Diversify! urges the paranoid one
By Emma Hughes Friday, 12 December 2008
FORMER CHAIRMAN of Intel, Andy Grove is pushing the company to move in an unexpected direction and make batteries for plug-in electric cars, reports the Wall Street Journal. Grove, who still advises the company, is apparently urging chief executive Paul Otellini in the direction of car batteries as he believes Intel should be filling this niche in the market and grasping the chance to diversify the business. As the production of plug-in electric cars increases there is definitely room for companies such as Intel to step-up and move in on this growing market. Grove has said that Intel’s vast fortune means that it could help this market as well as helping itself, as it could improve the performance of electric car batteries, and even cut the cost of selling as well as producing them.
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Friday, December 12, 2008
XFX to sell ATI (AMD) graphics cards in the new year
By Tarinder Sandhu, 12th December, 2008
HEXUS can confirm that one of NVIDIA's strongest AIB supporters, XFX, will be signed up as an ATI (AMD) card partner in the very near future. What that means is that XFX, with its glitzy marketing and XXX Edition cards, will be bringing all this marketing know-how to ATI's GPUs - presumably encompassing the entire line-up of 2-, 3-, and 4-series SKUs. HEXUS has learned that a formal announcement, detailing the exact relationship between XFX and AMD/ATI, is expected next Tuesday. What's important to note is that XFX will still be producing NVIDIA-based cards, but it's interesting to see that XFX has chosen a time when NVIDIA is in a strong position to drop brand exclusivity. Perhaps it was a case of NVIDIA laying down the law one too many times, or, more likely, XFX needed to diversify its interests a little.
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HEXUS can confirm that one of NVIDIA's strongest AIB supporters, XFX, will be signed up as an ATI (AMD) card partner in the very near future. What that means is that XFX, with its glitzy marketing and XXX Edition cards, will be bringing all this marketing know-how to ATI's GPUs - presumably encompassing the entire line-up of 2-, 3-, and 4-series SKUs. HEXUS has learned that a formal announcement, detailing the exact relationship between XFX and AMD/ATI, is expected next Tuesday. What's important to note is that XFX will still be producing NVIDIA-based cards, but it's interesting to see that XFX has chosen a time when NVIDIA is in a strong position to drop brand exclusivity. Perhaps it was a case of NVIDIA laying down the law one too many times, or, more likely, XFX needed to diversify its interests a little.
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Hardened Google Chrome Ready to Throw Down With IE, Firefox
By Jason Mick - December 12, 2008
The browser market is, according to some analysts, saturated. Firefox is making slow gains and leader Microsoft's Internet Explorer has waned slightly, but the pair holds the vast majority of the market. Opera also holds a small market share, continuing to eke out gains, as does Apple's Safari browser, buoyed by the increased in MacBook and iPhone shipments. Coming into this market, Google faced a tough battle with its first browser offering, Chrome. And while many lauded Google for trying new things with the browser, others criticized it for crashes and lack of certain features found in Firefox. While Chrome was expected to "kill" smaller browsers like Opera, while stealing market share from the big guys like Microsoft, the opposite actually happened -- Chrome slid from its initial market share, while Opera climbed. Now at last Google's Chrome browser is out of beta and is a full-fledged product. However, for a giant used to dominating every field it tries its hand in, the prospect of lack of adoption is a strange one for Google. In order to try to prevent such an outcome, Google has outfitted the final version of its browser with arguably the toughest security foundation found on the market today.
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The browser market is, according to some analysts, saturated. Firefox is making slow gains and leader Microsoft's Internet Explorer has waned slightly, but the pair holds the vast majority of the market. Opera also holds a small market share, continuing to eke out gains, as does Apple's Safari browser, buoyed by the increased in MacBook and iPhone shipments. Coming into this market, Google faced a tough battle with its first browser offering, Chrome. And while many lauded Google for trying new things with the browser, others criticized it for crashes and lack of certain features found in Firefox. While Chrome was expected to "kill" smaller browsers like Opera, while stealing market share from the big guys like Microsoft, the opposite actually happened -- Chrome slid from its initial market share, while Opera climbed. Now at last Google's Chrome browser is out of beta and is a full-fledged product. However, for a giant used to dominating every field it tries its hand in, the prospect of lack of adoption is a strange one for Google. In order to try to prevent such an outcome, Google has outfitted the final version of its browser with arguably the toughest security foundation found on the market today.
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