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Intel Corporation today announced record third-quarter revenue of $10.2 billion along with operating income of $3.1 billion, net income of $2 billion and earnings per share (EPS) of 35 cents. Intel cautioned that the current financial crisis has made the technology sector predict its results for the current period, so they didn't say what exactly to expect for Q4.

“Intel delivered the best third-quarter revenue in its history,” said Paul Otellini, Intel president and CEO. “We were solidly profitable, with operating income of over $3 billion, reflecting strong across-the-board execution and best-of-class products. Intel delivered the best third-quarter revenue in its history. We were solidly profitable, with operating income of over $3 billion, reflecting strong across-the-board execution and best-of-class products.”

Corsair announced today a new line of economical, quiet, and energy-efficient desktop computer power supplies. Dubbed Corsair Power, the new series provides unprecedented features at a surprisingly affordable price point. The Corsair Power CX400W, CMPSU-400CX, is available immediately through Corsairs world-wide authorized dealer channel, with a MSRP of $59.99 USD.

he Power series is designed to offer the best performance available at its price point. Initially available in a 400 Watt model, the CX400W, the Corsair Power series delivers clean and reliable power. Due to its energy-efficient design and Active PFC (Power Factor Correction) circuitry, the CX400W is capable of delivering greater than 80% efficiency ratings, allowing it to run extremely cool and use very little energy, reducing its operating costs significantly. Cooled by a large, thermally-controlled 120mm fan, the CX400W can provide stable, continuous power while remaining whisper quiet.

Just a quick link: Nokia Beta labs want feedback on their Communication Center product and are giving away Amazon gift vouchers for some of the respondents to their survey. (via the Guru)

These roundups are never 100% definitive, because there always seems to be at least one favourite service excluded (in this case, Ovi) and also because of the nature of the game - the goalposts are always moving. But still, there’s a useful SyncML service review roundup over on Mobile Royale today, including several services that I’d never heard of - worth a read.

VIA Technologies today showed that the cryptographic performance of the VIA Nano processor is the most power efficient on the market, due to its dedicated VIA PadLock Security Engine, a suite of security tools integrated directly into the processor die. The hardware security implementation within the VIA Nano processor means that user data is handled more efficiently and safely by circuitry deep inside the silicon, rather than by using more vulnerable operating system, memory and software resources.

The benchmarking of the 1.3GHz VIA Nano processor using SiSoftware's newest release of the SiSoftware Sandra 2009 diagnostic utility showed the VIA Nano processor performing the cryptographic tests at a blazing 765MB/s of bandwidth, over 93% faster than a 3.2GHz Intel Core 2 Quad QX9770 processor, yet using a mere 5% of the power. “Fast, power efficient and safe data encryption are quickly becoming a top concern of mobile PC users,” said Richard Brown, Vice President of Marketing, VIA Technologies, Inc. “Data protection and identity theft for lost and stolen devices are issues that are compounded by the growth of the mobile computing market, key areas where the VIA Nano processor can significantly help protect users data.”

Since the dawn of time (ok, about 1995), developers have been looking to replace the default home screen of PDAs and smartphones. Epocware’s new Handy Shell seems pretty comprehensive for S60 and so we asked Ewan to install it on his main device and run with it for a week… The result? A narrowly missed MegaApp. From configurability to stability, Handy Shell seems to do a lot to live up to its price tag.

There’s an interesting interview here today in which Richard Bloor talks to Antony Edwards, Vice President, Developer Product Marketing at Symbian,  discussing how developers will be able to contribute to the Symbian Foundation, the challenge of software distribution and how the Symbian Foundation’s developer program is shaping up.

Carnival of the Mobilists 145 is over at mjelly this week and well worth a look, with interesting mobile-related reading plus some splendidly bizzarre carnival imagery….

In part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, and part 5 of this series, Steve Litchfield looked at specifics of camera performance in the phone world. Now AAS guest writer Dirk Snoyt takes up the theme of camera phone flash research and gets all technical on the theme of colours. If you’d like to suggest a topic for us to cover next in the series, please comment!

When eVGA launched the 790i SLI FTW motherboard a few months back, their non-reference design won them a lot of acclaim. Now they've taken something great and made it even better with the inclusion of an 8-phase digital PWM. The 790i SLI FTW already featured a solid PWM, so how does this new digital PWM match up? Read on to find out!