Editorials

7 June 2007 - Time for the news feed again from Taipei, @ Computex 2007!

21 March 2007 - LG Electronics (LG), a leader in consumer electronics and mobile communications, was again lauded this year by the red dot Design Awards committee at this year's red dot Design Awards 2007, as it took home over two dozen awards, including the event's highest recognition.

15 March 2007 - For the Part II of our Pre-CeBIT coverage, we bring you the memory makers, the cooler guys, the chassis/PSU guys, the graphics cards makers as well as some others. Watch out for our Day 1 CeBIT coverage tomorrow!

5 February 2007 - ASUS PC Showcase Competition has officially come to an end after one month of intense competition between the top Sim Lim Square retail shops to vie for the title of "Top PC Builder of Sim Lim Square"! VR-Zone is proud to be the official media and organizer for this exciting event! 'Updates on 5 Feb 07'

2 February 2007 - Dell is facing an investor lawsuit alleging that it improperly accounted for hundreds of millions of dollars in payments from its long-time partner Intel. Plaintiffs allege that the computer giant was receiving as much as $1 billion a year in "secret and likely illegal" kickbacks from Intel to ensure that Dell used no other chipmaker. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court in Austin, Texas, it said. Officials at the law firm could not immediately be reached for comment. A Dell spokesman said the company does not comment on pending litigation. The company has not seen the lawsuit, he added.

18 January 2007 - Hon Hai Precision again topped the list of the 10 largest private manufacturers in Taiwan in 2006, with revenues of NT$868.3 billion (US$27.1 billion at NT$32:US$1). ASUS climbed two notches (nudging past Formosa Petrochemical and Quanta Computer) to second place with NT$541.9 billion (US$16.9 billion), thanks largely to its policy of product diversification. In addition to being the world`s largest motherboard manufacturer, ASUS also recorded strong performance in other areas such as notebook PCs, graphic cards, and game consoles, bringing its revenue growth to 52%--the highest rate among the top 10.

11 December 2006 - The Internet Industry Association of Singapore (IIAS) has launched today an online child safety portal for Singaporeans to provide guidance and information for children using the Internet safely. The objective of this portal is to educate Children, Parents, Teachers and Carers on the potential threats that children can be exposed to on the world-wide-web. Some features of the portal would include: safe surfing tips, proper netiquette, parents’ tips, computer protection advice as well the latest news and events. The public can visit http://www.iias.com.sg from today. The content and support for the portal is being provided by members of IIAS. Founding member Genovate Solutions will be spearheading content development as well as technical support for the portal.

1 December 2006 - Led by Raffles Junior College student, Samuel Tan, Team Zenith, a diverse team of gamers of different ages and experiences, emerged as the unbeaten champions in Defense of the Ancients (DOTA) All-Stars games from more than 400 gamers through the 2006 Spring, Summer and Autumn CAPL seasons. This stellar showing convinced AMD and HP to assist Team Zenith in their training and participation for future competitions in Singapore and possibly around the South East Asia region. Each team member will receive a high-end customized gaming platform featuring a HP Compaq Presario Desktop PC powered by AMD’s Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core microprocessor along with personalized gaming apparels. And in a recent DOTA gaming tournament in Kuala Lumpur, Team Zenith came in first in one of the AMD sponsored overseas gaming trips to Malaysia. In total, the sponsorship has a cash value of S$25,000 to aid Team Zenith in their championship title quest and to become professional gamers.

23 May 2007 - PowerColor, Cooler Master and Universal ABIT are in search of a challenger in Taiwan to take on Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel, the world’s best known professional video gamer, during COMPUTEX 2007. Is this guy human? Can he be defeated? PowerColor, Cooler Master and Universal ABIT want a worthy challenger to give him a run for his money. We will reward the challenger with 100,000 NTD if he or she can defeat Fatal1ty on June 5th.

19 March 2007 - Seems like CeBIT has turned into a car show where manufacturers are using expensive cars to gain attention and prestige. ASUS with Lamborghini, aigo with Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, CarTFT with GTR Avalanche Evo Orange?, Lenovo with F1 Williams BMW racing car, HP with F1 Ferrari, EA with a car from Need for Speed Carbon game.

15 March 2007 - VR-Zone brings you a pre-CeBIT coverage before it is even officially opened. Check out what's installed for you over at ASUS, ABIT, MSI, Gigabyte, Foxconn, ECS booths.

3 February 2007 - TGDaily reported that a group of Nvidia customers are upset over the company's lack of final Vista drivers and are now threatening a class action lawsuit against the graphics card giant. The customers claim that the cards don't adequately work with Microsoft's newest operating system and feel that the company isn't being truthful about being "Vista Ready". One customer, who we can only name as 'Nathan', has even created a website nvidiaclassaction.org and is seeking legal help for a possible lawsuit.

24 January 2007 - CeBIT will be a day shorter from next year in the face of cancellations from key foreign exhibitors such as Nokia and Motorola. The price structure for exhibitors would be changed and organizers would concentrate more on attracting foreign companies and orientate themselves more clearly toward trade visitors. Exhibitors' main complaints about the fair were high costs, an unclear concept and no real sense that the fair was more for trade visitors than for consumers. Rival German consumer-electronics show IFA, held annually in Berlin, has been growing as CeBIT shrinks. This year's CeBIT will run from March 15-21 in Hanover.

11 January 2007 - Cisco Systems is suing Apple to prevent it from using the name iPhone for the new smartphone. Cisco filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court for Northern California seeking an injunction against Apple using the name. The name iPhone is a registered trademark of Linksys, a division of Cisco. Linksys picked up the iPhone name when it bought a company called Infogear Technology in 2000. Cisco's iPhones are telephone handsets designed for use on a VoIP network. Apple and Cisco have been in negotiations for about two years over Apple's desire to license the iPhone trademark. When Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone Tuesday at Macworld, Cisco had not yet received a signed trademark licensing agreement from Apple even though the two companies had been negotiating terms as recently as Monday night.

7 December 2006 - Right after two days of experiencing nVIDIA graphics at the NVIDIA Reality Tour (link), the gamers were getting into the mood for more. Pretty graphics? An opportunity for a PC showcase? Getting together for a good fragout? The gamers wanted all that and more, not for a transient moment, but for a full blown 3D2N LANParty at Singapore's Funan Digital Life Mall.

18 November 2006 - AMD will lay off 375 workers. The move will weed out redundant positions caused by AMD's acquisition Oct. 25 of graphics chip maker ATI Technologies. It could also give AMD extra resources in its competition with rival Intel. The company can gain the flexibility to do that by cutting redundant jobs in the sales and marketing and general and administrative (SG&A) departments. AMD has announced plans to combine its processors with ATI's graphics and chipset technologies to create a family of more integrated chips for PCs and other consumer electronics devices. Once it has launched those new chips, AMD might replace some of the lost positions.