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AMD has released three new triple-core processors Monday along with further price cuts to its processor range.
Lucid said that it has begun shipments of Hydra reference designs, a technology that allows system vendors to integrate multiple graphics cards in a single computer. Called the Hydra 100-series, the SoC is now available for evaluation and can be integrated with PC motherboards, notebook motherboards and add-in cards.
China, now more than ever, wishes to become technology independent. Following the nationň€™s impressive show to the world at the summer Olympics in Beijing, China hopes to continue its rise.
Despite that some industry players expect battery cell supply will reach an equilibrium in the fourth quarter, sources at Taiwan notebook battery module makers have noted that it is still too early to tell whether supply will be enough to feed demand. They generally believe shortages will only be solved when fresh capacity becomes available from 2009.
Round Rock (TX) - This morning Dell announced the company has achieved its goal of carbon neutrality in less than a yearň€™s time and five months ahead of their schedule. Dell has done this by using a combination of methods ranging from energy efficiency, carbon offsets from rain forest preservation in Madagascar and voluntary green power purchases. The program was designed to help eliminate or offset 475,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
New software released today decreases time servers are down for maintenance, reduces storage costs, and simplifies data center management.
Over the weekend, Gigabyte launched the first of its many overclocking competition events in the United States. The event has already been going on for some time internationally, but Gigabyte said that this is the first time that it launched something like this for State-side.
Albatron Technology has released this week the PC6600U graphics card on the heels of Nvidia"s GeForce 6600 graphics chipsets. The PC6600U is a PCI-Express (x16)-based card that utilizes a heatpipe thermal solution.
Rambus has scored itself yet another royalty haul as Hynix has agreed to pay up.
Japan"s Hitachi Ltd. on Wednesday unveiled the world"s first hard disk drive/DVD recorder that can store one teraByte of data, or enough to record about 128 hours of high-definition digital broadcasting.
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Matsushita"s Panasonic division announced that it has started pilot production of single-layer, Blu-ray-based BD-ROM media. The company said that it is currently working on replicating the process to dual-layer BD-ROM discs with 50 GByte of storage capacity.
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Asustek Computer president Jerry Shen has revealed the company plans to launch Eee PCs based on Intelň€™s Atom processor platform in June, and will introduce models with a 10" display later in 2008. Asustek is believed to have ordered 2.5-3 million Atom processors from Intel, while Acer has ordered around one million and may place another one million unit order depending on market demand for corresponding low-cost PCs in the later half of the year, according to industry sources.
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In the wake of freezing issues with Seagate"s 1.5TB drives comes yet another problem with the Barracuda 7200.11 series. Failure rates of the 1TB drives in particular are abnormally high, but Seagate has not acknowledged the problem.
Sunnyvale (CA) - OCZ Technology has announced it next generation of SSD drives that are up to twice as fast as the previous generation. While first generation SSD drives had read speeds of 58 MB/s and supported write speeds of up to 35 MB/s, the second generation comes with a massive 120 MB/s read and an even more impressive 100 MB/s write speed.
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Santa Clara (CA) - Samsung, which has been leading the NAND flash market with more than 50% market share and is the typically first to introduce a new production process for flash memory may see more competition down the road: The NAND flash joint venture between Intel and Micron, IM Technologies, is first to announce sampling of a 50 nm chip.
Windows 7 upgrades were on cheap for a limited time only. Did you get yours?
Windows 7 going on the cheap in the United Kingdom.
Microsoft has given the green light to custom PC manufacturers, allowing them to offer machines with Windows XP
Pre CES 2007 coverage - - Las Vegas (NV) - Hitachi this morning was first out of the gate to announce details about a 1 TB hard drive, which the company said will ship during the first quarter of this year. The announcement follows a brief statement by Seagate, which yesterday confirmed that it will also deliver a 1 TB drive within the next three months.
Three of Japan"s largest electronics companies, Hitachi, Toshiba and Matsushita Electric, have reached a basic agreement to create a joint venture to manufacture and sell LCD panels for televisions, the companies said Tuesday.
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While Garmin-Asusň€™ M20 is going to be the talk of the playground next week, one must not forget the G60, which has been pegged as the first device from the collaborating companies since last year.
HD189733 (Vulpecula) - A red dwarf star known as HD189733, about 60 light years from Earth in the constellation Vulpecula, is home to an orbiting planet which now bears the unique trait of being the first extra-solar planet ever to be observed in the visual spectrum from Earth. Using a special kind of polarization filtering, the researchers were able to mask out all other-sourced light and focus only on light reaching us reflected directly from the planet, called HD189733b.
The rapidly growing market for NAND Flash, a technology typically used for storage media such as Flash cards, continues to attract new manufacturers. Micron today announced that it is shipping 2 Gbit 90 nm devices into the segment and is the most recent competitor in a field that is dominated by Samsung, Toshiba (Spansion (AMD/Fujitsu), Intel, and ST Microelectronics.
MiniFrame, provider of high performance desktop virtualization solutions, announced as winner of the Red Herring Global 100 Award
Vital Path"s Migration Center for the desktop provides self service, drag-and-drop, content migration for SharePoint, Livelink, Documentum and other content management platforms.
During a recession people resign themselves to the fact that theyň€™re going to have to cut down on some luxuries -- and more often than not, gadgets and hardware find themselves on the list of items people canň€™t afford to buy but can well afford to live without.
In addition to Asustek Computerň€™s Eee Box and Micro-Star Internationalň€™s (MSIň€™s) Wind PC, Synnex is also ready to ship its Lemel Q to heat up the nettop market in August, according to channel sources. Asustekň€™s Eee Box will launch on July 30 in Taiwan.
Taipei (Taiwan) - From the looks of things at Hall 1 of Computex, it would seem that everyone and his granny has at least one Flash USB storage device on display. The word being used to pitch these devices is "smart," which might lead one to ask, "What, exactly, is so smart about USB flash drives?"
We are wrapping up day 1 of Microsoft"s 2006 TechEd Conference as Microsoft has provided surprisingly few details so far about its packed roadmaps for Windows Vista, its server variant and the upcoming Office 2007.
San Jose (CA) - Adobe today announced a new flagship for its Acrobat software family: Acrobat 3D enables CAD users to create PDF files from 3D models and embed a functional 3D viewing application into a PDF document. The illustrations can be viewed, magnified and viewed in a standard version of Acrobat Reader.
Framingham (MA) - Notebooks will continue to drive the growth of the PC market, analysts of market research company IDC believe. Despite fewer PC replacements and slower economic growth, the impact of portable devices may be big enough to lift the market into double-digit growth.
This afternoon Bethesda announced that a mission editor for Fallout 3 is now available to download. But thatň€™s not all..
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Micron Technology has released a quarter-inch 2.2 megapixel sensor to mobile phone manufacturers. The new sensor has both a Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) standards serial interface and a parallel interface which give phone makers flexibility with traditional designs and future models that require high bandwidth. Pictures of up to 1600 by 1200 pixels can be taken, while videos of up to 15 frames per second can be recorded at maximum resolution.
Los Angeles (CA) - How small can flash memory go? Well, Kingston has released a 1 GB MicroSD card that can fit on your fingertip. At the CTIA Wireless convention, Mike Sager of Kingston told us the card is mainly meant for mobile phones, but it does come with an adapter to fit an SD card slot. We show on video just how small the cards are.. just don"t sneeze or you may never find the card again.
In addition to releasing an array of fancy new consumer electronics, Microsoft has announced that next week will see the company release updates targeted at four vulnerabilities with Windows.
Redmond (WA) - In a blog posting at Microsoft"s Technet site, Microsoft security program manager Christopher Budd announced details about February"s monthly security update, which will be available to Windows users on February 13.
TI announced the UCC28600 power management circuit, which will improve the energy efficiency of consumer electronics, notebooks and AC power adapters. According to the manufacturer, the controller can achieve a power efficiency of more than 88% for example in DLP HDTVs, LCDs and plasma TV and reduce standby power consumption to less than 300mW. TI also said that the UCC28600 can be used in AC adapters for notebooks and gaming devices that support 40W to 200W.
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Sharp announced the development of its high-contrast ratio in-car LCD applications and highlighted that the contrast ratio of 1500:1 achieves the industry"s highest level. The contrast ratio of the latest solution triples the 500:1 contrast from a previous version.
Santa Clara (CA) - In a way, it was the cat that Dell let out of Nvidia"s bag, as word came from Dell early this morning of a new, top-of-the-line XPS notebook with a GPU that wasn"t officially on the books. Now, Nvidia is echoing the call that resounded from Round Rock this morning, with news of the GeForce Go 7900 GTX, which the company is touting as enabling "extreme high definition" (XHD) for the next generation of notebook displays.
Sunnyvale (CA) - AMD kicks off a week that will be largely dominated by news coming out of Intel"s developer forum in San Francisco. The company today announced three new versions of its Opteron workstation and server processor - which run at 2.6 GHz and remain in the 95 watt power envelope.
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Core i5 isn"t necessarily a new term floating around the Internet, however lately there"s been quite a bit of talk about the "Core i7 lite," and now there"s a motherboard to support it.
Las Vegas (NV) - Friday, Google took the spotlight - some would say, they stole it. Trying to go one up on Steve Jobs (who pays his own company"s respect to CES by scheduling MacWorld in San Francisco so close to it), Google"s Larry Page basked in the spotlight of speculation that his company was planning to unveil something more than it actually did. The theme of this year"s show was becoming quite clear: Everyone, it seems - or, more accurately, everyone with a marquis name - wants to be a content provider. But what was interesting about Friday was that so much speculation had been devoted to Google"s rumored interest in being a consumer electronics device company in its own right - in effect, a content manager that when Page revealed the truth, for many, it was something of a letdown. The fact that it was a letdown should perhaps be a signal to those who would become content providers, and didn"t try to let that news be masked by loftier rumors.
At a presentation at the 2006 SIGIR conference, Microsoft scientists said that new and additional techniques for analyzing search click-through patterns and browsing behaviors can enhance the search results delivered by a search engine.
The expansion allows the company to meet increasing demands in Central Europe for Open Source CRM Consulting. The location is as a hub for the company"s Professional Services, Support, and Sales teams serving the region.
LaCie will display its RAID 0/1 storage solution using USB 3.0 next month at CES.
Over the last week or so weň€™ve been hearing about Bing, Microsoftň€™s latest search effort formally known as Kumo. Today sees the Redmond company unveiling the ň€˜decision engineň€™ which will be online for American users on June 3.
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Tokyo (Japan) - Matsushita, commonly known in the US for its Panasonic brand, is introducing a new waterproof notebook in Japan. The Let"s Note CF-Y5 has a waterproof sheet and drainage ducts that protect it from spills and light rain. In addition, it can withstand up to 220 pounds of force.
Just last week the Pirate Bay four were told that their appeal for a retrial had been denied. This week, the Pirate Bay is bouncing back and revealing VideoBay, the sitesň€™ video streaming project.
The adoption of LEDs as a backlight source for 12- and 14" notebooks should begin in the second quarter of 2006, when the price gap between CCFL- (cathode fluorescent lamp-) and LED- based backlight modules narrows to less than $3, according to LED maker Everlight Electronics.
Micro-Star International (MSI) today introduced the RD480 Neo2, an AMD Socket-939 motherboard that supports ATI Technologies" CrossFire dual-graphics technology, with volume shipments slated for the middle of November.
The location serves as a hub for the company"s Open Source CRM Professional Services, Support, and Sales teams in the Australasian region.
Argonne (IL) - The BMW Hydrogen 7 Mono-Fuel test vehicle has been rated by the US Department of Energy as a super-ultra low-emission vehicle (SULEV), the highest designation for energy efficiency.
Bangkok (Thailand) - If you"re going to cruise around in an armored car, it might as well be a nice looking BMW. The German automaker was showing off its 2008 model of the armored 550i Security series at the Bangkok International Motor Show. While the series itself isn"t that new, it was the first time we"ve seen the car in person. Of course we took all the obligatory pictures.
Due to the TLB (translation lookaside buffer) bug, AMD has postponed the launch of its upcoming quad-core Phenom 9700 CPU to the second quarter of 2008, however the company is planning to showcase the CPU at CeBIT 2008 in March along with 9900 and 9100e models, according to sources at motherboard makers.AMD is confident that it has solved the bug in the B3 stepping revision, but since the company has not yet revealed an actual shipment date for the three CPUs, it is unclear whether the showcase will also mark their official launch, noted the sources.
With the opening of its first retail store taking place today, Microsoft has opened up its online store and is now selling PCs through its website.
Todd Holmdahl, corporate vice president at Microsoft"s Xbox and Gaming Platform Group, is one of the more influential figures within software giant"s growing gaming business. He has worked on Xbox since the inception of the division at Microsoft and was a pivotal figure in the development of Xbox 360.
It"s easy for people to pick at Windows for being prone to virus and malware attacks. It"s almost a given belief that if you"re running a PC with a Windows operating system, you"re much more susceptible to attacks than users with other operating systems.
Microsoft"s March 2008 security bulletin includes four patches addressing remote execution vulnerabilities in Office applications. All four updates are labeled "critical" and affect Office 2000, 2002, 2003, and 2007.
San Francisco (CA) - Intel"s chief technology officer Justin Rattner demonstrated to analysts the firm"s first quad-core processor. According to Rattner, the chip was a very early production sample of the "Clovertown" processors, which is due for introduction in early 2007 as part of the firm"s "Bensley" performance and volume server platform.
If Keith Mullin has his way, we might soon see a sixth food group in the USDAň€™s Food Pyramid: Cognitive Performance Snacks. Mullin calls his invention "Gamer Grub" and maintains that it is ň€śformulated to boost your brain and speed reaction times.ň€ť
Qsan P500H Redundant 10GbE iSCSI RAID controller is now available.
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Las Vegas (LV) - Philips hyped a number of forthcoming products (see our story Philips goes ambi-extreme) at its CES press conference Sunday, including one series of products aiming specifically at gamers: the AmBX PC Gaming Peripherals, which uses light, vibration and air to create an immersive environment for gaming.
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Microsoft has said that it expects Windows Mobile sales to increase by at least half in the companyň€™s FY 2008/2009.
Nvidia has partnered with four motherboard makers to push the sales of 915PL chipset-based motherboards that bundle GeForce 6200 Turbo Cache-based graphics cards, according to sources at Nvidia Taiwan. The four makers are Asustek Computer, Gigabtye Technology, Micro-Star International (MSI) and Albatron Technology.
Some of you surely spend enough time in Blizzard Entertainmentň€™s worlds to experience them even in your dreams. Now itň€™s time to put some of that obsession to good use.
HP announced on Wednesday that it has merged Voodoo PC into its consumer computer business. This development comes after HP acquired boutique PC maker Voodoo in 2006 in an undisclosed sum.
Palo Alto (CA) - Stanford University"s Folding@Home project today announced a new software that will enable the use of graphics cards within the distributed computing project. Project leaders will tap into the floating point horsepower of graphics chips and hope to see a massive jump in processing power that can lead to more research results in less time.
Micro-Star International (MSI) on November 17 unveiled its P6N Diamond (Nvidia 680i chipset) and P6N SLI Platinum (Nvidia 650i chipset) motherboards which support Intel"s quad-core Core 2 Extreme QX6700. The two models are aimed at the high-end gaming segment, MSI indicated. MSI earlier introduced quad-core supporting motherboards, including its 975X Platinum PowerUp Edition, 965 Platinum, 965 Neo 2, G965MDH and Q965MDO.
It won"t be WoW, but it"ll still want your money.
It"s been a while since we"ve heard anything from Nicholas Negroponte but the OLPC chief recently aired his grievances about the OLPC project and it seems that he is not at all pleased with the Sugar UI that runs on all XO laptops.
Berkeley (CA) - Electron microscopes are great for viewing atomic details, but don"t you just hate it when nearby scientists start blaring Queen"s "We Will Rock You"? Well the researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory were fed up with rock music shaking up their atoms and have developed a new microscope that can maintain stability under intense vibration. They even made a video to prove it.
Three monitors are always better than one!
San Francisco (CA) - Emotiv Systems today unveiled the EPOC, a neuroheadset that allows users to control gameplay simply with their thoughts. IBM said that it is looking for ways to extend the EPOC beyond games into enterprise business markets.
Timesheet, Professional Service Automation and Project Portfolio Management Software provider Atlantic Global announce the release of its new website www.atlantic-ec.com
Adelaide (Australia) - An anti-shark device became shark food after it failed spectacularly in the waters near South Africa. This shocking (ok maybe not so shocking) information came to light during an inquest held in South Australia over the death of a swimmer who was wearing the same device. The Shark Shield device promises to repel sharks with pulses of electromagnetic waves, but some people think it is high-tech snake oil.
British nanotechnologists have emulated the functions usually associated with transistor-based digital electronics in all-metallic nanoscale devices made from ferromagnetic materials. This technology could lead to three-dimensional microchips with tremendous memory capacities.
Las Vegas (NV) - Solid-state storage may come much sooner into reach for consumers than many expected just a few years ago. Adtron"s 8 GByte A35FB drive is further evidence that Flash harddrives are stepping down the price ladder and could complement traditional harddrives in the not too distant future.
Taipei (Taiwan) - Samsung is first to announce a Flash storage device that aims to completely replace the traditional hard drive in some mass market mobile computers. The 32 GB solid state disk (SSD) drive comes in a 1.8" form factor and reads data at more than twice the speed of hard drives. Best of all: The SSD is promised to consume 95% less power than a hard drive.
The Gigahertz as we knew it may be long gone, but there are still scientists researching the possibility of handheld devices that work at 1 THz and won"t burn your hands. Edmund Linfield and Giles Davies from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Leeds said that a collaboration with Harvard University has brought them closer to that goal.
Taiwan"s notebook manufacturers expect Intel"s price reduction on dual-core Yonah processors to arrive in advance of the planned date of May 28, with the aim of stimulating the worldwide notebook PC market, despite Microsoft"s delayed launch of its next operating system (OS). Various sources from market research firms, including Lehman Brothers, have pointed out that the delayed release of Microsoft"s consumer-version of its Windows Vista OS will slow notebook demand and push back the peak buying season, the makers noted.
ntel has agreed to hire the team of Hewlett-Packard engineers that helped design the chip giant"s Itanium microprocessors for server computers, both companies said Wednesday.
Intel plans to push the market for mini PCs by promoting sales of motherboards based on the Mini-ITX form factor developed by VIA Technologies, starting in the second quarter of this year, according to sources at Taiwan motherboard makers. According to Intel"s roadmap, the Mini-ITX will be one of the form factors for the platforms based on entry-level processors, and Intel will also recommend that PC makers use Mini-ITX motherboards for the production of small- form-factor (SFF) PCs, the sources indicated.
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Craft Designs, Inc. (http://www.craftdesigns.net ) is pleased to announce an award by the United States General Services Administration (GSA), IT Schedule 70 contract number GS35F0739V.
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According to industry sources, AMD has decided to modify the naming scheme for their 45nm desktop processors. While AMD is keeping the Phenom X3 and Phenom X4 branding, the model numbers have changed from four digits to five digits in length.
Intel plans to phase out its 865 and 915PL/GL chipsets in the fourth quarter and exit the entry-level chipset market, sources with motherboard makers revealed. Intel has only told some first-tier mobo makers and OEM clients about the decision, and the company is not expected to make a public announcement, the sources said.
Megasys Software, a software developer specializing electrical engineering design software, has announced the release of version 6.0 PowerVue Circuit Analyzer. It is a powerful ,easy to use and flexible software for meshed distribution networks.
Samsung said it has started shipping samples of "MoviNAND" Flash memory modules to "manufactureres of mobile products". The devices combine regular NAND Flash memory with a standard multimedia card (MMC) v.4 controller and onboard firmware. According to Samsung, the technology simplifies the integration of memory into products such as MP3 players, digital cameras and cellphones.
HSBC Division Employ Tracesmart"s Proprietary Existence System
John Cruz, Founder of ImageMind Software says; "Streaming video-on-demand has set the tone for user generated content, however some video is intended only for a specific pair of eyes." That is where ImageMind"s video email comes in.
Ever since late 2004, the shadow of an Intel chipset shortage has hovered over the motherboard industry. Although Intel now claims the situation has improved, motherboard makers still claim they expect to see a 20-30 percent shortage this quarter.
Ultriva Expands Internal Kanban module with Operation Sequencing and OEE
Acerň€™s first Android netbook is is a dualboot machine.
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Alienware has announced two new workstations based on dual-core AMD and Intel processors. The new MJ-12 7500a and 7500i workstations integrate a choice of AMD and Intel processors, respectively. Both models have two 16-lane PCI Express slots and offer buyers to include ATI FireGL or Nvidia Quadro graphics cards in their system. The ATI option tops out with a FireGL V7100 PCI-E card with 256 MB of memory, while Nvidia fans can get dual NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 cards with 512 MB GDDR3 memory each.
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Google has begun testing a new version of its search system that makes finding information on the Web easier for the blind or visually impaired, its creator said on Wednesday.
A recent major class action lawsuit that was brought against both Nvidia and ATI for conspiring to fix, raise, maintain and stabilize prices of graphics processing chips and cards may soon be coming to a resolution.
Upgraded car shocks, mufflers and brakes are something you would expect from a souped-up car, but how about an actual, custom computer? Thousands of extreme car-modders already are installing complete computer systems in their vehicles for GPS, music playback and even Internet access. Members of the mp3car.com forums recently got together in Huntington Beach, Calif., to show off their electronic vehicles.
Substantial advances over the last few years have provided us with diverse and robust techniques to quickly and precisely capture large amounts of geospatial information, extending traditional surveying and photogrammetric solutions. For example, using cameras, laser scanners and GPS sensors on-board static or mobile platforms allows us to collect geospatially rich information, such as the locations of moving objects, or detailed 3-D terrain models as they are captured by an unmanned aerial vehicle flying over an area of interest.
New York (NY) - More than one third of Internet users have connected to the Web via a wireless connection, according to a new survey that was released yesterday. That number, which includes Wi-Fi and mobile Internet access, marks a 50% increase from three years ago.
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LED packaging house Everlight Electronics - in cooperation with Hua-chuang Automobile Information Technical Center (Haitec), an affiliate of local Taiwan automobile firm Yulon Group - claims that it has successfully resolved issues concerning heat-dissipation for LED headlamps, and Everlight estimates that the LED headlamp will soon pass heat-dissipation tests and be ready for commercialization by the third quarter of 2008. LED lamps used in automobiles can be grouped into two categories, interior and exterior lighting.
Image sensors are reaching into new volume markets beyond the digital camera, Micron one of the leading suppliers of CMOS-based image sensors, today announced the MT9V125 sensor which complements the firms existing portfolio and promises to enhance picture and video quality.
Responding to a steady influx of flaws in the company"s Office productivity suite has occupied many of Microsoft"s programmers since late 2005. So far this year, the software giant has detailed at least 24 Office flaws found by outside researchers in its monthly bulletins, six times the number of Office flaws found in all of 2005.
Microsoft took a step towards creating an open standard of technology behind Word and Excel in a move to appease governments and ensure data in documents and accounts can be accessed in decades to come.
Raleigh, North Carolina-based Red Hat began talking positively about Xen in October 2004 and has included Xen open source virtualization in its Fedora community-led project since Fedora Core 4 was launched in June 2005.
To promote the first production run of its PCIe-enabled pico-BTX XPC model SB86i, Shuttle Computer will bundle a free BTX CPU cooler with each barebones system, according to sources. Although the sources claimed the 5000 units will begin shipping next week, the company refuted the claim and stated that the systems will not begin shipping until mid-December, although they will be available in retail outlets before Christmas.
Pleasant Grove (UT) - iPhone owners and software developers aren"t the only ones complaining about the access restrictions to their iPhone, it is also pretty much the only cellphone that is giving government agencies and criminal investigators a tough time accessing data that is or was stored in the phone"s memory. Now there is the first application that actually squeezes through the iPhone OS to acquire some (read: not all) data that, for example, can be used as evidence in court.
Redmond (WA) - Windows Vista is officially out of the beta stage and Microsoft is preparing for the first mass testing of its new operating system. A total of five million RC1 copies will be made available through the company"s customer preview program within the next days. Microsoft confirmed pricing and the release dates of the software.
The first new Mozilla Firefox point release of the year is now out addressing a number of bug and security issues. Overall, Danish security firm Secunia rates the aggregate of all the security issues "highly critical."
According to web statistics firm WebSideStory, at the start of this month Firefox had a browser market usage share of 8.88 percent, about double the 4.23 percent it boasted at the same time in 2005.
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Santa Clara (CA) - Intel told its partners that it has begun phasing out the majority of its 65 nm Xeon DP processor generation to make room for 45 nm CPUs. 11 of 16 CPUs are being nixed, while others are transitioning to a new and more power-efficient stepping.
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Round Rock (TX) - Dell is the midst of streamlining its consumer PC business with systems that focus on basic, multimedia or performance computing. Following this strategy, the company today released the M140 multimedia notebook with an XPS sport package as well as the Dimension E310 desktop that fills the role of an entry-level multimedia PC.
Asus and Disney have gotten together and come up with a Disney-branded Asus netbook, which theyň€™re calling a netpal.
As upset as some are with Microsoft and its Windows logo program, thatň€™s not going to stop Redmond from continuing to make up new stickers to grace our desktop cases and our notebook palm rests.
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Apple is losing out on the back-to-school crowd this year.
While all the browser talk today will center around the release of Internet Explorer 8, those who want to be different or just try new things should take notice of Googleň€™s Chrome browser heading back into beta.
Toronto (Canada) - A first-year Ryerson University student faces expulsion after running an online Facebook study group that swapped homework tips. 18-year-old Chris Avenir has been hit with 147 counts - one for each student who used the group - of academic misconduct and will now go in front of the engineering department for an expulsion hearing. The school claims the group gives students an unfair advantage, but Avenir says it"s the 21st century equivalent of a traditional study group.
The number of IPTV subscribers will reach a moderate 29.5 million worldwide in 2010 from a small base of five million in 2006, with global revenues from IPTV services increasing from nearly $1.5 billion in 2006 to $9.3 billion in 2010, according to consulting firm Ovum. These modest numbers reflect the fact that IPTV will continue to represent a number of challenges for operators well after being launched - challenges which include understanding and accessing content, Ovum said.
HPň€™s Mininote 2133 was originally designed to compete with the likes of Asusň€™s EeePC on the budget educational market. When HPň€™s marketing people got a look at it, they decided to bring it to the general market ň€“ and rightly so.
Think you can do better than Obama come January? See if you have what it takes in the upcoming PC game, Commander in Chief.
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The software as a service (SaaS) market is projected to achieve $8 billion in 2009, almost a 22% increase from 2008 revenue of $6.6 billion states a recent study from research giants Gartner
Westlake Village (CA) - Just about two weeks ahead of the official launch, Core 2 Duo"s true performance capability comes to light. In tests conducted by Tom"s Hardware Guide, Intel"s new processor delivered stunning results, outpacing its AMD rival in almost every discipline. For the first time in about two years, Intel is offering a superior desktop processor that may cause more than just a headache for AMD.
Advanced Micro Devices today announced it began this month offering microprocessors with reduced lead content to customers worldwide, nearly one year in advance of a regulatory deadline to reduce lead in electronic products. The European Union has established a directive that restricts the use of lead by electronics manufacturers. The Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) legislation takes effect July 1, 2006.
Logos Bible Software today announced a technology partnership with Zondervan to bring their titles to Logos Bible Software.
Intel"s Core architecture gets a solid start with about 150 companies offering more than 200 Xeon 5100 (formerly code-named Woodcrest) platforms today. Pretty much every know server manufacturer has sent out press releases ranging for example from Gateway that promises to offer Woodcrest system in the future to Supermicro that has launched 30 different Xeon 5100 system.
Microsoft has updated their Live.com user controlled startpage, desktop and search engine service with new updated theme and features. Mark the new Live.com as the first post-Gates relaunch with a much better interface and usability.
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Intel plans to aggressively expand its shipments of notebook CPUs aiming to almost double its total of 2007 within the next few years, according to sources close to the company. Since Intel launched its Centrino platform in 2003, shipments have grown from 38 million notebook CPUs in the first year to 79 million in 2006.
Field Precision has added support for parallel processing to Aether, a 3D code for time and frequency-domain electromagnetic simulations. The measured speed improvement is close to a factor of 2X on a dual-core computer.
Last week Microsoft employees were disappointed when the company pulled the plug on plans for a pub on its Redmond campus.
Games evolve along with the hardware that they"re developed on, naturally. However, much of what makes a great game enjoyable, hasn"t really changed too much.
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This news showcases Unitrin Direct as the recipient of the Celent Model Insurer Award in January 2010. The award recognizes the company"s use of DocFinity software in transforming business efficiency.