For the first quarter of 2008, Intel is projecting revenue between $9.4 billion and $10 billion, representing more than the usual seasonal decline of about 7 percent. Smith did not attribute the decline to any one significant factor, but a combination of continued weak pricing on NAND memory and an end to some supply agreements [...]
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Microsoft sets a three-week ultimatum for a Yahoo
Following earlier news that Microsoft was recalculating its $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo, it has become clear what the company has decided to do. Microsoft has thrown down the gauntlet, as evidenced by a letter Saturday from CEO Steve Ballmer to Yahoo’s board of directors. Here’s the quote that sums up the entire letter:
Full [...]
Microsoft finally learning to let ‘X’ talk to ‘Y’
First, Ray Ozzie’s fingerprints are all over this document. The Wizard of Oz, Microsoft’s chief software architect, may be among the savviest technologists alive today, and it’s been interesting to watch him navigate a huge, resistant bureaucracy. Since Ozzie’s arrival after Microsoft acquired his company in April 2005, he’s attempted with limited success to engineer [...]
LivingSocial’s lesson for social-network developer
LivingSocial, the parent site for six user review services including ReadingSocial, TuneSocial, and ReelSocial, is announcing two things today: First, a $5 million round of venture funding, which will be used to expand the business. And second, an interesting new strategic twist for the company: a destination Web site. LivingSocial has, to date, relied almost [...]
USB 3.0 Nvidia responds to Intel, SiS joins fight
This will lead to further delays, according to Nvidia. “By then, they have become the de facto standard and we have no choice but to go back and respin (redesign) the chip, which then adds another nine months,” Nvidia says. “Effectively, Intel is building in two years of green field–of a market where they’re the [...]
Visual Studio 2010 to come with ‘black box’
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates talked about adding a “black box” to Windows (without the video-recording ability, though). Microsoft later said it wasn’t broadly expanding the “Watson” error-reporting capabilities beyond the kinds of data it already had been collecting. It was never totally clear as to what Gates was referring to.
Mendlen said it is expected to [...]
Canadian public TV to try out BitTorrent
Rogers Cable, one of Canada’s largest Internet providers, has adopted Comcast-style BitTorrent filtering, so CBC’s use of the technology is sure to heat up the debate.
CBC is conducting the entire BitTorrent effort in-house. The show will be encoded into multiple formats (including an
iPod-friendly version), Orvis said, and the BitTorrent server will be running on a [...]
CNET News Daily Podcast More DRM blues around dig
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New search engine takes aim at Google
Ozzie puts his own spin on ‘ThinkWeek’
MSN to follow Yahoo in issuing music refunds?
CNET News’ Greg Sandoval analyzes Yahoo’s attempts at damage control to mollify customers upset over its digital music policy. Apple has begun issuing regular status reports for its recently introduced e-mail and [...]
Wrestling with a Canon printer driver
Not hard. Not completely true either, as it turns out.
I saved the file (i320xp190usz.exe) to the root of the C disk and ran it from there. The resulting error is shown below.
1. Click the link, select “Save,” specify “Save As,” then click “Save” to download the file.
2. The downloaded file will be [...]
Mac OS X 10.6 details leak out
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Apple)
Apple quickly retracted a few
Mac OS X 10.6 tidbits leaked out by its Canadian subsidiary following the Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, but the Internet misses nothing.
Apple’s Bertrand Serlet was scheduled to address Apple’s developers in a session closed to the press Monday afternoon to go over 10.6, and now we have some idea of [...]




