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The return of Google OS rumorsJan 31, 2006 - in News
May as well put a hockey mask on the face of the Google operating system stories that keep cropping up; another version of the story that will not die contends an internally developed version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution from Google is in the works.
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Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 goes publicJan 31, 2006 - in News
Microsoft today released the first public beta of the upcoming Internet Explorer 7. The 11.2 MB download allows testers to sample some new features and help Microsoft find bugs in the program. The new browser has more RSS features than previous versions and includes tabbed browsing, a feature that competing browsers have had for a while. Currently, the beta version will only work with Windows XP with Service Pack 2, but the company adds that the final version will support Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003.
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Concern grows over Kama Sutra computer virusJan 31, 2006 - in News
A destructive worm posing as a pornographic e-mail may already have infected hundreds of thousands of computers and could erase many everyday files on February 3, security experts warned on Tuesday.
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Lasers blink through silicon chipsJan 31, 2006 - in News
Researchers have tried for years to use light to carry data because it's much faster and efficient than current interconnections used in telecommunications and computers.
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Office Live to come with BI biteJan 31, 2006 - in News
As details of Microsoft's Office Live beta program start to trickle out of the Redmond, Washington software giant, some industry observers are asking whether this product will hurt the established business intelligence vendors like Business Objects, Cognos and Hyperion Solutions.
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Mark Burnett makes AOL gameJan 31, 2006 - in News
America Online has teamed up with Mark Burnett, creator of the reality series Survivor and The Apprentice, to create an online treasure hunt called Gold Rush!
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Do You Want a 16:9 LCD Monitor Now?Jan 31, 2006 - in Reviews
LCD makers supposedly have been working hard to develop big-performance, wide-screen monitors in 16:9 format. But so far, the results have been dismal. Will new wares from some of the world's largest electronics OEMs finally take things to a new level?
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AMD's forums hackedJan 30, 2006 - in News
Visitors to AMD's website forums received a shock when their adware and virus scanners started blaring warnings about a possible Trojan horse being downloaded. Over the past few days visitors have been complaining about strange popup alerts and slow forum speeds. Apparently, the forum webpages were modified to include a link to a malicious Windows Metafile (WMF) image hosted on toolbarsdollars.biz. A major WMF vulnerability that allows hackers to hide code inside of image files was disclosed a few weeks ago and many users still have not patched against it.
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Sun's Schwartz hints at GPLv3 for SolarisJan 30, 2006 - in News
The first draft of version 3 of the General Public License caused controversy last week when criticisms emerged on the Linux kernel mailing list from none other than Linus Torvalds.
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Samsung announces Blu-ray writer in Germany, US devices scheduled for Q2Jan 30, 2006 - in News
Samsung Germany today announced that has begun shipment of Blu-ray evaluation units. The two models announced, the internal B022A and the external SE-B026A will be hitting retail in April, the company said.
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VoIP could hide botnetsJan 30, 2006 - in News
The Communications Research Network (CRN), composed of researchers from Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says that VoIP networks could conceal botnets. Thousands of remotely-controlled computers - sometimes called bots or zombie computers - could be concealed and controlled through VoIP's distributed network.
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Sun counts on AMD's Opteron to grow workstation businessJan 30, 2006 - in News
Sun today launched three new workstation models: There are two AMD Opteron models, which, the company hopes, will increase its target market. The third new workstation is based on the Sparc processor and isn't expected to reach many new customers: Instead, Sun believes the Ultra 45 will keep its existing 64-bit crowd happy.
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Google updates toolbarJan 30, 2006 - in News
Google released a new version of its toolbar Sunday night, and added one designed for the enterprise.
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Honda builds Accord with 'autopilot' techJan 30, 2006 - in News
Honda UK has launched a car that can drive itself on motorways and dual-carriageways, the British equivalent of freeways.
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First 90nm ARM9 SoC features VFPU, USB OTGJan 30, 2006 - in News
Royal Philips Electronics will sample in March a highly integarted, low-power system-on-chip (SoC) processor claimed to be the first ARM9 microntroller manufactured on 90-nm process technology.
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The M1697 Concludes The ULi PortfolioJan 30, 2006 - in Reviews
Due to ULi's imminent merge with NVIDIA, the single-chip M1697 is the company's last core logic product. While being a value product, it also helps draw a picture of the fresh potential that will transfer to Santa Clara.
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Microsoft driver bug saps Core Duo powerJan 27, 2006 - in Reviews
Connect any USB 2.0 device to your notebook and lose more than one hour of battery time: Tom's Hardware Guide's tests of a Windows-based Intel Core Duo mobile processor platform revealed a serious power consumption issue that, according to Intel, is caused by a Microsoft driver bug - a bug that has been known by Microsoft for some time, but kept from the public eye until today.
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Itanium proponents make $10 billion bet in VegasJan 27, 2006 - in News
Yesterday in a gala announcement, the nine founding members of the Itanium Solutions Alliance, including Intel, announced they would collectively contribute $10 billion toward research, marketing, capital expenditures, and software development, all with the goal of furthering Itanium as a viable technical computing platform.
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Rootkits coming to your motherboardJan 27, 2006 - in News
The recent media attention on rootkits has been focused on installed software, but according to some security professionals at the Black Hat Federal security conference, these kits could be installed on your motheboard's BIOS chip in the near future. Often running a programming language of their own, these chips store the basic command and control functions of the computer. In an article written by Robert Lemos of SecurityFocus, security researchers say that rootkits could take advantage of this language and are the "next logical step".
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WD adds mobile 120 GB, desktop 500 GB hard drive to portfolioJan 27, 2006 - in News
Western Digital (WD) announced that it has expanded its mobile and desktop hard disk families. New in the catalog are a 120 GB 2.5" drive that is available with EIDE or SATA interface and spins its platters with 5400 rpm.
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Tiny power supply cranks out 120 wattsJan 27, 2006 - in News
For some users, computer designs can't be small and quiet enough. Mini-box.com has begun offering what it claims to be the world's smallest ATX compliant power supply that uses a single 12 volt power source and puts out 120 watts.
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Enhanced TFT LCD TV panels to put squeeze on CRTJan 27, 2006 - in News
Improved brightness and contrast ratios for TFT LCD TV panels will add pressure on color CRT technology, AU Optronics (AUO) said. The brightness of LCD TVs will rise to 600 nits, up from 500 nits last year, while the contrast ratio will go up to 1200:1, compared to 800-1000:1 in the past.
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Albatron launches GeForce 7300GS graphics cardJan 27, 2006 - in News
Albatron today announced the availability of its latest graphics card offering, the GeForce 7300GS based on the Nvidia GeForce 7300 GS graphics processing unit (GPU). Although this comes on the heels of announcements for similar products launched by three of Albatron's competitors, no price has yet been announced.
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MicroSD cards to become mainstream in Q2 2006, says Silicon MotionJan 27, 2006 - in News
MicroSD cards will become mainstream in the memory card market in the second quarter of this year due to increased popularity of MicroSD-supported handsets and a rise in the number of MicroSD card makers, stated Wallace Kou, president and CEO of Taiwan-based IC design house Silicon Motion Technology.
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GeCube and Sapphire launch ATI Radeon X1900 series cardsJan 27, 2006 - in News
GeCube and Sapphire Technology have each launched graphics card based on the three new X1900 series graphics chips recently launched by ATI Technologies.
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Sabio rolls out multi-TeraByte consumer storage boxJan 26, 2006 - in News
San Diego-based Sabio Digital has introduced a consumer-level storage device capable of storing one teraByte and up worth of data. The Sabio Storage CM-4 box sports an Intel Xscale 400 megahertz processor and four hard-drives. The box runs on an embedded Linux operating system and is compatible with either PCs or Macs.
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Retail giants Costco, Walmart looking into biometric paymentJan 26, 2006 - in News
According to Sanford Bernstein analyst Emme Kozloff, Costco, Walmart and other retail giants are looking into fingerprint devices to accelerate transactions and reduce costs.
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DTV and IPTV heading into technology battle led by CE, PC industry - reportJan 26, 2006 - in News
A report released this week by one of Europe's leading technology industry analysts, Booz Allen Hamilton, made the bold prediction that IPTV service could very well be vanquished on the continent by DTV. Services based on European digital TV standards - which are not the same as American - will provide "triple play" services faster and cheaper than will ISPs.
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ATI launches Imageon 2380 and 2388 graphics processors for cellphonesJan 26, 2006 - in News
ATI expanded its 2300 series of standalone graphics processors for cellphones. The new models 2380 and 2388 are capable of running OpenGL ES 1.2 applications with a display resolution of up to 640x480, play MPEG4, H.263, H.263+, H.264 and Real Video with up to 30 frames per second (fps) in 352x288 pixel and play audio formats MP3, WMA, MIDI, Real Audio and AAC, among others.
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Samsung develops super-reflective LCD for cellphonesJan 26, 2006 - in News
Samsung today said that it has developed a 1.72" super-reflective LCD that allows users to easily read screen content even in direct sunlight. The manufacturer claims that the prototype achieves a reflectance rate that is three times that of the usual qqVGA-resolution (128x160 pixels) available in mobile displays today.
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