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14-515: The Inquirer (stylized as TheINQUIRER ) was a British technology tabloid website founded by Mike Magee after his departure from The Register (of which he was one of the founding members) in 2001. In 2006 the site was acquired by Dutch publisher Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeverijen (VNU). Mike Magee later left The Inquirer in February 2008 to work on the IT Examiner . Historically,

28-490: A Dell notebook PC bursting into flames at a conference in Japan; The New York Times reprinted The Inquirer' s photographs. The Inquirer was also the first publication to report Dell's subsequent decision to recall faulty batteries, according to BusinessWeek . The Inquirer's successful reporting of the story relied on information supplied by readers and later by a confidential source at Dell. "I attribute being on top of

42-623: A down-market reader. The tabloid tag does not apply to the paper format, as many of these publications are web-based only, such as The Inquirer and The Register . The sarcastic, iconoclastic and skeptic tones of these publications is often more akin to publication such as Private Eye , which would not usually be labelled a tabloid, than to the Page Three tabloid such as The Sun and the Daily Star . The Inquirer even, in its 20000th article, refers to itself as "redtop tabloid rags like

56-548: A keylogger from a key lime pie." Tech tabloid A Tech tabloid is a type of news media that mainly concentrates on technology news: science, IT, semiconductors, telecoms and related issues, but also takes on a less formal and more humorous approach than traditional technology publications such as EE Times or EDN . They are professional in nature, though, rather than community-based technology news sites such as Digg or Slashdot . Tabloid newspapers traditionally aim for sensationalist stories, celebrity news and aim for

70-510: The EE Times website offers news, columns, and features articles for semiconductor manufacturing , communications , electronic design automation , electronic engineering, technology, and products. In November 2012, UBM Electronics announced that the December 2012 issue of EE Times would be the last in print. In 2013, EE Times will be an online product only. In 2018, EE Times rolled out

84-759: The INQUIRER", later in the same article calling itself "cheesy": determining the irony of this is left as an exercise to the reader. Both the Register and the Inquirer do generally have red banners at the top of their home pages. EE Times Since its acquisition by AspenCore, EE Times has seen major editorial and publishing technology investment and a renewed emphasis on investigative coverage. New features include The Dispatch, which profiles frontline engineers and unpacks real-life design problems and their solutions in technical yet conversational reporting. EE Times

98-557: The Intel platform are cancelled. On 1 March 2007, AMD said that they would continue developing chipsets for Intel platforms. On 3 October 2014, The Inquirer reported on the privacy policy for the Technical Preview the upcoming Microsoft Windows 10 operating system. In the report, it pointed out that the permissions included the ability for Microsoft to monitor individual keystrokes as well as file content from users. The story

112-972: The alleged screenshots in full-motion video before a set deadline (which gave the author 10 and a half hours, beginning at 6:30PM UK time). No one produced the program before the deadline passed. Independent verification that RyderMark was genuine, first appeared in TweakTown in May 2007. RyderMark developer Ajith Ram denied ever sending the Inquirer Nvidia cheating allegations. On 24 July 2006, The Inquirer wrote that, in response to AMD's announced intent to purchase ATI, "ATI had its chipset license pulled, or at least not renewed by Intel." ATI responded by stating that its license had not been revoked and that they continue to ship Intel chipsets under license. On 23 August 2006, ATI showed its chipset roadmap to motherboard vendors which showed that next-generation chipsets for

126-857: The magazine was entirely Internet-based with its journalists living all over the world and filing copy online, though in recent years it has been edited from Incisive Media's offices in London. Although traditionally a ' red top ', under Incisive Media it has put more weight behind its journalism, reducing the number of jibes at companies, and moved instead towards sponsored online debates in association with high-profile organisations, most recently, Intel. The Inquirer ceased publishing on 19 December 2019, partly due to declining digital advertising revenues. In 2006 The Inquirer reported laptop battery problems that affected Dell , Sony and Apple as of September 2006, with rumours of problems at Toshiba and Lenovo . In June 2006, The Inquirer published photographs of

140-475: The maker of Rydermark calling the allegations against them "irresponsible". About 8 months after the original Rydermark article, The Inquirer ran another article claiming that Rydermark was still being developed, but was near release. In response, one of its critics offered $ 1,000 to a charity of the Rydermark articles author's choosing if he could produce (breaching his NDA ) a version of Rydermark that showed

154-406: The rest of its electronics media portfolio ( EDN , Embedded.com, TechOnline, and Datasheets.com ), was being sold to AspenCore Media, a company owned by Arrow Electronics , for $ 23.5 million. The acquisition was completed on August 1, 2016. EE Times is free for qualified design engineers, managers, and business and corporate management in the electronics industry. It is also available online ;

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168-465: The story to old-fashioned print journalism standards – cultivating, and, if you'll excuse the pun, not burning such contacts," The Inquirer 's founder, Mike Magee, told BusinessWeek. In July 2006, The Inquirer posted images to show cheating by Nvidia Windows device drivers in Rydermark 2006 . The images were alleged to be fake by a number of sources. The Inquirer denied any wrongdoing and quoted

182-549: Was launched in 1972 by Gerard G. Leeds of CMP Publications Inc. In 1999, the Leeds family sold CMP to United Business Media for $ 900 million. After 2000, EE Times moved more into web publishing. The shift in advertising from print to online began to accelerate in 2007, and the periodical shed staff to adjust to the downturn in revenue. In July 2013, the digital edition migrated to UBM TechWeb's DeusM community platform. On June 3, 2016, UBM announced that EE Times , along with

196-433: Was picked up by news media around the world causing Microsoft to admit that monitoring was a necessary part of the process, but denying use of a keylogger. Ed Bott, writing for ZDNet, accused the site of being "a tech tabloid known for its breathless headlines and factually challenged prose" and said of writer Chris Merriman, "there's little evidence that the author has enough background in computer science or security to tell

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