Microsoft sees revenue fall for the first time in 23 years
We've already seen how the economy affected Intel, AMD, and Apple last quarter. So, what about Microsoft? The software maker posted its earnings late yesterday, reporting a 6% revenue drop. According to CNNMoney.com, that's the first time Microsoft's revenue has fallen in its 23 years...
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OCZ releases pricey PCI Express solid-state drives
After Fusion-io and Super Talent, OCZ Technology has become the latest company to introduce PCI Express solid-state drives with stunning performance ratings, prodigious capacities... and intimidating prices. OCZ's new Z-Drive SSDs are launching with 250GB, 500GB, and 1TB capacities, all of which fit into PCI Express x4...
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Nero Move it gets CUDA acceleration
Another consumer multimedia application can now use GeForce GPUs to speed up video encoding. Nero has released an update for Move it that brings CUDA support to the multimedia mobility software. Move it isn't exactly new, of course. The first version of the app came out last September, promising...
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Pirate Bay lawyer claims bias, wants retrial
The lawyer representing The Pirate Bay's founders intends to demand a retrial due to alleged bias from the judge, according to the Associated Press. As we wrote last week, Judge Tomas Norstrom deemed the founders of the notorious BitTorrent tracker guilty of helping users violate copyrights. He sentenced...
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Ubuntu Linux 9.04 hits the web
Sticking tightly to its six-month development cycle, Canonical has released the latest version of its Ubuntu Linux distribution. Ubuntu 9.04 brings a pretty broad cross-section of improvements, from lower boot times to better out-of-the-box support for AMD graphics processors. According to the official release notes, Ubuntu 9.04 includes the latest...
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Apple is too cool for the recession, posts record earnings
You'd think the recession would be hurting Apple's bottom line lately, especially since the firm focuses on boutique products priced at a premium. Well, you'd be wrong. Apple has posted its best second fiscal quarter ever, with net income of $1.21 billion on revenue of $8.16 billion. In case you're...
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AMD's Phenom II X4 955 processor
With the introduction of the Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition, AMD matches its world record for longest CPU name. Even better, this is the fastest desktop CPU the company has ever produced, and it goes toe to toe with one of Intel's best Core 2 Quad processors.
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Valve releases free new content for Left 4 Dead
In case you missed the news late yesterday, the Left 4 Dead "Survival Pack" downloadable content is now available both for PC and Xbox 360 users. Valve offers the pack for free on both Steam and the Xbox Live Marketplace. This DLC adds a new Survival mode, in which players fight...
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Opterons to have 12 cores in early 2010, 16 cores in 2011
To coincide with the original Opteron processor's sixth anniversary, AMD showed the latest version of its server roadmap to the press earlier this afternoon. Among other revelations, the company said its 12-core Magny-Cours processors will launch in the first quarter of 2010. A 16-core, 32nm successor based on the next-gen...
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Time Warner Cable ''reevaluating'' DOCSIS 3.0 trials
No super-fast broadband for you! Now that a consumer backlash has pushed it to shelve bandwidth quota trials, Time Warner Cable isn't so sure about that 50Mbps DOCSIS 3.0 service it promised to customers in trial cities earlier this month. GigaOM quotes a TWC spokesman as saying the...
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nForce 980a SLI mobo appears on Newegg
Folks shopping for the latest Phenom II processors from AMD have a new motherboard to consider—and more could follow soon. An Asus mobo based on Nvidia's nForce 980a SLI chipset has quietly appeared at Newegg. Nvidia hasn't made much noise about the nForce 980a SLI, but it's listed on...
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AMD posts another quarterly loss, pulls Istanbul launch forward
Despite its competitive Phenom II processors and Radeon HD 4000-series GPUs, AMD failed to turn a profit yet again last quarter. The company has posted Q1 revenue of $1.177 billion with a net loss of $416 millionآ—a step down from a year ago, but a sequential improvement over its...
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Earth Day Shortbread
Earth Day The Register reports AMD loses cash less quickly PC Perspective on AMD earnings and Istanbul news Expreview reports AMD carries out new round of price cut X-bit labs report AMD expected to beat Nvidia with DirectX 11 chip time-to-market Engadget reports AMD's 40nm Radeon HD...
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