Revolutionary New Chip Arrives

In a breakthrough that could someday supercharge the creation of new mobile devices a Motorolaspinoff company has announced a new kind of magnetic memory chip.

Earlier this month previously unknown chip maker Freescale announced the commercial availability of the megabit magnetoresistive RAM chip or MRAM which features the best qualities of current memory chips without their drawbacks.

Rather than use electrical charges to store information MRAM chip uses a magnetic field.

"Universal Chip"

Typical PC RAM is fast but

Microsoft Developing Wireless Keyboard for Vista, Windows Live

Microsoft's hardware division is developing a slim wireless keyboard that will make it easier for users to access Windows Live services and features in its forthcoming Windows Vista operating system.
 
Dubbed the Ultimate Keyboard it will be announced later this year as part of a desktop package said a source familiar with Microsoft's plans. The system will come with a wireless laser mouse the source said. View an online teaser about the keyboard here.

A Windows Live Call button

Apple sees no future for CRTs

Following an industry trend toward smaller more efficient PCs Apple phased the bulky CRT (cathode ray tube) monitor out of its product line on Wednesday moving entirely to LCDs (liquid crystal displays).

LCDs have long been sleeker lighterweight and more efficient than CRTs but their greater price has always held them back in the retail market. Whether buying a television or a computer monitor shoppers have been able to buy a larger screen for their money with CRTs.

Now Apple has bucked that

The Print Shop: Snapshot Printer Features CD Burner

The Lexmark P inkjet photo printer.Despite what marketing hype might have you believe it's rare that a new product not only improves on previous models but also introduces something a little different. This certainly applies to printers so from time to time I'm going to use this column to spotlight some of the more unusual and interesting models that might turn up in your local computer store.
 
I'll kick off my product watch by taking a look at Lexmark's $

Intel's $600 Million Clearwire Investment Shows Its WiMax Commitment

Intel has made another huge investment in the nextgeneration wireless technology WiMax. Intel Capital the chip maker's venture capital investment arm invested $ million in financial funding to the wireless broadband company Clearwire Corp. to accelerate its development and deployment of mobile WiMax networks. The investment comes just a week after Intel announced plans for a chipset that has fixed and mobile WiMax capabilities and another one combining WiFi and WiMax.
 
Intel Capital's contribution is part of a $ million investment

IBM tops supercomputer list, AMD gains ground

The Top list of the world&;s fastest supercomputers was released Wednesday with IBM&;s BlueGene continuing to reign and Advanced Micro Devices&;s (AMD&;s) Opteron processor powering more systems on the list than last year.
 
Retaining the number one spot on the biannual list for the fourth time IBM&;s BlueGene/L System at the U.S. Department of Energy&;s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recently reached a Linpack benchmark performance of . teraflops or trillions of calculations per second. No other system has yet passed the

Xeon 5100: Intel's Comeback Chip

Everybody is talking about Intel's new Xeon chips. Analysts bloggers and pundits of all sorts are saying the new Xeon represents a strong comeback move for Intel which has been criticized of late for falling behind in the innovation race with archrival AMD.
 
The new Xeon series announced on Monday is the latest from Intel promising a significant speed boost while still offering better energy efficiency over earlier Xeon processors. At companies running thousands of Xeon servers news

First HD DVD recorder to make debut in Japan

After offering a lowpriced $ HD DVD player this spring Toshiba Corp. has challenged Japanese consumers with a price tag of about $ for its first recordable HD DVD product slated to hit the market in the middle of July.

Toshiba was the first company to introduce a video recorder that integrated a hard disc drive and a DVD video recorder. The HD DVD recorder dubbed RDA is similar in concept integrating an HD DVDR recorder and a terabyte hard disc recorder in

Dell Debuts 3-lb. Latitude Laptop

Dell on Tuesday debuted a new notebook in its Latitude line a threepound portable that the Texas computer maker claimed can run more than hours on a battery charge.

The D the last model in the revamped Latitude line is also the lightest in the family weighing in between and . pounds depending on the capacity of the battery in the laptop. It sports a .inch widescreen display a choice of WiFi .g or .a/g and an Intel Core Solo processor.

Sonic To Power DVD Burning In Fujitsu Blu-ray-Equipped Computer

Sonic Solutions on Friday said its Roxio software would power the DVD burning capabilities of Fujitsu Ltd.'s upcoming Bluray Disc driveequipped desktop computer.

Fujitsu is scheduled to launch the Deskpower TXS/D in Japan at the end of June. The PC is expected to be the first desktop computer available with an integrated Bluray Disc drive Novato Calif.based Sonic said.

Roxio digital media software enables the backup of up to GB of data on a double layer BDR (recordable) or BDRE (rewritable) disc.

Nokia-Siemens Merger Creates World's No. Four Networks Maker

Nokia and Siemens have agreed to combine the bulk of their telecom equipment businesses to create one of the biggest players in the industry sending shares in both firms higher.

The units in the venture "Nokia Siemens Networks" had sales of . billion euros ($ billion) last year which would make it the second biggest mobile equipment player and third in fixed infrastructure the companies said on Monday.

Siemens shares jumped . percent to . euros by GMT while Nokia was up

WebEx Ships On Most Sony VAIO Laptops

WebEx Communications Inc. and Sony Japan said Tuesday they have teamed up to offer Web collaboration services to VAIO Pro laptop users.

Sony will preinstall a desktop icon that links to the WebEx trial on all new TX and BX series models as well as some SZ models.

With one click users will have an option to create Web meetings where they can share documents applications video whiteboards and desktops. Sony's new VAIOs will also come with builtin Web

Seagate, ViewSonic And Belkin Win Big At Digital Connect's DICE Awards

Samsung Ultra-Mobile PC Expected In Best Buy Stores This Summer

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has launched its ultra-mobile PC, which is expected to be available in Best Buy stores this summer.
 
The Q1, which was developed in collaboration with Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp., will be available online through the retail giant beginning May 7, Samsung said.

The Q1, which Samsung demonstrated in a San Francisco news conference on Monday, is smaller, but comparable in performance to a full-sized notebook PC. The device is made to outperform personal digital

Microsoft Ramps Up Xbox 360 Shipments In Preparation For Playstation 3 Launch

Microsoft Corp. has ramped up shipments of its Xbox 360 console to widen its head start on video game rival Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3, the software giant's chief financial officer said Thursday.

The world's largest software maker raised the bottom line of its Xbox 360 sales target range for the year ending June 30 to 5.0 million to 5.5 million units from an earlier range of 4.5 million to 5.5 million.

Increased Xbox 360 production eased some of its supply constraints, but