By withdrawing its offer to buy Sun Microsystems on Sunday, IBM has left the future uncertain for a pioneering but struggling Silicon Valley tech company. Still, the talks may not be over.
After extensive negotiations, the two tech giants had appeared close to finalizing a deal for about $7 billion at the end of last week. But IBM lowered its offer and then withdrew it Sunday, after Sun balked at the price and terms of the sale, according to a source familiar with the negotiations.
Gigabyte Technology has recently revealed plans to cut into the white-box netbook market in China and is currently in supply-negotiations with three major local white-box netbook vendors, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report.
The company expects the negotiations to be completed by the end of the second quarter, and the deals are estimated to triple the company's notebook shipments from last year's 150,000 units to 500,000 units in 2009, added the paper.
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“Now what does someone like me do with such a tiny laptop? Well, I bring it everywhere I go! It's easy to do so, being the size of a hardcover novel. I'm constantly working on documents, whether resumes or more recreational writing, and this little guy is a great way to get those documents done. When it comes to writing on a computer, I believe that the human/machine interface should be as transparent as possible; this netbook facilitates that transparency easily.”
Cloud Engines today announced that the Pogoplug, a small device that connects external hard drives to the Internet, is now shipping. Customers who pre-ordered will start receiving their orders this week. The Pogoplug makes all content on a hard drive instantly shareable and accessible with no uploading or special network configuration. The product costs $99 USD, has no monthly fees, and can be ordered online at www.pogoplug.com.”Consumers will purchase more than 15 million hard drives this year to store personal
Penton Overseas is taking language learning to the next level with products made specifically for the iPod, iTouch and iPhone, with compatible formats supported by other video players and cell phones. With the most foreign language learning titles for Apple’s popular iPod format out of any other foreign language audio book Publisher, Penton Overseas announced today that all 22 titles are now available for immediate download from their website. The use of an iPod for teaching foreign language is only now
NVIDIA launched the GeForce GTX 285 about three months ago, and in our launch article, we found it to be a very strong product. As you are no doubt aware, the GTX 285 is a replacement for the GTX 280. The GT200B GPU at the heart of the GTX 285 is nearly identical to the GTX 280’s GT200 GPU. The most significant difference between the two GPUs is that the GT200B is manufactured using a 55nm fabrication process while the GT200 is built on a 65nm process. We take our NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 coverage further here
Earlier reports indicating faster Internet access for the new iPhone were vague as to exactly what that meant, cellular or wi-fi, and now it appears to be both. AppleInsider reports that resource files for a third-generation iPod Touch included in the beta iPhone 3.0 firmware indicate a new Broadcom chip, BCM4329 (changed from the current BCM4325), which supports low-power 802.11n and Bluetooth. Of course, while AppleInsider theorizes the same upgrade may be coming to the iPhone, that’s not indicated in any
The A790GXM-AD3 is the ultimate AM3 Socket motherboard from ECS for AMD Phenom II processors. The integrated graphics are powered by the ATI Radeon HD 3300 DirectX 10 based graphics core, which is part of the platform AMD 790GX chipset! Read on to see how this motherboard does with an AMD Phenom II X3 720 processor!
A series of tweets on Demi Moore’s twitter feed help saved a 47-year-old San Jose, California woman’s life, according to reports. One of the hundreds of thousands of followings of Demi Moore’s Twitter stream, mrskutcher, sandieguy, wrote a message to Moore early Friday morning. “Getting a knife, a big one that is sharp. Going to cut my arm down the whole arm so it doesn’t waste time.”Followed a few seconds later by: “gbye … gonna kill myself now.” Later that morning, the message was retweeted to Moore’s Twitter
Gamers across the pond (meaning Europe and Japan, specifically) have been able to handle Nintendo’s smallest and most powerful DS system yet for some time now, but at long last the pleasure is finally coming to those who call North America home. Starting this week, gamers with a thirst for more on-the-go fun can part with $170 in order to bring home the much hyped DSi handheld.Early reviews have found the upgraded device to be far superior to its two predecessors. The loss of the GameBoy Advance slot is a surefire