By Murad Ahmed January 26, 2009
Speculation is mounting that eBay, the internet auction website, is preparing to sell Skype, its internet telephone company. Industry insiders believe that eBay signalled its intent last week after John Donahue, its chief executive, described Skype as a “great stand-alone business”. This has led to suggestions that eBay would find it relatively easy to part with Skype, if a substantial bid was made. Mr Donahue was speaking to analysts about eBay's disappointing fourth-quarter profits, which had been hit by slowing consumer spending. When asked what was being done by eBay to add shareholder value in Skype, Mr Donahue admitted that “the synergies between Skype and the other parts of our portfolio are minimal. We're going to continue to run and operate the business. It's not a distraction currently. And at such time when we have further announcements on that, we'll let you know.”
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Western Digital launches world's first 2TB hard drive
By Parm Mann 27th January, 2009
Storage-specialist Western Digital has officially taken the wraps off its new pride and joy, the 2TB Caviar Green hard drive. The 3.5in drive becomes the highest-capacity offering currently available, and provides a mammoth 500GB of storage on each of its four platters. There's the expected 32MB cache, and a selection of Western Digital technologies - IntelliPower and IntelliSeek, for example - designed to make the drive less power hungry, cool and quiet. Though the Caviar Green hard drive series also boasts 1.5TB and 1TB models, it's this gargantuan 2TB drive (model #WD20EADS) that'll be turning heads. The drive utilises a standard 3GB/s SATA interface and claims to consume less than 1W of power when in standby, 4W when idle and 7.4W when reading/writing.
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Storage-specialist Western Digital has officially taken the wraps off its new pride and joy, the 2TB Caviar Green hard drive. The 3.5in drive becomes the highest-capacity offering currently available, and provides a mammoth 500GB of storage on each of its four platters. There's the expected 32MB cache, and a selection of Western Digital technologies - IntelliPower and IntelliSeek, for example - designed to make the drive less power hungry, cool and quiet. Though the Caviar Green hard drive series also boasts 1.5TB and 1TB models, it's this gargantuan 2TB drive (model #WD20EADS) that'll be turning heads. The drive utilises a standard 3GB/s SATA interface and claims to consume less than 1W of power when in standby, 4W when idle and 7.4W when reading/writing.
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AMD Updates Opteron Processor Lineup with Energy-Efficient Chips
By Scott Ferguson 01-26- 2009
Advanced Micro Devices is expanding its line of 45-nanometer processors to include five new energy-efficient models and a pair of high-performance chips running at 2.8GHz. AMD plans to officially announce the seven new Opteron processors Jan. 26, although these models have been shipping to the company’s OEM partners and customers since the beginning of the month. The seven processors help expand AMD’s line of 45-nm Opteron processors that the company first introduced in November under the code name “Shanghai.” These Opteron processors feature four processing cores and 6MB of Level 3 cache that all four cores share; all four cores also each have 512KB of dedicated L2 cache. The new Opterons come at time when AMD and Intel have watched enterprises and midmarket businesses cut back on their purchases of hardware, especially PCs and server systems, as the United States deals with a recession that picked up steam in September, especially within the financial and banking communities.
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Advanced Micro Devices is expanding its line of 45-nanometer processors to include five new energy-efficient models and a pair of high-performance chips running at 2.8GHz. AMD plans to officially announce the seven new Opteron processors Jan. 26, although these models have been shipping to the company’s OEM partners and customers since the beginning of the month. The seven processors help expand AMD’s line of 45-nm Opteron processors that the company first introduced in November under the code name “Shanghai.” These Opteron processors feature four processing cores and 6MB of Level 3 cache that all four cores share; all four cores also each have 512KB of dedicated L2 cache. The new Opterons come at time when AMD and Intel have watched enterprises and midmarket businesses cut back on their purchases of hardware, especially PCs and server systems, as the United States deals with a recession that picked up steam in September, especially within the financial and banking communities.
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Apple Awarded Multi-Touch Patent
Apple secures the means to legally punish would-be competitors
By Jason Mick - January 27, 2009
DailyTech previously reported that Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook hinted in an earnings call that litigation against competitors whom Apple believes are trying to infringe its intellectual property may be in the works. Now Apple has gained a solid foothold to sue would be competitors like Palm who release similar multi-touch devices. Apple was granted a patent for multi-touch, featured in its popular iPhone, on January 20, 2009. The patent encompasses the basic technical deals of multi-touch technology, as well as finger gestures such as pinch, swipe and rotation. Apple's CEO Steve Jobs, currently on medical leave, and Scott Forstall are among those credited with "inventing" multi-touch.
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By Jason Mick - January 27, 2009
DailyTech previously reported that Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook hinted in an earnings call that litigation against competitors whom Apple believes are trying to infringe its intellectual property may be in the works. Now Apple has gained a solid foothold to sue would be competitors like Palm who release similar multi-touch devices. Apple was granted a patent for multi-touch, featured in its popular iPhone, on January 20, 2009. The patent encompasses the basic technical deals of multi-touch technology, as well as finger gestures such as pinch, swipe and rotation. Apple's CEO Steve Jobs, currently on medical leave, and Scott Forstall are among those credited with "inventing" multi-touch.
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The DTV Delay Act might not delay DTV for some
by Scott M. Fulton, III January 27, 2009
While the DTV Delay Act, passed unanimously in the Senate yesterday and likely to be passed on the House floor today, moves the official DTV transition date for the nation from February 17 to June 12, it specifically allows US broadcasters to throw their own switches at any time they see fit in the interim. "Nothing in this Act is intended to prevent a licensee of a television broadcast station from terminating the broadcasting of such station's analog television signal (and continuing to broadcast exclusively in the digital television service) prior to the date established by law," reads the text of S. 328 released this morning to the Library of Congress. Should broadcasters within a given region vacate the analog spectrum prior to June 12, the FCC may determine whether public safety officials may be granted access to the vacated frequencies...evidently in separate determinations per region. Should an individual have been given a government coupon toward the purchase of a digital converter box, the Act states, and that coupon has not yet been redeemed, the government may issue a replacement coupon. This instead of simply extending the validity of existing coupons, and instead of what was touted to have been an unnecessary waiting period for folks trying to re-apply for coupons. The stated purpose of the DTV delay was to reduce confusion. The National Association of Broadcasters, which had earlier expressed its preference that the February 17 date be kept, now supports the Delay Act because it enables broadcasters to make the switch at any time between mid-February and mid-June.
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While the DTV Delay Act, passed unanimously in the Senate yesterday and likely to be passed on the House floor today, moves the official DTV transition date for the nation from February 17 to June 12, it specifically allows US broadcasters to throw their own switches at any time they see fit in the interim. "Nothing in this Act is intended to prevent a licensee of a television broadcast station from terminating the broadcasting of such station's analog television signal (and continuing to broadcast exclusively in the digital television service) prior to the date established by law," reads the text of S. 328 released this morning to the Library of Congress. Should broadcasters within a given region vacate the analog spectrum prior to June 12, the FCC may determine whether public safety officials may be granted access to the vacated frequencies...evidently in separate determinations per region. Should an individual have been given a government coupon toward the purchase of a digital converter box, the Act states, and that coupon has not yet been redeemed, the government may issue a replacement coupon. This instead of simply extending the validity of existing coupons, and instead of what was touted to have been an unnecessary waiting period for folks trying to re-apply for coupons. The stated purpose of the DTV delay was to reduce confusion. The National Association of Broadcasters, which had earlier expressed its preference that the February 17 date be kept, now supports the Delay Act because it enables broadcasters to make the switch at any time between mid-February and mid-June.
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