Intel slashes dual-core prices by 50%.

Intel has silently published its new price-list, revealing changes in pricing of the company`s microprocessors.

"The dual-core Intel Pentium D 950 processor (3.40GHz, 4MB cache, 800MHz processor system bus) experienced the most notable price-drop - 50% - and now costs $316," writes Xbit Labs.

Intel Celeron D processors are also priced at lower levels compared to AMD Sempron chips: the former are quoted in the $54 to $79 range, while prices of the latter begin at $64 and rise to $120.

Intel has not commented on the reasons for such massive price slashes.

For about 20 hours, the outside world could not read the Internet edition of the Herald Tribune or 13 other newspapers published by the New York Times Regional Newspaper Group, writes the HeraldTribune, now live again.

The problem occurred at the New York Times-owned group`s servers in Virginia.

"You never want this to happen," said Jeff Moriarty, VP of new media for the regional chain. He and his staff, working with server vendor Saxotech, are still trying to figure out exactly what occurred.

Multimedia Research Group`s recent IPTV market leader report ranks Entone Technologies as number one in IPTV video-on-demand (VOD) servers.

"Entone`s StreamLiner NVR is a software architecture that transforms standard server hardware (from vendors such as HP and IBM) into specialised, high-performance VOD servers that ingest, store and stream on-demand content," explains broadcastbuyer.tv.