Intel says that, no matter how you slice it, four processors cores are better than two.
Intel executives laid out their strategy for migrating from dual-core chips containing two processor cores to quad-core chips containing four at the Intel Developer Forum here Sept. 26.
The chip maker promises that the chips, which will start to arrive in [...]
Our good buddies at IDG News Service report that the failure of a DNS (domain name system) server at Comcast caused problems for some Web surfers in the northeast section of the U.S. today, making several Web sites, including Google, inaccessible.
The server failure caused connectivity problems for a “few hours,” said Jeanne Russo, a Comcast [...]
SOFTWARE GIANT Microsoft is suing the hacker who released software to remove DRM code from Windows Media Player.
According to ZDNet, Vole claims that somehow the unknown developer had gained access to its copyrighted source code to carry out his hack so effectively.
Microsoft has been trying to find a cure for the hack, which successfully stripped [...]
Universal Studios became the first movie studio to provide movie fans with a way to burn their downloaded movies to DVD on the day they are released in stores through an agreement with CinemaNow. Up until now, users could only burn select older movies from the service’s catalog.
The first movie to participate in this offering [...]
The contest will award prizes to the PC designer and manufacturer that designs and builds the “smallest and most stylish home PCs” powered by Intel’s Viiv technology.
Intel Corp. is challenging PC designers and manufacturers to think “sexy, stylish and small” as they design the next generation of home PCs.
In doing so, Intel (Santa [...]
A war of words between Advanced Micro Devices and Intel is heating up as they vie to claim the advantage in creating a new generation of chips with four processing cores.
A week after A.M.D.’s chief executive, Hector Ruiz, called Intel an “abusive Goliath” using monopoly tactics, his Intel counterpart responded Tuesday that the harsh words [...]
A three-year-old whiz-kid pressing ‘all the right buttons’ used his mother’s computer to buy a secondhand Japanese car on the internet auction site eBay, a newspaper reported yesterday.
The parents of the boy, Jack Neal, from Sleaford, Lincolnshire, eastern England, were dumbstruck when the website sent them a message of congratulations for buying the Barbie pink [...]
Intel will use the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco this week to highlight advances in its quad-core processors scheduled to start shipping by the end of this year.
Chief executive Paul Otellini will kick off the event on Tuesday morning, and will be followed by presentations from chief technology officer Justin Rattner.
Intel gave a [...]
The new Sony VAIO TX-N10 series notebooks will incorporate Sprint Mobile Broadband Service for Lighting Fast Internet Access Nationwide.
Sony will soon offer its first ultra-portable laptop to include integrated broadband capable wide area network technology from Sprint.
The new VAIO VGN-TXN10 series notebooks will connect to Sprint Power Vision Network for wireless broadband speed. Sprint will [...]
As part of its current ad campaign, Apple suggests that Macs aren’t vulnerable to the same Internet security problems PCs are.
But according to a new study by security vendor Symantec, the number of vulnerabilities identified in Apple’s Safari browser in the first half of 2006 doubled over the prior six months—and it increased its window [...]
