Charlie Demerjian the Inquirer, Tuesday 7 October 2008. 08:00:00

Just like we foretold

REMEBER WHEN WE said AMD was going to split into a fab company and design company? Word has it that it will be announced in a few hours, likely before the opening bell tomorrow. The story is basically what we first told you about in March, Arab, likely Abu Dhabi...

Paul Taylor the Inquirer, Tuesday 7 October 2008. 08:07:00

Daily Roundup Bantamweight and Flyweight KOs

INTEL INTRODUCED a couple of lightweights to the line-up a few weeks back: the E7300 and the E5200. They are respectively low end and low-low end of Intel’s computing, bar the Celeron. Still, they are nothing to be frowned upon....

Sylvie Barak the Inquirer, Monday 6 October 2008. 11:54:00

Debuggering about

GRAPHICS AND VIRTUALISATION firm S3 Graphics and Israeli OpenGL performance tool provider, Graphic Remedy, today announced support for Chrome 400 Series GPUs dubbed gDEBugger. When we asked Graphic Remedy what the bugger it all meant, the firm’s CEO, Avi Shapira, told the INQ that gDEBugger was an OpenGL and OpenGL...

Sylvie Barak the Inquirer, Monday 6 October 2008. 21:24:00

Fresh from the rumour mill

THE MAC BLOGOSPHERE is all a flutter with rumours that a new Macbook could soon be on its way, complete with an Nvidia graphics chipset. A cryptic promo pic on Nvidia’s site and whispers that certain NV employees have actually seen some is sending fanboys into a frenzy....

Sylvie Barak the Inquirer, Monday 6 October 2008. 17:09:00

Downgrade proves too popular

AS VISTA CONTINUES to flop, XP refuses to die, with Microsoft once again extending the old OS’s life to OEMs for another six months. Computer makers will now purportedly be allowed to offer 'downgrade rights' – if that’s what the Vole insists on calling them – from Vista to XP...

Sylvie Barak the Inquirer, Monday 6 October 2008. 17:16:00

Something rotten in the state of Denmark

EBAY IS BIDDING goodbye to over 10 per cent of its global workforce, as the online auction firm admitted its third quarter results would not be looking great. But whilst the company was busy laying off 1,000 members of full time staff and hundreds of temps – a move which...

Emma Hughes the Inquirer, Monday 6 October 2008. 14:33:00

Times are changing

THE CHIEF INFORMATION Officer’s role in a company is evolving according to a Forbes interview with AMD's CIO. Ahmed Mahmoud says "The very traditional way is for CIOs to be cost-optimizers… the big challenge in the future is how to bring operational excellence to an organisation.” Mahmoud goes on to...

Stewart Meagher the Inquirer, Monday 6 October 2008. 15:19:00

No more Macs at 02 stores

ONE OF THE FEW High Street retailers in the Republic of Ireland to sell Apple computers and Ipods has decided to end its relationship with the Cupertino company. 02 Ireland will now only sell phone-related products in its 02 Experience stores according to a report in the Irish Sunday Post....

Emma Hughes the Inquirer, Monday 6 October 2008. 13:43:00

China is cause for concern

US WARPLANES, ships and communications networks have become vulnerable thanks to fake microchips flooding into the western world from China. Use of these fraudulent chips could be the cause of equipment failure which, depending on the equipment, could be fatal....

Sylvie Barak the Inquirer, Monday 6 October 2008. 13:34:00

Racky races

MAKER OF GERMAN mini computers, Kontron AG, is snapping up Intel’s rackmount server business. If all goes according to plan at the regulatory review level, the two firms should sign on the dotted line within days, for an as-yet-undisclosed sum....

Emma Hughes the Inquirer, Monday 6 October 2008. 12:43:00

Companies grin and bear it

AFTER MONTHS of burying their heads in the desert sand, executives across Silicon Valley have finally admitted that the current economic downturn will affect the tech industry. Redundancies at online giants such as Ebay are expected to be announced from today onwards - the auction site is looking to make...

Sylvie Barak the Inquirer, Monday 6 October 2008. 12:24:00

Making his mind up

PENDING A COURT DECISION on Tuesday, RealNetworks has been ordered to stop distributing RealDVD, the DVD ripping software which has Hollywood foaming at the mouth. The Motion Picture Association of America is getting all dramatic and suing RealNetworks for purportedly violating its copyrights and breaching its trust....

Stewart Meagher the Inquirer, Monday 6 October 2008. 12:36:00

A chip off the old block

THE WEB has been buzzing with rumours that a new Apple product, codenamed Brick, would be announced in an industry keynote on October 14th. Some commentators have guessed that the announcement, which is likely to become one of Jobbso's infamous 'just one more thing' teasers, would be a new notebook...

Sylvie Barak the Inquirer, Monday 6 October 2008. 11:54:00

Eeets a record

BREAKING A COMPANY record, Asustek shipped 700,000 of its little Eee PCs last month. The company’s September shipments bumped third quarter numbers up to 1.7 million units, a figure Asus says should be eeeasy to maintain through the fourth quarter too....

Emma Hughes the Inquirer, Monday 6 October 2008. 10:25:00

Photo retinoscopy does the trick

VISION PROBLEMS should now be detected at an early age to stop severe problems later in life, thanks to a new device. The Pediavision Assessment Solution (PVS) is a new portable device which conducts a non-evasive eye exam which should be able to detect vision problems from the age of...

Dean Pullen the Inquirer, Monday 6 October 2008. 10:43:00

Console round-up Xbox 360 for less than a ton

PRE-ORDERS FOR THE Pandora are now officially open. If you're a homebrew and emulator fan, you'd best grab one as soon as you can. Xbox 360 According to a report in MCV the Xbox 360 should now be selling for under £100 in the UK....

Tony Dennis the Inquirer, Monday 6 October 2008. 10:12:00

One foot in the airwave

SENIOR CITIZENS are being seriously neglected as a potentially huge part of the mobile phone market according to Chris Millington, UK MD with specialist supplier, Doro. He argues that as many as a quarter of all UK citizens will soon be over the age of 65 although he suggest that...

Nick Farrell the Inquirer, Monday 6 October 2008. 09:02:00

If you have the readies

HACKERS CAN BRING down aircraft by spoofing their Global Positioning System, boffins at Cornell University and Virginia Tech have warned. Brent Ledvina of Virginia Tech said there is shedloads of infrastructure based on GPS and it is wide open to hackers....

Tony Dennis the Inquirer, Monday 6 October 2008. 09:25:00

Organiser forced to cancel

AN EARLY morning shooting in a nightclub near London Bridge has put paid to the Virtual Worlds Forum. The area around the conference venue has been sealed off – forcing the organiser to cancel. The incident apparently involved a 24-year-old man shot dead in the early hours of Sunday October...

Nick Farrell the Inquirer, Monday 6 October 2008. 08:48:00

Another false report causes Apple to fall

THE MAINSTREAM press is staging a witch hunt after Apple’s shares tanked still further due to an erroneous internet rumour that Steve Jobs had croaked of a heart attack. Ireport.com, a bog site owned by CNN, ran the rumour sparking a swift denial from Apple....