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RS-Kit
| Aug 15, 2008 |
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Fake Flash; Missing Patch & Chip Wars |
| Faux Flash?
Beware fake Flash downloads/updates! Adobe has issued a "call to arms" for users to validate installers before downloading software updates. More..
Where is My Patch?
ZDNet reported on 14AUG, "Lost in the shuffle of this month’s Patch Tuesday barrage is the fact that a critical vulnerability in the ever-present Windows Media Player (WMP) was not fixed “because of a last minute quality issue." And in fact a check at Microsoft Security Bulletin page confirms the patch is not yet being offerred.
AMD Fusion vs Intel's Larrabee
One day after Intel officially released details on its Larrabee platform, the chipmaker's rival AMD leaked details of its own competing Fusion CPU and GPU single chip, code-named Shrike. A number of sources are reporting AMD is leveraging its acquisition of ATI and will soon release the chip consisting of a dual-core Phenom CPU with an ATI RV800 GPU core. More..
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ChannelWeb
| July 02, 2008 |
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Chip Wars: Intel, AMD make gains |
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Intel (NSDQ:INTC) picked up about a point of microprocessor market share in the global market over the previous quarter, while x86 rival Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE:AMD) gained more than two points year-over-year, according to Q1 2008 revenue numbers released Tuesday by technology research firm iSuppli.
Intel, headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., remained the overwhelming leader in global microprocessor revenue for Q1 with 79.7 percent of the market, defined by El Segundo, Calif.-based iSuppli as comprising general-purpose Intel Architecture (IA) or x86 chips as well as those based on RISC and other non-IA architectures.
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c/net News.com
| June 02, 2008 |
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Semiconductor sales up 5.9% in April |
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Semiconductor sales grew 5.9 percent worldwide in April, a healthy clip given the current sluggish economy, the Semiconductor Industry Association reported Monday.
Chip sales rose to $21.2 billion in April, up from $20.1 billion a year ago and flat with the previous month.
The SIA noted April sales were essentially in line with historical industry patterns.
"Despite steep increases in energy costs that have diminished the disposable income of consumers, worldwide sales of semiconductors grew by a healthy 5.9 percent compared to April 2007," George Scalise, SIA president, said in a statement.
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WebProNews.com
| Apr 20, 2008 |
| By David A. Utter |
Ballmer: Vista A Work In Progress |
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Microsoft's CEO admits what thousands of techies have thought of the company for years: they toss stuff into the user community and need a couple of additional releases to make it work.
Vista isn't finished yet. That's not another hack writer's opinion, but an assessment of the operating system from the man who runs the company. Steve Ballmer made an admission about Vista that, in the wake of internal emails at Microsoft criticizing the product, really serves as a footnote to the kerfuffle.
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CRN.com
| Mar 25, 2008 |
| By Kevin McLaughlin, Steven Burke |
"To XP, or not to XP?"..that is the question! |
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Is Microsoft Playing Games With XP SP3?
Call
it a Hamlet moment for the PC industry, filled with political intrigue and
machinations worthy of the great Shakespeare play: to wait for XP SP3 or
move to Vista now thatMicrosoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has released Vista SP1? Or in
other
words: "To XP, or not to XP?" That is the question.. More.. |
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News.com
| Feb 21, 2008 |
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Nvidia Launches New, Fast Midrange 3D Chip |
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From news.com:
Nvidia launched its new GeForce 9600 GT 3D graphics chip this morning, aimed
at mainstream PC gamers. For $175, the idea is that it will let you play any
PC game on the market with reasonable image quality settings without requiring
you to pay as much as you would for a standalone game console. According to
tests by GameSpot, it beats ATI's next two closest competitors. More..
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Dan Farber & Larry Dignan
| Jan 09, 2008 |
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Everex debuts $399 ultramobile PC |
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At CES, Everex is launching a $399 ultramobile that will be sold through Walmart.com starting January 25. The low-cost Everex CloudBook uses the open source gOS V2 Rocket operating system and VIA 1.2GHz C7-M ULV processor, same as the $199 Everex gPC. More.. |
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ZDNet.com
| Dec 05, 2007 |
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Microsoft watering down WGA on Vista SP1 |
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Why, if WGA has been so successful in the prevention of piracy, and why if the mechanism caused so little collateral damage (both points Microsoft has been adamant about throughout) now backpedal and water down WGA?
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ZDNet.com
| Oct 24, 2007 |
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Dell Announces XPS 420 |
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Today Dell officially announced the XPS 420 (Dell blog, press release), a multimedia PC that starts at $1,499 carries some interesting features. Among them:
- A small LCD screen on the top of the XPS that shows Microsoft’s SideShow and other third party gadgets. Think a stock ticker or RSS feed on top of your PC.
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By Kevin McLaughlin, CMP Channel
| Sep 27, 2007 |
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Microsoft Extend's Windows XP Deadline |
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Microsoft will announce later today that it will give OEMs six additional months to sell PCs with Windows XP installed, CRN has learned.
Microsoft is extending the deadline for sales of new direct OEM PCs with Windows XP installed from January 31, 2008 to June 30, 2008, according to sources close to the company.
"The named accounts, the ones that have volume, have complained about the end of life for XP, and that's because adoption of Windows Vista has been slow," said one Microsoft partner who requested anonymity. "This is a pretty important development for larger partners, and it's also somewhat surprising because it shows that they've been listening to us."
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By Brian Dipert, Senior Technical Editor -- EDN
| Sep 11, 2007 |
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AMD's Barcelona: Quad-Core Opteron unveiled |
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An in-depth technical analysis of AMD's quad-core Opteron versus Intel's competitive Xeon offerings reveals some surprises—and fails to dispel concerns about AMD's long-term survival.
By Brian Dipert, Senior Technical Editor -- EDN, 9/11/2007
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CUSTOM SYSTEMS MAGAZINE --
| Posted Sep 10, 2007 |
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Servers, Notebooks Drive Growth for System Builders |
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The venerable white-box desktop, once the mainstay of the custom-system channel, is continuing to lose its luster with commodity pricing, weak refresh cycles and the ever-increasing popularity of notebooks, the 2007 CRN Leading System Builder Survey indicates.
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Microsoft --
| Sep 06, 2007 |
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Test drive the new Windows Live suite |
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Starting now, you can test out the new suite of Windows Live software at http://get.live.com/wl/all.
Windows Live makes it easy to store and manage your communications and information, and share what’s going on in your life with the people who mean the most to you. Many of you have already tried out new versions of our web services – Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Spaces, Windows Live SkyDrive beta, and the new Windows Live Home page beta. These have been designed to work together with a common navigation, so it is easy to switch between your e-mail, your space, your files, and your photos—from any browser.
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Frank J. Ohlhorst, CMP Channel --
| Aug 06, 2007 |
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Rip And Replace Vista With XP |
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..while Vista comes pre-installed on new systems, many customers don't want it.
That leaves integrators with unenviable task of ripping Vista off of new systems and replacing it with the customer's operating system of choice, in most cases Windows XP. While that process is far from an impossible task, it does come with complications, ranging from expending time, to locating drivers, to sorting out licenses.
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By John Longwell, CRN --
| Jun. 27, 2007 |
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White-Box Desktops Losing Luster? |
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The venerable white-box desktop, once the mainstay of the custom-system channel, is continuing to lose its luster with commodity pricing, weak refresh cycles and the ever-increasing popularity of notebooks, the 2007 CRN Leading System Builder Survey indicates..
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ChannelWeb Network (crn.com) --
| June 19, 2007 |
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PC Shipments Brisker Than Expected |
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iSuppli predicts global PC shipments will rise to 264 million units in 2007, up 11.2 percent from 239 million in 2006. The previous forecast envisioned 10.7 percent growth for the year.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) --
| May 24 2007 |
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Dell to sell computers in Wal-Marts |
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Computer marker Dell plans to start selling personal computers at 3,000 Wal-Mart stores in the United States and Canada as of June 10, launching a major drive to sell its PCs through retailers, a company spokesman said on Thursday.
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By Charlie Demerjian @ 12:20 pm
| May 01, 2007 |
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Microsoft admits Vista failure |
WITH TWO OVERLAPPING events, Microsoft admitted what we have been saying all along, Vista, aka Windows Me Two (Me II), is a joke that no one wants.
It did two unprecedented things this week that frankly stunned us.
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Posted by Paul Murphy @ 12:00 am
| April 12, 2007 |
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The benchmark war: AMD vs. Intel |
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The last few weeks have seen a certain amount of name calling going on between some key AMD executives and people from, or representing, Intel. As I understand it, this all started whan some AMD people got upset because the press was buying into Intel's claim to have delivered a quad core CPU when, in reality, all they've done is package two dual cores together.
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FRAMINGHAM, Mass (IDC - Press Release)
| March 20, 2007 |
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Will notebooks outsell desktops by 2011? |
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According to a report by analysts IDC, notebook sales will outstrip desktop PCs by 2011. The report goes on to predicts that the notebook market will grow by 16.1% year-on-year until 2011, compared to 3.8% for desktops.
The report also goes on to predict that Windows Vista will have only a small positive effect on desktop sales before the downward trend continues.
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NEW YORK, (Reuters)
| Feb 27, 2007 |
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CompUSA Closing 126 U.S. Stores |
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CompUSA, the computer and gadget retailer owned by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, said on Tuesday it would close more than half of its U.S. retail locations over the next two to three months to focus on top performing locations.
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By Frank J. Ohlhorst and Michael Gros, CRN
| Feb 01, 2007 |
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Slide Show: Top 10 Improvements In Microsoft Vista
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The CRN Test Center chooses the top 10 reasons that Microsoft Vista beats Windows XP. See for yourself.
Slide Show: Top 10 Improvements In Microsoft Vista
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CES News Items
(A culled collection of items of interest to PC resellers)
- PCWorld.com
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Jan 11, 2007 |
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PCWorld.com was not the least bit selective about their articles, seemingly forgetting that they are a PC magazine. The dozens of articles about cell phones, VOIP, HD TVs, etc. may be of interest to many, but I weeded out all that I felt were of limited interest to computer resellers and was left with the list below. Two friends will be returning from CES this weekend and I hope to soon have more to post. - Hank Castello
Lite-On Shows 20X DVD Burner, Blu-ray Disc Drive
Stream YouTube, iTunes to Your TV
Iomega Shows Multi-Drive NAS
All (PC) Ports Closed Ahead!
New Ways to See Games in 3D
USBTV: "Sneaker Net" Your Movies from PC to TV
Studios Put Weight Behind Blu-ray Disc
Dell's New Gaming PC is Cool, Literally
Toshiba's Slick Portege R400
CES Video: 3D Touch Controller Lets You Feel Games
World's Smallest Windows Vista-Capable Computer
PC Alchemy's Tiny PC Gets More Storage
HP Introduces PC With Touchscreen
Lexar, SanDisk Tout Vista ReadyBoost Compatibility
GoToMyPC Adds Audio
SanDisk Puts Video in Your Pocket
M-Audio Launches New Speakers, Updates Session Range
ViewSonic Monitors Multitask
Samsung Monitors with VoIP Functions
Kodak's Never-Ending Slide Show
HP Moves Into Home Servers; Blu-Ray Drives
Sony's Cute Living-Room PC
Network Storage Gets Faster, More Flexible
Toshiba Unveils 51GB HD DVD
Nokia Unveils 'Multimedia Computers'
Toshiba's Portable External Hard Drives
First Desktop HD DVD Burner
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