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Samsung ships first GDDR4 graphics memoryOct 26, 2005 - in News
Samsung claims that it is first to have developed the industry's fastest graphics memory and has shipped it to major graphics card manufacturers for testing.
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Canon shows off a fuel cell powered digital cameraOct 26, 2005 - in News
While fuel cells are several years away from replacing the standard alkaline or rechargeable battery, Canon in Japan has showed off an EOS KISS Digital N camera (Japan's equivalent of the US Rebel XT) that runs on a hydrogen fuel cell.
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Virtual Infrastructure Summit At VMWorld 2005Oct 26, 2005 - in Reviews
This past week VMWare hosted the 2005 VMWorld event, at the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. For those of you who have no prior knowledge of VMWare, the key concept behind it is virtualization of computer hardware.
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Dell expands "XPS" enthusiast notebook seriesOct 26, 2005 - in News
Dell is the midst of streamlining its consumer PC business with systems that focus on basic, multimedia or performance computing. Following this strategy, the company today released the M140 multimedia notebook with an XPS sport package as well as the Dimension E310 desktop that fills the role of an entry-level multimedia PC.
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New deal brings handwriting abilities to Nintendo DSOct 26, 2005 - in News
The Nintendo DS handheld console has added handwriting recognition to its features, with a deal being announced this week with Zi Corporation to bring the Decuma handwriting technology to the platform.
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Asustek debuts 3ms LCD monitorOct 26, 2005 - in News
Asustek Computer recently unveiled its new series of 3ms 17" LCD monitors, which are slated to hit the market in November, according to the company.
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Micron intros improved image sensors for automotive applicationsOct 25, 2005 - in News
Image sensors are reaching into new volume markets beyond the digital camera, Micron one of the leading suppliers of CMOS-based image sensors, today announced the MT9V125 sensor which complements the firms existing portfolio and promises to enhance picture and video quality.
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OCZ intros honeycomb heatspreader for DDR memoryOct 25, 2005 - in News
Performance memory company OCZ today announced a new heatspreader for some of its DDR devices.
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Adtron intros sub-$2000 Flash harddriveOct 25, 2005 - in News
Solid-state storage may come much sooner into reach for consumers than many expected just a few years ago. Adtron's 8 GByte A35FB drive is further evidence that Flash harddrives are stepping down the price ladder and could complement traditional harddrives in the not too distant future.
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Customers 'in charge' in the digital world, says FiorinaOct 25, 2005 - in News
Carly Fiorina, the former HP, Lucent and AT&T executive spoke to a small gathering of IP telephony suppliers, resellers and customers today in Los Angeles, telling the conference that a revolution is on its way and they better be prepared for it.
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Sytrin Nextherm ICS 8200: The Air-Conditioned Mid TowerOct 25, 2005 - in Reviews
Sytrin aims to turn the market for PC cases on its head with an exceptional cooling solution. Its Nextherm ICS 8200 mid tower comes equipped with two Peltier elements, which ensure a very low ambient temperature inside the case.
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Pentium, Schmentium: Decoding CPU NamesOct 25, 2005 - in Reviews
Gigahertz labels have been replaced by model numbers, but there is still more to come. Intel's next generation processors will not only introduce even more models, but sport a numbering system that has turned into an instrument for confusion.
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IBM's Xbox 360 processor enters mass productionOct 25, 2005 - in News
Rather a formality than a surprise, IBM today announced at the Fall Processor Forum that the heart of Microsoft's upcoming game console Xbox 360, a 3.2 GHz PowerPC-based processor with three cores, is in production. The chip was developed in less than 24 months, IBM said.
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Bertelsmann builds new P2P platformOct 25, 2005 - in News
Former Naptser investor Bertelsmann AG is launching a new file-sharing service to address the intellectual-property issues that had plagued popular music-swapping services in the past.
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Microsoft details a few Office 12 plansOct 25, 2005 - in News
Microsoft on Monday talked up a few features of its next-generation Office release, due next year, which revolve around the concept of "business intelligence."
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Intel delays Montecito, scraps multi-core Xeon WhitefieldOct 25, 2005 - in News
Intel has made several changes to its processor road-map, delaying its first dual-core Itanium 2 and replacing a future multi-core Xeon with a new design.
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ULi concerned about supply-demand imbalance in PC chipset industryOct 25, 2005 - in News
Motherboard makers and chipset specialists should be aware of the imbalance between positive PC demand and insufficient related component supply, which may result in inventory overhang in early 2006, said Alex Kuo, CEO and president of ULi Electronics.
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Winbond increases 2006 capacity schedule for DDR2 productionOct 25, 2005 - in News
With its technology partner Infineon Technologies maintaining a positive DDR2 outlook, Winbond Electronics has revised its 2006 monthly 12" capacity expansion plans upward by 4,000 12" wafers.
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Does a "World of Warcraft" EULA compliance mechanism count as spyware?Oct 24, 2005 - in News
An anti-cheating mechanism deployed by Blizzard Software for use by players of their popular game, World of Warcraft, has been discovered to collect information about gamers' running Windows environment, and report that back to the server. If gamers were warned in advance - albeit with very fine print - does that make it exempt from privacy concerns?
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CMOS more popular than CCDs for digital camerasOct 24, 2005 - in News
Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor shipments surpassed Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs) in 2004, according to a report released today by market research firm In-Stat.
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Maxtor ships 500 GByte harddrivesOct 24, 2005 - in News
Maxtor has added 500 GByte versions to its 3.5" harddrive product portfolio.
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NEC announces speedy LCDs for movie applicationsOct 24, 2005 - in News
NEC claims it has developed an amorphous TFT LCD "with the world's fastest Motion Picture Response Time (MPRT).
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Intel confirms motherboard with ATI's Xpress 200 chipsetOct 24, 2005 - in News
Intel expanded its motherboard line-up with a new model that integrates ATI's Xpress 200 integrated graphics processor.
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A Brief Introduction to Sampling AudioOct 24, 2005 - in Reviews
Unless you've been living under a rock for the last 20 years, you've heard music that uses sampling. You may have even wondered what's so great about it, why people are getting sued over it, and how this amazing technology works. Fortunately, THG is going to tell you...
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Internet Explorer to feature XML-based content labeling featureOct 24, 2005 - in News
The Internet Content Rating Association, which produces a content labeling framework to enable Web filters and voluntary content blockers, has announced that Microsoft has signed a licensing agreement with it, and is also making a financial investment in the Association, for an undisclosed amount.
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Is there room for another processor company?Oct 24, 2005 - in News
P.A. Semi is a new player in the processor market that competes for a portion of the cut-throat CPU market. The company hopes to carve out its place by avoiding direct confrontation with Intel: P.A. Semi's 65 nm low-power dual-core system-on-a-chip design is based on IBM's Power Architecture. Announced today, the first 2 GHz chips are scheduled to sample by Q3 2006.
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Yahoo raising subscription music priceOct 24, 2005 - in News
Confirming speculation that record labels were not content with the $4.99 pricing of Yahoo! Music Unlimited, the company on Nov. 1 will raise its music subscription fee.
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OSD introduces full color PM OLEDOct 24, 2005 - in News
One Stop Displays (OSD) announced that its new 1.5" color passive-matrix (PM) OLED (organic light-emitting diode) is available for the market, with the company claiming the display is the brightest PM OLED currently available on the market.
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'Doom' leads slow weekend for theatersOct 23, 2005 - in News
The Rock did not meet his doom at the box office, but his latest action flick came in with a light pop instead of a bang during another slow weekend at movie theaters.
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Snort vulnerability "wormable" but not widespreadOct 21, 2005 - in News
A three-month-old flaw in a preprocessor function for the open-source intrusion detection system may attract worm writers, but the number of vulnerable systems is likely low, security experts said on Wednesday.
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