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Charlie from the Inq is reporting that engineers at AMD are 'dancing in the aisles' because a new stepping of the company's Barcelona core turned out much better than expected. The memory controller supposedly turned out very well and initial CPU clock speeds will be higher than originally...
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According to a report on the Digitimes wesbite, NVIDIA and Intel have reached some sort of agreement where NVIDIA will trade some of its GPU technology for more / better cooperation from Intel. "Nvidia has had discussions with Intel and has already reached several agreements for cooperation, noted the sources, adding that details of the...
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Naval Ravikant is an example of the new face of dotcom startups. He sees the method of nurturing startup ideas with venture capital cash as less of a bank and more like a movie studio. Ravikant runs a tight ship, with hard deadlines. "The engineers have the freedom to experiment...
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The need for IT workers with very specific skills is driving up the wages earned by those workers. And a reluctance to jump around from job to job (Hello 1998!) is making it difficult for employers to fill IT positions. That translates into a shortage -- and higher wages for the right...
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Josh Rogers, IT/Commo Tech at the Balad Airbase, Balad, Iraq writes in with the following questions regarding our Ultimate Gaming Rig article... "I was wondering what you used to overclock and monitor the CPU. What is that program CPU-Z? I have an Asus Striker Extreme, a QX6700, eVGA Superclocked 8800GTX, and a Thermaltake Toughpower...
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We recently heard Dell waffeling back and forth on their roll-out of windows Vista but now it seems even Intel is pulling back on the reins. "More than 80 percent of Intel's employees use notebook computers. Mueller said that Service Pack 1 (SP1) of Vista would be "tied to the [Centrino Pro] platform" within Intel's internal IT plan,...
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In the next few weeks, Intel will be formally announcing their P35 chipsets that are part of a larger family of future products that currently go by the codename 'Bearlake'. At the moment, non-disclosure agreements are in place that prevent us from talking about and performance-related...
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BFG TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES TWO NEW GRAPHICS CARDS BASED ON THE NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800 ULTRA GPU Lake Forest, IL – (May 4, 2007) – BFG Technologies, Inc., a leading North American and European NVIDIA supplier of advanced 3D graphics cards, motherboards, power supplies and...
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Processors: Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 @ Digit-Life Quad 6600 Review Updated @ OCC Motherboards: ECS NF650iSLIT-A @ Motherboards.org DFI Lanparty NF680i LT @ PCTuner...
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According to a story reported by the New York Times, Microsoft and Yahoo! have re-entered negotiations for a proposed takeover. Microsoft wants to acquire Yahoo! to better compete with Google in a number of on-line arenas. "Stung by the loss of Internet advertising firm DoubleClick to Google last month, Microsoft has intensified its pursuit...
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Engadget has the scoop on some brand new Asus laptops built around Intel's upcoming Santa Rosa platform. They've got some specifications and pics posted, and even mention some yet-to-be announced NVIDIA mobile GPUs. "Just in case the recent outpouring of Santa Rosa wasn't doing enough to keep you satisfied, ASUS just announced five laptops...
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Last month, nearly 10% of the Class of 2008 at Duke University's business school were caught cheating on a take-home final exam. But is it really cheating to collaborate on projects anymore? How dumb would you have to be to work that way in the real world? Still, many believe that a...
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Creative is out with an inexpensive, tiny MP3 player. They call it the ZEN Stone. Its 1 GB of storage will hold about 250 songs, unless you're into Wagner, and the $39.99 price has Creative executives dreaming of customers buying a handful of them. "The Creative ZEN Stone, at just $39.99, opens up a huge new market for MP3 players,"...
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OK, it's actually a 'typewriter' not a true keyboard, but it's still a waffle iron too. Who could really call him/her-self a true geek without a keyboard / typewriter waffle iron in their kitchen? Today we get our answer... "There's no need to spell out why this waffle iron rocks harder than most. Fleeing the cubicle for the kitchen,...
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A Chinese-American high school student from Fort Bend Indiana developed a CS level based on his local high school, and what did he get for his trouble? An A+ in his computer science class? Nah. How about a contract from Valve to make levels for their upcoming games? Nope. He got picked...
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Video: GeForce 8800 Ultra Coverage @ TR, [H], Bit-Tech, Legit Reviews, PCPer, Digit-Life Sapphire X1950 Pro Dual @ Overclock3D Motherboards: XFX nForce 680i LT SLI @ Bootdaily MSI P6N Platinum @ Neoseeker Memory & Storage:...
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AMD Delivers the Ultimate Mobile Platform with New 65nm AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology NVIDIA and Broadcom join AMD to showcase platform performance advantages in 3D graphics, Wireless Range and Throughput, and Battery Life SUNNYVALE, Calif. - May 2, 2007 - NVIDIA and Broadcom...
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The internet riot over the posting of a decryption code for HD-DVD discs yesterday at Digg was fascinating and amusing. But the end result for Digg, and others that post-- or allow to be posted-- that mundane but magical string of numbers and letters could be very severe. The Electronic...
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IBM has pioneered a new method to make chips that essentially assemble themselves into a usable framework. It should yield a savings in power consumption and a goose in speed. The technique works by coating a silicon wafer with a layer of a special polymer that when baked...
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Game sales have been in a bit of a slump recently, but Gamasutra is reporting that we're seeing a pretty large sales spike: "According to data from research firm NPD Group, sales of PC games have risen by 48 percent on the previous year, during the first two months of 2007, with sales lead by the success of Blizzard’s World of WarCraft and...
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Mozilla has a new alpha of the next major release of Firefox (i.e. 3.x) available for download. As with all alphas and betas, this is not a finished product, so don't disregard the final product based on what you see in the alpha. "Gran Paradiso Alpha 4 is an early developer milestone for the next major version of Firefox that is being...
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Information week is reporting that Apple has a patch out to fix performance issues with their Intel powered laptops: "Problems associated with the batteries included them not being recognized by the computer or the battery not charging when the notebook is plugged into an AC outlet. Also, the batteries could exhibit low-charge capacity or...
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