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Qualcomm promises 73.5 Mb/s wireless broadband by 2008Apr 7, 2006 - in News
Qualcomm expects the second generation of EVDO wireless broadband solution to be commercialized within two years and offer substantially more bandwidth than today's DSL and cable broadband offerings: Professional EVDO solutions will reach 73.5 Mb/s while consumer solution may hit 14.7 Mb/s download speeds.
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Internet tops 80 million websitesApr 7, 2006 - in News
According to Netcraft's most recent web server survey, the amount of hostnames on the Internet has doubled within the past three years.
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Google Earth to get Discovery videoApr 7, 2006 - in News
Discovery Communications is teaming up with Google to offer video clips of historic sites and other spots around the world through Google Earth software, one of several new ways the Silver Spring cable programmer is distributing its content beyond television.
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Scientists build high-energy batteries using virusesApr 7, 2006 - in News
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States have figured out a way to use viruses to build ultrathin lithium-ion batteries that pack three times the normal energy level for their weight and size, they said this week.
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Microsoft's MSN Search restored after hours-long outageApr 7, 2006 - in News
Microsoft's MSN search engine stopped working for about four hours Thursday morning, and the company couldn't immediately say what caused the problem.
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Going the SAS Storage WayApr 7, 2006 - in Reviews
Fast, scalable and reliable, Serial Attached SCSI's day has come. Our comprehensive look at hard drives, host adapters and storage applications shows what you can expect out of SAS for enterprise storage applications.
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Worldwide semiconductor revenue growth adjusted + 0.6% :iSuppliApr 6, 2006 - in News
Citing a leveling off in the DRAM supply dilemma, analysts at iSuppli today were happy to announce they're adjusting their 2006 forecast for worldwide semiconductor market revenue.
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Via announces "Vista Premium ready" chipsetApr 6, 2006 - in News
Via today released the PT890 chipset, which the firm claims is able to run the top performance tier of Microsoft's upcoming operating system.
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FDA to review wireless phone safetyApr 6, 2006 - in News
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday it will review wireless phone safety following a recently published study that raised concerns about a heightened risk of brain cancer.
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One laptop per child aims at $50 price tagApr 6, 2006 - in News
The One Laptop Per Child project hopes to lower the cost of its laptop for developing nations to $50 by 2010, Nicholas Negroponte said in the opening keynote at the LinuxWorld conference in Boston.
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Sony likely to price Playstation 3 above $500Apr 6, 2006 - in News
George Fornay, president of Sony computer Entertainment Europe, provided the first credible information on a possible price of Sony's next-generation game console. According to media reports, Fornay predicted a price range of 500 to 600 Euro, which could mean a price of at least $500 and as much as $750 for US consumers.
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SDRAM shortage may be aggravated by product adjustments by SMIC and SamsungApr 6, 2006 - in News
Buoyant SDRAM demand, coupled with product mix readjustments said to be taking place at leading players Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) and Samsung Electronics, will aggravate supply/demand balance in the SDRAM market, according to industry sources.
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Nvidia introduces dual-analog TV tunerApr 6, 2006 - in News
Nvidia on April 5 introduced its Nvidia DualTV tuner, a TV tuner for PCs that offers two TV tuners on a single card with comprehensive personal video recording functionality, unique MediaSqueeze disk space saving technology, and support for the Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) operating system.
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A cellphone keypad you can actually use to type messagesApr 5, 2006 - in News
Not quite two years ago, we reported about an engineer's idea to reorganize the keypad matrix of flip-phones to accelerate the typing-speed of text messages. Now, the keypad has reached prototype status and we had a chance to play with a first version of the "Delta II." The functionality is impressive. What's now missing is an actual phone that makes use of the invention.
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Computer graphics software could weaken classical drawing skillsApr 5, 2006 - in News
Gifted artists and drawers are able to pick up a pencil and sketch away a great portrait, fantasy character or even famous robots from Japanese animation. Less talented people have to attend classes to improve thjeir drawing their skills and often these classes have computers set up with programs like Adobe's Photoshop or Illustrator. While these programs can easily draw shapes and insert text, a recent Reuter's article claims that the programs could actually hurt degrade an artist's ability to draw.
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Smart glasses switch focus in an instantApr 5, 2006 - in News
Glasses that change from "long distance" to "reading" mode at the flick of a switch could prove a revelation for many wearers.
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Emachines rolls out inexpensive systems with dual-layer DVD burnersApr 5, 2006 - in News
Emachines today introduced four new entry-level systems that sport double-layer DVD burners and are available from $350.
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Panel agents dumping 37" LCD TV panels, sources sayApr 5, 2006 - in News
Industry sources recently indicated that some TFT LCD panel agents are dumping 37" LCD TV panels, including panels from Sharp at a price lower than $700 amid concerns of oversupply in the 37" segment, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report.
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Spring 2006 Interactive CPU Charts UpdateApr 5, 2006 - in Reviews
We've added the latest processors and a price/performance category to the interactive processor charts. Check out how your favorite CPU performs in 28 different benchmarks.
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Tom's Hardware adds price/performance ratio to CPU ChartsApr 4, 2006 - in News
Tom's Hardware will publish a major update to its popular CPU Charts utility on Wednesday. Two new processors will be joining the existing lineup of 83 CPUs and a new price/performance ratio feature will allow users to determine which processor offers the most bang for the buck.
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IBM says Kilocore technology will outrun today's mobile processorsApr 4, 2006 - in News
If it's the number of cores that gets computers excited these days, then IBM may have its hands on the ultimate processor. Together with Rapport, a Silicon Valley startup, the company previewed the Kilocore1025, a processor with a total of 1025 cores that promises not only to boost processing speed but also to operate at low power levels.
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AMD schedules first 65nm processor shipments for H2 2006Apr 4, 2006 - in News
AMD today said that it is on track to ship its first 65 nm processors in the second half of this year. The company claims that it already has been producing a significant number of 65nm development test chips to lay the foundation for a volume conversion of its manufacturing process by mid-2007.
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TV electronics shipments to double by 2010, says research firmApr 4, 2006 - in News
The global TV electronics market is expected to grow from 69 million units in 2005 to 141 million units in 2010, according to research firm DisplaySearch.
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Transcend unveils new OTG HDD, StoreJetApr 4, 2006 - in News
Taiwan-based memory module maker Transcend Information recently announced the availability of a hard disk drive (HDD) based portable storage device called the StoreJet OTG (On-the-Go).
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Supply of 19" widescreen panels runs tightApr 4, 2006 - in News
Supply of 19" widescreen LCD monitor panels is now tight, with Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) claiming that orders within the segment are stronger than expected.
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Intel to reveal more details about Open NAND Flash Interface initiative at IDF TaiwanApr 4, 2006 - in News
Intel is expected to say more about its Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFI) initiative next week at a regional Intel Developer Forum event in Taipei.
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Samsung begins mass production of 70 nm NAND FlashApr 3, 2006 - in News
Samsung is the first semiconductor manufacturer to ramp up the 70 nm production process for its OneNAND Flash memory. The company claims that the new memory will boost production efficiency by 70% and lay the foundation for new Flash products such as hybrid hard drives.
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South Korea wants to place a robot in every homeApr 3, 2006 - in News
Robots could become as common as televisions in the coming decade for South Koreans. Faced with an aging population and the rising cost of skilled labor, the South Korean government is funding research into robots that could perform more menial jobs like guiding customers or doing security patrols.
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Microsoft founding programmer to head to International Space StationApr 3, 2006 - in News
The Russian news agency Novosti has confirmed that Charles Simonyi, the retired Microsoft programmer who designed the word processing engine for the original Microsoft Word, and whose original concept for Multiplan paved the way for all multitasking business software to follow, will be the fourth tourist to head to space on board the International Space Station.
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Movielink, CinemaNow bring legal video downloads to the USApr 3, 2006 - in News
Movielink and CinemaNow have begun offering movie downloads. While consumers are promised the convenience of having downloads available at the same time a movie is released on DVD, both services are testing the threshold of acceptable DRM: Downloads are "competitively" priced with regular DVDs, but come with substantial usage restrictions.
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