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• First-tier mobo makers: March sales prospects optimistic
  Wednesday 26 February 2003 – 06:15
  Prospects for the motherboard business in March appear better than expected, sources said, given the boost of OEM orders and possibly clearer buying sentiment before the CeBIT Hannover trade show to be held from March 12-19.
• First-tier mobo makers saw sales recovery in July
  Monday 5 August 2002 – 04:50
  First-tier motherboard makers reported a sales rebound in July, thanks to gradually rising demand at the start of the traditional third-quarter high season.
• First-tier mobo makers: July orders continue to rise
  Friday 19 July 2002 – 06:16
  First-tier motherboard makers continue reporting to see orders for the fourth week of July increasing.
• First-tier vendors cutting flat-panel TV prices
  Friday 9 September 2005 – 04:06
  Retail prices for flat panel TVs (including LCD TVs and PDP TVs) from first-tier makers are getting cheaper, as Japan-based Sharp and Panasonic (Matsushita Electric Industrial brand name) are cutting prices for their products.
• First-tier mobo makers: June shipments up 28 percent
  Monday 11 July 2005 – 04:13
  First-tier motherboard makers Asustek Computer, Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI) collectively shipped about 7.9 million motherboards in June, up 27.8 percent from 6.18 million units during the same period of last year.

• First Sightings: Three Early Samples of the GeForce4 Ti4600*
  Monday 4 March 2002 – 06:00
  Boards based on the NVIDIA GeForce4 started shipping on the first day of March, and we have a first look at 3 GeForce4 Ti4600 cards from ASUS, Leadtek, and Creative.
• First Look: Samsung's BD-P1000 Blu-ray DVD Player*
  Monday 19 June 2006 – 09:42
  Samsung's BD-P1000 first Blu-ray player follows Toshiba's HD-A1 HD-DVD to market by about two months. Dan Bradley once again puts his own money on the line to bring us a first look.
• The First 5.1 Headphones: Zalman ZM-RS6F*
  Friday 26 September 2003 – 07:00
  Zalman, mainly known as a CPU and VGA supplier, has entered the audio market. Its first audio device, the ZM-RS6F, is also the first 5.1 headphone. The innovative ZM-RS6F is designed for gamers and home cinema enthusiasts who want to enjoy the rich sound of multi-channel technology without disturbing the neighbors.
• The little browser that could: A first look at IE7*
  Thursday 16 February 2006 – 12:10
  Very few individual applications have managed to cause quite such a stir over the course of their lifetime as Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Love it or loath it, Microsoft's little browser that could has played its part in pioneering modern internet history; becoming an integral part of the Windows operating system as well as the undisputed champion of the viscous browser wars.
• Next-gen HDTVs may hide first-gen HD DVD limits, says Microsoft*
  Friday 24 March 2006 – 09:16
  While the first generation of HD DVD players will output 1080i resolution - interlaced, not progressive - smarter, top-of-the-line HDTV displays produced from now on should be able to compensate for that, says AACS spokesperson Richard Doherty, a Microsoft employee. So you shouldn't see a difference...provided, from a CE retailer's perspective, you bet the farm.