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Cost savings drive adoption of Flash harddrivesNov 4, 2005 - in News
A solid-state disk drive is the ultimate solution when mass storage needs to be fast and durable. Such drives are equipped expensive memory chips, which prevented the technology to penetrate a mass market so far. The technology is making its way down the adopter pyramid, but today, it is mainly an industry solution that often is chosen because of cost reasons.
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IBM, Sun team to support OpenDocumentNov 3, 2005 - in News
IBM and Sun Microsystems will host a private meeting Friday to rally industry support for OpenDocument, a specification for standardizing documents that proponents hope will spur adoption of software that competes with the Microsoft Office productivity suite.
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Analysis: Sony BMG copy protection may be stealthy, but is it a "rootkit?"Nov 3, 2005 - in News
A noted security software engineer learned that a well-used copy protection scheme employed by Sony BMG on its audio CDs, uses stealth protection techniques to evade user detection. Maybe that's bad, but how bad is it, really?
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Majority of Internet-capable phones accesses mobile InternetNov 3, 2005 - in News
Mobile Internet applications lacked appeal to many cellphone users in the past, which meant mobile Internet was a tough. But a new report released by consulting firm A.T. Kearney and the Judge Business School of Cambridge University, suggests that more and more cellphone users get comfortable with using the Internet on a small screen.
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Neurok Optics has a 3D monitor for World of Warcraft playersNov 3, 2005 - in News
3D monitors may be coming sooner than you think. At the recent Blizzcon convention, Neurok Optics showed off their prototype iz3D monitor can display simulated three-dimensional graphics from ordinary 2D games. With the use of polarized glasses, attendees gawked at World of Warcraft in 3D. We wanted to find out more after trying on the glasses and seeing the images ourselves.
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IBM slows down light on a silicon chipNov 3, 2005 - in News
IBM researchers have created a tiny device that could lead to the use of light in place of electricity in the connection of electronic components, the company announced today.
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Intel-based ultra mobile PCs to run one week per battery chargeNov 3, 2005 - in News
In August, Intel unveiled its idea to squeeze one more class of mobile devices between today's smallest notebooks and PDAs. At the currently held IDF in Tel Aviv, the company went into more detail, promising a week-long battery running time and a case with the size of a pocket book built around a scaled down version of the Pentium M.
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LED backlights to penetrate notebook market in Q2 06Nov 3, 2005 - in News
The adoption of LEDs as a backlight source for 12- and 14" notebooks should begin in the second quarter of 2006, when the price gap between CCFL- (cathode fluorescent lamp-) and LED- based backlight modules narrows to less than NT$100 (US$3), according to LED maker Everlight Electronics.
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TI announces availability of PCI Express-to-PCI BridgeNov 3, 2005 - in News
Texas Instruments (TI) announced it has added a new PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge to its PCI Express (PCIe) product.
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IBM unveils new dual-core serversNov 2, 2005 - in News
IBM is upgrading its X3 Architecture-based family of servers with the introduction of new, dual-core systems based on the multi-processor Intel Xeon 7000, formerly codenamed Paxville.
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Sony ships sneaky DRM softwareNov 2, 2005 - in News
Mark Russinovich couldn't understand how the rootkit had sneaked onto his system. An expert on the internals of the Windows operating system, he was careful when it came to computer security and generally had a pretty good idea of what was running on his PC at any given time.
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Fujitsu to manufacture graphics processors for S3Nov 2, 2005 - in News
S3 announced that Fujitsu will be manufacturing the firm's new range of low-power graphics processors.
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80's Drivers Rock And Roll SLINov 2, 2005 - in Reviews
NVIDIA's Release 80 driver supposedly offers improvements for dual-core CPU users. But where does that leave the single-core folks-who happen to represent the majority?
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DDR2 oversupply to ease by December as makers shift capacityNov 2, 2005 - in News
Persistent sluggish demand continues to weigh on DRAM pricing in both the contract and spot markets.
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New MSI CrossFire motherboard to hit market in mid-NovemberNov 2, 2005 - in News
Micro-Star International (MSI) today introduced the RD480 Neo2, an AMD Socket-939 motherboard that supports ATI Technologies' CrossFire dual-graphics technology, with volume shipments slated for the middle of November.
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Intel's multi-processor, dual-core Xeon 7000 debutsNov 1, 2005 - in News
Lately, news coming out of Intel's digital enterprise group was not quite exciting. Delayed, scrapped and replaced processors were enough for some media to see the company in a 'self-destruction' mode. However, the server department continues its dual-core transition and today introduced the multi-processor version of the Xeon chip.
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Microsoft previews "Live" Internet services for Windows, OfficeNov 1, 2005 - in News
Microsoft today gave a first glimpse at an expansion of the firm's Internet strategy: New content and services - such as a renewed email offering, a voice-enhanced messenger and security checks - take aim at Google and will bring a tighter integration of the Internet within Windows and Office applications.
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Atari's blast from the past console: Flashback2Nov 1, 2005 - in News
Some of us with graying hair may remember Atari's 2600 console, probably the first major game console of our time. The wood paneling was fashionable for the times and the uniquely designed joysticks were murder on the hands. You can now relive those days because Atari is brining it back the 2600 with their Flashback 2 console.
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Call of Duty 2: Big Red One now shippingNov 1, 2005 - in News
People wanting to experience World War II, without the real-life bloodshed, can now buy Call of Duty 2: Big Red One. Players will fight along side the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division, also known as "The Big Red One". Missions take place around the world and players can even engage in online human versus human combat.
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Sony releases PC multimedia transfer software for PSPNov 1, 2005 - in News
In a move that could transcend its immediate influence upon gamers' ability to store their high score tables, the Media Software division of Sony has released a new Media Manager application for the PC for transferring files to and from PlayStation Portable.
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WinZip launches 10th generation of packer utilityNov 1, 2005 - in News
In times when harddrives store up to 500 GByte, when broadband connections allow to quickly send multi-MByte PowerPoint presentations, when users can carry around 5 GByte of data in 1" harddrives and in times when $10 USB-sticks already provide 128 MByte of space, compression utilities face a tough future.
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Sony lets users upload music to the car stereoNov 1, 2005 - in News
At the SEMA auto show in Las Vegas, Sony introduced a new radio/CD player called the Giga Panel that can store music in internal memory. The player has one Gigabyte of flash memory and users can upload songs via a USB port in the front faceplate. It can also play ATRAC/3 songs (Sony's proprietary format) burned onto a CD.
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Parrot Rhythm n' Blue: Make phone calls through your car's radio systemNov 1, 2005 - in News
Wouldn't it be nice for your car radio to automatically mute in response to an incoming cellular call? With Parrot's Rhythm n' Blue radio system you can do just that. The radio/cd player has an embedded Bluetooth receiver takes audio from your phone and transmits through the car speakers.
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Aopen ships Mac mini cloneNov 1, 2005 - in News
Aopen today said that it is shipping its miniPC, a small form factor PC that resembles the design of Apple's Mac mini and follows an Intel reference design that has been on a road show since March. The computer will be available from different vendors in a wide variety of flavors - ranging from a $400 base system to more than $1300 for performance tuned versions.
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Taiwan DRAM industry remains indifferent to Rambus XDR and XDR2Nov 1, 2005 - in News
Taiwan DRAM vendors are not rushing to express their optimism regarding Rambus memory solutions.
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Apple releases Mac OS X 10.4.3Nov 1, 2005 - in News
Apple on Monday released an update for Mac OS X, bringing both the client and server versions of the operating system to 10.4.3.
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Holiday Buyer's Guide 2005Nov 1, 2005 - in Reviews
We bring you lots of goodies under the tree for your holiday shopping wants and needs, hand-picked by our editors from the best and most exciting and sometimes quirky products that they have seen in our labs. And introducing it all is our model Teresa Noreen, who will delight you with her own holiday cheer.
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Eidos has Zero Tolerance for consolesOct 31, 2005 - in News
Eidos Interactive today officially announced the new name and release window for the game formerly titled Roll Call.
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PS3 could run at 120 fpsOct 31, 2005 - in News
Sony Computer Entertainment president Ken Kutaragi has claimed that the PlayStation 3 will be capable of running games at an unprecedented 120 frames per second.
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Trend Micro renovates PC-cillin security softwareOct 31, 2005 - in News
Trend announced a new version its home office security solution PC-cillin Internet Security, which now integrates an anti-phishing component.
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