ASUS Eee PC 1008P Karim Rashid Collection: A Stylish Netbook
The most basic question we have in mind before testing any new notebook is the expected performance. However, in the case of ASUS Eee PC 1008P Seashell Karim Rashid Collection netbook, the question was entirely different - could it really be as beautiful as we thought it was when we glanced at the pictures? Only a few seconds after the netbook had been unwrapped sufficed for most to agree that they were looking at the best looking netbook ever.
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ASUS releases the M4A89 Series with Core Unlocker feature
ASUS announced the first intuitive solution for unlocking latent cores on AMD CPUs, that is currently available on ASUS M4A89 Series and AMD 800 chipset-based motherboards. Without requiring any additional upgrades, ASUS motherboards with Core Unlocker deliver more performance by unlocking extra CPU cores—providing more value.
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Intel facing shortage of Core i3/i5/i7 mobile CPUs
Intel may be facing a chronic shortage of its primary mobile processors, some insiders in the notebook business said yesterday. Acer is said to have been enthusiastic enough about expected demand that it has ordered large batches of Intel's Core i3, i5 and i7 chips, creating problems for others that want the same parts. The orders are such that Intel is prioritizing major clients and leaving many mid-size or smaller PC builders with significant wait times to get their own orders.
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Palm sells less than half the phones shipped during winter
Palm reports a dramatic fall in smartphone sales for its winter quarter. The company shipped 960,000 smartphones between December and February but only sold 408,000 of those devices. Its shipments were exactly triple what it had supplied a year earlier but were countered by a 15 percent drop in actual sell-through to users at carriers like O2, Sprint and Verizon. It still managed to generate a $47 million gross profit but in practice suffered a $102.8 million net loss, wider than the loss in winter 2009 and more than twice the $45.5 million lost in the fall.
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Facebook hit by password stealing virus
Anti-virus company McAfee is reporting that Facebook has become the target of a virus which steals passwords and other sensitive information from the social network's 400 million users. The virus comes via spam emails that state that users Facebook accounts have had their passwords reset. You are then urged to click on an attachment to obtain new login credentials. Once opened, the attachment unleashes a group of trojans, including a password stealing software.
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