At a high-end computer store in Brazil, you'll find the same kinds of Dell, HP, and Sony models you'd see anywhere in the world. But in the department stores where Brazil's middle class do their shopping, a homegrown brand, virtually unheard of outside of Latin America, dominates: Positivo.

Positivo has the lion's share of Brazil's retail market, accounting for nearly a third of retail sales and selling more than a million PCs last year. At one key retailer, Casas Bahia, Positivo's desktops are the only ones on the shelves. Overall, Positivo says it sells more computers at retail than the next three players combined.

Ocinside has posted a review on Crucial Ballistix Tracer Red DDR2-800 4GB Kit BL2KIT25664AR804 Memory! Find this and other reviews from around the web by visiting our forums!

Sure, for most of us DDR2-800 RAM is nothing special anymore, but the new
Crucial Crucial Ballistix Tracer Red PC2-6400 memory modules are worth a second look.
The current DDR2 4GB kit consists of 2x 2GB PC2-6400 CL4 memory modules and they are a visual treat.
This Ballistix Tracer Red edition offers not just more memory for the PC, but thanks to
several integrated SMD light emitting diodes it lights up the PC in a bright red.
Let us test the result of this new 4GB CL4 kit from Crucial compared to previous tested DDR2 modules.
And let us see, if there is anything special with Windows XP or Windows Vista and 4 GB PC memory.

In light of the sudden surge of NAND flash prices, Kingston Technology, which procured a considerable amount of NAND flash during the price lows, is said to be the biggest beneficiary. Spot prices for NAND flash posted an average growth of about 40% over the past two weeks, following news of production cuts or delays at major chipmakers including Hynix Semiconductor and IM Flash Technologies.

Kingston reportedly procured a batch of 100 million chips from Samsung Electronics at low cost in early 2008. The rapid shift in NAND pricing means this inventory now represents a significant return on investment for Kingston, sources at memory houses commented.

International Business Machines Corp reported higher-than-expected quarterly earnings on Wednesday despite a weakening U.S. economy, helped by strong revenue from technology services and consulting, sending its shares higher.

First-quarter net income rose 26 percent to $2.32 billion, or $1.65 per share, from $1.84 billion, or $1.21 per share, a year earlier. Revenue grew 11 percent to $24.5 billion from $22 billion. Currency gains contributed seven percentage points to revenue growth.

Analysts, on average, expected profit of $1.45 per share and revenue of $23.7 billion, according to Reuters Estimates.

IBM, the world's largest technology-services company, said in February that strong fourth-quarter growth in services contracts lasting a year or less was paying off. IBM said those benefits gave it more confidence in its U.S. business, even as other technology companies were seeing weaker spending amid concern over the U.S. economy.

As many of you know, ATI has been particularly aggressive with their FireGL workstation graphics card lineup over the past six months. While their flagship R600-architecture was the basis for the solid (but ultimately underwhelming) Radeon HD2900XT for the gaming market, our tests have shown that this particular GPU architecture is much more competitive in the workstation market. While the R600 may not be the best choice for a high-end gaming rig, it is indeed a powerful chip for high-end OpenGL work, and as

S3 Graphics Announces Ultra Energy-Efficient Embedded Multimedia Graphics Processor at ESC 2008 The S3 Graphics 4300E graphics processor combines 30% better power-efficiency with best-in-class HD video and DX10.1 / OpenGL 2.1 graphics Fremont, California, April 16, 2008 – S3 Graphics today announced the S3 Graphics 4300E graphics processor for embedded markets, bringing the latest in HD video playback, graphics rendering, display connectivity, and power management to developers of gaming, digital signage and

Dell Now Offering Five Server Platforms Based on Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors Qualification for VMware Virtualization now Completed; 13 Global OEM Platforms now Shipping SUNNYVALE, Calif. – April 16, 2008 – AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is now offering five server platforms based on high-performance, energy-efficient Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) processors. This news follows last week’s announcement that Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors are generally available, and brings the

The “most published author in the history of the planet” doesn’t write much of anything. Philip Parker has “authored” more than 200,000 books, on topics that would seem to be of little interest to the average person. He’s done it by developing computer algorithms that collect publicly available information on the Web, and then compiles the information and uses print on demand to produce a copy for an interested reader – and makes money even if only one person buys it. If you’re interested in “The 2007-2012 Outlook

Russell Beattie had an interesting idea. He observed the fascination that other countries had for using their smartphones and other mobile devices to browse the Web. He started mowser and tried to put the big Web onto the small screen in your pocket. Yesterday he announced that he’s giving up the effort, and offers a cautionary opinion to others that might try developing the same market: forget it. In other words, I think anyone currently developing sites using XHTML-MP markup, no Javascript, geared towards

It’s Tax Day, and we could hardly be blamed for last-minute filing and not paying attention to the news.  However, rumor has it that 4/21 is the day: XP SP3 Release Day, that is.Today, however, Neowin was able to get the release schedule for the Release to Manufacturer (RTM) version of Windows XP SP3. According to Neowin, OEMs, Volume License customers, Windows Connect users and MSDN/TechNet subscribers will have access to SP3 on April 21. The public will have to wait until April 29 to access SP3 via Windows