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Intel Formally Unveils Host Of Chips
Firefox Takes Almost 10% Of Browser Market
Apple May Announce Intel-Based Macs, New iPod Shuffle - Analyst
Apple Notebook Using Intel Robson Cache Technology May Be Launched This Month - Report
New Intel Notebook Processor Soon
Ford VP Cites Apple As A Model For corporate Recovery
Seagate to sell 160GB 2.5'' HD
Evolution and Intelligent Design in the Classroom
Behind The Magic Curtain
Apple's Gone Wrong?
HP Spits out Apple
Apple May Open A Channel Islands-based Internet Store
Technology Review: The Steve Jobs Show
eWeek: Yahoo Deal Might Stymie Even Microsoft
eWeek: Ubuntu's Good, But Not Good Enough
Intel Formally Unveils Host Of Chips
PC Advisor's China Martens reports:
Intel officially announced the pricing and branding for a host of processors this week, making the details available on its website.
New on Intel's pricing list were four dual-core mobile Yonah processors – the T2300, T2400, T2500 and T2600 – and one single-core chip called the T1300......
The single-core T1300 costs $209 (about £120), while the T2300, T2400, T2500 and T2600 are priced at $241, $294, $423 and $637 (£139, £170, £245 and £369) respectively. All five chips are produced using a 65-nanometer manufacturing process and include 2MB of Level 2 cache. Clock speeds range from 1.66GHz for the T1300 rising to 2.16GHz for the T2600.
Intel has two other dual-core mobile Yonah chips that operate at low voltage: the L2300, with a clock speed of 1.5GHz and a price tag of $284 (£164), and the L2400, clocking in at 1.66GHz and $316 (£183).....
The chip giant also introduced four more Pentium D dual-core chips: the 920, 930, 940 and 950, with clock speeds of 2.8GHz, 3GHz, 3.2GHz and 3.4GHz respectively, and pricing from $241 (£139) for the 920 up to $637 (£369) for the 950. All four chips were produced using the 65-nanometer manufacturing process.
For the full report visit here.
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=5501
Firefox Takes Almost 10% Of Browser Market
ComputerWeekly's Antony Savvas reports:
The open-source Firefox browser now has almost 10% of the browser market, and is still taking market share away from Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser.
Figures from web analytics company NetApplications show that Firefox, distributed by the Mozilla Foundation, had 9.6% of the browser market last December...
NetApplications, which measures browser use among surfers based on monitoring traffic at thousands of websites, said Internet Explorer had 85% of the market in December, down from 86.1% in November......
Apple's Safari browser, which it distributes on the Mac platform, is now the number three browser in the market, with a 3% share, after overtaking Netscape on just 1.2%.
For the full report visit here.
Apple May Announce Intel-Based Macs, New iPod Shuffle - Analyst
Forbes' Maya Roney reports:
Piper Jaffray research analyst Gene Munster maintained an "outperform" rating and $80 price target on Apple Computer ahead of Macworld 2006 and announced his expectations for the conference, which will be held in San Francisco next week.....
New announcements at the keynote could include a revamped iPod shuffle with a slightly different form factor and a small screen, Munster said.
Munster also believes there is a good chance that we will see "some form" of consumer focused Intel based Mac at Macworld, likely as an iBook or Mac mini....
For the full report visit here:
http://www.forbes.com/2006/01/05/apple-macworld-0105markets06.html?partner=yahootix
Apple Notebook Using Intel Robson Cache Technology May Be Launched This Month - Report
DigiTimes.com's Hans Wu, Danny Kuo, and Esther Lam report:
Although Intel only demonstrated its Robson cache technology in the fourth quarter of last year, sources now claim that Apple Computer will launch a notebook computer in the middle of this month that utilizes the NAND flash based cache memory technology.
The sources did not say which line of Apple notebooks would implement the technology, and Apple Taiwan was not available for comment at the time of publication.
Robson cache technology relies on NAND flash instead of a traditional hard disk drive (HDD) for starting up a computer or launching frequently used applications, and thus is able to significantly improve the computer's boot up time, as well as battery life. Intel demonstrated the technology with a Centrino-based notebook during the Intel Developer Forum Taipei in October 2005.
For the full report visit here.
http://www.digitimes.com/bits_chips/a20060105A5020.html
New Intel Notebook Processor Soon
The Asian Age's Kishore Butani says:
On January 10, Intel will announce the launch of its next-generation processor for notebooks in Mumbai with a portion of the notebook platform having being developed in Bangalore. This could perhaps put Bangalore firmly on the global roadmap as the technology hub of the world.
Confirming the development, a highly-placed source from Intel India said, "It is true that Intel will announce the launch of its next-generation notebook platform processor and that part of the platform was developed by Intel in Bangalore. This will be the first major innovation from Intel in Bangalore." The source, however, did not give any specifications on the new processor.
However, there have been rumours that Apple's new Mac mini and iBook are expected to be among the first systems to feature Intel's new mobile processor, codenamed Yonah. A dual-core version of Yonah is expected to be ready by the time the Mac systems are announced, while a single-core version is slated for delivery soon and Intel could offer two versions of each processor design. Yonah's launch could mean that dual-core Yonah iBooks, at speeds of 1.5GHz, might be announced while faster PowerBooks, packing the performance version of the processor, might arrive later.
For the full report visit here.
http://www.iht.com/getina/files/300705.html
Ford VP Cites Apple As A Model For corporate Recovery
Left Lane News reports:
Mark Fields, Ford Executive Vice President and President of the Americas, delivered a speech to the Motor Press Guild during the opening of the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show today. Fields said the economy made 2005 a turbulent year for American carmakers, but he admits, "it goes beyond economics." In short, "we lost our way. We lost touch with our customers." But Fields is confident Ford's new policy of "bold design and innovation" will enable it to recover from its past mistakes."...He also said the ultimatum he issued at Mazda while it was struggling applies today to Ford and GM: "change or die." Additionally, Fields drew parallels between Ford's recovery plan and the recoveries of Apple Computer and Motorola.
Fields likened Ford's situation today to that of Apple Computer or Motorola in the past. "I'd point you to the latest Interbrand ranking of the companies that are building their brand images, and their fortunes: E-Bay, Apple, Motorola. Guess what? Apple and Motorola had been written off less than a decade ago, just like the American auto industry. The headlines were grim."
"But Apple and Motorola went on the offensive. They redefined themselves, they refocused on their brands, and they connected like never before with more customers. They did it with products like the iPod and the Razr phone -- products that have excited customers with bold design and innovation."
For the full report visit here.
http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/01/04/ford-vp-we-lost-our-way/
Seagate to sell 160GB 2.5'' HD
HardMac's Lionel reports:
Seagate will release in February the first 160GB 2.5" HD, using at technology called Perpendicular Recording and using a SATA II connector.
It should be first available as an external USB2 drive, retailing at $379.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.hardmac.com/news/2006-01-05/#4945
Evolution and Intelligent Design in the Classroom
Low End Mac's Jeff Adkins says:
Sometimes Dan Knight, Low End Mac's publisher, lets us take off on a non-Mac tangent when the mood strikes us (he's been known to do it himself from time to time), so I thought I'd weigh in with some thoughts on the recent controversies surrounding "intelligent design".
The ongoing debate in schools about evolution vs. intelligent design once again brings the evolution controversy to the forefront of the American educational psyche.
Intelligent design (ID) is the idea that the universe (life, in particular) is so complex that an organizing deity (carefully unnamed) must have had a hand in designing it.
Evolution is the idea that changes in species are natural, random, and filtered through natural selection to wind up with what we have today.
Like any controversy, evolution vs. ID is tainted with a series of misconceptions and deliberate misrepresentations......
I believe both of these arguments have some merit, but as all partisan debates (such as Macs vs. PCs) the crux of the matter amounts to this: People like to tell each other what to do....
Most of the debate centers around each group's lack of respect and understanding of the other group's position. Just like Republicans and Democrats, I suppose.
For the full commentary visit here:
http://lowendmac.com/lab/06/0104.html
Behind The Magic Curtain
The Guardian reports:
Next week Steve Jobs of Apple will grab media attention with another simple-looking stage show. Mike Evangelist tells the insider secrets of his gruelling preparation
If the chief executive of Cadbury-Schweppes speaks at a conference, or Nike's boss introduces a new kind of trainer, you might expect to see it covered in specialist magazines, then quickly forgotten. But on Tuesday a chief executive will stand up and announce something, and within minutes it will be scrutinised across the web and on stockbrokers' computers. It will be in newspapers. They'll talk about it for months.
That chief executive is Steve Jobs, and I know why that speech makes an impact. To a casual observer it is just a guy in a black shirt and jeans talking about some new technology products. But it is in fact an incredibly complex and sophisticated blend of sales pitch, product demonstration and corporate cheerleading, with a dash of religious revival thrown in for good measure. It represents weeks of work, precise orchestration and intense pressure for the scores of people who collectively make up the "man behind the curtain". I know, because I've been there, first as part of the preparation team and later on stage with Steve.
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http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,16376,1677772,00.html
Apple's Gone Wrong?
Wired News's Jonny Evans reports:
International dance music DJ Pete Tong is a household name in the United Kingdom, with a long and varied career dedicated to music. As a DJ, the award-winning Tong plays gigs from the United States to Australia. As a broadcaster, his BBC Radio 1 Essential Selection is one of the channel's most successful shows, with a global audience of millions -- many online.
Tong is also a music producer (the triple-CD Pete Tong Essential Classics release is available from Universal this month), a podcaster and delivers a regular video show for 3G cell phones. For years he was the head of A&R for London Records -- a position that put him in charge of scouting and developing new talent (remember Salt-N-Pepa's Push It?), and he was once the features editor at Blues & Soul magazine. Today, he says he's fascinated by new technology, which he believes is revolutionizing the music industry.
We caught up with Tong to ask him about his favorite tools, his affection for Macs and his growing unease over Apple Computer's dominion of the music world.
For the full report visit here.
http://wirednews.com/news/technology/0,69925-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_9
HP Spits out Apple
The Register's Ashlee Vance reports:
HP's career as an Apple reseller has come to an end. The computer maker is expected to announce that it has dropped iTunes as the main music software on its PC and picked up the Rhapsody service from Real Networks as a replacement. This move follows HP's July decision to stop selling rebadged iPods.
Rhapsody will become the default music service on HP's vast computer line. In this position, it will enjoy an icon of its very own on the HP desktop. Customers will also be offered a one-month free trial to Rhapsody, which is a music rental service similar to that offered by the struggling Napster and Yahoo!.
For the full report visit here.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/05/hp_cans_itunes/
Apple May Open A Channel Islands-based Internet Store
This Guernsey's Phil Henderson says:
The computer giant has suspended online sales to the islands while it investigates doing so.
Acting PR manager Gia Goodman recently stated the company's position on the matter.
'In order to provide an optimum service quality to our customers, we are evaluating the need for a Channel Islands Apple online store. In the meantime, customers continue to be able to purchase Apple products from our network of local resellers.'
She said the company was aware of the potential tax advantages, but was unable to comment further or reveal in which island it might be based.
For the full report visit here.
http://www.thisisguernsey.com/code/shownewsarticle.pl?ArticleID=000046
Technology Review: The Steve Jobs Show
"Did Apple Computer invent "buzz" marketing? The point is debatable, but there's no arguing that since the famous "1984" Superbowl ad teaser that led to the surprise unveiling of the first Macintosh personal computer, Apple -- and its once-and-current CEO Steve Jobs -- have made shrewd use of secrecy, hints, and rumors. Combined with Jobs' undeniable flair for showmanship, this philosophy makes the annual Macworld Expo keynote speeches the focus of frenzied speculation and fantasizing.
But does this approach work? Well...we're talking about it, and the expo is still a week away."
Read more at:
http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech/wtr_16112,294,p1.html
eWeek: Yahoo Deal Might Stymie Even Microsoft
Opinion: It could prove difficult for Microsoft to carry out a Yahoo buyout. But the competition with Google might give Microsoft the determination to overcome any and all obstacles to the deal.
Read more at:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1908063,00.asp
eWeek: Ubuntu's Good, But Not Good Enough
Review: The open-source distribution and its relative Kubuntu are easy to use and upgrade, but that's not everything.
Read more at:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1907953,00.asp
Charles W. Moore
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