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by Mike Zazaian October 6, 2006 - 3:25pm, 2 Comments >>

Documents acquired under the freedom information act indicate that Dell knew of their battery issues almost a year before a recall was initiated.

As is clear from the documents, Dell reported several overheating incidents to the Consumer Product Safety Commission last October. Within a few months of the report Dell discovered the cause of the overheating, the same notorious metal particles that have caused short circuits in almost 8 million lithium-ion batteries.

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by Mike Zazaian October 4, 2006 - 11:18am, 3 Comments >>

In the wake of recalling more than 7.7 million laptop batteries from top notebook manufacturers, Sony is gearing up to launch a battery recall of its own.

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by Mike Zazaian October 3, 2006 - 3:20pm, 2 Comments >>

Nokia introduced today a wireless radio interface called Wibree, which offers bluetooth-like connectivity, but with smaller size and power consumption.

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by Mike Zazaian October 3, 2006 - 10:38am, 5 Comments >>

Manufacturers of upcoming Blu-Ray and HD-DVD recorders announced today that there are no plans to sell high-definition recording devices in the United States.

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by Mike Zazaian September 29, 2006 - 5:33pm, No Comments

While the raw power of GPUs have only been harnessed for graphics applications to this point, ATI’s announcement of stream computing today will allow users to harness much-needed GPU muscle for non-graphics applications.

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by Mike Zazaian September 29, 2006 - 10:26am, 2 Comments >>

After recalling 340,000 batteries due to short circuit concerns last week, Toshiba has recalled an additional 830,000 Sony Laptop Batteries that were used in various notebook models.

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by Mike Zazaian September 29, 2006 - 9:27am, 1 Comment >>

While Intel’s initial line-up of Ultra-Moble PCs never really came to fruition, a much-updated design unveiled at the Intel Developer’s Forum in San Francisco marks the product that was promised by Intel a year ago.

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by Mike Zazaian September 28, 2006 - 9:01am, 4 Comments >>

Intel CEO Paul Otellini wowed the media at Intel’s Developer Forum with promises of an 80-core chip within five years, the innovation of connecting memory directly to processor cores could have a bigger impact on computing.

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by Mike Zazaian September 26, 2006 - 2:16pm, 90 Comments >>

Intel has developed an 80-core processor prototype that it plans to roll out within the next five years.

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by Mike Zazaian September 26, 2006 - 11:10am, 1 Comment >>

Two of Google’s leading data center designers called on the PC industry to modify outdated PC power supply standards, a move which they say will save billions of kilowatt-hours of energy per year.

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