Just hours ago AMD announced the availability of three new AMD Phenom X3 triple-core processors that feature the latest B3 stepping. AMD first announced triple-core processors back in September 2007, but only just recently launched the AMD Phenom X3 8000 series last month. AMD has finally brought the 'B3' stepping to the triple-cores and has announced three new AMD Phenom X3 triple-core processors that make up the new '50-series'.
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Yahoo Inc. delivered first-quarter results that surpassed analysts' modest expectations, but the performance might not be enough to fortify the Internet pioneer's defense against Microsoft Corp.'s takeover bid. The Sunnyvale-based company said Tuesday that it earned $542.2 million, or 37 cents per share, more than tripling from its profit of $142.4 million, or 10 cents per share, at the same time last year.
Most of the first-quarter improvement stemmed from a one-time gain of $401 million generated by Yahoo's stake in the parent company of Alibaba.com, a leading e-commerce site in China.
If not for the Alibaba windfall, Yahoo would have earned 11 cents per share comparable to its profit at the same time last year, on an apples-to-apples basis.
The results were 2 cents above the average estimate among analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial.
Revenue climbed 9 percent to $1.82 billion.
After subtracting commissions paid to Yahoo's advertising partners, the revenue totaled $1.35 billion just $30 million ahead of analysts' average projection.
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Microsoft Monday completed work on Windows XP SP3. The company said the final code of the service pack has been released to manufacturing and now is working its way to OEMs and corporate customers. Access via Microsoft's Automatic Update feature will begin April 29.
XP SP3 has been a long time coming , with new beta code released just last month. It includes all the previously released updates for Windows XP, including security updates, and is for x86 machines only. In its final release, XP SP3 will be supported as a guest operating system on Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization technology, which is slated to ship in the fall.
At its iPhone SDK event last month, Apple touted an adaption of AOL's instant-messaging client for the iPhone. Now comes news of Apple's own patent application for a chat feature. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published the application, titled “Portable Electronic Device for Instant Messaging,” on March 6–the very same day Apple was providing details on its software development kit for the iPhone, including AOL's test version of the first “official” native Web chat for the gadget.
The GUI has a set of messages exchanged between a user of the device and another person. The set of messages (is) displayed in a chronological order. In response to detecting a scrolling gesture comprising a substantially vertical movement of a user contact with the touch-screen display, the display of messages (is) scrolled in accordance with a direction of the scrolling gesture.
I was looking at Pricegrabber this morning and it seems more stores are carrying the upcoming AMD Triple Core Phenom 50-series processors are up for sale! The AMD Phenom 8650 Triple Core Processor is currently running $185.99 over at TheNerds.net if anyone is interested. The AMD Phenom 8750 Triple Core Processor runs $218.99 for those looking for a higher clock frequency of 2.4GHz
Phenom 8650 2.3GHz
Phenom 8750 2.4GHz
Newegg is also selling this pair of triple-core AMD Phenom X3 processors! The Phenom X3 8750 will run you $195 and the Phenom X3 8650 runs in at $165. Newegg seems like the place to go for Phenoms!
AMD Phenom triple-core processors, expected to be the world's first PC processors to integrate three computational cores on a single die of silicon, can help deliver the visual experience, performance and multitasking capabilities of true multi-core technology to a broader audience. Offering state-of-the-art platforms and a next-generation architecture with expected availability in Q1 2008, the industry's only x-86 triple-core desktop processor shows why AMD's the smarter choice, with its expanded portfolio for customers to offer platforms with unique multi-core options.
Shipments of computers for personal use jumped by 14.6 percent worldwide in the first quarter, well above prior estimates of 13.2%, according to market research firms IDC and Gartner, and reported at Digitimes. The market in the USA had a weak showing compared to other areas of the globe, but still clocked in with a respectable 3.5% year over year growth. And the term “personal computer” is really starting to mean something now. We’re likely to continue to move from a computer in every house to one in
We had an interesting press release from NextComputing cross the news wire recently that we wanted to share with you all. If you’re unfamiliar with NextComputing, they specialize in field deployable distributed computing appliances designed for a number of different types of work environments, that are also compatible with off-the shelf components.NextComputing’s just introduced the Vigor Evo HD, a ruggedized workstation that features an integrated 17″ LCD. Here’s what the company has to say
Many have written about how Apple was using iTunes Update to push Safari onto PCs. It was listing Safari as an update even if Safari wasn’t on the computer originally. Humorously, since then stories have emerged about IT departments having to scramble to remove Safari as the default browser on PCs as it (naturally) wouldn’t work with many Intranet sites.That practice got many people riled up, complaining that Apple was essentially deceiving people into installing a new program–Safari 3.1 for Windows XP–through