Univeral abit shuts down website from 28 Feb 2012

abit was a famous motherboard brand in the past. After changing hands and renamed as Universal abit, it didnt pickup the reins. The company no longer manufacture motherboards and changed to multimedia products. It didnt do very well and shut its operations thereafter.

Although the products were no longer on sale, the site at abit.com.tw was still available for end users to download bios, manuals etc.

On Feb 28 2012, this will all come to an end as the web administrator has posted a message on its site indicating that the site will be shut down forever.

It is really unfortunate to see the demise of the site. Anyway, the RD people are still around, working hard and making better boards for other brands.

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Gigabyte X79 issue was not a hardware fault, but a BIOS issue

Last week I reported on some news that three Gigabyte motherboards, X79-UD3, X79-UD5 and G1.Assassin 2 had issues with build quality and a bad BIOS. I’ve received official word from Gigabyte that it was not a board-related, or build-related problem, but a BIOS-related issue.    I used a specific quote “Gigabyte has said the issue stems from a combination of poor quality PWM components and bad firmware.” I should’ve fact checked before posting, and done some background work before making a statement like that and trusting a single source. For this, I apologise on behalf of TweakTown. < Read more…

Call of Duty ELITE Trailer: Join Up, Soldier With Rob Riggle

A new trailer has been released to hopefully sway gamers into subscribing for Call of Duty Elite Premium, the only way to get ‘Modern Warfare 3′ maps as they release. Starting tomorrow, the Call of Duty Elite ‘season’ begins with the first of four planned packs of DLC. Activision seems to believe that The Daily Show’s Rob Riggle (a former serviceman himself) is the guy to sell it to us and we have to admit he was pretty funny in the trailer. Check it out below.

Lt. Colonel Rob Riggle drops a little truth: Call of Duty is about kicking ass. And Call of Duty ELITE is about kicking even more ass. Join up at http://www.callofduty.com/elite and get Modern Warfare 3 content first on your console. Fir

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How to tell if your biz will do a Kodak

Blocks and Files Disruptive or enhancing innovation? Kodak’s descent into Chapter 11 hell is a tolling bell for all successful storage suppliers facing innovative technology from competitors. King Canute didn’t reinvent himself: can you?

Let’s look at the tape market. Tape devices were backup devices; they were the target storage devices for data coming from backup software. Tape device vendors pretty much defined themselves as backup software storage devices and were hardware-centric.

Along comes disk to disk backup, cutting lengthening backup windows to more acceptable periods, and along came deduplication, cutting the cost/GB of storing backup data on disk, and wham!

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M1 release Financial results ended 31 Dec 2011; Net profit increased 4.5% to S$164.1 million

M1 Press Release 

Operating revenue grew 8.8% to S$1,064.9 million, driven by higher service revenue and handset sales. Service revenue grew 2.4% to S$750.5 million, benefiting from growth in mobile customer base, as well as higher contribution from fixed services.

Revenue from non-voice services rose by 3.7 percentage points to make up 35.6% of service revenue, driven by continued growth in smartphone customer base. This customer base now accounts for about 67% of total postpaid customers.

The total mobile customer base grew by 104,000 in 2011 to reach 2.015 million customers as at 31 December 2011.

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