Shareholder group calls for ouster of entire Circuit City board | read this item
A shareholder group has proposed the ouster of the entire corporate board at Circuit City Stores Inc., the electronics retailer that has struggled to maintain market share.
Wattles Capital Management on Friday proposed a clean sweep at the nation's No. 2 consumer-electronics retailer just days after the group nominated five members for Circuit City's 12-member board.
Investor Mark J. Wattles, the group's principal and founder of ..Shop Now
[SearchZA] Hoax Email Case Falls Apart | read this item
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02.29.08
Hoax Email Case Falls Apart
The state's hoax email trial of axed spy boss Billy Masetlha and two others came to the brink of collapse this week when it was revealed that no evidence exists to implicate any of the accused with creating the emails.
Masetlha, IT expert and National Intelligence Agency (NIA) agent Muzi ..Shop Now
AVG upgrades popular security suite | read this item
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is one of the most popular products on CNET Download.com, with 61 million downloads. On Thursday, publisher AVG Technologies, formerly known as Grisoft, plans to introduce the full version of AVG Anti-Virus 8.0. This upgrade will feature significant changes to the program, integrating the previously stand-alone tools of AVG Anti-Spyware, AVG Anti-Rootkit, and recent AVG purchase LinkScanner as well as showcasing ..Shop Now
Apple shares rise on optimism over iPhone demand | read this item
Apple confirms sales estimates of iphone and ipod which helped pump up share prices by 4% early Thursday!
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Apple Inc rose more than 4 percent on Thursday amid optimism on Wall Street that the maker of consumer favorites such as the iPod media player and iPhone can weather economic troubles.
The shares rose $5.46 to $128.42 in early trade on Nasdaq, ..Shop Now
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HP was the biggest chip buyer in 2007 | read this item
Hewlett-Packard bought $15 billion worth of semiconductors in 2007, more than any other company in the world, market researcher Gartner said Monday.
The top 10 chip purchasers combined for $91 billion last year, just a 1 percent rise over 2006, Gartner said in its Semiconductor DQ Monday Report.
Most, 38 percent, of the world's semiconductors went into data processing gear last year, while communications took 35 percent ..Shop Now
Microsoft updates embedded development platform | read this item
Microsoft has released an updated version of its .Net Micro Framework development platform, adding a Web services component and support for native TCP/IP.
Microsoft introduced an updated version of .Net Micro Framework, a platform for the development of applications that run in a variety of embedded devices, such as retail point-of-sale terminals and home automation systems. Microsoft first introduced the .Net Micro Framework about a year ..Shop Now
Sony to introduce its first Net-enabled Blu-ray disc player this summer | read this item
It will be the first new player from Sony, the inventor of Blu-ray, since the format beat out the other technology that vied to become the high-definition replacement for the DVD.
NEW YORK - Sony Corp.'s first Blu-ray disc player that can download bonus materials like trailers and games from the Internet will debut this summer, the company announced Tuesday.
Here's the latest version of m main rig "Swamp Thing" | read this item
Well it took a while (10 hours plus leak testing) but here's some pictures after recasing into the new ThermalTake Armor Tower. It's not the easiest tower to run wiring in but let me say I LOVE that tower. The air flow is phenomenal, rear 120mm and 90mm, top 90mm, front 120mm, and a whopping 250mm side fan. Just from interior air flow I saw ..Shop Now
Is Intel creating a six core chip? | read this item
Staff at the Inquirer are reporting that Intel have developed a new CPU with six cores.
Accodring to their source "eclipse.sys-con.com" it was "designed in Bangalore, and will use three dual core 45 nanometre Penryn processors with a shared 16MB L3 cache."
CHIP FIRM Intel is preparing to introduce a six core chip called the "Dunnington", a processor that will pave the way for its Nehalem ..Shop Now
[SearchZA] Seacom To Slash Broadband Costs | read this item
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02.22.08
Seacom To Slash Broadband Costs
Seacom's plan to offer broadband internet connections at about 0.1 percent of the price of current satellite services was a sustainable model that would result in genuine growth in the broadband market, analysts said yesterday.
This week Seacom, the privately owned undersea cable project, unveiled its pricing structure, which is ..Shop Now
Fat cat HP cashes in on PCs, servers and printers in Q1 | read this item
Go ahead, Mark Hurd. Rip off those studious glasses and unbutton that blue Oxford shirt. We know there's a Superman costume lurking under the Clark Kent facade.
Mark "the Cutter" Hurd's HP may well have injected a fresh helping of optimism into the US financial markets. HP today reported a 13 per cent first quarter rise in revenue to $28.5bn. Beyond that, HP pleased very cautious ..Shop Now
Giant PC outsourcer throws in the towel | read this item
Sanmina-SCI, the US electronics contract manufacturing company, has sold its PC business to Foxconn, a major Taiwanese competitor, for between $80m-$90m. It is also selling its Mexican PC plant to Lenovo, for an undisclosed sum.
Foxconn will get its mitts on factories in the US, Mexico and Hungary, but we must wait for Sanmina-SCI's Q2 earnings call in April for further details. The deal is expected ..Shop Now
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