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AOL's new Music Now service gears up for the Zune era
August 29, 2006 – 1:04 PM
Today, AOL is launching its Music Now service, which incorporates the streaming infrastructure it acquired last November from Circuit City, plus the core of music licenses it acquired from Spinner.com back in 1999. It's being billed as something new, but you don't have to peel back too many layers to see that Music Now already has a deep and tumultuous history.
Leader Of Sony During Betamax Era Passes Away, Aged 80
May 16, 2008 – 8:40 AM in Business
Harvey Schein, credited with doubling the size of the Sony Corporation of America in the 1970s, during the company’s Betamax era, has died aged 80.
Nano-welds herald new era of electronics
December 21, 2006 – 6:28 PM
The world's smallest construction site is taking shape in a laboratory in Switzerland, thanks to the development of new welding techniques that work at scales of a billionth of a metre.
Woodcrest launches Intel into a new era
June 26, 2006 – 11:32 AM
Intel today introduced the first processor based on its "Core" architecture: The Xeon 5100 rings in the beginning of the end of the Netburst architecture - a power hungry technology that was introduced more than five years ago and brought the company down to its knees. Core's mission is to restore Intel's competitiveness and lay the foundation for the firm's future.

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Swansong for the XP Era: VIA KT880 Chipset Challenges nForce2
March 8, 2004 – 12:04 PM
VIA's KT880 dual-channel memory chipset shows that the AthlonXP processor still has a lot of fire power left in it. While the Athlon64 represents AMD's latest and greatest processor, AthlonXP based chipsets, especially those with dual-channel memory, still have much to offer. With its introduction of the KT880, VIA also hopes to eat some of Nvidia's nForce2 Ultra 400 lunch with its AthlonXP, dual-channel memory chipset offering.
Sophos' Graham Cluley: The end of the widespread virus era is at hand
February 3, 2006 – 5:12 PM
As the threat of serious damage from what was supposed to have been a widespread outbreak of the Nyxem virus, subsides, Sophos' senior consultant Graham Cluley spoke with TG Daily about the changing nature of malware. The new threats, he said, aren't coming from the "Kama Sutra" viruses of the world, but instead from narrower, more targeted, and perhaps more ingenious sources.
Intel's quad-core rings in a new era of enthusiast systems
November 2, 2006 – 1:12 AM
We've heard the story over and over again: Dual-cores are the fastest chips you can buy, period. While that claim may be true in many cases, it is especially not true for gaming: Games have not yet embraced multithreading and are lagging behind. Half-Life 2 developer Valve, however, believes that this scenario will change quickly and promises a 3.4x performance gain with four cores.
ViewSonic Overdrive LCDs: A New Era of Very Fast Panels?
May 26, 2005 – 1:04 PM
ViewSonic says its first LCD panel to offer a new gray-to-gray response time calculation and "Overdrive" signal technology is bursting with speed. Given the traditional disconnect between LCD vendors' claims and reality, we thought we would pit ViewSonic's TN VP192s LCD with a black-to-white latency of 12 ms, against its new VP191b with a purported GTG response time of 8 ms.