Dan Nystedt - Author - Good Gear Guide

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Article | 14/07/2006 Sony rated top brand in U.S. for 7th year in a row

Sony was ranked the best brand in the U.S. for the seventh year in a row, Harris Interactive said.

Article | 10/07/2006 Via promises smaller ultra mobile PCs with chipset

Via Technologies has launched a new chipset it says will help reduce the size of ultra mobile PCs by as much as 40 percent.

Article | 22/06/2006 PC market slows ahead of anticipated Intel price cuts

Users looking for a new PC might want to wait for a round of price cuts that are expected soon from Intel, the world's largest maker of microprocessor...

Article | 21/06/2006 Spansion puts mobile phone security right in with data

Flash memory chipmaker, Spansion, plans to fight mobile phone viruses and data theft with new security technology it puts right into its chips.

Article | 14/06/2006 UMC earnings view bodes well for chip industry

United Microelectronics (UMC), the world's second-largest contract chip maker, is targeting earnings per share far higher than industry analysts estim...

Article | 13/06/2006 COMPUTEX - MSI offers graphics cards, mobos for Quad SLI

Micro-Star International Co. (MSI) last week showed off 13 motherboards and four graphics cards made to be used with Nvidia's SLI (scalable link inter...

Article | 13/06/2006 COMPUTEX - E-Ten launches handsets, in talks with Quanta

E-Ten Information Systems Co. launched a pair of new smart phones that use Microsoft software and revealed it's in talks with the world's largest note...

Article | 1/06/2006 Laptops and gadgets to pull crowds at Computex

One of the world's biggest IT trade shows will throw open its doors in Taiwan next week, showcasing new laptop processors from the world's two biggest...

Article | 29/05/2006 LCD TV prices to drop fast in coming years

Prices for LCD TVs are falling at a slower pace this year, but consumers will still enjoy significant price drops for the next few years, market resea...

Article | 26/05/2006 Microsoft teams up on specialty 3G handsets

Microsoft has teamed up with two Taiwanese companies to develop 3G handsets for business users in a bid to create gadgets that meet specific user need...

Article | 24/05/2006 New Nike shoes talk to people via their iPods

Nike is putting the world's most popular music player to work in a system designed for its latest athletic shoes that tells runners the distance and t...

Article | 27/04/2006 LEDs making flat-panel displays brighter

The quality of the picture on desktop monitors, laptop screens, LCD TVs and dozens of consumer electronic devices is set to improve drastically with n...

Article | 21/04/2006 New plants, weak demand cause LCD price drop

A string of new LCD factories being built, combined with slow demand for notebook and desktop PC screens, caused LCD prices to fall during the first t...

Article | 5/04/2006 IBM and Rapport unveil energy efficient processor

IBM and a small Silicon Valley start-up have developed a new, energy-efficient microprocessor aimed at users who want streaming live, high definition ...

Article | 30/03/2006 Good news for users: flash, DRAM prices falling

It's about that time of year again when users who need IT products with heavy memory chip content should stand by for bargains. Prices of the NAND fla...