In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday, graphics hardware company NVidia stated defective MCP and GPU products in certain notebooks will cost the company between $150-$200 million.
Warranty, repair, return, replacement and "other consequential costs and expenses" are expected to hit the company as a result of a weak die and material set in certain "previous generation" products causing an unexpectedly high failure rate in the field.
Just hours after making it publicly available, Sony has pulled the PlayStation 3's latest firmware download (v2.40) due to reports of inoperable consoles after the update process.
SCEA's director of Corporate Communication and Social Media, Patrick Seybold, played down the problem, saying that incoming calls regarding failures have been of a low volume, and the removal is only temporary.
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After being in public beta just shy of one year, the official version of Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection 2 client for Mac was released yesterday.
Responding to an unfavorable analyst outlook for post-merger Sirius and XM, satellite radio network Sirius this week published its guidance for 2009, predicting a full year of profitability if the merger is completed.
Just under two weeks ago, Goldman Sachs analyst Mark Wienkes wrote, "While the FCC draft circulation signaling the merger's likely ultimate conditioned approval generated a short-term lift to the stocks, we think any imminent merger-related strength has passed." He went on to add, "With core demand for satellite radio falling amongst the younger demographics, versus rapid increases for MP3 players and other new technologies, and declining core ARPU, we see long-term risk to the outlook."
Sprint's indoor coverage-extending femtocell device, Airave, will be rolled out nationwide on July 15 according to early reports.
Airave is a device which connects to any cable modem or DSL router with an open port, and generates a signal to which mobile phones can connect. Airave allows up to three simultaneous voice connections to be made within a 5,000 square foot coverage area.
Blockbuster has withdrawn its proposal to buy out Circuit City, quickly vaporizing the $18 billion combined retail enterprise the video rental company had envisioned.
Jim Keyes, Chairman and CEO of Blockbuster yesterday issued a statement saying that his company has determined the Circuit City acquisition to be "not in the best interest of Blockbuster's shareholders."
Despite its x86-sounding name, PC Tools has launched the free beta of iAntivirus, a piece of protective software designed for identifying and stopping Mac-exclusive malware.
Macs and their users are subject to a number misconceptions and stigmas. Thanks in part to a particular advertising campaign, there is an ill-bred notion that Macs are impervious to malware. Critics of the company condemn Mac users for being technologically ignorant in believing their hardware is insusceptible to compromise.
AT&T today unveiled its prices for the 3G iPhone when it is made available at 8am on July 11th. Buried in today's announcement was the news that customers can opt to purchase their new iPhones outright, without a contract.
New customers or those eligible for an upgrade discount will be able to snag the 3G iPhone at AT&T's lowest price: $199 for the 8 GB model, and $299 for the 16 GB. All customers at that price will be required to sign a two-year contract.
Adobe Systems Inc. announced today that it is working with both Google and Yahoo to improve the search engine indexing of Flash (.SWF) files -- a capability search engines have had for years, but haven't used.
Search engine giants Google and Yahoo are utilizing Adobe's recently-updated Flash Player standard to help make Flash-based content searchable. Google has already launched its indexing mechanism, with Yahoo reportedly next in line to do the same.
After a deluge of negative feedback from angry customers, Netflix has announced that it will not be removing its profile feature.
"You spoke, and we listened. We are keeping Profiles," reads a message Netflix customers received Monday afternoon. "Thank you for all the calls and e-mails telling us how important Profiles are. We are sorry for any inconvenience we may have caused. We hope the next time you hear from us we will delight, and not disappoint, you."
Real Networks' Rhapsody has opened an MP3 store that works independently of the subscription-based service, bringing Rhapsody ever closer in design (but not execution) to the venerable iTunes.
United States customers today can access the new Rhapsody.com digital download store which offers DRM-free music for 99¢ per track, or $9.99 an album. Like Rhapsody's subscription service, users can preview up to 25 full-length tracks per month, and then all subsequent previews are pared down to 30 seconds, the same as iTunes.
Centro manufacturer Palm Inc. announced that despite record high sales, its fourth quarter revenue was well below forecasts, reporting losses of $43.4 million.
The Centro is proving to be the flagship device for Palm, that is to say, it's been just enough to buoy the company through flagging Treo sales until the 800w ships.
Professional short form video's longest-running site AtomFilms has merged with user-generated content partner AtomUploads.com into what is now simply called Atom.com, and has shifted its focus exclusively to comedy.
With the site change, Atomfilms' partnership with sister company Comedy Central takes a more central role. The cable comedy network recently began airing a late-late-late show called AtomTV that airs much of the Atom's content and serves as a showcase for the weekly winner of the site's Upload Showdown contest. Its champion is determined by audience voting, and participants are amateur video makers who get a chance to sign a "professional" contract (a nonexclusive licensing agreement for their video) and earn a $500 prize.
On a week when ICANN's decisions were headlining hundreds of tech news sites, several of the group's pages were defaced by a group of hackers, and a phishing scam spoofing the group's page hit inboxes across the country.
Yesterday, a Turkish group known as "NetDevilz" -- which is linked to a reported 31 perpetrated attacks just this year, as tracked by site Zone-H -- hijacked icann.com, icann.net, iana.com, and iana-servers.com, all sites belonging to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).
One of the biggest news items this week, according to The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), could result in the biggest expansion to the Internet in forty years.
ICANN unanimously voted in favor of introducing new top-level domains, which will include internationalized forms, including in non-Roman alphabets. This could open the door for top level domains to be longer, more descriptive or ultra-specific: such as .free, .paris, or .spaß.