Posted on April 21st, 2008 by ElectroGeek
Intel posted price cuts on Sunday that included reductions of 50 percent on select quad-core processors. The chipmaker also introduced new Celeron and Core 2 Duo processor models.
he price of the Core 2 Quad Q6700 (2.66GHz) fell 50 percent from $530 to $266, while the quad-core Xeon X3230 (2.66GHz) saw an identical cut: from $530 [...]
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Posted on April 20th, 2008 by ElectroGeek
Nintendo sits atop the home video-game market. Its Wii, though less technologically advanced than Microsoft’s Xbox 360 or Sony’s PlayStation 3, continues to outsell those machines and is now in more than 20 million homes.
So why are retailers having so much trouble selling Wii games?
Take Super Smash Bros. Brawl. It was one the most hotly [...]
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Posted on April 19th, 2008 by ElectroGeek
After years of exploring the matter, Microsoft has finally started offering an ad-funded version of Microsoft Works in some countries.
Users who run the software see a small ad as they are writing their document or editing their spreadsheet. Although the program has the ability to update its set of ads online, today it runs mostly [...]
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Posted on April 17th, 2008 by ElectroGeek
The city of Corpus Christi, Texas, has taken back ownership of the wireless mesh network it sold last year to EarthLink.
On April 16, city officials inked the deal with EarthLink, which is trying to unload network properties it bought or built during the past three years. The company pulled the plug on its municipal wireless [...]
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Posted on April 16th, 2008 by ElectroGeek
As the FCC continues to investigate its choke hold on BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer file-sharing traffic, Comcast has proposed a “bill of rights and responsibilities” for P2P users and internet service providers.
The big-name cable ISP is already partnering with one P2P outfit on the project - the New York-based Pando Networks - and it hopes [...]
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Posted on April 16th, 2008 by ElectroGeek
SSDs remain significantly more expensive than hard disk storage, and the theoretical performance advantage is still largely unrealized.
Seagate Technology, the world’s largest maker of hard disk drives (HDDs), on Monday said it had filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against STEC, a maker of solid-state drives (SSDs) and computer memory products.
Seagate CEO Bill Watkins announced the lawsuit [...]
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Posted on April 16th, 2008 by ElectroGeek
Apple’s Mac business outgrew the overall PC market in the U.S. by a significant margin in the first quarter, according to research from IDC and Gartner released Wednesday.
Check out my colleague Erica Ogg’s post for the overall news, which has the PC market as a whole growing by 14.6 percent, but the U.S. market growing [...]
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Posted on April 14th, 2008 by ElectroGeek
Let’s face it. Windows Vista is not going as planned for Microsoft. If Microsoft doesn’t make significant changes to Windows, it very well may be doomed.
Windows Vista was supposed to be a blockbuster sales machine for Microsoft but instead you have OEM’s that extended the sales of Windows XP on new PC’s. Why? Because Windows [...]
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Posted on March 22nd, 2008 by ElectroGeek
According to a article published this week, Apple is considering giving unlimited, free access to download all iTunes music, but there’s a catch.
Sounds to good to be true right? Free, unlimited access to the entire iTunes music library. Apple must be nuts you say. Maybe. Apple is not just going to give it away for [...]
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