by Tuan Nguyen April 13, 2009
AMD clarified with press late last week about the immediate future of its line of Radeon HD graphics products, particularly the HD 4870 X2. According to AMD, its partners are now being selected and prepped for validation of its next major part, the HD 4890 X2. According to reports, the new card will have both GPUs running at least at 1 GHz core clock speed. Depending on the SKU, customers should be seeing 2 GB and 4 GB cards. The specs are not fully confirmed yet, but we'll let you know when we hear anything different.
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Monday, April 13, 2009
Intel issues solid-state drive fix
by Brooke Crothers April 13, 2009
Intel released a fix for its solid-state drives Monday, addressing an issue first reported back in February. "We are releasing an end-user firmware update for our X-25M and X-18M SSD drives today," Intel said Monday. Intel said this addresses a problem first introduced by technology Web site PC Perspective in February. "This update implements several continuous improvements and optimizations to the drive algorithms including a resolution for a performance issue first reported by the PC Perspective," Intel said. The PC Perspective review, titled "Long-term performance analysis of Intel Mainstream SSDs," claimed, among other things, that the Intel X25-M solid-state drive would degrade in performance as a result of "internal fragmentation."
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Intel released a fix for its solid-state drives Monday, addressing an issue first reported back in February. "We are releasing an end-user firmware update for our X-25M and X-18M SSD drives today," Intel said Monday. Intel said this addresses a problem first introduced by technology Web site PC Perspective in February. "This update implements several continuous improvements and optimizations to the drive algorithms including a resolution for a performance issue first reported by the PC Perspective," Intel said. The PC Perspective review, titled "Long-term performance analysis of Intel Mainstream SSDs," claimed, among other things, that the Intel X25-M solid-state drive would degrade in performance as a result of "internal fragmentation."
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Report: Skype Founders Look to Buy Company from eBay
By Shane McGlaun - April 13, 2009
Back in 2005, eBay purchased Skype for about $1.7 billion with then CEO Meg Whitman saying that eBay believed Skype would find an audience with eBay buyers and sellers. This failed to happen and current eBay CEO John Donahoe has said that Skype has no synergies with eBay reports eWeek. Donahoe said that eBay would do what was right for Skype and eBay -- many analysts took that statement as an indication that eBay may be interested in selling Skype. While eBay hasn’t officially stated that it is trying to sell Skype, the original founders of the Skype service, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, have reportedly contacted private equity firms in an attempt to make a bid to purchase their company back from eBay.
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Back in 2005, eBay purchased Skype for about $1.7 billion with then CEO Meg Whitman saying that eBay believed Skype would find an audience with eBay buyers and sellers. This failed to happen and current eBay CEO John Donahoe has said that Skype has no synergies with eBay reports eWeek. Donahoe said that eBay would do what was right for Skype and eBay -- many analysts took that statement as an indication that eBay may be interested in selling Skype. While eBay hasn’t officially stated that it is trying to sell Skype, the original founders of the Skype service, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, have reportedly contacted private equity firms in an attempt to make a bid to purchase their company back from eBay.
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Microsoft to start pushing IE 8 browser
by Ina Fried April 13, 2009
Microsoft said it plans next week to start pushing its Internet Explorer 8 browser to consumers who have Windows' automatic-update feature turned on. The software maker released the browser for download at last month's Mix conference and had said it planned to start pushing the browser out in the coming days. "Starting on or about the third week of April, users still running IE 6 or IE 7 on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Server 2008 will get will get a notification through Automatic Update about IE 8," Microsoft said, though a representative said on Monday that this will not take place until next week, at the earliest.
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Microsoft said it plans next week to start pushing its Internet Explorer 8 browser to consumers who have Windows' automatic-update feature turned on. The software maker released the browser for download at last month's Mix conference and had said it planned to start pushing the browser out in the coming days. "Starting on or about the third week of April, users still running IE 6 or IE 7 on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Server 2008 will get will get a notification through Automatic Update about IE 8," Microsoft said, though a representative said on Monday that this will not take place until next week, at the earliest.
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