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Thanks to Friday's analyst predictions that computer giant Dell ( DELL ) may miss the boat on the rebound in the personal computer market, shares of the company dropped 9.2% to $14.41 per share. Dell may continue lose market share to its major rivals Apple ( APPL ) and Hewlett-Packard ( HPQ ). Dell's sales to big corporations were down by 23% since last year, while sales to government agencies were down 7% since last year.  

SAN FRANCISCO—Double Data Rate 3 (DDR3) SDRAM, the state of the art in commodity memory technology, is expected to rise to dominance by the second quarter of 2010, according to new projections from market research firm iSuppli Corp. DDR3 shipments will rise to account for more than half of the global DRAM market by the second quarter of 2010, surpassing DDR2 for the first time as the leading technology for PC main memory, according to iSuppli (El Segundo, Calif.). DDR3's share of the DRAM market in ter

For PC users across the board, this means faster performance   -Mike Howard

 

Ultra X4 500 W is 6 19/64" (16 cm) deep, using a 135-mm fan on its bottom and featuring active PFC, of course. As mentioned, Ultra X4 has a fully modular cabling system, meaning that even the main motherboard cable is removable. The cables included are: Main motherboard cable with a 24-pin connector (no 20-pin support) (23" or 59 cm).  

A universal notebook adapter with retractable cabling that extends to almost ten feet in length, comes with nine adapter tips, and features two USB charging ports. Features: Pros:  

When it comes to playing the latest titles on a notebook, you want the best of both worlds: high frame rates and plenty of detail. The ASUS G51J-A1 delivers on both counts, thanks to its Intel Core i7 processor, Nvidia GeForce GTX 260M graphics, and full HD display. You also get 640GB of storage space.  

Camarillo, Calif.— Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. has rolled out an electronic dispersion compensation (EDC) clock and data recovery (CDR) device, featuring Vitesse's FlexEQ EDC technology. Dubbed VSC8238-02, Vitesse's latest device is designed to meet the challenges of transmitting and recovering 8G Fibre Channel data in lossy legacy blade server backplanes and host bus adapters (HBA).  

In an effort to boost the amount of money that IBM is getting from competitive takeouts of Unix systems from Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems, Big Blue has taken a sharp machete to the memory prices on its Power Systems, reducing prices by between 28 and 70 per cent. The Power Systems line of servers is based on IBM's homegrown Power6 and Power6+ processors, but the DDR2 main memory used in the machines is a bit pricey. So costly, it turns out, that high memory prices can keep customers who are will  

More than 20 juniors at Columbus High are now one click away from high speed learning. The International Baccalaureate students were given the Apple MacBook Friday morning. They'll be able to use the computers for class projects and turn them in from home for their college prep classes.  

A new feature wherein All Things Digital looks at up-and-coming and innovative start-ups you should know about. This week: We caught up with Sam Blackman, CEO of Elemental Technologies at the San Francisco NewTeeVee Live conference. Elemental Technologies hopes to become a major player in the future of online and over-the-air video through their high-performance encoding technology.

We’re the first ever company to take advantage of GPUs for video processing   -Sam Blackman