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April 27
- Infineon sails past Hynix, Micron in latest iSuppli DRAM rankings
April 26
- Seagate introduces three-quarter terabyte Barracuda hard drive
- Matsushita/Panasonic introduces waterproof notebook
April 25
- ATI, Nvidia announce new workstation graphic cards
April 24
- Printable Blu-ray discs demonstrated at NAB
- Core Duo an ideal CPU for a low-power desktop system?
- Hypertransport 3.0 specification announced
April 23
- Don't count on standalone quad-SLI cards anytime soon
April 21
- Software glitch caused shutdown of Atlanta Hartsfield airport
- Star Trek XI: The Inevitable
- CE industry growth set to decline despite bright spots, says iSuppli
- Panasonic readies dual-layer Blu-ray disc burner for 10 June release
April 20
- Google Scholar digs up recent research papers
- New Opera beta release integrates widgets and Bittorrent
- Lexus equips new LS 600h L model with hard drive-based audio system
- HP recalls 15,700 notebook batteries
April 19
- Visual Studio 2005 Express hits five million downloads
- ATI releases DirectX 10 SDK
- New Google search tool will peer into proprietary relational databases
April 18
- Microsoft's security update causes problems
- 'Extreme high definition' the focus of Nvidia's new high-end mobile GPU
- Plextor intros shock-resistant portable hard drives
- Seagate ships first perpendicular 3.5" hard drive
April 17
- High-definition video production headed for indie filmmaking market
April 14
- Sun, AMD call for creation of energy efficiency metric for servers
- Intel preps quad-core mobile chip, new CPU architecture for 2008 - analyst
- RC1 of Suse 10.1 Linux released
- 2007 Infiniti G35 first to offer hard drive for storing digital music
April 13
- 102,000 battery packs for Disney DVD players recalled
- Google adds calendar app to portfolio
- Research group says 'quadruple play' the wave of the future
- New stacking tech increases capacity, performance of Flash memory
- USGS gives virtual tour of the 1906 San Francisco quake
- Sony rolls out new Vaio line in Japan
April 12
- Beta of new Yahoo Maps includes satellite images, live traffic reports
- ATI releases April Catalyst driver update
- Tom's Hardware: GeIL DDR2 test samples faster than commercial devices
- Sun tapes out 64-thread T2 processor
- KOffice 1.5 released
- MySpace adds a security monitor
April 11
- AMD launches 3.0 GHz Opteron single cores
- Microsoft releases updated Direct3D 10 tech preview
- IBM to build content protection technology into processors
April 10
- iMesh adds instant messaging to P2P service
- Air France to test in-air cellular service
April 9
- Preview: Tom's Hardware's system memory stress test
April 8
- Qualcomm promises 73.5 Mb/s wireless broadband by 2008
- Internet tops 80 million websites
April 6
- Worldwide semiconductor revenue growth adjusted + 0.6% :iSuppli
- Via announces "Vista Premium ready" chipset
- Sony likely to price Playstation 3 above $500
- A cellphone keypad you can actually use to type messages
- Computer graphics software could weaken classical drawing skills
April 5
- Emachines rolls out inexpensive systems with dual-layer DVD burners
- Tom's Hardware adds price/performance ratio to CPU Charts
- IBM says Kilocore technology will outrun today's mobile processors
April 4
- AMD schedules first 65nm processor shipments for H2 2006
- South Korea wants to place a robot in every home
- Samsung begins mass production of 70 nm NAND Flash
- Microsoft founding programmer to head to International Space Station
- Movielink, CinemaNow bring legal video downloads to the US
April 3
- AMD demos virtualization with "next-gen" Opteron processor
- Changes in Internet topology lead to doubling of SRAM clock speed
- AMD intros SBC reference design
- Kingston launches FB-DIMM memory modules