Steam, other download services saw huge growth in June
While market researchers often post detailed estimates for retail game sales, the world of digital distribution seems to come under much less scrutiny. According to recent numbers snagged by IGN, however, that market is booming in spite of the economic downturn. IGN says Valve has revealed that, in June, sales...
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Intel: Pine Trail is still on track for this year
Delays? What delays? Since last week, we've been hearing from multiple sources that Intel has postponed its Pine Trail platform until early 2010. CNet News now reports that Intel's Mooly Eden has staunchly denied the change of plan. Eden, who heads Intel's Mobile Platforms Group, affirmed that Pine Trail...
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Thursday Shortbread
Thursday Microsoft and Yahoo: Still a few surprises Microsoft-Yahoo: Out of the mouths of Twitterers DailyTech reports Sprint loses 250K customers and $384M in Q2 DigiTimes reports GPU shipments to hit 100 million
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Predict winners in MSI's OC competition for a chance to win prizes
As you might already be aware, we've been hosting sponsored coverage of MSI's Master Overclocking Arena 2009 here on TR. Through this competition, MSI seeks to bring together some of the finest overclockers in the world and to let them show off their skills on MSI and Intel...
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Poll: What are you most looking forward to?
Looking at the latest roadmaps, both official and not, it's hard to be indifferent about the wave of shiny new products coming this year. We can look forward to Windows 7, of course, but also Intel Lynnfield processors, consumer ultraportables and netbooks loaded up with Win7, and quite possibly
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HP may launch an 11.6-inch netbook this year
Yesterday, we heard that Acer and Asus might coast along with their current netbook lineups until next year. Other players could be busier, though. DigiTimes writes that HP has enlisted Quanta and Inventec to manufacture three new netbooks for it this year. Quoting Taiwanese industry sources, the report says...
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It's official: Yahoo will use Bing for search
Well, it sure didn't take long for those rumors to be confirmed. As the Associated Press reports, Microsoft and Yahoo have indeed announced a partnership that will see the former's Bing search engine power the latter's search portal: The 10-year deal announced Wednesday gives Microsoft access to the...
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Corsair launches super-high-end DDR3 kit for Phenoms
If you build an AMD system these days, budget parts are likely foremost on your mind. Nevertheless, Corsair has announced a new high-end DDR3 memory kit "designed specifically" for Socket AM3 Phenom II processors. This new Dominator GT kit is launching in a 4GB configuration with two 2GB modules, each capable...
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GlobalFoundries to make 40nm products for STMicro
Things are moving along for GlobalFoundries. Within days of breaking ground for its new fab in New York State, the foundry firm has announced its first customer other than AMD: STMicroelectronics. Headquartered in Switzerland, STMicro happens to be the world's fifth-largest semiconductor vendor in terms of revenue. GlobalFoundries...
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Nvidia PR Director steps down after 11 years
He stuck with Nvidia through thick and thin, helping the graphics firm establish its image since even before the days of the GeForce. Yesterday, however, Derek Perez announced on his Twitter feed that he had stepped down as Nvidia's Director of Public Relations. As you'd expect in light of the...
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Microsoft, Yahoo may partner up at last
Ever since the Microsoft-Yahoo merger talks fell through in May 2008, some have been suggesting a search or ad partnership as an alternative. Not even Carl Icahn's efforts seemed to push things in that direction last summer, but now, Reuters reports that a partnership will finally be...
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Wednesday Shortbread
Wednesday Microsoft, Yahoo agree on ad partnership: source Monster merger: IBM buys SPSS for approx. $1.2 billion in cash deal TG Daily reports Psystar to fight Apple with "guns blazin’" Taiwan's Foxconn agrees on...
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Report: TSMC to make some Atom chipsets for Intel
Intel already announced plans to let TSMC manufacture Atom system-on-a-chip devices all the way back in March. Today, TG Daily quotes a Taiwan Economic News report that says TSMC will also get to make matching chipsets. The Taiwanese paper purportedly claims TSMC will start manufacturing Langwell, technically an I/O...
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Creative demos Zii handheld
Three weeks ago, we came upon FCC documents detailing a new "MP4 player with touch screen" from Creative. The device featured the same Zii branding as Creative's system-on-a-chip, and according to the documents, it had Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and a built-in camera. Creative has now posted a video of the device...
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A sneak peek at a Gigabyte Micro ATX P55 motherboard
Another P55 motherboard has made its way to the Benchmarking Sweatshop, this time in Micro ATX form. We first saw Gigabyte's GA-P55M-UD4 at Computex earlier this summer. Here's a closer look: Micro ATX, but still loaded with goodies
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