Intel unveils new 4 series chipset at Computex

At the Intel keynote today at Computex, EVP Sean Maloney officially unveiled the new 4 Series chipsets and prognosticated a bright, high definition future delivered via WiMAX.

Toshiba looking to get high-def out of standard DVDs

Despite its exit from the next-generation DVD race, the one-time champion of HD DVD is not giving up on the promise of high definition on optical disc. Rather, it seems to be working to improve standard DVDs.

Acer launches new netbook, promises WiMAX

Call them sub-notebooks, netbooks, UMPCs, or what one clever Engadget poster deemed them: “Liliputers,” the biggest hardware launches at Computex in Taipei this week fall into the umbrella category of “smallest.”

Analysts: Hundreds of billions in wireless productivity gains

Last Friday, an Ovum Research report added an additional $260 billion to its 2005 forecast of $600 billion in productivity gains that wireless technology is expected to add to the American economy over the next ten years.

Scientists Find Superconductor that is Virtually Immune to Magnetism

DailyTech has been extensively covering the breakthroughs in superconductors over the last couple years. The class of materials is very promising in that if someday it could replace conductors, it would mean that electricity could travel at virtually no losses to anywhere in the world. This would result in vast energy savings and allow for dramatically faster computers, free of the burden of resistance-produced waste heat…

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Undocumented Zune software command-line switches, URIs

Akin to classic arcade dip-switches, the Microsoft Zune client software for both Windows XP and Windows Vista supports a handful of command-line switches that enable you to manipulate its behavior. All the switches listed below cannot be combined and should proceed Zune.exe, unless otherwise stated.

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IDC: Despite the iPhone, RIM’s smartphone share still rises

While many have said Apple’s iPhone would immediately spell trouble for RIM’s BlackBerry, it’s not happening yet according to the latest research.

TWC’s new wireless cable modem will send Web content to TV

Time Warner Cable — an entity now being completely spun off from Time Warner Inc. — is readying a new wireless cable modem aimed at offering Internet-based video as one of its “channels.”

Dish, EchoStar sue TiVo to keep their DVR offerings afloat

UPDATED Dish Network says their new software no longer infringes on TiVo’s patents, but the DVR maker disagrees.