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A few years ago, owning a dual core processor was something to be particularly proud of. "Bring on the dual cores", we used to say, and joke around referring to the amount of power we could pack under the hood with AMD Socket 939 based Athlon X2 processors in Shuttle XPCs. We then lit up with a... |
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From X-bit Labs: Solid-state drives (SSDs) are finally here: they are available in quantities from many manufacturers and they can provide real benefits at rather high price. However, it will take some time before SSDs will become popular or enter the mainstream market. It will definitely not... |
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From X-bit Labs: Chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices said during a conference call with financial analysts that the company’s graphics division ATI was on-track to refresh its lineup of graphics cards in the second half of calendar 2010. The mystery, though, is with what the family... |
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From InfoWorld: The first widespread attack to leverage a recently patched flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser has surfaced. Starting late Wednesday, researchers at antivirus vendor Symantec's Security Response group began spotting dozens of Web sites that contain the Internet Explorer... |
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From PC World: Amazon on Thursday announced its Kindle Development Kit, which enables software developers to build and upload "active content" for the Kindle wireless-reader device. The kit offers access to programming interfaces, tools, and documentation to build content for Kindle. The kit also... |
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From CNET News.com: Advanced Micro Devices posted a fourth-quarter profit of $1.18 billion, its first profit in three years, largely due to a massive settlement with Intel. The $1.178 billion profit, or $1.52 per share, beat the analyst consensus estimate that had projected AMD to record a loss... |
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From CNET News.com: CNET published a story Wednesday morning headlined "Verizon ends service of alleged illegal downloaders." In it, Verizon spokeswoman Bobbi Henson was quoted saying the company has "cut some people off" after they were accused multiple times of illegal file sharing. That... |
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From DailyTech: Usually Microsoft is a pretty quick patcher. With over a billion users of Windows operating systems, both new and old worldwide, Microsoft is under tremendous pressure to patch security flaws in all of its current and past operating systems. However, every now and then one slips... |
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From DailyTech: Steam is a digital gaming delivery platform developed by Valve, makers of the Half-Life series of games. The system was developed not only to reduce losses caused by piracy, but also to reduce costs of shipping physical media and to reduce reliance on retailers. Gamers download the... |
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