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Intel launches Core i7 as PC demand softens

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Intel began sales of its high-end Core i7 desktop chips in Tokyo late Saturday night, bringing to market a series of processors that are significantly more powerful than any of the company’s current desktop products.

In a move intended to stoke demand among Japanese PC enthusiasts, shops in Akihabara, Tokyo’s main electronics district, stayed open past midnight to put the first Core i7 chips on sale. The launch preempted a San Francisco news conference planned for Monday, as signs increasingly point to softening global demand for computers. …continue reading Intel launches Core i7 as PC demand softens » »

Windows Vista Capable case surfaces with more dirt

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Unfortunate business decisions are made every, but rarely do we get insight in the background of those decisions and answers to the when? why? and who? questions. New court documents relating to the Vista marketing confusion that flooded the PC market with “Vista Capable” computer systems that were not really able to run Windows Vista and support Vista’s new driver model, reveal more about what was discussed between Microsoft, PC vendors and Intel. There seems to be no doubt that Microsoft knew a decision to allow certain Intel systems to sneak into the Vista Capable program may mislead its customers and yet the company followed through with that strategy. Guess why.

A new 29-page filing made available through TechFlash, which follows a 158-page filing that was published in February, raises new concerns over PC buyers who were intentionally misled with Vista logos that were placed on PCs in 2006. As in the previous filing, the attorneys of the plaintiffs list plenty of emails that discuss support for the Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) as a requirement for PCs to carry the Vista Capable/Ready logo prior to the launch of the new operating system as well as Microsoft’s knowledge that computers equipped with the Intel i915 GM IGC do not meet this requirement and were, as a result, generally considered not to be capable enough to run Windows Vista.

The problem was that especially because Intel held a 40%+ market share of the PC graphics market with its IGCs at the beginning of 2006, less than 30% of PCs at the time were considered to be able to run Windows Vista. Of course, that created a huge problem and the prospect of lots of PCs being stuck in the channel with consumers unwilling to buy them. And it was clear that Intel would be unhappy. Not surprisingly, the company complained about the WDDM requirement and asked Microsoft to temporarily drop this clause.

The filing leads up to an email conversation between Microsoft and Intel executives on January 30, 2006, a communication which apparently had already reached the very top of both companies by that date, that resulted in Microsoft dropping the WDDM requirement on January 31, 2006. Intel was happy and was able to ship millions of suddenly “Vista Capable” systems into the market (by that time, Vista Capable meant that a PC would be able to run Vista without the AeroGlass surface), an exposure that was estimated at about $200 million per month, according to the filing. …continue reading Windows Vista Capable case surfaces with more dirt » »

Voice Search App for iPhone from Google Advanced

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Google has developed an app for iPhone which give the phone advanced voice recognition. The application is capable of answering location related question (example like: Where’s the nearest Starbucks?” or “How tall is Mount Everest?), give driving directions, respond to generic questions, and search local data from the address book.

The thing works by recording the soundbite, uploading to Google’s servers which will crunch the data and return an answer “within seconds on a fast wireless network”.

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