By Sumner Lemon, Sep 10, 2008
A lawsuit filed in a California court on Tuesday alleged Nvidia violated U.S. securities laws and concealed the existence of a serious defect in its graphics-chip line for at least eight months "in a series of false and misleading statements made to the investing public." The lawsuit charged that Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang and CFO Marvin Burkett knew as early as November 2007 about a flaw that exists in the packaging used with some of the company's graphics chips that caused them to fail at unusually high rates. Nvidia did not immediately reply to an e-mail request for comment on the lawsuit. Nvidia publicly acknowledged the flaw on July 2, when it announced plans to take a one-time charge of up to US$200 million to cover warranty costs related to the problem. That announcement caused Nvidia's stock price to fall by 31 percent to $12.98 and reduced the company's market capitalization by $3 billion, the lawsuit said.
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Microsoft: Say Goodbye to Laser Mice and Hello to Blue
Microsoft continues its creative improvements to everyone's favorite desktop pointing device
By Jason Mick - September 10, 2008
In July DailyTech, brought word that Microsoft was cooking up a new mouse design in the form of the arc mouse which could be folded in half for easy carrying. Then in August, Microsoft's X5 gaming mouse, also due out holiday 2008, was announced. Now there's even bigger mouse news coming from Microsoft that is arguably the biggest development to the business in several years.It’s been a while since mainstream mice used balls to determine their position. Ball-driven mice fell to the easier rolling laser mice, starting in 2004, when the laser mice made their widespread commercial appearance -- now the mouse world is poised for another revolution.Just like the progression from VHS to DVD to Blu-Ray, mice have evolved from ball mice to red laser mice and now have reached the next stage -- blue beam mice. Microsoft hinted that something big was coming with a teaser on its website that stated "Say Goodbye to Laser".
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By Jason Mick - September 10, 2008
In July DailyTech, brought word that Microsoft was cooking up a new mouse design in the form of the arc mouse which could be folded in half for easy carrying. Then in August, Microsoft's X5 gaming mouse, also due out holiday 2008, was announced. Now there's even bigger mouse news coming from Microsoft that is arguably the biggest development to the business in several years.It’s been a while since mainstream mice used balls to determine their position. Ball-driven mice fell to the easier rolling laser mice, starting in 2004, when the laser mice made their widespread commercial appearance -- now the mouse world is poised for another revolution.Just like the progression from VHS to DVD to Blu-Ray, mice have evolved from ball mice to red laser mice and now have reached the next stage -- blue beam mice. Microsoft hinted that something big was coming with a teaser on its website that stated "Say Goodbye to Laser".
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HP may trump Dell with a 24-hour battery-powered EliteBook
By Jacqueline Emigh, September 9, 2008
Tired of watching your laptop batteries conk out after two hours, even though the brochure promised four? Next month, HP expects to ship an EliteBook 6930p notebook that promises a phenomenal 24 hours of battery life without recharging. Only about a month after Dell's rollout of Latitude notebooks with 19 hours of battery life, Hewlett-Packard has announced plans to ship its own high-end business laptop -- the EliteBook 6390p -- complete with a high capacity battery option able to deliver a full day of battery operation, without recharging. First announced earlier this year along with more than a dozen other HP notebooks, the new EliteBook also boasts options that include solid-state drives (SSDs) from Intel and a mercury-free 14.1-inch IllumiLite LED screen. HP waited until this week, though, to announce the 24-hour battery life feat. HP credits the machine's other components for helping to supply an entire day of battery use. The Intel SSDs, for instance, bring up to a 7% battery life increase over traditional hard drives. The IllumiLite boosts battery life a full four hours over conventional displays, officials said in a statement.
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Tired of watching your laptop batteries conk out after two hours, even though the brochure promised four? Next month, HP expects to ship an EliteBook 6930p notebook that promises a phenomenal 24 hours of battery life without recharging. Only about a month after Dell's rollout of Latitude notebooks with 19 hours of battery life, Hewlett-Packard has announced plans to ship its own high-end business laptop -- the EliteBook 6390p -- complete with a high capacity battery option able to deliver a full day of battery operation, without recharging. First announced earlier this year along with more than a dozen other HP notebooks, the new EliteBook also boasts options that include solid-state drives (SSDs) from Intel and a mercury-free 14.1-inch IllumiLite LED screen. HP waited until this week, though, to announce the 24-hour battery life feat. HP credits the machine's other components for helping to supply an entire day of battery use. The Intel SSDs, for instance, bring up to a 7% battery life increase over traditional hard drives. The IllumiLite boosts battery life a full four hours over conventional displays, officials said in a statement.
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Apple unveils new iPods, changes in iTunes, but investors not dazzled
By JORDAN ROBERTSON and JESSICA MINTZ Sep 9, 2008
Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs took the wraps off a revamped line of iPods on Tuesday and trumpeted a truce with NBC Universal that means the TV network will begin selling programs again on iTunes. The iPod announcements were largely expected, and investors were less than energized, sending Apple's shares down $6.24, 4 percent, to close at $151.68. The iPod upgrades Jobs revealed Tuesday in a theater in San Francisco include two slick new Nano models, oval-shaped devices that Jobs said are the thinnest iPods Apple has ever made. They are less than a quarter-inch thick. A $149 version comes with 8 gigabytes of memory (enough for 2,000 songs); a 16-gigabyte version (which holds 4,000 songs) is $199. The new models acknowledge the incredible appetite for iPods - Jobs said Apple has sold 160 million iPods since their introduction in 2001, making them the runaway leader among portable music players. But Apple has to work hard to differentiate them from the iPhone, Apple's cell phone/iPod/Internet device that threatens to cannibalize some of the demand for iPods.
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Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs took the wraps off a revamped line of iPods on Tuesday and trumpeted a truce with NBC Universal that means the TV network will begin selling programs again on iTunes. The iPod announcements were largely expected, and investors were less than energized, sending Apple's shares down $6.24, 4 percent, to close at $151.68. The iPod upgrades Jobs revealed Tuesday in a theater in San Francisco include two slick new Nano models, oval-shaped devices that Jobs said are the thinnest iPods Apple has ever made. They are less than a quarter-inch thick. A $149 version comes with 8 gigabytes of memory (enough for 2,000 songs); a 16-gigabyte version (which holds 4,000 songs) is $199. The new models acknowledge the incredible appetite for iPods - Jobs said Apple has sold 160 million iPods since their introduction in 2001, making them the runaway leader among portable music players. But Apple has to work hard to differentiate them from the iPhone, Apple's cell phone/iPod/Internet device that threatens to cannibalize some of the demand for iPods.
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