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From X-bit Labs: Even though Blu-ray disc technology allows creating multi-layer high-capacity media that can store hundreds of gigabytes of data, the Blu-ray disc Association (BDA) claims officially that existing Blu-ray disc players will not be compatible with 100GB or 200GB BD... |
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From InfoWorld: Microsoft announced today that it will abandon its decades-old Works entry-level suite, and will instead offer a stripped-down, advertising-supported version of Microsoft Office 2010 on new PCs next year. Dubbed Office Starter 2010, the new edition will include only... |
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From PC World: Yahoo has opened the application floodgates to its home page, with hopes that external developers will soon build tens of thousands of programs that Yahoo.com's more than 330 million visitors will find useful. Although Yahoo announced its intention to do this last... |
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From CNET News.com: Apple on Thursday released an update for the iPhone operating system, bringing the current version of the OS to 3.1.2. According to notes accompanying the update, Apple fixed three bugs, which may not seem like a lot, but they are important. Among the changes is... |
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From CNET News.com: Yahoo is in the midst of a grand transition as a company, with a pending deal to sell its search assets to Microsoft in exchange for a healthy portion of the revenue generated by searches on Yahoo's pages. Yet some in the company seem a bit perturbed by talk that... |
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From DailyTech: Illogical suits and copyright enforcement are nothing new in the music industry. Rock musician John Fogerty was once forced to show a court that his song "The Old Man Down The Road" did not share the same chorus as "Run Through The Jungle" -- a song that he also... |
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From DailyTech: NVIDIA has temporarily halted development of its Nforce chipset line, as the legal issues between the graphics company and Intel continue to turn nasty. The graphics company plans to "postpone further chipset investments," possibly until a licensing disupte with... |
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From X-bit Labs: General purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) is a highly-discussed topic these days. Thanks to multi-core architecture, GPUs can process multi-threaded tasks much more rapidly than central processing units. But while GPGPU technologies provide a... |
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From X-bit Labs: In a rather surprising move, Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday announced the appointment of Thomas Seifert as chief financial officer. Prior to AMD, Mr. Seifert served as CFO in Qimonda, now insolvent maker of dynamic random access memory. Mr. Seifert succeeds... |
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