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Google Earth gets Winter Olympics extensionsFeb 10, 2006 - in News
Google said it has updated its Google Earth application that will allow users to get a better overview of the locations of the upcoming Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy.
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Plant cells for robot controlFeb 10, 2006 - in News
Controlling robots in complex environments is not an easy task, but it would greatly increase their usages. Yet living organisms are facing complexity and successfully dealing with it.
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Intel promises quad server chips for Q1 2007Feb 10, 2006 - in News
Intel has alerted its OEM (original equipment manufacturer) customers that it will add a quad core "Clovertown" CPU in the first quarter of next year.
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Analyst predicts iBooks, touch-screen iPod at event in AprilFeb 10, 2006 - in News
Analysts for Needham & Co this week said they believe Apple will hold a special media event sometime in April to unveil Intel-based iBooks and a touch-screen video iPod.
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Low picture resolution fails to meet camera phone users' expectationsFeb 10, 2006 - in News
Phones with the ability to take images, both still and video, have captured about 40% of the wireless phone market, according to a recent report by In-Stat.
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A-Data expects strong NAND flash demand in H2 2006Feb 10, 2006 - in News
A-Data Technology chairman Simon Chen yesterday said that NAND flash prices will stop decreasing after the first quarter of this year, while demand will pick up in the second half of the year, driven by handsets, MP3 players and game consoles.
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Large-size LCD panel prices on the decline in early 2006Feb 10, 2006 - in News
Although multiple factors, including excess supply, are conspiring to drive down pricing for large-size LCD panels in the first half of 2006.
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ATI releases catalyst 6.2, second Vista graphics driverFeb 9, 2006 - in News
ATI today released the download of the second Catalyst driver update for 2006.
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Danish websites hit by DoS attacks and defacementsFeb 9, 2006 - in News
In the past week, hundreds of Danish newspapers, blogs and other websites have been hit by hackers. Most of these attacks were Denial of Service attacks, which are easily done by sending a flood of traffic against a website.
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IBM to ship Cell-based blade server in Q3Feb 9, 2006 - in News
IBM announced that it will begin shipping a new blade-server using the Cell processor in the third quarter of this year. The chip will be made available in the framework of the firm's BladeCenter H family and will aim to accelerate digital animation applications, as well as floating point heavy scientific software.
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Samsungs claim to have developed fastest 1 GB micro memory cardFeb 9, 2006 - in News
Samsung today said that its 1 GB MMCmicro Flash memory card is about 3.5 times faster in data transfers than any other micro memory technology.
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Freescale, Nokia and Symbian collaborate to develop 3G single core reference designFeb 9, 2006 - in News
Freescale Semiconductor, Nokia and Symbian are joining together to create what they claim is the first 3G mobile phone reference design using Freescale's single core modem, targeted to run S60 software on Symbian.
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EC denies Microsoft deadline extension, while the company cries foulFeb 8, 2006 - in News
European Commission spokesperson Jonathan Todd confirmed to Reuters today that the EC has denied Microsoft's request for an extension to its 15 February deadline for turning over interoperability documentation for Windows.
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Merom notebooks to launch operating system from Flash memoryFeb 8, 2006 - in News
Intel may get one step closer to an instant-on computer with the introduction of its next-generation microprocessors that will be aligned around the Merom mobile processor. A new mobile platform, codenamed Santa Rosa, will be first to integrate Intel's "Robson" cache technology, which will take advantage of NAND Flash to accelerate the startup of a computer.
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University of Wisconsin builds world's fastest digital cameraFeb 8, 2006 - in News
Fast action photography - the sort you see at boxing matches and football games - isn't fast enough to a University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist who is building the world's fastest camera. Pamela Klabbers, an Associate Scientist with the university, is leading a team to build a camera system capable of recording protons colliding at nearly the speed of light.
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Microsoft to offer PC care package for $50 per yearFeb 8, 2006 - in News
Microsoft announced that it will be rolling out the commercial version of its OneCare Live service in June of this year. Designed to compete with similar products typically offered by anti-virus companies, Microsoft hopes to gain traction with and extended service that is seamlessly integrated into Windows.
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Net's dad wants net neutralityFeb 8, 2006 - in News
Charging tolls on the information superhighway would dampen innovation and hamstring the United States' competitiveness in the world market, warned Vinton Cerf, a father of the Internet and a top Google executive, on Tuesday.
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Microsoft reports two bugs; a third is identifiedFeb 8, 2006 - in News
Microsoft is warning of two bugs in its software that could potentially give unauthorized control or access over a person's computer, while a third problem has been highlighted by a security research company.
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ProMos to aggressively step up DDR2 productionFeb 8, 2006 - in News
ProMos Technologies will devote 100% of capacity at its 12" fab (Fab II) in Hsinchu to DDR2 production, starting in the second quarter of this year, according to company chairman ML Chen.
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Nvidia's Quadro notebook GPUs to be used in Toshiba notebooksFeb 8, 2006 - in News
Nvidia today announced the availability of its first notebook graphics processing unit (GPU), the Quadro NVS 110M, which will be featured in Toshiba's Tecra M5, Tecra A6, and Tecra A7 business notebook series.
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GE claims research breakthrough for flexible OLEDsFeb 8, 2006 - in News
GE Global Research is presenting details on its development of a substrate system for flexible organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) at the Flexible Displays & Microelectronics Conference, February 6-9 in Phoenix.
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iSCSI The Open-E WayFeb 8, 2006 - in Reviews
Open-E says its storage area network (SAN) solution can turn any computer into a powerful and flexible iSCSI target - all for a reasonable price. We look at what iSCSI can do for small- to medium-sized businesses in general and how Open-E compares to high-end alternatives.
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S3 Chrome S27 graphics cards available in US etailFeb 7, 2006 - in News
After having being completely absent from the US market for several years, S3 is returning to the US market with initially two graphic card models. Newegg is the first etailer to carry 128 MB and 256 MB S27 cards.
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There's money to be made with your old cellphoneFeb 7, 2006 - in News
According to market researchers, the average American is upgrading to a more advanced cellphone faster than ever before. Statistics tell us that we typically say Goodbye to our mobile phones every 20 months. But what actually happens to those millions of discarded phones? Well, not every phone ends up in a landfill: Many phones make a U-turn and are sold back into the market.
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IBM's WPAN chipset aims to replace high-def cables, BluetoothFeb 7, 2006 - in News
Today in San Francisco, IBM unveiled a revolutionary new chipset that would replace the spaghetti of cables that connect today's multimedia equipment, with super-high-frequency wireless networks in the gigabit range. But will the CE industry greet IBM with open arms?
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Intel's Yonah to move into servers as "Xeon LV" processorFeb 7, 2006 - in News
Intel will use its brand new Yonah processor core not only for single- and dual-core mobile processors but also to increase its role in the blade server market. The server derivate, code-named "Sossaman," will debut this quarter and will receive the name "Xeon Low Voltage," according to a press release issued by server vendor Rackable Systems.
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UDC shows off rollable OLED screenFeb 7, 2006 - in News
Today, at the Flexible Displays and Microelectronics conference in Phoenix Arizona, Universal Display Corporation demonstrated a folding 4" active-matrix display.
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Google puts instant message service inside e-mailFeb 7, 2006 - in News
Google users will be able to conduct instant message chats from a Google Web browser window, alongside their e-mails, instead of requiring a separate application, the company said late Monday.
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AMD releases "Pacifica" virtualization specFeb 7, 2006 - in News
AMD today announced that it has released its I/O virtualizations specification, formerly code-named "Pacifica," through royalty-free licenses to hardware and software developers. The company said that virtualization will be supported in all of its processors in the first half of this year.
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RocketGuard 100 monitors temperature, alerts about failing PSUsFeb 7, 2006 - in News
HighPoint Technologies, makers of RocketRAID line of RAID controllers, has released the RocketGuard 100 monitoring card which keeps track of chassis temperature, fan and power supply health. The little card can be mounted anywhere within the computer case and has connectors to HighPoint's RocketRAID cards and chassis alert LEDs. Using the included software, users can set alert limits and be emailed when a fan fails or when the case reached a certain temperature.
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