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May 30
- AMD Ships Radeon 4850 Graphics Card
- $5K PC Takes On $4.6M Supercomputer
- TDK Launches 1.8" MicroSATA Solid State Disk Drives
- Nvidia To Shed Light On Its Processor Strategy At Computex
- Colombia Signs Up For 65,000 OLPC Laptops
- Apple Patches iCal Bugs With 10.5.3 Update
May 29
- 1 TB, Blu-ray Compatible Optical Disc Announced
- Global Biofuel Output To Soar In Next Decade: Report
- Intel And Micron Announce New Flash Chips: 1000 Songs On Your Fingernail
- Qimonda To Introduce GDDR To 58 Nm Production By 2009
- Via Launches Nano Processor, Carves Out CPU Niche
- Asus Preps Desktop Version of the Eee PC for Launch
- Via Launches Nano Processor
- Microsoft Expects To See 50% Increase For Windows Mobile
- GPUs Deliver Mammogram-like Breast Scans In 20 Minutes
- Phoenix Ready To Dig After Minor Radio Glitch
May 28
- 415 Million Broadband Connections Resulting In More Than $130 Billion Service Revenue In 2008
- Lala.com Testing 10-cent "trapped In Your Browser" Song Rentals
- LCD Panel Makers Pushing 15.6" As Next Notebook Mainstream
- Dual-core Atoms To Enter Mass Production In July
- DRAM Contract Price Likely To Continue Rising H1 June
- Dell Found Guilty Of Fraud In New York
- Hitachi Aims Low-power Hard Drives At Consumer Electronics
- Bluetooth Can Be Used To Track Travel Time
- Apple Working On Solar Panels For Mobile Devices
- Asus Smacks Gigabyte with a Lawsuit
- Lacie Announces External 4x Blu-ray Writer
- Apple Working On Solar Panels For Mobile Devices
May 27
- MSI Brings Back the Turbo Button
- Intel Desktop IGP Chipsets To See Shortages In Q3
- NAND Flash Makers Progressing On Advanced Node
- NASA Preps Phoenix To Dig On Mars
- Large-sized LCD Panel Market Set For Nearly 18% Growth In 2008
- Criminal Ordered To Not Post Any Illegal YouTube Videos
- AMD To Roll Out Griffin Processor As 'Turion Ultra' At Computex
- The Future Is Now: Semantic Search
- First Look: VIA OpenBook Mini-Notebook
May 26
- Samsung Announces 256 GB MLC SATA II SSD
May 23
- Intel Squeezes Six-core Processor Into 65 Watt Power Envelope
- PhD Student Makes World's "Most Advanced" Walking Robot
- HP Pitches Green Printers, Samsung Green Hard Drives
- Core Security Publishes Apple iCal Vulnerabilities After Apple Fails To Patch
- Five Reasons Why An Apple Tablet Makes Sense Now
- Nvidia To Acquire Ray Tracing Company
May 22
- Alienware Relaunches Flagship ALX Desktop With 4 GHz Quad-core Processor
- 16:9 Ratio Notebook Panels To Become Mainstream In H2
- Osram Introduces LED For Use In Thin Displays
- Magnesium-aluminum Alloy Notebook Chassis Pricing To Rise More Than 10% In Q2
- Silicon Valley Businesses To Be Hit With Global Warming Tax
- Teenager Arrested For Posting Naked Ex-girlfriend Pics On MySpace
- Ubuntu Live 2008 In Portland Oregon Cancelled
- Intel's 45 Nm Mobile Quad-core Processor To Arrive With A Big Premium
- AMD Announces DDR5 For Next Generation Of Radeon Graphics Cards
- Nvidia's GT200 Chip To Pack About 1 Billion Transistors Into 576 Mm2
May 21
- Gigabyte's Official Response To Asus
- AMD Confirms GDDR5 Memory For Next-gen Graphics Cards
- NASA's Solar Probe Will Like It HOT
- Nanotubes Can Cause Cancer, Lawyers Lining Up
- US IT Workers Becoming Fatties
- Qimonda And AMD To Partner For Launch Of GDDR5
- DRAM Contract Prices Sustain Upward Trend Throughout May
- TV Panel Market Still Under Price Pressure, Says WitsView
- Touch-screen Shipments To Reach 833 Million Units By 2013, Says ISuppli
- LEDs Must Drop To 10% Of Price In 2005 To Go Mainstream In General Lighting By 2012
- Tight LCD Panel Supply Forecast For H2 08 Barring Severe Economic Slowdown In US
- Demand For Digital Photo Frames Remains Weak Because Of High Prices
- Boeing Preps A New Toy For The Super Rich: BBJ3
- ORNL Says It Can Cut Titanium Production Cost In Half
May 20
- Forget DVI, HDMI; USB Displays Coming
- Greenpeace Report Claims Consoles Are Not Green Enough
- Tatung To Develop Complete Solar Systems, Says Chairman
- Intel To Update Desktop CPU Lines In Q3
- PVI Announces Touch-control E-paper Solution
- Global Supply Of 2.5" HDDs May Run Short In Q3, Say Taiwan Makers
- Seagate Rolls Out Speedy 320 GB Notebook Hard Drive
- Intel To Launch Tukwila Itanium Processor In 2009?
May 19
- Nvidia Does Accelerated Programming
- Creative Finally Launches True X-Fi PCI Express Parts
- AUO Unveils Curved Display Technology
- Zero Energy LED Media Wall Lights Up Beijing
- ISuppli: Wireless Semiconductors Outgrow Overall Chip Market In 2007
- ESA Opens Astronaut Application Process
- Hynix And Micron Said To Produce Memory Cards
- Three Intel Chipsets To See Price Increase Due To Sichuan Quake
- Pirate Bay Breaks Into The Top 100 Most Popular Websites
- AMD Launches Another Brand - AMD Game!
- First Intel Atom Motherboard On Sale
May 16
- ASUS Responds Angrily To Gigabyte
- Intel Cuts Power Consumption Rating Of "Skulltrail Xeon"
- Nvidia's NVISION 08 Set To Challenge IDF, MacWorld
- Nvidia Dumps 9000 Series Name: New GPUs Will Be Called GTX 260 / 280
- Mtron Announces Fastest SSDs In Existence
- Adobe's Flash Player 10 Has More 3D And GPU Acceleration
- Criminals Try To Steal Live Wire, Shocked And Hospitalized
- Leader Of Sony During Betamax Era Passes Away, Aged 80
- Microsoft Joins The OLPC Project With Plans For a Dual-Boot Machine
May 15
- America's Largest Apple Store Opens Its Doors
- Asus To Produce Millions Of Mobos With 'instant' OS Technology
- Bill Gates: E-Mail, Cell Phones Not Effective Enough
- VIA To Adopt 45 Nm Process And Launch Dual-core CPU By The End Of 2009
- TI Confident Projector Adoption In Handsets Will Replicate Built-in Camera Success
- CPT 8.9-inch LCD Panel Capacity Fully Booked By Eee PC, 10-inch Range Panels On The Way
- LG Display Develops Elliptical And Circular-shaped LCDs
- Gang Leader Taunts Police Via YouTube, Gets Six Years Prison
- London To Deploy Hundreds Of Airport Scanners On City Streets
- Apple Developers Conference Sold Out
- ATI Radeon 4800 Launch Details
- OCZ Launches Do-It-Youself Notebook
- Dell Aims To Cut Power Consumption Of PCs By 25%
May 14
- Dell Keeps XPS Alive
- Intel Nehalem To Play Nice With Enthusiast Memory
- AMD Outsources To TSMC For CPUs
- What It Takes To Beat The Speed Of An 8-core Mac Pro By 50%
- ASIMO Robot Conducts Detroit Symphony
- Samsung Said To Soon Introduce 14.6-megapixel CMOS Image Sensor
- Computer Waste Sought As Alternative Fuel Source
- Toms Hardware To Host Extreme Overclocking Competition In June
- Google Joins Effort To Make More Web Sites More Sociable
- Solving The Carbon Dioxide Problem For $0.65 Per Gallon Of Gasoline
- Dell Squashes Rumours Regarding XPS Phase-Out
- U.S. Internet Penetration Hits 82%
May 13
- Alleged Pictures of 9900 GTX Cooler Emerges
- Asustek And Gigabyte Gear Up For Intel P45 Chipset Launch
- Samsung Beats Out STMicroelectronics For Nokia 5-megapixel CMOS Image Sensor Orders
- Sharp, IPS Alpha And LG Display Take Lead In Cutting LCD TV Panel Prices
- LG Display Develops Next-generation TFT Printing Technology
- Sharp Expands Professional HD LCD Monitor Line
- Apple Says It Will Showcase Development Platforms Of Mac OS X And OS X IPhone At WWDC
- HP To Purchase EDS In $13bn Deal
- A Matter Of Choice: Sun Announces B3 Opteron Servers
- Dell To Phase Out XPS Machines
- AMD Follows IBM's Lead And Rearranges Its Executive Line-Up
- The Eee PC Now Seen On Amazon.comThe Eee PC Now Seen On Amazon.com
May 12
- What You Didn't Know About Ryan Petersen
- RIM Announces The Latest Addition To The BlackBerry Family: The BlackBerry Bold
- AMD Rolls Out Low-power Quad-core Opteron CPUs
- Company To Release High-resolution Wind Map Of The US
- Alleged NVIDIA 9900GTS And 9900GTX Drawings Surface
- 65 Nm GPUs For Xbox 360 In Production, Xbox '540' Coming In 2009
May 9
- XP Service Pack 3 Kills AMD Machines
- Cooler Master Launches Passive CPU Cooler
- Toshiba aims to have 50% of SSD market share by 2011
- DRAM Market Has Hope For Bright Future
- Apple May Be Stylish, But It's Definitely Not Green
- AT&T Pulls Information Regarding Free WiFi For iPhone Users From Website
- Apple May Have Been An Investor In P.A. Semi Before Acquisition
May 8
- ASUS Creates Upgradeable Graphics Cards
- NCAR Fires Up Liquid-cooled Power6 Supercomputer
- Eee PC-like Notebooks Unlikely To Become Blockbusters, Says IDC
- Samsung Claims Brightest 46" LCD Panel For Public Displays
- Supply Of 8.9" Low-cost Notebook Panels To Be In Tight In H2 08
- Nvidia To Rename Cards To Help Alleviate Confusion
- Leaked AT&T Memo Hints At Mid-June Launch For 3G iPhone
May 7
- Intel, SGI To Build 10 PFlops Supercomputer For NASA
- AMD Announces 6 And 12-core Opterons
- Blizzard Wants Copyright Laws Changed
- Impending Doom 4
- Teenager Creates First OS X Multi-touch Table
- Apple Tops In Technical Support
- China Wags Finger At "illegal" Online Maps
- Microsoft Teams Up With Hyundai-Kia To Provide In-Car Infotainment
- Sprint Nextel And Clearwire Announce $15 Billion Deal
- Baby Dies After VOIP 911 Call Sends Ambulance To Wrong City
- Cisco Beats Its Own Lowered Sales Estimates As Slowing U.S. Economy Bites
- Intel DX10 Drivers; NVIDIA Laughs
- Amazon Spin-off Brings Rare Music To Consumers
- XP Service Pack 3 Surfaces After Long Delay
May 6
- Scientists Propose Climate Supercomputer With 20 Million CPUs
- NBC Posts TV Shows To Zune Marketplace
- Intel To Launch 4-series Chipsets At Computex 2008
- NVIDIA and Intel War To Start In 2010
- Super Talent Announces 120 GB SSD For $650
- Laptop Battery Drought To End In Time For Christmas
- IBM Announces Changes In Executive Line-Up
- Sun Microsystems To Cut Up To 2,500 Jobs After U.S. Slowdown Cuts Sales
- Gateway Ships Retail PCs With 64-bit Windows Vista
- Ubuntu Reaches Beta Version 8.04
May 5
- OCZ Intros 4 GB, 2 GHz DDR3 Memory Kit
- Qimonda And Centrosolar To Jointly Manufacture Solar Cells
- Intel Atom To Boost Mini-ITX Chassis
- BioHazard CEO: "Skulltrail Is Overkill For Current Games"
May 4
- Microsoft Walks Away From Yahoo Acquisition
May 2
- XBOX 360 Finally Getting Blu-ray
- Lenovo Seeking to Buy More PC Makers
- Warner To Bring Out Digital Downloads Day-and-date With DVD
- Dell's Monumental Snafu Renders UK Vostro Laptops Useless
- JVC Shows Path To Super Hi-Vision Device At 17x HD Resolution
- Intel And Nvidia Co-sponsors In Parallel Programming Initiative
- NVIDIA To Replace Dated GeForce 6/7/8 WHQL Drivers Next Week
May 1
- Xerox Sees The Future With Re-usable Paper, Cell Technology
- Researchers Supercharge Nanomotors With Rocket Fuel
- Dell XPS H2C Invades Alienware Territory
- Intel Denies iMac CPU Rumors
- HP Labs Finds Breakthrough With Basic Element