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Microsoft Fails To Quash Second-hand Software Market
News A UK company that specialises in second-hand software claims to have found a loophole in Microsoft software licensing that has enabled it to continue trading five months after the software giant attempted to stamp out the practice.
[March 6, 2008, 14:09]
Second-hand PC Shipments Tipped To Boom
News Demand for second-hand PCs is soaring in parts of the developing world, analyst group Gartner reported on Wednesday. The demand for [second-hand] PCs continues to exceed supply, providing opportunistic but potentially lucrative opportunities for...
[September 28, 2005, 15:00]
Computer Aid: New Life For Old IT
Talkback So it seems that the prices (service fees) they charge for old PCs are basically second-hand market prices so basically it appears that this is just a second-hand computer business. Dear Matt, it is good to see idealist like you ara still around...
[February 11, 2005, 23:00]
Microsoft Cracks Down On Used Windows Sales
News Like eBay, charities are a way for second-hand PCs to get passed on to new users, but the software that was on them often doesn't go on to that new user. Microsoft says that those who want to donate PCs and attendant software through charities need...
[October 9, 2001, 9:20]
Rambus Revs Up Chip Speed
News The price difference, on the other hand, compared with the previously fastest 133MHz SDRAM is diminishing. DDR SDRAM, which comes in speeds of 200MHz and 266MHz with data transfer rates of 1.6GB per second and 2.1GB per second, is found in desktop...
[June 18, 2001, 9:26]
IBM Sells PC Division To Lenovo
News The two companies plan to form a complex joint venture that would make Lenovo the third-largest PC maker in the world, behind Dell and Hewlett-Packard, but still give IBM a hand in the PC business. Lenovo will be the preferred supplier of PCs to...
[December 8, 2004, 7:35]
Microsoft Toolset To Promote Mobile Web Services
News The second test version of the .Net Compact Framework offers bug fixes and new features for building user interfaces, such as hand-writing recognition, Rasmussen said. The software will be built into a forthcoming version of Microsoft's Visual...
[September 16, 2002, 14:52]
Chip Sales Down, But Not Completely Out?
News The semiconductor market, on the other hand, had one of its best years ever in 2000, with revenues increasing by nearly 37 percent to $204bn (£142.9bn) and unit shipments up nearly 25 percent. The report attributes the decline in revenue and...
[May 16, 2001, 11:07]
AMD's Athlon Plays Catch-up With Intel
News AMD won that horse race, but right now the Pentium 4 gives Intel the upper hand, analysts said. AMD share of the PC processor market dropped 2.6 percent to 15.6 percent during the second quarter, while Hewlett-Packard, its main customer, struggled...
[August 19, 2002, 7:44]
TechXNY: Trying Out The Tablet PC
News Among other benefits, the active digitiser lets a user lay their hand on the screen without creating a disturbance and adapts itself immediately for left-handed users, according to a Microsoft representative.
[June 26, 2002, 14:16]
The 1GHz Race Is On
News As AMD and Intel one-up each other in performance, PC buyers should expect a steady stream of new high-end chips hand-in-hand with steady price cuts, according to analysts. Now, we've got a dogfight at the high-end, which means buyers of premium...
[December 1, 1999, 12:42]
Competing With The Eee
Talkback It can currently be found second-hand or on eBay, but the sellers are generally wise to the shortage and are mostly charging way more than it should cost. Secondly, HP's machine can't be lumped in with those other cheap but fully-featured laptops...
[April 9, 2008, 9:16]
UK Charity Builds Linux Network On A Shoestring
News Hertzberg bought a 1.5GHz server second hand for £300, £1,700 less than the market rate. Homeless charity Alone in London spent less than £2,000 to set up a network of 30 PCs from scratch, compared to a similar-sized charity which spent £30,000 on...
[September 16, 2004, 15:10]
Apple Is Not Green Enough, Says Campaigner
News Tony Roberts, chief executive of UK IT refurbishment charity Computer Aid, which regularly sends shipments of re-conditioned PCs to Africa, agreed that a clear distinction needs to be made between dumping e-waste and donating first-class second...
[December 6, 2006, 12:38]
Return Of The Chess-playing Supercomputer
News Some of the statistics being banded around suggested that the computer could have the upper hand, given that Adams can consider just 1.4 moves per second. Hydra is a clustered system made up of 64 PCs each powered by a 3.06GHz Intel Xeon processor...
[May 24, 2005, 18:25]
Intel's New Chips Highlight Conference
News Willamette, on the other hand, is designed for speed. Information disclosed at the event will be relevant to consumers, Intel said, because the new chips should make possible a new class of lower-cost desktop PCs and at the same time push high-end...
[February 15, 2000, 9:55]
Windows Piracy Must Not Harm Linux
Leader It's then hard to avoid banning the sale of motherboards and other components or the second-hand sales of computers themselves - all acts that could encourage people to avoid paying the Windows licence.
[September 30, 2004, 11:20]
DVD Burning A Hot Ticket For Laptops
News On one hand, notebook sales are doing much better than desktops. Manufacturers are betting big on DVD recording PCs for this holiday season, only the second year the technology has appeared on desktop computers.
[October 29, 2002, 8:14]
Intel Delays Next-generation Notebook Chip
News Apart from its potential to anger customers, the delay might not be too serious for Intel, because it already has a new version of the chip in hand, said Dean McCarron, an analyst at Mercury Research.
[January 15, 2004, 7:50]
US Report: HDTV Will Bow To The Computer
News Semiconductor newcomer TeraLogic and old hand Panasonic Industrial separately unveiled plans yesterday for products that will merge digital TV technology with that of the PC. We expect that there will be far more people receiving digital TV signals...
[November 10, 1998, 8:52]
