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Sex Sells: Tech's dirty little secretJun 29, 2006 - in News
Sex sells and it makes the Internet hum. On the the bleeding edge of technology there is a former stripper learning some HTML. TG Daily got a tour of one of the world's multi-million dollar adult sites - Danni.com - and got the skinny on it all from the... IT administrator. Extra: Slide show
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Google is for girls?Jun 28, 2006 - in News
Webpronews reports about Microsoft's "Demographic Prediction" tool that recently has been made available on the company's Ad Center Labs website.
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McBlare, a robotic bagpipe playerJun 28, 2006 - in News
Technology Trends reports about the robotic bagpipe player "McBlare" that is controlled by a computer that has many traditional bagpipe tunes in its memory.
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Google set to launch Ebay challenge with GbuyJun 28, 2006 - in News
The battle to control your online wallet is about to get a lot bloodier. More than a year after search giant Google was rumored to be preparing an online payment service, GBuy finally looks set to launch in test mode as early as Wednesday.
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Gadget sorts nanotubes by sizeJun 28, 2006 - in News
A method of sorting carbon nanotubes by their size and electrical properties could make them easier to use in everything from nano-electronics to tear-proof textiles.
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It's a 'three-peat' for IBM's BlueGene/L in the Top 500 Supercomputers listJun 28, 2006 - in News
If there is a Michael Jordan in the realm of supercomputers, then Lawrence Livermore Labs' IBM-powered BlueGene/L may be it. For the third consecutive time, it's wrested the #1 spot among the top performing supercompupters in the world, this time by an almost embarrassingly huge margin.
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How to get motivated for workJun 28, 2006 - in News
Companies these days have to go to great lengths to keep their employees excited about a brand and their job.
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Update: TG Daily's Computex video coverageJun 27, 2006 - in News
We have rendered and uploaded several new videos to our the Computex microsite. The new videos cover the gamut from executive interviews to the Tom's Hardware Guide's very own boothbabe using the Zalman heatsink as a makeup mirror. All videos come in streaming WMV format and some are available as a downloadable, high-quality H.264 video file.
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Intel quad-core processors may see spike in power - sourcesJun 27, 2006 - in News
Yesterday, Intel released its fastest server and workstation processors ever at a power level we haven't seen in several years. But the "Core" architecture, which the new Xeon 5100s are based on, may not be the universal solution for the long term, as power consumption may top 100 watts once again when quad-cores arrive in early 2007, TG Daily has learned.
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Samsung first to develop 60 nm Flash chipJun 27, 2006 - in News
Samsung today said that it has developed a 2 Gb NAND Flash chip using a 60 nm production process.
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Microsoft introduces 360-degree conferencing camera as part of VoIP strategyJun 27, 2006 - in News
As part of its late push into the VoIP communications market, Microsoft yesterday unveiled a new device that may at least make prospective customers take notice: It's a 360-degree videoconferencing camera, that could enable remote participants to see directed sessions, where the camera follows the active speaker around the table. But behind that camera is Live Identity, and Office Communicator, and Active Directory...and is everyone really ready for this?
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iBuypower shows off nearly indestructible computer caseJun 27, 2006 - in News
Most computer cases are fairly flimsy contraptions of sheet metal and aluminum, but iBuypower is developing a new case that promises to be much tougher. The case, aptly code-named the "Tank", is a welded aluminum case that, according to Darren Su of iBuypower, can withstand a 300 pound man standing on it. Su also claims the case has survived a fall out of a three story window.
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Clearspeed updates 50 GFlops accelerator boardJun 27, 2006 - in News
Clearspeed today announced a new version of its Advance accelerator board. The device still delivers an estimated additional performance 50 GFlops, but now comes in a much smaller form factor that will allow more users and system builders to integrate the board into their workstations. Extra: Image Gallery
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USB drives pose insider threatJun 27, 2006 - in News
In a recent test of a credit union's network security, consultants working for East Syracuse, N.Y.-based security audit firm Secure Network Technologies scattered twenty USB flash drives around the financial group's building.
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Finally, there are password-protected bulletsJun 27, 2006 - in News
Safety catches do not always prevent firearm accidents and even newfangled biometric guns, which check the identity of a user by their fingerprint, cannot stop thieves from using stolen ammunition in other weapons.
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RFID tags spy on bartendersJun 27, 2006 - in News
Do you know how much money is lost in annual sales of liquors in the US? Capton, a provider of liquor-monitoring technology, estimates that $7 billion is lost from bartenders.
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Microsoft ships first post-beta 2 build of VistaJun 27, 2006 - in News
Late Friday, Microsoft shipped Windows Vista build 5456, its first post-Beta 2 version of the next major Windows release.
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Intel blocks Nvidia from running SLI on Conroe platforms?Jun 27, 2006 - in News
The Inquirer reports that Intel may not be supporting SLI on its Conroe motherboards.
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ATI releases Catalyst 6.6 driver packageJun 26, 2006 - in News
ATI continues to deliver on its promise to issue a driver update for its graphics cards. The big news in the June .6 update is a new Windows Media Center Edition Video Conversion utility.
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150 OEMs shipping Intel Woodcrest systemsJun 26, 2006 - in News
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.
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Samsung, LG Philips pushing widescreen monitor panelsJun 26, 2006 - in News
Both Samsung Electronics and LG.Philips LCD plan to roll out more models of widescreen monitor panels in the third quarter of 2006 to push the proportion of their widescreen monitor panels, according to the Korean-language Electronic Times, Seoul .
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Woodcrest launches Intel into a new eraJun 26, 2006 - in News
Intel today introduced the first processor based on its "Core" architecture: The Xeon 5100 rings in the beginning of the end of the Netburst architecture - a power hungry technology that was introduced more than five years ago and brought the company down to its knees. Core's mission is to restore Intel's competitiveness and lay the foundation for the firm's future.
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Liquid crystals being tweaked to improve notebook panel performanceJun 26, 2006 - in News
At the recently concluded FPD Taiwan 2006, major Taiwan-based panel makers including Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT), AU Optronics (AUO) and Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) were demonstrating how changing the composition of liquid crystals (LC) in their notebook panels can help overcome the tradeoff between response time and power consumption.
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Prices of 50" HD PDP modules to drop below $1,000 by year-end, DisplayBank saysJun 26, 2006 - in News
Prices for 50" high-definition (HD) PDP (plasma display panel) modules are expected to fall to $920 by the end of this year, according to Displaybank.
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PDP TV makers eye 50" segmentJun 26, 2006 - in News
With prices of 50" PDP (plasma display panel) TVs continuing to dip, demand is expected to rise significantly in the fourth quarter of this year, according to channel distributors.
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Heat concerns slow high-power LED adoptionJun 26, 2006 - in News
Adoption of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in high brightness panel backlighting applications, such as notebooks and LCD TVs, has been delayed due to overheating issues, according to sources in the Taiwan LED industry.
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CMC, Ritek to produce 30 GB HD-DVD-R DL discs in Q4Jun 26, 2006 - in News
CMC Magnetics and Ritek, the top two makers of optical discs, have recently started volume production of 15 GB HD-DVD-R SL (high-definition DVD recordable single-sided single-layer) discs and are prepared to begin production of 30 GB HD-DVD-R DL (single-sided double-layer) discs in the fourth quarter of this year at the earliest, according to industry sources.
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Woodcrest outperforms Opteron in speed and power consumption - analystJun 23, 2006 - in News
An analyst from Thomas Weisel Partners today issued a research brief that included a first evaluation of Intel's claim to achieve market leadership in terms of power consumption and application performance with its upcoming Xeon 5100 (Woodcrest core) processor.
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Apple's "Phenomenon" due out in 2008?Jun 23, 2006 - in News
The latest release of Apple Computer's Shake compositing software may be the last of its breed, as the company reportedly plans to shift gears and focus on developing the next-generation of the application around a different codebase.
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AMD's quad-core CPU to consume dual-core powerJun 23, 2006 - in News
If AMD has its way, then Intel's performance-per-watt leadership claim may be short lived: The first quad-core Opterons, due in 2007 will consume the same power as today's dual-core processors, while AMD expects Intel to increase the power envelope when adding more cores.