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Gateway preps $800 dual-core media center desktopOct 1, 2005 - in News
Gateway is building on its newly found success in the US retail business with three new desktops that aim at the sub-$900 segment as well as two notebook models for light gaming and multimedia applications.
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Dell extends XPS series, confirms 256 MByte memory requirement for Vista PCsOct 1, 2005 - in News
In a press conference to unveil Dell's an extended and updates range XPS line of products, founder and chairman Michael Dell told reporters that for any computer to be "Vista ready," it needs more than the 128 MByte of graphics memory currently recommended by Microsoft.
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DARPA Grand Challenge update #2: A chat with Team MojavatonOct 1, 2005 - in Reviews
Not only is Team Mojavaton officially designated team #1 out of the 43 that made it to the qualification round, but they were also first to successfully complete the 2.2 mile route in the qualification round at the DARPA Grand Challenge. Tom's Hardware Guide chatted with Alan Peck, technical supervisor for the team about vehicle design and development.
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Intel's 65 nm Pentium 4 to consume less powerOct 1, 2005 - in News
The move from a 90 nm to a 65 nm production process enables Intel to reduce the power consumption of its single-core Pentium 4 processors, Tom's Hardware Guide has learned.
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Aopen to launch Mac mini look-alike PCOct 1, 2005 - in News
Aopen today confirmed that it will introduce a mini PC closely resembling the design of Apple's Mac mini in time for this year's Christmas season.
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DARPA Grand Challenge update #1: Qualification day 1 resultsOct 1, 2005 - in News
acing hot temperatures, high winds and an occasional dust storm, the 43 DARPA Grand Challenge teams entered the qualification round at the Fontana Speedway. The first day seemed to resemble more a destruction derby than a race.
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Gearing up for the DARPA Grand ChallengeOct 1, 2005 - in News
Today 43 autonomous vehicle teams entered the qualifying round of the DARPA Grand Challenge. In the next tension filled week, the driverless vehicles must steer though a 2.2 mile course at the Fontana Speedway filled with speed bumps, parked cars and tank traps.
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Microsoft's Ballmer to confer with EU antitrust chief next weekSep 30, 2005 - in News
The Associated Press is reporting that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is planning to meet with European Commission member in charge of antitrust policy, Neelie Kroes, presumably to discuss future Microsoft antitrust issues there: Neelie Kroes planned to meet Ballmer over breakfast Wednesday to discuss general antitrust issues, EU spokesman Jonathan Todd said.
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Pepping Up WindowsSep 30, 2005 - in Reviews
Add zip to Windows by replacing mediocre Windows programs with superior open source applications, which tend to be smarter and offer greater functionality. Then rid yourself of the superfluous Windows components by removing them from your system.
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SanDisk and M-Systems said to set sights on 40 percent U3 penetrationSep 30, 2005 - in News
Encouraged by support from leading flash disk makers, SanDisk and M-Systems aim to increase the penetration rate of their co-developed U3 platform to 40 penetration of the flash disk market in 2006, according to sources at downstream flash disk makers.
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Nvidia increases the pace in high-performance mobile graphicsSep 29, 2005 - in Reviews
Today there is a new face in the high performance mobile graphics market as nVidia launched a new flagship mobile graphics processor, the GeForce Go 7800 GTX. Unlike the launch of the Go 6800 Ultra where Dell had exclusivity at the launch, the Go 7800 GTX will debut in systems from a wide range of OEMs worldwide just about three months after the launch of the desktop chip.
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Sandisk to launch 4 GByte embedded Flash memory for cellphonesSep 29, 2005 - in News
Sandisk announced new Flash memory products targeting to replace micro harddrives in consumer electronics applications. The company will ship the chips in 256 MByte and 2 GByte capacities in October, a 4 GByte chip will follow in March of 2006.
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iPod subway map maker tells his storySep 29, 2005 - in News
The mass-transit systems of the world, with dozens or even hundreds of different destinations, can be confusing to tourists and locals alike. Last month, William Bright, a design director for Nerve.com, started providing free, downloadable maps that could be displayed on the LCD screens of the iPod players. The website, appropriately named www.ipodsubwaymaps.com, was an instant hit, but it also attracted the attention of lawyers from the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), who sent cease and desist letters to Bright.
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Intel to partner with RIM on next-gen Blackberry deviceSep 29, 2005 - in News
Intel today confirmed rumors on a collaboration with Research in Motion (RIM) to create the next Blackberry handheld. According to a statement, Intel will provide to RIM its first UMTS platform, currently codenamed "Hermon," which will include an Xscale processor than will run at speeds of about 1 GHz.
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Future Crossfire cards not limited to 1600x1200 @ 60 HzSep 29, 2005 - in News
Yesterday ATI opened its multi-graphics-processor platform "Crossfire" to the rest of the world by lifting its embargo for reviews. With the reviews, some readers were concerned when they learned that the X8xx series of cards could not display images past a 1600 x 1200 pixel resolution at a refresh rate of 60 Hz. But ATI promises to remove that limitation with its next-generation graphic chip.
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Intel's 65 nm Pentium 4 to consume less powerSep 29, 2005 - in News
The move from a 90 nm to a 65 nm production process enables Intel to reduce the power consumption of its single-core Pentium 4 processors, Tom's Hardware Guide has learned. Compared to the current generation with "Prescott" core, the new "Cedar Mill" will drop from 95 to 86 watts.
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Samsung plans biggest chip plantSep 29, 2005 - in News
Samsung Electronics, the South Korean chipmaker, is planning to spend $33 billion expanding output and building a research and development plant by 2012.
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Samsung: LCD TV panel prices to continue fallingSep 29, 2005 - in News
LCD TV panel pricing will continue trending downward, as panel makers look to further stimulate market demand, stated Keun Hee Park, president and CEO of Greater China, Samsung Group.
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TMDisplay to feature finger shadow touch-screen at CEATEC JapanSep 29, 2005 - in News
Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology (TMDisplay) announced a low-temperature polysilicon (LTPS) TFT LCD display prototype with finger shadow sensing input capability.
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Spansion said to be planning NOR flash price increaseSep 29, 2005 - in News
Spansion has informed customers about price increases for 4Mbit and 8Mbit NOR flash from late September while Silicon Storage Technology (SST) may also follow suit, according to industry sources.
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Asia-Pacific AMD CPU supply tightensSep 29, 2005 - in News
Following the Intel chipset shortage, recent rumors among motherboard makers indicate that supplies of the Athlon 64 3000+ and dual-core Athlon 64 X2 3800+ CPU lines from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) are already short of demand in the Asia-Pacific region.
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ATI samples next-generation X1000 mobile graphics processorsSep 28, 2005 - in News
ATI today confirmed that it is shipping samples of "all next generation mobile parts" to ODMs and OEMs for qualification purposes.
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Nvidia increases the pace in high-performance mobile graphicsSep 28, 2005 - in News
Today there is a new face in the high performance mobile graphics market as nVidia launched a new flagship mobile graphics processor, the GeForce Go 7800 GTX. Unlike the launch of the Go 6800 Ultra where Dell had exclusivity at the launch, the Go 7800 GTX will debut in systems from a wide range of OEMs worldwide just about three months after the launch of the desktop chip.
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Sandisk to launch 4 GByte embedded Flash memory for cellphonesSep 28, 2005 - in News
Sandisk announced new Flash memory products targeting to replace micro harddrives in consumer electronics applications. The company will ship the chips in 256 MByte and 2 GByte capacities in October, a 4 GByte chip will follow in March of 2006.
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LCD TV Set Fall PreviewSep 28, 2005 - in Reviews
You may considering buying into LCD TV technology - but where do you start? We put the screws to eight 26" and 27" LCD TV sets to show what works, what doesn't and - more importantly - what you might want to buy.
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Spot markets say Samsung NAND flash shortage intensifyingSep 28, 2005 - in News
Not long after customers expressed concern about a shortage of high-density (4Gbit and above) NAND flash from Samsung Electronics in the spot market, sources are now indicating that the shortage has intensified, with the proportion of flash orders not being satisfied by Samsung growing to as high as 70%.
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PC makers slow move into LCD TV marketSep 28, 2005 - in News
Though taiwan-based PC specialists, including Asustek Computer, Gigabyte Technology, Aopen, and Universal Scientific Industrial (USI), had announced their move to enter the LCD TV market during the past year, the makers seem to have slowed down their respective progress in the segment, due to a lack of competitiveness without support from panel suppliers, according to the Chinese-language Apple Daily today.
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SanDisk introduces "gruvi" memory card with built-in DRMSep 28, 2005 - in News
Reuters is reporting this morning that SanDisk has introduced a new line of memory cards specially designed for transporting secure, licensed files such as downloaded tunes between computers and CE devices: The first cards to go on the market in November will come preloaded with the Rolling Stones' new CD "A Bigger Bang," said SanDisk, which helped pioneer flash memory storage cards used in phones and digital cameras.
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SanDisk launches secure memory cardSep 27, 2005 - in News
SanDisk, the company that pioneered flash memory storage cards, unveiled a new range of memory chip cards on Tuesday, incorporating an anti-piracy software chip to lure the entertainment market to a new storage medium.
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