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April 27
- Infineon sails past Hynix, Micron in latest iSuppli DRAM rankings
- French government commissions video game to explain budget process
April 26
- Inventec notebook shipments to top six million in 2006
- Seagate introduces three-quarter terabyte Barracuda hard drive
- Matsushita/Panasonic introduces waterproof notebook
April 25
- Linux supporters deliver desktop standards
- Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 released
- Sources: Korean panel makers pushing down 17" panel prices
- Intel: No chipset shortages with better capacity allocation through ATI support
- ATI, Nvidia announce new workstation graphic cards
April 24
- Printable Blu-ray discs demonstrated at NAB
- Wikipedia website hit with 40-minute outage
- E-mail authentication gaining steam
- Microsoft details Vista's media features
- Mac OS X found to be vulnerable to virus attacks
- Core Duo an ideal CPU for a low-power desktop system?
- Hypertransport 3.0 specification announced
- Bio fuel cells could power portable gadgets
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
- The push for RFID cards for US border crossings
- Samsung SDI loses more ground in PDP market
- India gearing up for semiconductor manufacturing :InStat
- Intel countering AMD-supported $100 laptop project
- Acer and Asustek notebook sales to Taiwan up 40-50% in 1Q
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
- Solid demand firms DDR prices, NAND prices also stabilize
- UMC delivers SONOS memory to solid state system
- PC shipments continue double-digit growth in Q1 - IDC
- Conservative outlook by motherboard makers may have resulted in shortage of Nvidia G71 graphic chips
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
- TI introduces dual-output boost converters for OLEDs and white LEDs
- LCD panel prices to stabilize once inventory eases
- DRM and CA to grow to $4.7 billion by 2010, says research firm
- Philips develops TV commercial enforcer
April 18
- Rootkits on the rise, McAfee reports
- Microsoft's security update causes problems
- 'Extreme high definition' the focus of Nvidia's new high-end mobile GPU
- ATI likely to delay 80 nm production at TSMC until 2007
- Maxtor launches tiny backup drive
- 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
- Kingston updates performance memory
- New NEC LCDs increase brightness by 50%
- LCD TV panel ASPs to continue falling in Q2 - sources
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
- Windows Defender Beta 2 refreshed
- Sparkle launches another graphics card with 512 MB GDDR3
- Industry sources express concern about limited capacity for AMD in 2006
- 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
- Quantum quest leads to super-efficient lights
- No Aero Glass for pirates
- Apple releases Aperture 1.1
- Google adds calendar app to portfolio
- Research group says 'quadruple play' the wave of the future
- MSI to launch multi-processor U5/U6 servers in H2 2006
- SiS DDR2 DRAM modules gain AVL validation
- 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
- Microsoft makes "Visual Basic 2005" ebook available free of charge
- Will Windows Vista's delay push back 'Fiji'?
- 8th Gumball 3000 Rally - Around the world in 8 days
- Philips unveils power management unit aimed at multimedia device market
- Silicon Image to port HDMI receiver IP core to UMC's 90nm process technology
- IDF Taiwan: Intel confirms packages for Conroe and Woodcrest, but remains fuzzy on Merom
- KOffice 1.5 released
- Camera phone paparazzi to take 4.5 million World Cup snaps
- Windows 98, Me support to end in July
- MySpace adds a security monitor
April 11
- AMD launches 3.0 GHz Opteron single cores
- Microsoft releases updated Direct3D 10 tech preview
- IDF Taiwan: NOR flash memory update and ONFI logistics issues
- IBM to build content protection technology into processors
April 10
- iMesh adds instant messaging to P2P service
- Windows Live to get product search
- Music fingerprinting system is fastest yet
- Dolphin Stadium gets world's largest 720p display
- Air France to test in-air cellular service
- Toshiba claims world's first notebook with HD DVD-ROM drive
- ATI SB600 southbridge to arrive in May
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 7
- Google Earth to get Discovery video
- Scientists build high-energy batteries using viruses
- Microsoft's MSN Search restored after hours-long outage
April 6
- Worldwide semiconductor revenue growth adjusted + 0.6% :iSuppli
- Via announces "Vista Premium ready" chipset
- FDA to review wireless phone safety
- One laptop per child aims at $50 price tag
- Sony likely to price Playstation 3 above $500
- SDRAM shortage may be aggravated by product adjustments by SMIC and Samsung
- Nvidia introduces dual-analog TV tuner
- A cellphone keypad you can actually use to type messages
- Computer graphics software could weaken classical drawing skills
- Smart glasses switch focus in an instant
April 5
- Emachines rolls out inexpensive systems with dual-layer DVD burners
- Panel agents dumping 37" LCD TV panels, sources say
- 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
- TV electronics shipments to double by 2010, says research firm
- Supply of 19" widescreen panels runs tight
- Transcend unveils new OTG HDD, StoreJet
- Intel to reveal more details about Open NAND Flash Interface initiative at IDF Taiwan
- 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
- How nanotubes break
- Google eyes adding its search to TVs
- ATI's low-end R516 moves to 80 nm
- Intels G965 chipset to deliver better 3D performance with next-generation graphics core
- Intel to ship 10 million 865-series chipsets in Q2
April 1
- ZAP ships their first "Smart Car" to the United States