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AMD ships first processors manufactured at CharteredJul 13, 2006 - in News
AMD today announced that it began its first revenue shipments of AMD 64 processors that have been manufactured at Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing in Singapore
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Job seekers may be beseiged by their online pastJul 12, 2006 - in News
Recruiter and hiring managers are increasingly eliminating job candidates because of negative online information found on social networking sites, blogs and forums. ExecuNet, a job search and recruiting company, polled 100 executive recruiters and found that more than a third of recruiters have eliminated a candidate based on dirt they dug up online.
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Bacteria could help future drives hold terabytes of dataJul 12, 2006 - in News
A Harvard Medical School professor claims that proteins from murky marshes could form the basis for higher capacity storage devices. Professor Venkatesan Renugopalakrishnan says proteins from the membrane of a salt marsh bacterium can be genetically altered to store data at areal densities of up to 50 terabits per square inch.
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Firefox attains nearly 16% US usage share :OneStatJul 12, 2006 - in News
Web analytics firm OneStat published figures last Sunday claiming the combined usage share of Firefox and Mozilla browsers has climbed to nearly 13% worldwide, and almost 16% in the US.
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GeForce And Radeon Take On LinuxJul 12, 2006 - in Reviews
Graphics technology makes quantum leaps on a regular basis, but Windows isn't necessarily everyone's darling. We tried Fedora Core 5 to check the "state of the Linux union".
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MySpace more popular than Yahoo, GoogleJul 11, 2006 - in News
There are few who doubt the massive popularity of social networking website Myspace.com, but a new study released by a web analytics firm may surprise some.
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A chat with Michael Dell: Alienware and XPS to stay separateJul 11, 2006 - in Picture Story
Dell Computer Chairman Michael Dell shows off his latest baby, the Dell XPS 700 desktop system. Wait a second... We've seen this before! This isn't new, Michael...
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Gates: Vista likely to be ready in JanuaryJul 11, 2006 - in News
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday there was an 80 percent chance the company's next-generation operating system, Windows Vista, would be ready in January.
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Microsoft's Private Folder application may not be so privateJul 11, 2006 - in News
Yesterday we wrote about Microsoft's free Private Folder 1.0 application that encrypts and password protects a folder on a desktop. According to our research and the astute eyes of one of our readers, the contents of the folder may not be so private. Johnny Granlund emailed us saying that he was able to access the folder simply by rebooting into Safe Mode. However upon further inspection, we found that files inside of the folder were still encrypted.
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HP may ship color version of Lightscribe later this yearJul 11, 2006 - in News
Careful reading of the Lightscribe user guide included with Hewlett-Packard's Lightscribe-capable DVD burners reveals an expansion of the CD labeling technology. Lightscribe CD and DVD burners use specially coated recordable CDs and DVDs to directly "etch" labels onto the discs.
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Ricoh develops dual-format HD laserJul 11, 2006 - in News
The battle between Blu-ray and HD-DVD to control the high-definition DVD market could be solved by a laser that can read the two competing formats.
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A chat with Michael Dell: Alienware and XPS to stay separateJul 11, 2006 - in Reviews
Together, Dell's XPS product line and its new wholly-owned subsidiary, Alienware, share 60% of the high-end gaming and enthusiast PC market, states company chairman Michael Dell, citing internal research. He believes these two market slices are cumulative because the two companies address different areas of the same market, as he explained to TG Daily on Sunday.
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Lite-On IT may offer SATA DVD burners in Q4Jul 11, 2006 - in News
Lite-On IT, the largest maker of optical disc drives (ODDs) in Taiwan, is planning production of DVD burners supporting the SATA (serial advanced technology attachment) interface standard, according to industry sources.
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Taiwan LCD panel makers eying twisted nematic technology to lower TV panel costsJul 11, 2006 - in News
Several Taiwan-based panel makers are planning to roll out new TV panels for the entry-level segment based on twisted nematic (TN) technology in the second half of this year, with the goal of boosting demand in developing markets for 30"-and-under TV panels, sources said.
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Sun luring enterprise customers away from IntelJul 11, 2006 - in News
Sun today announced new AMD-based performance datacenter servers, which can carry up to 16 processors or up to 24 TB of storage space in one 4U chassis. The new models are squarely aimed at the Intel-based competition and Sun hopes that the sparkling AMD Opteron brand will once again fuel the firm's growth in the x86 server segment.
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Eurocom's D900K F-BombAn Outside LookJul 10, 2006 - in Picture Story
Eurocom's D900K F-Bomb Graphics Notebook
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Microsoft releases free encrypted folder appJul 10, 2006 - in News
Microsoft has released a free application that allows users to create an encrypted and password-protected folder. Microsoft Private Folder 1.0 works on Windows XP and Media Center Editions with Service Pack 2 and is meant to provide a consumer-level of protection.
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Eurocom's D900K F-BombA look InsideJul 10, 2006 - in Picture Story
Inside top with keyboard removed
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Eurocom's D900K F-BombDisplay and PCMark05 ResultsJul 10, 2006 - in Picture Story
Brightness is fairly evenly distributed on the Eurocom D900K F-Bomb's display. There is some reduction in brightness on the edges and in the corners of the display. [Mean: 102, Minimum: 82, Maximum: 115]
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Eurocom's D900K F-BombGame Test ResultsJul 10, 2006 - in Picture Story
As expected, at a display resolution of 1024x768, the Dell XPS M1710's Nvidia GeForce Go 7900 GTX outperformed the Eurocom D900K F-Bomb's last generation 7800 GTX.
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Firefox usage up, IE usage down - reportJul 10, 2006 - in News
OneStat.com, an Amsterdam-based web research firm, says global use of the Firefox browser has increased 1.14 percent since May 2006, while Internet Explorer usage fell 2.12 percent during the same time. Microsoft's Internet Explorer still holds the top spot with 83.05% of the market versus the 12.93% of Firefox. Regional market share show similar numbers except for Australia and Germany which have much higher Firefox usage.
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Canon releases seven photo and all-in-one printersJul 10, 2006 - in News
While much of the country is baking in high summer temperatures, Canon is raining down printers - 7 to be exact. All of the printers are in Canon's PIXMA line-up with three being photo printers and the remaining four being all-in-one printers. The new photo printers can print pictures that last up to 100 years, while the all-in-one printers can print up to 22 black and white pages per minute.
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Lotus Notes now available for LinuxJul 10, 2006 - in News
Lotus Notes, IBM's former top titan of groupware, is now officially available for Linux. Notes which had previously been available to 125 million Windows and Mac users will now also run under the Eclipse Java framework inside of Linux machines. Existing users can freely port their licenses over to Linux.
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Freescale first to put MRAM into mass productionJul 10, 2006 - in News
Freescale, the former semiconductor arm of Motorola, today announced commercial availability of magneto-resistive random access memory, short MRAM. The technology could become a threat to common memory technologies such as SRAM, DRAM and even Flash, but faces the challenge to catch up with the capacity of its established competition.
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Streetdeck Car Computer makes you want to be stuck in trafficJul 10, 2006 - in News
Being stuck in traffic is a hated situation commonly experienced by city dwellers, but Streetdeck is selling car computer software that makes those painful waits more enjoyable. The StreetDeck software helps drivers find destinations with voice-prompted GPS navigation along with playing back music, videos and pictures, which is in line with the company's motto of "Pray You Get Stuck in Traffic".
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No AMD K8L processor for AM3 socket until 2008, say sourcesJul 10, 2006 - in News
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has recently indicated that its new K8L processor for its next-generation Socket AM3 platform will not be available until 2008, according to sources at Taiwan-based motherboard makers.
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Notebook makers see demand pick up after CPU price cutsJul 10, 2006 - in News
Compal Electronics and Wistron posted on-month revenue growth in June, following sequential slides for two consecutive months.
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ATI hits first with HDMI and HDCPJul 10, 2006 - in News
A flurry of new graphics cards featuring HDMI (high-definition multimedia interface) ports and supporting HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) are set to hit the market this summer, with graphics card vendors GeCube and Sapphire announcing products in the past few days, while Tul will soon announce its HDCP-supporting PowerColor X1600 Pro.
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32-Core Processors: Intel Reaches For (The) SunJul 10, 2006 - in Reviews
What is the processor future like? Project Keifer could trigger a major core count increase, four threads per core, integrated memory controllers (yes!) and a ring-type interconnect for cores and L3 caches.
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Can Your Rig Run Oblivion?Jul 10, 2006 - in Reviews
"Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion" boasts some of the most machine-breaking visuals you can get on a PC. However, does your machine have what it takes to achieve a decent Oblivion gaming experience?
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