AMD Board of Directors Elects Dirk Meyer President and CEO- Hector Ruiz Named Executive Chairman of AMD –SUNNYVALE, Calif. — July 17, 2008 — AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced that its board of directors elected President and COO Dirk Meyer as the company’s chief executive officer.  Meyer succeeds Hector Ruiz, who will become executive chairman of AMD and chair of the board of directors.  As executive chairman, Ruiz will ensure a smooth executive leadership transition, focus on driving the company’s asset

Security company Finjan recently proclaimed that it detected over 1,000 different Website domains had been compromised during the first two months of June by a known malware toolkit, “Asprox,” which has been around for over a year (according to Symantec). “… a new round of mass Web attacks has started during May 2008. Hackers successfully compromised a large number of government and top businesses websites worldwide to infect visitors with malware. The attack toolkit being used (which is aliased as “Asprox”)

Three New NVIDIA Tools Help Developers Quickly Debug and Speed Up Video Games PerfHUD 6, FX Composer 2.5, and Shader Debugger Help Simplify Game Development SANTA CLARA, CA—JULY 17, 2008—Today’s top video games use complex programming and rendering techniques that can take months to create and tune in order to get the image quality and silky-smooth frame rates that gamers demand. Thousands of developers worldwide including members of Blizzard Entertainment, Crytek, Epic Games, and Rockstar Games rely on NVIDIA

Kingston HyperX 2GB PC3-12800 Review @ ASE Labs and other reviews from around the web can be found in our forums!

” DDR3 is finally coming to a price where many mainstream system builders will be willing to pay. Manufacturers must provide mainstream DDR3 solutions to fill in the gap between the high end (and inexpensive) DDR2 and the very expensive, high speed DDR3 modules. While the HyperX line from Kingston may not be the mainstream product, the KHX12800D3K2/2G kit is described as the mainstream overclocking kit. It is far cheaper than speedier kits but lacks the tight timings as well. This could be the kit that kicks off DDR3. “

Though we all got a sneak peak late last night, this morning Opera officially released its new Opera Mobile 9.5 mobile Web browser right on schedule (after a slight, but publicized delay). Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta 1 is now available for download but is, for the moment, compatible only with touchscreen devices running Windows Mobile 5/6.

Though a bit buggy (it is a beta, after all), Opera Mobile 9.5 has a lot to offer, and since it’s free, head over to the Opera web site and give it a try. Want to know more? Read our Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta 1 Review.

ROGCon, the first ever convention focused On ASUS award-winning Republic of Gamers lineup of gaming products and created in collaboration with Intel, today welcomed two new sponsors. ATI and BenQ have both added their support to the event, strengthening a sponsor lineup that already includes Kingston, Enermax, HardOCP, CPU Magazine, Amazon and Newegg.com. Gamers attending the ROGCon can expect to view, first hand, next generation technologies including notebooks based on the Intel Centrino 2 mobile technology, ASUS next generation gaming notebooks, the new Matrix series of gaming video cards, the upcoming Eee products for casual gamers, the award-winning ARES gaming system, and the latest offering from the sponsors

“The participation of ATI and BenQ in ROGcon opens an even wider selection of products to the event for gamers to see and enjoy, said Kevin Huang, Senior Director of Marketing for ASUS Computer International. “The strong list of sponsors also shows tremendous industry-wide support for this inaugural event, and the Republic of Gamers lineup overall. ASUS features a full lineup of performance video cards based on ATIs powerful GPUs, and several of ASUS cutting edge motherboards are built around ATIs CrossFire and CrossFireX multi-GPU gaming technologies. BenQ supplies a lineup monitors that are built to deliver under the most demanding visual applications.

Hewlett-Packard became the latest vendor to announce a “mini datacenter” housed in a shipping container, which can provide a way for companies to add compute capacity when power and cooling systems in their existing datacenters are maxed out. HP's 40-foot POD will contain 22 50u server racks and be able to house up to 1,100 1u servers or 12,000 large-form-factor hard drives, for a total 12 petabytes of storage.

HP's Performance Optimized Data Center, or POD, will be available in the U.S. by the end of the third quarter and worldwide a few months after that, the company said Wednesday. HP joins Sun Microsystems, Rackable Systems, and IBM, among others, who sell similar products

Worldwide PC shipments continued to grow at a healthy pace in the second quarter of 2008. Shipments were up 15.3% from a year ago slightly more than second-quarter projections and first-quarter growth of 14.9%. Solid growth in the EMEA region helped offset slower growth in Asia/Pacific excluding Japan, according to IDC.

“Despite the economic headwinds, the PC market continued to show its resilience,” said Loren Loverde, director of IDC's Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. “Product refreshes, vendor competition for channels, and aggressive pricing add to the ongoing trend toward portable computing in attracting buyers. The steady growth, despite the pressure on consumer finances, reflects the increasingly important role of PCs within personal technology, and steady improvements in price and design. Nevertheless, economic pressures are mounting and PC market growth is expected to decline over the next year. The relatively strong PC market in recent quarters does not mean that the sector is immune to the changing economic environment.”

Who could seriously say that in these troubled times, police don’t need all the help they can get?  And, quite honestly, particularly in the neighborhood (no pun intended) of speeders.  Even without watching TV shows such as TruTV’s Speeders, all one has to do is look around to see that one reason people may not want a new 55 or even 60 MPH maximum speed limit, despite high gas prices, is that they looooove to drive fast.Landon Wilburn, 11, grew tired of speeders zipping through his subdivision, so

Amazon customers, watch your e-mail inboxes carefully today. You might be one of the select few who get invited to try out Amazon’s new Video On Demand Service, which is scheduled to rollout today for a limited, invitation-only debut. The rest of us schlubs will have to wait until later in the summer to check it out. Unlike Amazon’s Unbox service, which is a download-only proposition, Amazon’s new Video on Demand service will stream movies and TV shows directly to your computer. Amazon’s Unbox service requires