Thursday, April 2, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 02/04/2009

Time Warner Cable quotas to hit more cities in Texas, NY, NC
More users with Time Warner Cable broadband will have to watch their bandwidth before long. BusinessWeek reports that the cable firm will soon expand bandwidth quota trials to Austin and San Antonio, Texas, alongside Rochester, New York and Greensboro, North Carolina. The cable firm will start monitoring bandwidth use in...
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Pavilion dv2 notebook appears in Thai retail store
HP's upcoming Pavilion dv2 laptop has gone up for sale in Thailand, and the folks at Studio Nocturneآ—a self-described "boutique game development studio"آ—have gotten up close and personal with a display model. The base system apparently costs the Thai equivalent of $720 and delivers a 12.1" display, an Athlon Neo...
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Developer delves deep inside Intel's Larrabee
Michael Abrash of Rad Game Tools (you know, the guys behind Bink Video) has written an interesting and dauntingly thorough technical article about Larrabee, Intel's upcoming x86-based graphics processor. The piece starts slow with a general overview of why Intel made Larrabee, what Larrabee is, and how Intel retrofitted the...
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Thursday Shortbread
Thursday BusinessWeek reports Time Warner Cable expands Internet usage pricing WSJ: In challenge to Microsoft, PC makers test laptops running Google software Intel's Pat Gelsinger - From Pentium Pro to Nehalem: The story of transformation Silicon Graphics files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy DigiTimes reports Nvidia CEO rumored...
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Acer could launch Ion system on April 8
Despite how promising Nvidia's Ion platform looks, we've yet to see a major PC maker announce a netbook or nettop based on it. That may change in just a week, though. According "industry sources" who blabbed to DigiTimes, Acer will introduce the Hornet nettop in Beijing, China on April...
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iSuppli: AMD CPU revenue share fell to 11% in Q4
AMD only secured about a tenth of worldwide microprocessor revenue in the fourth quarter of last year, according to the latest figures from iSuppli. The research firm has published a new report that says AMD suffered revenue share losses last year, while Intel "grew its share . . ....
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New, lower-power 45nm Opterons due this quarter
We've seen for ourselves just how fast Intel's new Xeon 5500-series processors are. So, what's AMD planning now? The folks at PC World learned from AMD spokespeople that a "very low-power" version of the firm's 45nm quad-core Opteron will be out "within three months." PC World writes that future...
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Microsoft shows original new music game for Xbox 360
Sick of Guitar Hero? Rock Band not doing anything for you? If so, Microsoft has just the thing for you. Check out the trailer released just this morning for Microsoft's latest music game: You can learn...
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