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Panasonic Corp., a leading producer of consumer electronics products, has announced that it began works on establishment of three-dimensional full-HD (3D FHD) Blu-ray disc (BD) format. The company will work with Hollywood studios to create three-dimensional high-definition titles and expects its own equipment that supports output of 3D movies to arrive in 2010.Earlier this year
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I just finished reading an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal by M. P. McQueen, which suggests that the bear market is creating a bull market for fraudsters. According to the numerous experts cited in the article, the reason for this is economic gloom and doom with a healthy dose of anxiety. This shouldn't be surprising because gloom, doom, and anxiety make
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Garmin Limited and Asustek Computer on Wednesday announced a strategic alliance that will leverage the companies’ navigation and mobile telephony expertise to design, manufacture and distribute co-branded location-centric mobile phones. Garmin and Asus have already begun joint development on a diverse mobile phone product line, which will be known as the Garmin-Asus
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Novafora, a startup attempting to develop video processors, on Wednesday said that it had completed of Transmeta Corp. Separately, Intellectual Ventures announced that it partly acquired Transmeta’s patent portfolio from Novafora and will be able to license these technologies to third parties. “With the completion of our acquisition of Transmeta, we are now
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Nvidia on Wednesday said that William J. Dally, the chairman of Stanford University’s computer science department, will join the company as chief scientist and vice president of Nvidia research and will replace the veteran chief scientist of Nvidia David Kirk. The switch of the persons who are not responsible for rapid and general business decisions may indicate that the
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Major contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co has announced that its fourth-quarter income dropped 64 percent year-on-year, blaming a worldwide recession and a sharp drop in demand. The Taiwanese manufacturer makes semiconductors for AMD, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments, including some of the most advanced 45nm-process technology. It said in a statement on Thursday
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A complaint alleging that IBM has abused its position in the European mainframe market was filed with the European Commission on Tuesday. The complaint from T3, a small US supplier of mainframes, said IBM has “a history of abusing its monopoly power in the mainframe industry”, according to a statement from T3. IBM is accused of engaging in a range of anti-competitive actions,
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Seagate on Friday acknowledged failures among recent models of its Barracuda and DiamondMax disk drives. Users affected lose all access to data on their disks, and the disks themselves are reported to become undetectable to the computers in which they are mounted. Seagate acknowledged the problem in a statement on its website that said: “A number of Seagate hard drivesВ… may become
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The DDR3 memory type might provide makers of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) much needed profitability because of the higher price, but the global economic slump as well as reported technical issues are likely to cause global transition to DDR3 to slip into 2010.According to a news-story by DigiTimes web-site, Intel will introduce its mainstream 5-series chipsets for
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