11:00 18.08.2006
AP - Dell Inc.'s announcement that it will expand its use of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. microprocessors is another win for the smaller chip maker against larger rival Intel Corp.
Investor's Business Daily - Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices doesn't want to get lost in all the brouhaha over a bunch of new Intel products released this summer.
Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK The race into the blogosphere has reached a feverish pace. Statistics house Technorati estimates that some 75,000 blogs are created every day, nearly one per second, joining the more than 40 million blogs already populating cyberspace. That's twice as many blogs as there were just six months ago. And newspapers of all sizes clearly have no intention of being left behind, as E&P has documented over the past two years. At McClatchy Co.'s News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. ...
Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK Steve Lovelady, managing editor of CJRDaily.org, a Web site for The Columbia Journalism Review, quit Thursday after Nicholas Lemann, dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, informed him he was cutting the site’s budget nearly in half.
NewsFactor - Think you've got what it takes to create the next "Halo" adventure, or to add a few tricks to Tony Hawk's skateboarding arsenal, for the Xbox game catalog? If so, Microsoft's XNA Game Studio Express development toolkit will give you the chance to prove it.
AP - CA Inc.'s fiscal first-quarter profit fell 64 percent on increased expenses, and the business software maker said it will trim its work force by about 10 percent, or 1,700 positions.
AP - Google Inc., the search engine whose clean, minimalist home page was a stark contrast to the link-laden Web portals of the late 1990s, made a tiny tweak to its site last week that may have much bigger repercussions.
AP - Makers of slim TVs are struggling with higher inventories, but the extent of the problem depends on each company's position in the market: Smaller names are facing a glut of flat-panel screens while most of the top players say they're playing catch-up to avoid shortages.
PC Magazine - The Asus WL-700gE, quietly launched a month or two ago, is an 802.11b/g router with three USB 2.0 ports for external storage. The selling point of this router, however, is twofold: first, the router contains an internal 160-Gbyte hard drive, and second, it includes a small internal server that can process FTP or BitTorrent downloads without the need for a PC.
AFP - Google invited computer software wizards worldwide to compete for top honors in the Internet search engine's annual Code Jam.
AFP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has started blogging, with the launch of his own Internet diary.
