Corrupt Dell Sold Over 11.2 Million Faulty PCs Court Case Reveals Last month US PC Company Dell, agreed to pay over $100 Million dollars to settle an investigation into accounting fraud, bribery by Intel and company manipulation. Now the Company is under investigation for selling millions of faulty PCs and then trying to hide the fact.
World First 12x Blu-ray Writer Pioneer unveiled the first 12x Blu-ray Disc Writer for single- and dual-layer Blu-ray Disc (BD) media.
Wireless Hitachi Tablet For Presentations The new Hitachi wireless tablet is aimed at educators and businesses who want to allow other users to interact and participate during presentations.
Intel To Showcase New Chips For Mobiles & Thin Notebooks Intel who are desperate to get a foothold in the mobile phone and consumer electroncs market will show off key products this week that the chipmaker hopes will expand its presence beyond just the PC and server markets.
Powerful Intel Processors Revealed Intel has launched a new line of processors that promise faster and optimised performance for both desktops and servers.
Kensington Goes For Netbook Market Kensington has launched a new range of accessories for netbooks in an effort to strengthen and expand its portfolio. The new line includes a compact mouse, a security lock, and a reversible case.
Netgear Showcases Hot New Gear At CES Netgear is showcasing its new products in the areas of wired and wireless networking, entertainment and storage at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show.
New Gefen Video Scalers Gefen has launched two new GefenTV scalers. Distributed in Australia by Amber Technology the scalers deliver high definition video resolutions to 1080p and Gefen says they have a simple plug-and-play design.
Intel Hits AMD For Six With New Chip Intel has unveiled the Xeon 7400 family of server processors, (code-named Dunnington), including one that is a six-core design.
Cordless Desktop Combo From Logitech The Logitech Cordless Desktop Wave Pro keyboard-and-mouse combination combines the field and laboratory-tested comfort of the Logitech Wave Keyboard with the comfortable, rechargeable Logitech MX1100 Cordless Laser Mouse.
AMD Releases Worlds Fastest Graphics Cards AMD has announced the world?s fastest graphics card, the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2, designed for advancing visual computing ever closer to eye-definition computing gaming and cinematic experiences and delivering a massive 2.4 teraFLOPS of processing power.
Australian Digital Radio Shows The Chinese How Its Done The CEO of Commercial Radio Australia, Joan Warner is currently meeting with the Chinese broadcast regulator, SARFT, and major Chinese broadcasters in Beijing this week to discuss Australia?s plans for the switch-on of digital radio next year.
Logitech Rolls Out Mac Webcam With Premium Optics Logitech has unveiled its first Mac-compatible webcam with premium autofocus technology and Carl Zeiss optics: the Logitech QuickCam Vision Pro webcam for Mac.
Micro Wire For Next Generation Of Computing A minute, silicon-coated wire could lead to the next generation of computers to a new stage of development, and it was development by a team of Australian scientists.
Bad Economy Acting As PC Sales Driver Now here is a curly one for all the budding Keynesian economists out there?for according to Gartner, an increase of 16% in PC demand during this current harsh economic climate shows that an economic downturn is a driver and not an inhibitor for PC market growth.
New AMD CEO & Chip Now Key To Profitability According to Reuters, Dirk Meyer's promotion to chief executive of Advanced Micro Devices shows that the board believes the struggling chipmaker is ?on the right track despite past missteps?.
Intel Profits Surge In A PC Hungry World Global PC demand has surged, giving Intel the world's biggest chipmaker, a 25 per cent rise in second-quarter profit and gave a sales forecast that topped analysts' estimates, according to Bloomberg.com.
Inexpensive Media Keyboard From Microsoft Microsoft Australia has today announced the Digital Media Keyboard 3000, an entertainment keyboard designed to enhance the computer user?s digital lifestyle at an affordable price.
SanDisk Rolls Out Solid State Drives For ULPCs SanDisk has introduced a line of flash memory-based solid-state drives (SSDs) that are designed for an emerging new category of portable consumer electronics ? the Ultra Light PC (ULPC) - that allow users to have an enhanced experience while easily surfing the Internet using wireless communication.
Will Microsoft Kill Off The Mouse? With touch-screen interfaces popping up left, right and centre, Microsoft has said the end of the mouse is nigh with its latest operating system, which it is rumoured will be very similar to build Apples iPhone touch screen.
Logitech Releases Comfy Cordless Mouse Logitech has released the Logitech V450 Nano cordless laser mouse for notebooks, designed to provide more comfort and productivity for those who use a notebook PC or MacBook.
NAND Flash Chip Sector Hits Speed Hump According to digitimes.com, although Apple has recently started to order high-capacity NAND flash chips from Samsung Electronics, which is expected to boost the order volume in June and July, recent market demand has not picked up there was also not any drop in pricing.
Are Vendors Engaging In Component Price Fixing? SPECIAL REPORT: Following a recent court case in the US, where a number of chip makers have been caught red-handed engaging in cartel-like activity and other unlawful collaborations, the question that immediately comes to mind is how much component price fixing really goes on?
Logitech Rolls Out Cheap Home Music System Logitech has launched the Squeezebox Duet network music system, which allows people to access and listen to the music they love in any room of their home.
Portable Production System From NewTek TriCaster Broadcast with SDI support delivers enhanced efficiency and reliability. With audio embedded in the video signal producers can depend on a fast, professional set-up.
Australia To Get New Intel Chip First According to a number of overseas reports, the first few processors belonging to Intel's latest Centrino 2 mobile platform will be launched on an Australian PC platform.
Asustek Releases 3 New Graphics Cards Asustek Computer has unveiled three new graphics cards based on Nvidia and AMD GPUs, known as the EN9800GTX/HTDP/512M, EAH3850X2/HTDI/1G and EAH3650 SILENT/HTDI/1G.
New Xbox To Be Lite-On Taiwanese DVD and ODD maker Lite-On IT Corporation says it is developing built-in Blu-ray Disc-(BD) ROM drives for the Microsoft Xbox 360 game console, according to digitimes.com .
Waterproof Keyboards & Mice From Backplane Systems Technology The InduProof series IP68 Keyboards and Mice have been developed for industries where ease of cleaning or disinfecting is a requirement, such as pharmaceutical, medical, chemical and food manufacturing.
Sun Uses Light To Connect Chips According to a story in newsfactor.com, Sun Microsystems says it has found a way to reconnect the chips so they can communicate with each other at such high speeds that a new generation of computers that are faster, more energy-efficient and more compact.
WD Releases Two-Platter 640GB Hard Drive WD has released its Caviar SE16 640 GB 3.5-inch hard drive range based on 320 GB-per-platter technology and which are designed for data-intensive applications, high-performance computing and multimedia systems.
Intel Pushes 3GHz Dual Core Processors Intel says it has introduced two quad-core Intel Xeon L5400 series low-voltage 45nm processors that run at 50W and frequencies of 2.5GHz.
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