High Tech - News, Reviews and Tests
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Wal-Mart demands double RFID chips with groceriesSep 13, 2006 - in News
RFID pioneer and corporate monolith Wal-Mart is speeding on with its deployment of the track-and-trace technology.
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Find Your Notebook Hard Drive: 2.5" Performance ChartsSep 13, 2006 - in Reviews
We've had performance charts for 3.5" desktop hard drives. Today we extend this service and include 2.5" notebook hard drives.
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Dell's AMD computers now availableSep 13, 2006 - in News
Following Michael Dell's announcement yesterday, Dell today released configuration pages for its initial AMD-based systems this morning. The computers can be ordered now and the company promises to begin shipping the built-to-order systems later this week. Dell heavily promotes the green party, which indicates a long-term commitment to AMD.
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Microsoft patches new Office flawSep 13, 2006 - in News
Microsoft has released its monthly set of security patches, fixing a critical flaw in Office.
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Mushkin announces 2 GB performance memory modulesSep 13, 2006 - in News
Mushkin today said that it will begin offering DDR2-533 MHz memory modules with a capacity of 2 GB.
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IBM rolls out first Cell-based blade serverSep 13, 2006 - in News
IBM announced availability of what the company calls the first "generally available" computer system with a Cell processor. While the CPU is best known as the power plant of Sony's upcoming Playstation 3 console, it is marketed as a viable resource in computing-intensive fields, such as the medical, defense, animation, aerospace and oil industries, as well.
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Price drop for microSD cards expectedSep 13, 2006 - in News
With Samsung Electronics expected to soon beginning supplying 63 nm NAND flash, Taiwan memory module makers, including A-Data Technology, Transcend Information, and Power Quotient International (PQI), plan to launch 1 GB microSD cards in October, in an effort to challenge the dominance of SanDisk and Kingston Technology in the high-density microSD market, according to industry sources
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Micron speeds up reduced latency DRAMSep 13, 2006 - in News
Micron Technologies announced its next-generation networking memory. The company enhanced its reduced latency dynamic RAM (RLDRAM) II memory to enable faster data transfer across a network.
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Intel to launch Core 2 Duo T5200 CPU in October - sourcesSep 13, 2006 - in News
Intel plans to start offering an entry-level Core 2 Duo processor, the T5200, for OEM notebook makers in October, in order to compete with AMD's entry-level Mobile Turion 64x2 CPUs, according to sources at Taiwan notebook makers.
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ASML pushes EUV for sub 22 nm lithographySep 13, 2006 - in News
ASML has reiterated its positive outlook for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) as the mainstream lithography light source when going to deep submicron production while its closely-tied pure-play foundry partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) said it is happy to see multiple choices for light sources at the deep submicron level, according to company executives during the ongoing SEMICON Taiwan 2006 show.
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DRAM market to remain strong through 2008, says Inotera's KauSep 13, 2006 - in News
Inotera Memories president Charles Kao during the ongoing SEMICON Taiwan 2006 show that the DRAM market will remain strong through 2008, with the company going to advance the passage of a budget for a second-stage capacity expansion plan at its soon-to-be completed second 12" fab.
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Iomega REVs Up To 70 GBSep 13, 2006 - in Reviews
It's not a mainstream backup device, but it's popular among professionals. The REV is an attractive tape alternative, and Iomega has now doubled its per-disk capacity from 35 to 70 GB. Will the new version finally be able to replace traditional tape backup? We've got the specs, a cost per GB comparison and alternative suggestions for archival aficionados.
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BMW to build world's first hydrogen luxury performance carSep 12, 2006 - in News
German automaker BMW said Tuesday it will introduce the world's first hydrogen-powered luxury performance car.
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Dell to roll out first AMD desktops tomorrowSep 12, 2006 - in News
Dell chairman Michael Dell announced during the firm's "Technology Day," held today in New York, that the company will begin offering AMD-based desktop computers starting this Wednesday.
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DDR2 DRAM prices increase on record paceSep 12, 2006 - in News
DDR2 memory appears to get more expensive by the hour these days. Climbing seasonal demand from motherboard and PC makers and decreased production output due to a 90 nm transition drive to the highest spot market prices in more than over a year.
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China LCD makers eyeing 19" widescreen panel marketSep 12, 2006 - in News
China-based BOE Optoelectronics Technology (BOE OT) and Info Vision Optronics (IVO) are eyeing the 19" widescreen panel market, with IVO already starting shipping 19" widescreen panels in September, according to sources.
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Microsoft unleashes Live Search - a first lookSep 11, 2006 - in News
Microsoft released its Live Search engine late Monday in an effort to catch up with market leaders Google and Yahoo. It is Microsoft's most aggressive move against Google yet and shows promising, unique features. But Live.com may not reveal its true potential just yet: Search could become the core tool for a next generation of applications and services.
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Microsoft targets earlier ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX ship dateSep 11, 2006 - in News
ASP.NET developers won't have to wait until next year to use Microsoft's AJAX server controls and client-side JavaScript library if things go according to plan.
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Celebrity websites most common distributor of Adware - McAfeeSep 11, 2006 - in News
Star-powered websites may contain harmful software, claims anti-virus specialist McAfee. According to the company, celebrity websites are the most "prolific" distributors of adware and spyware.
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Apple releases two Ipods, Itunes 7 and movie downloadsSep 11, 2006 - in Picture Story
Apple's new Ipod Nano. Apple now color codes the Nanos - with different colors indicating different storage capacities: This is the top-of-the-line black 8 GB model ($250), which will be available in black color only.
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Fly eyes for spying camerasSep 11, 2006 - in News
Even with our sophisticated cameras, we can sometimes get poor pictures. This usually happens because cameras use an average light setting to control brightness.
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Apple may announce PC-to-TV connectionSep 11, 2006 - in News
Has Apple Computer's chief executive, Steve Jobs, found a way to connect the PC to the TV?
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Memory-Tech and Toshiba develop triple-layer HD DVD / DVDSep 11, 2006 - in News
In a joint project, Memory-Tech and Toshiba today announced that the two firms have developed a one-side, three-layer disc for both DVD and HD DVD formats. The new technology will pave the way to higher capacity hybrid storage on a single disc.
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LGE accelerates LCD TV plant construction planSep 11, 2006 - in News
LG Electronics (LGE) recently announced it plans to start producing LCD TVs at its new production line in Wroclaw, Poland in September, about six months earlier than its original schedule.
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The next step - industry takes aim at 450mmSep 11, 2006 - in News
The semiconductor industry faces challenges without end, and one of the major issues looming on the horizon is the move to 450 millimeters, and all the questions and challenges that involves.
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Samsung announces 40 nm Flash, predicts 20 nm devicesSep 11, 2006 - in News
There's still room left for NAND Flash to scale. According to Samsung, the technology may shrink into 20 nm structures, down from the common 70 and 60 nm today. Samsung also presented the memory it will position to replace NOR Flash: Phase-change Random Access Memory (PRAM) promises a 30x increases in speed and 10 times the life span of flash.
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9/11 and the Internet: Limits and opportunitiesSep 10, 2006 - in Reviews
Tuesday, 9/11 2001, 8:45 am. Shortly after American Airlines flight 11 had slammed into the north tower of the World Trade Center, the Internet was hit by an aftershock: Hundreds of millions of users flooded the Web in search of information and opportunities to communicate. Numerous websites collapsed and became images for the unpredictability of the Net. But did the Internet really fail that day?
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Intel's Core 2 Quadro Kentsfield: Four Cores on a RampageSep 10, 2006 - in Reviews
Intel will walk all over AMD with its upcoming Core 2 Quadro processor. Its 8 MB L2 Cache and aggressive clock speeds will boost performance by up to 100%. Our benchmarks tell the story.
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Preview: Tom's Hardware benchmarks Intel's first quad-core "Kentsfield"Sep 8, 2006 - in News
Intel's first quad-core processor "Kentsfield" has found its way into the Tom's Hardware test lab. Several weeks before Intel will provide evaluation processors to the press, Tom's Hardware was able to obtain a qualification sample: The quad-core was sent through the entire test parcours and showed impressive performance.
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