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LG Electronics profit soars amid strong handset sales

Posted by Webmaster on December 24th 2007 | Permalink
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SEOUL, South Korea - LG Electronics Inc., a major producer of mobile phones and consumer electronics, said Tuesday that third-quarter net profit surged nearly 15-fold amid record handset sales and better performance by its flat panel joint venture LG.Philips LCD Co. LG Electronics earned 339.2 billion won ($369.8 million) in the three months ended Sept. 30, the company said in a regulatory filing, far higher than the 22.7 billion won profit it posted a year earlier. On a global basis, LG said its sales of handsets rose to a quarterly record of 21.9 million units on increases in Latin America, Asia…

Nvidia’s Intel-based IGP

Posted by Webmaster on December 19th 2007 | Permalink
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(from JPR) If you asked any of the executives at Nvidia if they were planning to offer an IGP three years ago, they would have said something like, no way, Who’d want to be in that low margin business? We have way too many other things to do, etc. And, at the time, they probably believed it, or at the least were convincing in their responses. New semiconductors take time to develop and so when Nvidia introduced their Geforce 6100 family of AMD-based IGPs in September 2005 we knew the earlier comments were a smoke screen, but that’s OK, Nvidia has…

Bad Box Office? Blame ‘Halo’

Posted by Webmaster on December 18th 2007 | Permalink
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from Advertising Age (adage.com) The joystick has brought Ben Stiller nothing but sorrow. Total industry ticket sales were only $80 million for the Oct. 5 weekend the film opened, a whopping 27% below the same weekend the year before, according to research firm Media by Numbers. That’s the industry’s worst performance for an October weekend since 1999. Overall, domestic receipts are down 6% from last fall. Blame the Master Chief. Many film executives are convinced audiences stayed home to play Microsoft’s carpal-tunnel classic, “Halo 3,” which went on sale on Sept. 26. The game sold an astonishing $170 million worth of…

Leopard, Apple’s new operating system, broadens Macs’ reach

Posted by Webmaster on December 14th 2007 | Permalink
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Apple Inc.‘s next-generation operating system, Mac OS X “Leopard,” will be available Oct. 26 for $129, and Apple’s online store is taking pre-orders, the company said Tuesday. Leopard was originally due in June, but Apple said in April that it needed to divert resources so it could launch the much-anticipated iPhone on time. Such product delays are rare for the Cupertino-based company. Leopard, which the company says will offer more than 300 new features, is the sixth major upgrade Apple has made to Mac OS X since the desktop operating system debuted in 2001. Leopard features 300 new features along with…

iPhone owner sues Apple for $1 million

Posted by Webmaster on December 1st 2007 | Permalink
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SAN JOSE, California (AP)—A New York woman is so angry at Apple Inc. for lopping $200 off the price of the iPhone that she’s filed a lawsuit seeking $1 million in damages. Speaking of affordable prices. Apple has found itself on the wrong end of a lawsuit after a woman in New York didn’t take to kindly to Apple slashing the iPhone from $599 to $399 after only being available for two months. I guess you please everyone all the time, even if you are Apple.—CRD

Microsoft has new Zune music players to take on iPods

Posted by Webmaster on November 17th 2007 | Permalink
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Microsoft Corp. is introducing a series of Zune digital media players that for the first time will compete with the most popular iPod, the Nano. Microsoft, which rolled out its first portable player, the 30-GB Zune, last year, is extending the line with an 80-GB Zune. In the latest stab at Apple’s lead in the market, it also is unveiling a smaller, cheaper 4-GB and 8-GB Zune, directly rivaling Apple Inc.‘s iPod Nano, which also comes with 4-GB and 8-GB storage capacities. Available next month, the new Zunes will cost $149.99 to $249.99. I always like to see the heavyweights step…

iPhone to launch outside U.S.

Posted by Webmaster on November 5th 2007 | Permalink
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LONDON, England (AP)—Apple Inc.‘s iPhone will go on sale in Britain on November 9 exclusively through mobile operator O2, marking the first time the combination cell phone-iPod media player will be available outside the United States. The 8-gigabyte model will be offered for £269, or $536—or $139 more expensive than what Apple now charges in the U.S. The British iPhone has the same technical specifications as the U.S. model, but the price includes the U.K.‘s value-added tax. This is of course the “official” launch of the iPhone in Europe, others who just couldn’t wait until now have gotten their hands on…

Windows XP won’t bow out so soon

Posted by Webmaster on November 1st 2007 | Permalink
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Bowing to pressure from customers and computer makers, Microsoft plans to keep Windows XP around a little longer. Large PC manufacturers were slated to have to stop selling XP after January 31. However, vendors have successfully lobbied Microsoft to allow them to continue selling PCs with all flavors of Windows XP preloaded until June 30, a further five months. Microsoft also plans to keep XP on retail shelves longer and will allow computer makers in emerging markets to build machines with Windows XP Starter Edition until June 2010. This is good news to anyone who has had the pleasure of working…

China’s engineers are more likely to join a start-up than Americans

Posted by Webmaster on October 1st 2007 | Permalink
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Chinese engineers are younger, less-educated, unhappier in their current jobs and more likely to join a startup than their American counterparts according to survey released today comparing the hopes and dreams of engineers on either side of the Pacific. Chinese engineers also reported lower levels of education. A bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering was the predominant job ticket in both countries, and 37 percent of the Chinese had that credential compared with 45 percent of U.S. respondents. Among Chinese engineers, 13 percent reported having master’s degrees in electrical engineering,compared with 25 percent of their counterparts in the United States. When it…

Update: AMD announces ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro

Posted by Webmaster on June 1st 2007 | Permalink
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Today AMD announced the introduction of the latest card to join the Radeon HD 2000 series, the Radeon HD 2900 Pro. As its name suggests, the Radeon HD 2900 Pro is based on the same R600 GPU powering the high-end Radeon HD 2900 XT. The new AMD AIB will be offred in a 512 MB and 1 GB of on-board memory with running GDDR3 and GDDR4 memory respectively. Prices range from $249 to $299 placing the boards in the Performance segment.