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If you're a gadget person, really petite, or a British MI6 operative, you'll really appreciate Intel's new UMPC platform: "Today, Intel officially confirmed its new platform at IDF. The McCaslin platform, which is now called the Intel Ultra Mobile Platform 2007 (IUMPC2007), will be used on...
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Another month goes by, and a new Catalyst driver suite is born. AMD is calling this one version 7.4, and if you're running any OpenGL apps on Vista these are certainly worth trying because AMD is claiming large performance gains in the release notes. Go here to download....
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Apple's smart phone, or dumb computer, the iPhone, is still on schedule to ship in late June, if the the wireless provider for its service knows what he's talking about. "Our expectations are good. Our testing has been good," said AT&T Chief Operating Officer Randall Stephenson. "The iPhone is on target to launch in June."...
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VIA Defines Pico-ITX Form Factor, the World's Smallest x86 Mainboard Tiny 10cm x 7.2cm complete PC platform fits into palm of hand, more than 75% smaller than the Mini-ITX, embodies VIA's "Small is Beautiful" strategy to inspire x86 system innovation Taipei, Taiwan, 19 April 2007 - VIA Technologies,...
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Intel's Chairman Craig Barrett wants you to know that Intel,along with other well-known companies like Cisco Systems, GHAFARI, Microsoft, and Occidental Petroleum, are dropping something useful on Lebanon for a change. Servers and support, for instance. "Access to education and technology increases the opportunities for the people...
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Intel is making some noise this week at their Intel Develeoper Forum in Beijing. The most interesting new product announcement might be the 45nm low-power microprocessor they've called Silverthorne. It's perfect for powering Ultra Mobile Personal Computers and Mobile Internet Devices, and...
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OCZ Technology Announces Ultra-High Speed 1200MHz Flex XLC DDR2 Solution Sunnyvale, CA—April 17, 2007—OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today announced the PC2-9600 Flex XLC series. The...
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Intel First-Quarter Revenue $8.9 Billion Operating Income $1.7 Billion EPS 27 cents SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 17, 2007 – Intel Corporation today announced first-quarter revenue of $8.9 billion, operating income of $1.7 billion, net income of $1.6 billion and earnings per share...
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A little over a year ago at the Intel Developers forum in San Francisco, Intel allowed a small group of members of the technology press to run benchmarks on a pre-configured Conroe-based system, well before processors based on the Conroe core had begun to ship. This was a new strategy for...
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Blackberry wireless e-mail service is a mighty useful thing. Many business people rely on it for all their communications. A great many voices cried out, and then were silenced, when Blackberry service was lost over most of the Western hemisphere last night at around 5 PM PDT. And the bad...
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Your MP3 player is a marvelous thing. But the one thing it isn't, is high fidelity. People are coming to the realization that pretty good sound reproduction is good enough, and that is spelling doom and gloom for the retailers that depend on high-end home stereo for their livelihood. Tweeter Home Entertainment Group Inc., a Canton,...
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Intel Provides Details On New Products, Initiatives For Higher-Performing, More Efficient Computers Innovation, Processing Performance and Cooperation Key to Moving Forward Faster INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, Beijing, April 17, 2007 -- Intel Corporation executives today detailed more than 20 new...
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Most of the news coming in today centers around NVIDIA's new GeForce 8600 GTS and GT, but some of our compatriots have been busy evaluating other hardware. Here's a sampling of what's been going on today around the web: Graphics: XFX GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB XXX Edition @ Benchmark...
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Though the Apple TV has only just started shipping, there are many who feel that it doesn't represent a huge leap over competing products from numerous other players in the streaming video arena. So what can Apple do with a follow-up product to make it a must-have? Why not allow one device...
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As the release of AMD’s Barcelona (also known as K-10) approaches, more details are starting to emerge. DailyTech has a few interesting details that shed some light on how the upcoming CPUs should work in existing sockets, and how they will gain some new features by pairing them with new “+” sockets: "Yesterday, AMD held a press presentation...
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Hello Everyone. Today is the day NVIDIA chose to officially announce their new DX10-class GeForce 8600 GTS, 8600 GT, and the rest of the mainstream GeForce 8 family of products. We pulled together a few GeForce 8600 GTS and GT cards, tested them with some popular games and benchmark tools, and have posted our thoughts for all too see. Head...
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Today's announcement by NVIDIA should come as no surprise to PC enthusiasts. The company's modus operandi has been to launch a new flagship GPU and over the course of the next year or so scale back the design to flesh out a complete top-to-bottom line-up of products, all with essentially the same feature set. We saw this...
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Toshiba's entering the desktop external hard drive market with a bang, offering a 200 GB unit for $229.99 MSRP. Sweet. Toshiba's USB 2.0 portable external hard drives come bundled with the NTI Shadow software. The click-free, switch-free and button-free backup solution...
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Yahoo's been struggling to stake out internet territory that Google doesn't already inhabit for a while now.Yesterday they announced they'd entered into a partnership with over 250 newspapers to give those papers a larger online exposure while giving Yahoo some precious, precious, advertising revenue. Sacramento-based McClatchy...
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PC World has a new article on-line detailing what they, and their readers, think are the Top 20 Most Annoying Tech Products of all time. Half of the list was compiled from user-submitted votes and the other half by PC World editors... "This list hardly covers every annoying tech product ever made. But where did this list of 20 come...
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New Intel Tools Help Developers Create, Debug And Tune Applications For Windows Vista And Latest Multi-Core Processors SANTA CLARA, Calif., Apr. 16, 2007 – Intel Corporation today announced the availability of new versions of its Intel Thread Checker, Intel Thread Profiler, Intel VTune Performance Analyzer and...
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Intel Unveils Quad-Core Storage Server STORAGE NETWORKING WORLD, San Diego, April 16, 2007 – Intel Corporation today announced the industry's first 2U, 12 drive, integrated quad-core storage server: the Intel Storage Server SSR212MC2. This hardware platform enables a new price/performance class for the small- and...
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