keyboard is encased in a brushed aluminum frame with diamond-cut edges for that "timeless and elegant" look, or simply to let everyone know you're not jumping on the glossy bandwagon[......]
We love a good future gaze as much as anyone, but not as much as Microsoft which has whipped up yet another exploration of future tech in video form. The six-minute video posits that in the future pretty much everything will be a tablet, including your flip chart, your wall, your glasses and your fridge. [......]
