Not that it comes as much of a surprise, but Nintendo’s growing market value doesn’t seem to be showing any signs of letting up, with the company now crossing the 10 trillion yen mark (or roughly $85 billion). That magic number now makes Nintendo Japan’s third biggest company (up from fifth place just a few [...]
While the HD DVD camp is busy with its 51GB disc, the Blu-ray side has a new creature of its own to talk about. Co-developed by Pioneer and Mitsubishi, the LTH (Low to High) BD-R reportedly utilizes an “organic dye recording layer,” and is said to be a recognized format within the Blu-ray Disc Recordable [...]
Intel’s announced USB 3.0 specification could push throughput beyond 4Gbps (300MBps) at the application level while introducing Quality of Service in support of HD video streams. Besides supplanting Firewire once and for all, a clear goal of the new “SuperSpeed USB” is to keep up with the transfer speeds of flash chips. “We don’t want [...]
2009 may be the year when we finally see a unified memory format, that is, if Nokia, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson have their way. The “Universal Flash Storage specification” would see memory cards travel between cellular devices, digital cameras and other memory hungry devices without the need for adapters — and it’ll likely save us [...]
[From Eric Mann] Eric spotted this, Treo’s are good enough for NASA apparently, “Jeff Stephens gave a status on new PDA devices. The Apple iPhone has been determined not to be enterprise ready by the NASA ODIN Program Office. The next release of hardware (8800 Blackberry and 750 Treo) will be in conjunction with [...]
Earlier this year, Toyota was reportedly mulling the idea of crafting its own in-car OS, but now the firm — along with nine other Japanese companies — will be collaborating with the Economy, Trade, and Industry Ministry to develop “an operating system for automotive electronics.” The initiative is supposedly in reaction to similar joint developments [...]
With as much AMD fanfare as there was leading up to this release, you’d think they would’ve managed to drum up a bit better showing. After running up against a battery of benchmark tests, AMD’s Quad FX dual CPU platform has been throughly trounced by Intel’s QX6700 2.66GHz processor. While things looks great on paper [...]
Our mother always used to tell us, “you’d lose your head if wasn’t screwed on,” but we’re sure that had she grown up in this decade she’d say, “you’d lose a USB key carrying sensitive data if Microsoft didn’t patent a technology to counteract the problem.” Or something like that. As you might’ve guessed, Microsoft [...]
Our consumer-grade home DSL is starting to look pretty paltry compared to the records that are coming out of research labs these days. While we told you about the latest speed record of 14 terabits per second over fiber in Japan, that really doesn’t help use mere mortals who are still using 100Base-T routers in [...]
If you haven’t heard of a Triple Play yet — you know, where some service provider tries to shove TV, internet and phone service onto one pretty little contract for supposed cost savings and convenience to you — then we applaud you for your apparent skill at avoiding the incessant advertising of such services from [...]
Our good friends in Santa Clara, California have been very busy as of late — Intel’s working on getting lasers into silicon and getting its Core 2 Duos into everything under the sun (but sometimes not). But Moore and Noyce’s baby isn’t stopping there, no sir: DigiTimes is reporting that Intel’s first quad-core “Kentsfield” chip, [...]
Aight everybody, we’ve got a fresh one comin’ through here. Sony’s faulty cells apparently made their way into Toshiba Satellite and Dynabook machines — apparently about 340,000 units in all — which are being recalled. (For reference, thus far we’ve racked up Apple, Dell, and Panasonic.) The upshot is that according to Toshiba, no one’s [...]
Continuing their skyrocket beyond ODM-dom, HTC’s buyout bid for Taiwanese Dopod has moved into the final stages. Having signed a memorandum of understanding, the only thing left in the estimated $150 million deal is approval from the Taiwanese government. Assuming HTC chairwoman and Dopod controlling shareholder Cher Wang, daughter of petrochemicals billionaire Y.C. Wang and [...]
Two of our favorite companies (well, more like two companies that we’ve heard of) have just announced that they’ll be getting nice and cozy in the next few months, with cellphone giant Motorola agreeing to buy barcode-scannin’, RFID-taggin’ Symbol Technologies for about $3.9 billion. Besides handsets, Moto also has a significant foothold in the mobile [...]
Samsung’s been hogging the Solid State Disk limelight for months with their 32GB SSD first peeped at CeBIT. So it does our invisible hand some good to hear TDK launch their version of the 32GB SSD, albeit in sample quantities only for the time being. TDK’s unit connects to a standard IDE connector yet measures [...]
While researchers in academia have the luxury of playing around with exotic technologies like nano-clusters, shape-shifting lasers, and nanomagnetic vortices, the engineers at Seagate know that they actually have to profit off of their research, so for now they’re sticking with traditional magnetic recording techniques in order to push the limits of hard drive capacity [...]
As decreasing chip sizes seems to be all the rage these days, Japan’s Oki Electric Industry isn’t missing out on its own opportunity to go small. The company recently announced that sample shipments of the “world’s smallest MP3 playback chip” were being dispersed, and that manufacturers of cellphones, PDAs, MP3 players (clearly), and essentially anything [...]
Since Google went ahead and did the deed with Dell, Yahoo has struck a deal of its own by landing a “multi-year” agreement with Acer (the world’s third largest laptop supplier) to become the default search engine on all future notebooks. Yahoo already has ties with names like TiVo, Meedio, and DialPad, but hopes the [...]
Intel has gone public with its latest platform, the vPro, which the company says is optimized to provide features such as security, performance and remote access functions for businesses. Like Viiv, vPro includes processor technologies, a software platform and more than a little bit of hype. In the case of vPro, the chip is the [...]
In the never ending search for better data transmission over the fiber optic backbones that hold our Internet together, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications has teamed with Fujitsu to see how much data they could squeeze through one of those glass pipes. The results sure look good; by pumping light at various wavelengths they managed to [...]
