It seems that the giants of tech are bracing themselves for control over something that many people may consider as their passion. The tech giants are trying to come up with a successful way to finally wrest control over home entertainment, most notably the common television. Many tech companies are now trying to develop their own means of offering something for the TV crowd in an attempt to innovate an already ag...

It seems that today’s technology is increasingly going the mobile way. The fact that more and more people are getting mobile phones and smart phones nowadays, it is just quite obvious enough that the next big thing in technology may come out from the mobile industry or something similar. Businesses then tend to profit from trying to discover and ride on to the next big thing that may just be coming out. One ...

Most people call them as "tablets" or "slates". What it looks like essentially is a laptop display without the keyboard. The touch screen display itself contains everything needed to navigate through the device.  This is what the biggest gadget manufacturers seem to be going crazy about recently. There have been a lot of talk about companies like Dell and Apple coming up with their tablet ...

Intel has unveiled a new family of computer processors at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to further highlight its lead in terms of technology over other rivals in the industry, notably with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). The said new technology developments involve shrinking the circuitry within the processors which is critical in trying to add more features while reducing the manufacturing costs. This...

It is only more than a year after the Google Chrome browser was released to the public by the online search giant. So far it has been improving and getting more and more popular. It has gone a long way and has recently taken the 3rd spot on the list of the web browser market in terms of usage. It has already overtaken Apple’s Safari for the spot, probably a hopeful sign of better things to come for the open...

Intel’s first try at making graphics chips may have reached a dead end, at least for now. What started as a promising project was put in the back burner indefinitely. Intel has recently reported that its Larrabee Project is delayed indefinitely. What Intel said was the reason behind the delay was certain developmental setbacks regarding the project. The project was said to be quite behind and not where the...

AMD, the second largest chip-maker is saying that they are releasing a six-core processor sometime next year. The said processor, currently codenamed as "Thuban", is based on the chip maker’s six-core Opteron chip. This chip architecture is said to be backwards compatible with the existing AM3 and AM2+ motherboards. The said six-core processor will be based on the 45nm process technology and come...

There seems to be someone else that may be against the proposed settlement that Google will be making with authors and publishers concerning scanning out of print books that are still under copyright protection. Amazon, today’s biggest online book retailer, seems to be saying that, if ever the proposed settlement comes through, it would be quite unfair for authors and publishers in the long run. Amazon has...

Well, the botched takeover plans didn’t push through for the Microhoo of old. But that doesn’t mean that the two tech giants, Microsoft and Yahoo, are already done with it. In fact, there have been talks and speculations that both are on the verge of sealing an online ad deal that would work great for both of them. Well, it is no longer a rumor that Yahoo has been getting through some tough times latel...

Advanced Micro Devices is coming up with two new versions of its six core server chips. AMD launched the Opteron HE and SE server chips which contain six processors on a single chip. This new versions of server chips, which was launched July 12, puts one up on Intel and its own Xeon 5500 four core server chips. AMD actually released their first six core chip last month which was six months ahead of schedule. The...