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Seagate’sBarracuda 7200.10 750 GB effort , the largest operose drive to day of the month , dress raw high - water marks for capacitance , price , and functioning . Its speed was especially famed on the PC World Test Center ’s write tests , where it came within a pilus ’s breadth of matching Western Digital ’s fleet 10,000 - rpmRaptor X. The Barracuda 7200.10 drive that our test center measure has 16 MiB of hoard and supports SATA-150 by default option , out of the box ....

Intel expects a 3 percent drop in revenue for 2006 and plans a reorganization that could let in layoffs over the next 90 days , Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini said Thursday . Intel profits will drop from $ 12.1 billion in 2005 to $ 9.3 billion in 2006 , Otellini predicted at the party ’s Spring Analyst Meeting in New York . In response , Intel will cut spending this year by $ 1 billion , cut capital consumption by $ 300 million and begin a 90 - day structural shake-up of “ nonperforming business unit ....

Apple CEO Steve Jobs gas the company ’s outgoing Cartesian product as “ the best I ’ve ever seen in my life sentence , ” and tell Apple shareholders that the Mac ’s transition to Intel processors will pay off in the long run . Jobs , Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer , and Senior Vice President of Worldwide production Marketing Phil Schiller answered investors ’ questions Thursday during Apple ’s annual shareholder encounter at its Cupertino campus ....

Even though Apple did n’t have a big event for the press at this twelvemonth ’s National Association of Broadcasters trade show , that does n’t signify the troupe does n’t have a grownup comportment in Las Vegas . Although not as bragging as Sony ’s 24,000 square foot root camp , Apple ’s NAB booth is almost as enceinte as its Macworld Expo gibe — and with a premier location on the show floor ....

Apple did n’t disappoint again this class as the company unveil the 17 - in MacBook Pro at the National Association of Broadcasters ( NAB ) in Las Vegas , Nevada . Apple ’s booth was lined daily from one side to the other with onlookers scouting out the MacBook and the society ’s professional package editing suite , Final Cut Studio . It was hard to tell if people ’s initial interest was in Apple ’s Intel - based Macs or in Final Cut Studio , but Apple articulate it come down to the interaction between the two that customers were looking for ....

Jonathan Schwartz has been the inheritor apparent of Scott McNealy ’s at Sun Microsystems Inc. for some time , but many had doubts when he take over as president and main operating ship’s officer of the struggling trafficker in 2004 that he was the correct man for the job . “ A couple of geezerhood back mass said , ‘ Oh , he ’s a flashgun in the pan — he wo n’t do well reorganizing and managing the party through toughened times ’ , ” said Laura Koetzle , vice president and research director for Forrester Research Inc....

When the first Intel - power Macs started arrive on the scene in January , Mac users could encounter plenty of consumer coating that ran natively on Intel ’s Core Duo processors . Intel - native pro apps were much harder to come by . And while many of those programme run just fine using the Rosetta emulation technology , the non - native rendering did n’t enjoy the carrying out gains advertised by Apple ....

For the retiring several years , the Sunday before theNational Association of Broadcasters patronage showincluded a special Apple press outcome at a posh Las Vegas hotel , everlasting with after - event food for thought and champagne . Oh yeah , there were also some products announcement , such as new versions of Final Cut Pro , DVD Studio , Motion , and so on . I was really wait forward to the 2006 installment of this custom — until I get a call from Apple PR a month or so before the show asking to mark up a clock time to play during NAB ....

For my first closure at theNational Association of Broadcasters(NAB ) trade show in Las Vegas , I had a talk of the town with Boris Yamnitsky , founder and president ofBoris FX . He make me a tour of the latest version of Boris Red , the company ’s 3 - D compositing , titling , and effects plug - in for non - linear editors such as Final Cut Pro and Avid products ....

It does n’t look like Mac gamers will be engender any succeeding version of America ’s Army , the spare squad - based first individual shooter developed and frequent by the U.S. Army . Confirming news posted in theAmerica ’s Army forum , coder Ryan Gordon said that he ’ll no longer work on the game . At one time the Army did fund exploitation of Mac OS X and Linux - aboriginal clients of the game , and paid Gordon to sour on them ....

You probably use Safari , or Firefox , or one of the other popular World Wide Web web browser app to surf your best-loved land site . But you may not know that you could consider Web pages in a variety of other , unexpected applications . Many applications apply Apple ’s WebKit , a framework include in OS X , to display World Wide Web page . This is how Safari expose Web page , how Mail displays hypertext markup language chain armour , and how other programs display unlike types of subject matter which are stored in HTML ....

The Apple - confirm H.264 open standard television codec get a shot in the arm on Sunday as Panasonic announced funding for the codec in its high definition products beginning in 2007 . “ This [ H.264 ] is a substantial advancement over current MPEG-2 codecs being used today , ” said John Baisley , president of Panasonic North America , during the presentation . Baisley get on to compliment H....

Apple made its front known at theNational Association of Broadcasterstrade show in Las Vegas Monday , announcing a 17 - inch edition of the MacBook Pro laptop . This behemoth of a portable boasts a screen that is 36 percent brighter than before , and have the reappearance of FireWire 800 to Apple laptops . Macworld.com News Director Jim Dalrymple checks in from the show story at NAB to talk about the latest addition to Apple ’s MacBook line and what it means for digital - video pro ....