Asustek Computer, one of the world’s largest makers of personal computers and the biggest maker of mainboards, plans to lift its freeze on hiring because of improving market conditions, a media report claims citing sources with knowledge of the matter. Even though the number of positions Asus plans to fill does not seem to be [...]
Last Saturday, we took the Honda Challenge Cup — a friendly competition on driving a Honda car to get the most fuel-efficient ride. I missed the earlier event a couple months back intended for the media people so I got slated for this last one.
The objective was to drive any of the Honda cars — [...]
Dual-core central processing units (CPUs) were considered a breakthrough in the personal computer industry back in 2005. In 2010, dual-core chips, albeit powered by processors with different micro-architecture, are set to enter the market of mobile phones, according to ARM, a leading developer of processors for portable electronics.
“We don’t need silly GHz speeds. With our [...]
We received a response from AMD with regards to our recent story, “Lucid Hydra 200: Multi-GPU Made Simple?”, about Lucid’s new Hydra 200 chip, which may allow PC owners to obtain multiple-GPU performance with graphics cards that use different GPUs, or even that blend Nvidia and ATI technologies.
AMD and Nvidia have expressed skepticism about Lucid’s [...]
An Indian vendor uses her mobile phone to take customers orders at a wholesale market on the outskirts of Hyderabad in April 2009. India said Saturday a long-delayed auction of radio bandwidth for third generation (3G) telecommunications services will start in January and will be open to foreign firms.
India said Saturday a long-delayed auction of [...]
US telecom firm Verizon launched a high-definition movie channel on Friday, letting subscribers watch films on-demand on televisions or on the Internet.
US telecom firm Verizon launched a high-definition movie channel on Friday, letting subscribers watch films on-demand on televisions or on the Internet.
EPIX debuts on Verizon’s FiOS TV and online at epixhd.com free of charge [...]
Chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp. said in an interview that although Nvidia is known for its graphics processing units (GPUs), Nvidia is a software company. While the claims seems to be a little strange, it outlines the direction that Nvidia plans to invest in: software applications that leverage take advantage of Nvidia’s chips and [...]
While there are a lot of HD media players out there, I think there’s still room for more. So when I got a review unit of the BriteView-CinemaTube HD Media Player, I thought WD TV has some pretty nifty competition up ahead.
The CinemaTube does not have an internal storage so you need to hook it [...]
Staying ahead of NVIDIA and its own series of similar software, EVGA released the 18th edition of its SLI Enhancement Patch. The SLI Enhancement Patch is a piece of software that adds SLI profiles of usually new games to the NVIDIA GeForce driver. SLI profiles optimize help applications take advantage multiple NVIDIA GPUs installed in [...]
AMD released the latest version of its ATI Catalyst software suite. Version 9.10 WHQL brings with it official support for the company’s newest ATI Radeon HD 5800 series graphics processors, adds features that enhance usability under Windows 7, along with the usual list of bug fixes. The driver also adds support for Super Sample Anti-Aliasing, [...]