StarCraft II Beta Extended until June 7
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From Tom's Hardware: It may feel like forever until July 27 but there's good news for those of you taking part in the StarCraft II beta: Blizzard is extending the current phase for an extra week. That means seven more days before the beta shuts down for an unspecified amount of time... |
Nvidia Unleashes GeForce GTX 465 Graphics Card: Fermi for $279
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From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. on Monday added its third Fermi-architecture consumer graphics card into the GeForce lineup. The new graphics card will cost below $300 and will be based on the substantially cut-down code-named GF100 graphics chip. Based on performance tests’ results... |
Apple sells 2 million iPads in under two months
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From InfoWorld: Apple has now sold more than two million iPad tablets, it said Monday, less than two months after the iPad's April 3 U.S. launch. On May 28, Apple started selling the iPad in nine other countries: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland... |
Google Ditches Microsoft's Windows Over Security Issues, Report Claims
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From PC World: Google employees are slamming Microsoft's Windows operating system, claiming security vulnerabilities in the OS left the company open to Chinese hackers in January 2010, a new report says. According to the Financial Times, Google will ditch the internal use of Windows... |
Adobe reveals magazine iPad-izer software
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From CNET News.com: The Flash Player may be banned from the iPad, but that's not keeping Adobe Systems from other efforts to leave its mark on the Apple devices. The latest development: new viewer software announced Monday that lets publishers create splashy digital versions of their... |
HP to cut 9,000 jobs, take $1 billion charge
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From CNET News.com: Hewlett-Packard is spending $1 billion and cutting 9,000 jobs in a restructuring designed to consolidate and invigorate its enterprise services. The company announced Tuesday that it plans to spend the money to invest in a series of commercial data centers that... |
Intel Plans 50-core HPC Chip; Knight's Corner Will Use 22nm process
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From DailyTech: The High Performance Computing market is a small but profitable one. Corporations and research institutions are willing to pay a premium if their research and modeling can be sped up using new technologies. One of the more recent innovations has been the use of... |
Intel Talks Canoe Lake Platform and Oak Trail CPUs at Computex
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From DailyTech: Intel has bemoaned the fact that netbooks were not as profitable for it or computer makers for a while now. Despite the fact that the company would rather sell more expensive Core-based CPUs for full notebooks, the netbook market has boomed and Intel has offered a... |
Articles Roundup: May 30, 2010
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