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Sharp launches 65" high-definition LCD monitorMar 16, 2006 - in News
monitor. The 65" device is designed for use in commercial applications, such as digital signage, medical imaging, CAD/CAM and flight information displays.
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Hackers get Windows XP working on Intel MacMar 16, 2006 - in News
A contest to see who could get Windows XP working first on an Intel Mac has been won, according to the contest's coordinator, Colin Nederkoorn. A terse statement posted to the Windows XP on an Intel Mac page reads, "Contest has been won - updates to follow shortly."
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LCD TV segment to account for half of revenues of large backlight unitsMar 16, 2006 - in News
Shipments of backlight units (BLUs) for large-size LCD panels totaled 206.6 million units worldwide in 2005, and demand is expected to increase 28.3% this year to 265 million units, according to market research firm Displaybank.
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TFT LCD panels to become mainstream in handset displays this yearMar 16, 2006 - in News
TFT LCD panel shipments (including a-TFT and LTPS) are expected to outpace STN panel shipments (including Color STN and Mono STN) in the handset main display market this year, with the TFT segment accounting for 55.1% of the handset main display panel market, according to Taiwan's Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center (IEK).
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200 GB 2.5" hard drives may be feasible in 2H 2006Mar 15, 2006 - in News
ALPS Technologies announced this morning it will be demonstrating an implementation of a perpendicular hard disc drive recording scheme made feasible through a new type of thin-film recording head, that could make feasible 200 GB hard drives in 2.5" form factors by the end of this year.
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"Faraday caged apparel" - RFID-blocking wallets introducedMar 15, 2006 - in News
A small company has started selling RFID-blocking wallets and passport cases that promise to block unauthorized scans against RFID cards and passports.
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Dutch researchers create RFID malwareMar 15, 2006 - in News
Pranksters and criminals can infect RFID chips with computer viruses, worms and malware to cause major disruption at places where the popular tracking technology is used, according to new research by a group of European scientists.
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Red Hat details Xen virtualization plansMar 15, 2006 - in News
Raleigh, North Carolina-based Red Hat began talking positively about Xen in October 2004 and has included Xen open source virtualization in its Fedora community-led project since Fedora Core 4 was launched in June 2005.
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Iwill comes out with 16 DIMM boardsMar 15, 2006 - in News
Iwill had two very interesting boards at CeBit that took quite different approaches to the same problem, big memory.
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Chinese claim world's first ultrasonic frogMar 15, 2006 - in News
Scientists have discovered how Amolops tormotus, AKA the concave-eared torrent frog, makes itself heard above the gushing waterfalls of its habitat in east-central China: bat-style ultrasound.
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Turn down the volume, says healthcare groupMar 14, 2006 - in News
In a recently completed survey, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) found that many adults and teenagers have some type of hearing loss.
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Microsoft's Origami UMPC: What were they thinking?Mar 14, 2006 - in Reviews
So what is it? Do you want an ultra-mobile PC for yourself? Are you willing to shell out as much as $1000 for one? Microsoft's hyped announcement last week at CeBit could go down as one of the biggest backfires in the history of product marketing, let alone computing. But let's be fair: Is it really that bad?
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Sun announces enterprise tape drivesMar 14, 2006 - in News
Businesses that are running at the limits of their tape drive capacity will soon have another upgrade option with Sun's new StorageTek T10000 drive.
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Microsoft to introduce Windows Live Family Safety SettingsMar 14, 2006 - in News
Microsoft will be rolling out a new web-based service designed to help parents protect their children from unwanted online content.
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An Amazon storage space for developersMar 14, 2006 - in News
Amazon Web Services today rolled out Amazon S3, a new storage service to help programmers house large amounts of data for their Web development projects.
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Intel launches "Sossaman" dual-core blade server processorMar 14, 2006 - in News
Intel announced the third variant of its Yonah processor core. Next to Core Duo and Core Solo, the company now offers the blade server CPU Xeon LV, formerly code-named Sossaman. The chip is Intel's first low-voltage dual-core processor and promises at least twice the energy efficiency of preceding single-core Xeon processors.
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Both high-def disc formats debate tech issues as HD DVD faces new delaysMar 14, 2006 - in News
Today, a representative of Warner Home Video told the Hollywood Reporter that HD DVD titles may be delayed for several weeks, prompting the removal of those titles from retailers' catalogs. Did the AACS Licensing Agency cut it too close when it "finalized" its 1.0 specification just before HD DVD's anticipated premiere date?
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Foxconn to begin shipping own-brand graphics cardsMar 14, 2006 - in News
Taiwan EMS giant Foxconn Electronics (the registered trade name of Hon Hai Precision Industry) launched its first own-brand graphics card (PX7900GTX), which is based on the Nvidia GeForce 7900 GT/GTX (G71) graphics processing unit (GPU), at the ongoing CeBIT 2006 in Hannover, Germany.
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Epson develops print head using OLED light sourceMar 14, 2006 - in News
Seiko Epson has successfully developed a print head using an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) light source, claimed as the world's first OLED print head, according to the company.
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Apple issues another Mac patch bundleMar 13, 2006 - in News
Apple released its second bundle of security updates in as many weeks, issuing updates to fix problems in a few core Mac OS X programs, including the operating system's e-mail client and Safari, the default Web browser.
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NEC and Benq show "smart LCDs at CeBitMar 13, 2006 - in News
It's nothing but obvious at this year's CeBit tradeshow that display manufacturers restrain themselves from chasing ever faster refresh rates.
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Dual-core not enough? What about 16 cores?Mar 13, 2006 - in News
Dual-core is as good as it gets these days and even if you stretch a bit, a workstation with four physical cores typically is the limit even for enthusiasts. Tyan, however, demonstrates a solution that delivers an extra punch of performance: The "Personal Super Computer" (PSC) can hold up to eight Opteron or Pentium D CPUs for a total of 16 physical cores.
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MSI demos solar cell notebooksMar 13, 2006 - in News
Solar technology is increasingly gaining traction among Asian IT companies, so it was no surprise to find solar cells as the powerplant for a notebook at CeBit.
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Fuel cells for notebooks ready for mass-productionMar 13, 2006 - in News
Antig demonstrated a fuel cell for notebooks, which the company claims is pretty much ready for volume production.
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McAfee anti-virus update flags hundreds of innocent files as virusMar 13, 2006 - in News
McAfee accidentally released update files for its anti-virus software that contained incorrect information for the W95/CTX virus. Users are reporting significant damage caused by the mistake - several hundred common files - such as excel.exe - were quarantined and deleted.
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VoodooPC launches quad-SLI computerMar 13, 2006 - in News
If you are no longer content with using just two high-performance graphics cards in your computer, then maybe you should take a look at VoodooPC's new system which uses four Nvidia GeForce GPUs on. Voodoo's Omen computer is powered by a dual-core AMD Athlon 64-FX-60 and a liquid cooling system. Two separate GeForce 7900 cards provide two GPUs each.
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Internet adds 1.4 million new sites in FebruaryMar 13, 2006 - in News
According to a report released by Netcraft, the Internet continued its rapid pace of growing domains in February. The firm said that it was able to track responses from 77,568,868 sites in early February, which represents a growth of about 1.38 million sites within the past month.
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Virus names likely a lost causeMar 13, 2006 - in News
In early February, antivirus firms warned customers about a computer virus programmed to delete files on the third of each month, but almost every company called the program by a different name.
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Microsoft delays XP for legacy PCsMar 13, 2006 - in News
Microsoft has delayed a special slimmed-down version of Windows XP for legacy PCs, which is based on the Windows Embedded code base.
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Blu-ray discs and HD DVDs expected to carry region codesMar 13, 2006 - in News
Consumers who would like to view DVD movies from different geographic regions on one device are typically prevented from doing so through so-called "region codes" on DVDs. The same technology now appears to be finding its way into high definition media.
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