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Coral Consortium: Can't all our DRM systems just get along?Mar 3, 2006 - in Reviews
The Coral Consortium's goal is to develop a system of interoperability for digital rights management systems around the world - not to make them all alike, but to create some way for them to talk to each other. This way, when you download something from one service, it can be played using devices built for another service. But is this what content publishers and providers want?
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Unotron's keyboards and mice can be dunked in waterMar 3, 2006 - in News
Just how clean is your computer keyboard and mouse? If you work in a hospital or have small kids who like eating junk food and rolling around in the front yard then your mouse could be covered in germs and grime. Unotron is selling a line of keyboards and mice with their "SpillSeal" technology that can be fully immersed and washed.
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Finnish group to test cellphone radiation on human skinMar 3, 2006 - in News
A radiation watchdog group in Finland called the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority will be testing the effects of cellphone radiation on the skin of human volunteers. The ten volunteers, who are all employees at the group, will have small areas of their skin exposed to cellphone radiation for the duration of a long call or about one hour. Skin samples will be taken after the exposure and compared with one before.
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LG.Philips reportedly sets 8G substrate standardMar 3, 2006 - in News
Market research firm DisplayBank is reporting that LG.Philips LCD has fixed the size of its eighth-generation (8G) glass substrate to 2200x2500mm, a size referred to by Taiwan LCD panel makers as "unfamiliar".
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Seagate unveils SV35 HDD for security monitoringMar 3, 2006 - in News
Seagate Technology recently unveiled the SV35, its latest hard disk drive (HDD) specifically for use in video security monitoring systems, with launch scheduled for next month.
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512 MB microSD cards to become mainstream in Q2, says SanDiskMar 3, 2006 - in News
With rising demand from multimedia-enabled handsets, 512 MB microSD cards will become mainstream in the SD memory card market in the second quarter of this year, according to sources at SanDisk Taiwan.
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SDRAM prices to increase in Q2, says EtronMar 3, 2006 - in News
Prices for SDRAM are expected to rise in the second quarter of this year as current supply cannot satisfy increased demand coming from handset, LCD TV and memory card applications, according to Nicky Lu, CEO and president of SDRAM specialist Etron Technology.
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Abit launches AT8 32X motherboardMar 3, 2006 - in News
Abit Computer on March 1 announced the launch of its first ATI CrossFire Xpress 3200 motherboard, the AT8 32X.
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Notebook Drives At Up To 160 GB Put Under the MicroscopeMar 3, 2006 - in Reviews
The latest 2.5" drives by Fujitsu, Samsung, Seagate and Toshiba bring a breath of fresh air to the market. We took a close look at eight new models.
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TG Daily Report: Microsoft Office for $4Mar 2, 2006 - in News
Glittering watches, silk ties and tailored suits are what you would expect to buy from a shopping center in Asia, but what about illegal software? Software pirates in the U.S. typically download their programs from peer-to-peer download sites, people in countries like China and Thailand can simply head to a nearby mall. Chances of criminal penalties for the buyers are slim.
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Dell doubles standard hard drive and memory sizes on XPS desktopsMar 2, 2006 - in News
Dell today said that it now installs 1 GB of system memory and 160 GB hard drives standard in its multimedia and enthusiast PC of the XPS series. The numbers are up from 512 MB and 80 GB, respectively.
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Xilinx first to 65 nm with next-generation Virtex FPGAsMar 2, 2006 - in News
Xilinx today demonstrated first silicon of its new 65nm generation Virtex FPGA family, claimed as the world's most widely adopted FPGA (field-programmable gate array) series with over US$4 billion in cumulative sales.
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Mobo makers voice concerns about southbridge supply after ATI's Crossfire 3200 launchMar 2, 2006 - in News
With ATI set to roll out its PCI Express (PCIe) CrossFire Xpress 3200 (RD580) chipset for high-end AMD solutions, motherboard makers are expressing concern about a potential southbridge supply shortage, as ATI partner Uli Electronics (ULi) was recently acquired by Nvidia.
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Seiko Epson: Global market for wide-format printing to grow 8-10%Mar 2, 2006 - in News
Global market demand for wide-format printing will keep growing by 8-10% annually for the next three to five years, said general manager Takashi Miyasaka of the Inkjet Printer & Photo Marketing Department of Seiko Epson.
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Sapphire delivers CrossFire RD580 series motherboardsMar 2, 2006 - in News
Sapphire Technology has announced two new models for its Pure CrossFire series offering 16x performance on both PCI Express (PCIe) slots in a dual GPU system.
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3D Systems drops price of 3D printer below $15,000Mar 1, 2006 - in News
3D printing is not quite what we would call a mainstream application, but the creation of realistic plastic models of products using a "printer" is becoming more popular with more businesses, product and marketing managers, designers and engineers as well as universities.
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ATI's Crossfire Xpress 3200 Chipset Takes OffMar 1, 2006 - in Reviews
The new dual PCIe x16 chipset from ATI is the most advanced core logic product around, but can it beat Nvidia's nForce4 SLI X16 champ? We checked into its features, performance and graphics scalability.
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Microsoft says better than Google soonMar 1, 2006 - in News
Microsoft will introduce a search engine better than Google in six months in the United States and Britain followed by Europe, its European president said on Wednesday.
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DDoS attacks target prominent blogsMar 1, 2006 - in News
Several prominent weblogs have been hit with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in recent weeks, as the target list for digital attackers continues to broaden.
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Windows Live Local and Ask upgrade mapsMar 1, 2006 - in News
Along with the launch of the new Ask.com yesterday, the company introduced an upgraded mapping product that now looks very much like Google Local and Windows Live Local.
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Intel to ship Woodcrest processor in JuneMar 1, 2006 - in News
Sources told TG Daily that Intel will begin shipments of its Woodcrest server and workstation processor at the end of June of this year.
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Sony cancels development of next-generation PDDMar 1, 2006 - in News
Sony will not release further versions of its professional Blu-ray format, the Professional Disc for Data (PDD).
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Best Actress nominees to receive $20,000 digital cameraMar 1, 2006 - in News
No, this year's best actresses do not have to learn the features of a digital SLR 20+ megapixel monster, but will get something more stylish for the streets of Beverly Hills.
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Japanese group releases Knoppix Linux CD that boots in less than a minuteMar 1, 2006 - in News
Japan's Alpha Systems has released a variant of Knoppix Linux, aptly named Accelerated Knoppix 1.0, that is promised to boot in less than a minute.
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ATI announces dual x16 Crossfire 3200 chipsetMar 1, 2006 - in News
ATI today introduced its Crossfire 3200 chipset, which was formerly code-named RD580. The dual-graphics chipset offers two x16 PCI Express slots and allows users to install two graphics cards without the need for a master/slave configuration, at least if they are not X1800 or X1900 versions.
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Win introduces compact single-board computer for dual Opteron processorsFeb 28, 2006 - in News
Single-board computers (SBCs) are gaining popularity in the embedded computing segment as well as in industries that ask for unusual and compact PC form factors. North Andover, Mass.-based Win Enterprises is offering a potent version of a SBC that can accommodate up to two single- or dual-core AMD Opteron processors on a board that measures 13.3" by 5.0".
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Low-priced Core Duo-based Mac mini flanked by iPod's new portable speakerFeb 28, 2006 - in News
UPDATE: The newly introduced 1.66 GHz Mac mini instantly becomes one of the least expensive Intel Core Duo-based computers on the market, although its entry-level, bare-bones presentation reveals that Apple may have cut costs in more ways than just omitting the monitor and the mouse.
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Jobs announces Core Solo, Core Duo-based Mac minisFeb 28, 2006 - in News
According to LoopRumors.com, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has introduced new Intel Core Solo-based and Core Duo-based Mac mini models, in the same form factor as the existing G4-based Mac mini.
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OCZ ships lower latency PC-4000 modulesFeb 27, 2006 - in News
Performance memory maker OCZ announced PC-4000 modules with 3-3-3-8 timings. The 500 MHz devices join the firm's Platinum XTC series and are available as single 1 GB modules or 2 GB dual-channel kits.
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3D plasma shapes created in thin airFeb 27, 2006 - in News
The night sky could soon be lit up with gigantic three-dimensional adverts, thanks to a Japanese laser display that creates glowing images in thin air.
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