Tag archive: board

Working with a slew of collaborating professional snowboard photographers, Burton has designed a pack specifically for those who take their photography skills to the slopes. The 28L F-Stop Pack ($225) has an assortment of customizable padded dividers inside to protect your camera body, lenses, and any other vital accessories, as well as a removable storage pocket for cords, batteries, and other small items. The pack is made from durable 420D… Read More

Apple has announced that Google CEO Eric Schmidt is resigning his position on Apple's Board of Directors, owing to potential conflicts of interest as Google and Apple begin to compete in a wider number of businesses. Although Apple is not horning in on Google's Internet search business, Google and Apple already butt heads on mobile phones (with the iPhone and Google Android), and Google's recently announced Chrome OS will… Read More

After seeing Tony Hawk himself pull out the long-awaited board controller for RIDE at Microsoft’s Monday press conference, I couldn’t wait to hop aboard myself. And today I got a chance. Though Activision reps will gladly explain how intuitive and natural it feels for a skateboarding game, not much really feels right about standing on a plastic plank in front of a TV. Even so, it does feel well built for what’s still a… Read More

150 shareholders attended the delayed Yahoo general meeting in California on Friday – and gave a resounding show of support to the board for the way it had handled the failed talks with Microsoft about a $47.5 billion possible takeover. Chief executive Jerry Yang gained the backing of 85% of the voters. But it wasn’t a complete love-in. According to the BBC, shareholder Eric Jackson of Ironfire Capital called for the… Read More

By now, of course, it’s not exactly news that billionaire investor Carl Icahn wants to oust the Yahoo board at the general meeting next month. Since making his pronouncement, Icahn has also reportedly joined with Microsoft in a bid for Yahoo, which the company rejected out of hand. However, the Yahoo board has received some good news. Capital management company Legg Mason, which owns over 60 million shares of Yahoo stock –… Read More

A shareholder revolt at video game publisher Take-Two Interactive has resulted in the ouster of CEO Paul Eibelier and appointment of a new slate of directors to the company's board. The new board has appointed former Sony BMG executive Strauss Zelnick, of ZelnickMedia as the new non-executive chairman of Take-Two; ZelnickMedia partner Ben Feder will serve a acting CEO . The company's board is now made up by Grover Brown, Michael… Read More

Video game publisher Take-Two Interactive has been under considerable fire in the last couple years. First, a scandal over hidden, sexually explicit content in the hit game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas cost the company millions of dollars as they were forced to recall and retool the game—plus endure months of criticism and investigation by industry and Federal regulators. And last month, former Take-Two leader Ryan Brant became the… Read More

Resurgent computer maker Hewlett-Packard has announed it has agreed to pay $14.5 million to settle civil charges that the company used pretexting to obtain telephone records of board members and journalists as part of an investigation to stop leaks to the press. “We are pleased to settle this matter with the Attorney General and are committed to ensuring that HP regains its standing as a global leader in corporate ethics and… Read More

“The Cablevision board of directors agreed Thursday night to end chairman Charles Dolan's titanic struggle to rescue the Voom nationwide satellite TV service. The shutdown has begun and Voom service will halt April 30, the company said this morning in a regulatory filing.   The 15-member board, including Dolan, voted unanimously to adopt the timetable to shut the service, whose uncertain fate had torn the board and… Read More

Quote from the article: “Apple's care is obvious in the appearance of the components, and innovations to improve how the unit feels when you use it. The firm didn't hesitate to use expensive components when required. The USB memory engineer was especially impressed with the sturdiness of the case: it doesn't depress from the outside, and the headphone jack doesn't wobble. Apple eliminated design features that… Read More

Quote from the review at Motherboards.org: “The ASUS A8V-Deluxe is one of the first motherboards to hit market for AMD's new socket 939 platform, and it comes loaded with all the bells and whistles needed to satiate the minds of the enthusiast crowd. Built around VIA technologies K8T800 Pro and the SB VIA VT8237 chipsets the board sizes in at 12″x 9.6″(30.5cm x 24.5cm) in the standard ATX Form Factor and will fit… Read More

Twenty years after founding Dell, Michael Dell will transfer the title of chief executive officer to Kevin Rollins, with whom he has led the world's fastest growing, most profitable computer systems company since 1997. Dell's board of directors, meeting today in New York City, appointed Rollins CEO effective at the company's July 16 annual meeting of shareholders. Mr. Rollins, currently president and chief operating… Read More

Quote from the review at Beyond 3D: “Asus have chosen a minimal approach for the board layout, which makes a pleasant change from having to fight with a graphics card when trying to fit it inside a snug case. Other than this, there is nothing to make the design stand out particularly; for example, the chip cooling system consists of a rather poorly fitting passive heatsink. On the plus side though, the board does offer 3… Read More

Quote from the review at HardOCP: “We like a board that works out of the box and the INFINITY offered great usability without any tweaking. I had absolutely no problems with this board and found it to be very stable across all testing. The consistency with which it performed during the application and gaming benchmarks helps DFI redefine the expectations of a board at this market level.” Read the full review

Quote from the review at HardOCP: “Now is the point where I'll lose most of our readers. You may find yourself asking where our overclocking results are and I'll be glad to tell you: There are none. For an undetermined reason, this board did not take kindly to overclocking at all. I refuse to dismiss the potential of this board (ASUS continues to cater to the overclocking crowd), but am sad to report that even a 215FSB… Read More