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AMD: Chips shipped in record numbers
News The company shipped a record eight million Athlon and Duron processors in the quarter, slightly more than in the fourth quarter. AMD posted another record for processor shipments -- a milestone that let the company beat analysts' financial...
[April 18, 2002, 9:13]
Safety scare over G4 batteries
News Apple is recalling 128,000 batteries that were shipped in its PowerBook G4 and iBook G4 laptops over the past eight months, marking the second time since last summer that it has issued such a warning.
[May 23, 2005, 9:15]
Symbian celebrates handset century
News The 100th Symbian-powered smartphone model has shipped, the operating system maker announced on Tuesday. The company says it has shipped 70.5 million phones since its formation. Six years after the Ericsson R380 became the first commercially...
[May 16, 2006, 9:15]
TomTom ships malware on sat-nav
News Satellite navigation company TomTom has admitted that it has shipped two viruses on a number of its devices. According to the company, a "small number" of TomTom GO 910 satellite navigation devices were shipped last year with malware pre-installed.
[January 29, 2007, 12:49]
Acer sails past Dell in PC shipments
News Acer has become the number-two producer of PCs in the world for the first time, with 14 percent of PCs shipped, according to IDC's PC tracker report. The IDC report for the third quarter of 2009, released on Wednesday afternoon, also saw HP remain...
[October 15, 2009, 9:42]
Sony promises to ship 10 million PS2s by 1 April
News Sony insisted Monday that a total of ten million PlayStation2 units will be shipped worldwide by the end of March 2001, even though it will have to double its production rate to succeed. Since April 2000 it has only shipped five million, and is...
[January 15, 2001, 15:45]
Openmoko ships Neo FreeRunner Linux phone
News Openmoko's Neo FreeRunner open-source handset has finally shipped to distributors, marking an attempt by the mobile Linux company to move towards the mass market. Although it will soon reach other parts of the world, the device has initially been...
[June 26, 2008, 12:21]
Vista - a false promise & false figures
Talkback 20 million copies shipped .hardly. Whether the customer takes up the product or not, these get counted as "products shipped/sold", therefore 20 million is NOT the number of copies installed and in use.
[April 3, 2007, 9:40]
Symbian smartphone shipments surge
News Symbian's licensees shipped nearly four million high-end mobile phones running the company's operating system during the third quarter of this year, which ended on 30 September, the company said on Thursday -- nearly quadrupling last year's figures.
[November 20, 2003, 13:20]
SanDisk drops launch software from USB keys
News SanDisk withheld the U3 "smart drive" technology from its new line of Crossfire USB drives that shipped last week, despite announcing support for the technology at the Consumer Electronics Show. A limited number of Cruzer Micro drives shipped with...
[March 28, 2006, 14:15]
PC industry faces worst year since dot-com bust
News At the end of this year, the number of PCs shipped will be lower than the previous year, iSuppli has predicted. A report released on Tuesday by market-research firm iSuppli is projecting that 287.3 million PCs will be shipped in 2009, a four...
[July 15, 2009, 16:01]
Media?
Talkback Our Dells only shipped with Vista media, so re-installing XP (which was pre-installed) is impossible without resorting to another license key. It does seem to be vague as to whether CDs will be shipped with forthcoming Dells.
[April 29, 2008, 8:22]
Handheld sales show signs of life
News Although the handheld market is showing some signs of life, it saw a 12.1 percent year-over-year decline in units shipped during the first quarter of this year, according to preliminary numbers released on Monday by market researcher IDC.
[April 23, 2002, 8:32]
We're selling more X86 than AMD - Cyrix
News For the quarter ended September 30, 1997 the Texan firm said it shipped 1.3 million chips; AMD claims to have shipped a little less than a million parts for the same period. Cyrix revenues were up 182 per cent year-on-year for the quarter to $93.2...
[October 17, 1997, 11:04]
Handspring ships one millionth Visor
News Handspring announced Wednesday it shipped its one millionth Visor PDA. While Handspring has shipped a million units, Palm claims 9 million PDAs in the market. To celebrate, the company is going to offer up the unit, a Visor Prism, and the first...
[December 7, 2000, 8:29]
Apple takes early DVD lead
News Apple Computer on Monday said it had shipped nearly half a million computers with DVD recording drives capable of making movies that consumers can play in home DVD players. The company also said it had shipped more than 2 million DVD recording discs.
[April 9, 2002, 9:38]
PCs: More than one billion served
News So far, most of the PCs shipped have gone into developed nations. Approximately one billion PCs have been shipped worldwide since the mid-'70s, according to a study released on Sunday by consulting firm Gartner.
[July 1, 2002, 9:08]
HP leads in soft printer market
News Printer makers shipped more units in the third quarter than in the same period last year, but saw fewer dollars amid stiff price competition, according to a new report from Gartner Dataquest. About 96,000 colour printers were shipped to businesses...
[November 28, 2002, 10:01]
Vista vs XP
Blog Comment The PCs are shipped with no XP license, but XP preloaded? Does that imply that they are in fact still shipped with the dual Vista Business / XP Professional license? Hmmm. That one just escapes me, maybe I'm looking at it the wrong way.
[August 12, 2008, 13:03]
IBM hits a chip milestone
News IBM's semiconductor division reached a milestone recently when it shipped its 100 millionth chip made with silicon germanium technology. The 100 millionth SiGe chip was manufactured at IBM's Burlington plant in Vermont and shipped to Tektronix...
[May 22, 2002, 7:32]
