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NOTBBC - The Sports Forum
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Olympics Closing Ceremony (Aug 31 2004 07:59 GMT) - Last post by Dave le Freak on 00:15 30/Aug/04 - Weird as fuck or what? Loads of it was clearly the product of an all night session, however the handover to Beijing was quite spoectacularly done. |
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marketing, good old new economy (Aug 31 2004 07:58 GMT) - früher war alles besser. da wurde noch so richtig geblubbert: also wer glaubt von neun bis achtzehn uhr einen job zu suchen, der ist bei uns auf keinen fall richtig... innnovation und marktorientierung ist das was heute gefragt ist... |
TechConnect Magazine :: Est 1997
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Apple fans abuzz over new iMac (Aug 31 2004 07:58 GMT) - With Apple Computer's next iMac expected to be unveiled as soon as next week, Mac fan sites are buzzing with speculation over the design. Photos supposedly taken in a Paris airport elevator hit the Web on Thursday, fueling rumors that the new machine will be similar to Apple's new line of flat-panel displays, with the guts of the computer behind the LCD screen. The photos--which have not been verified as authentic--show a slim all-in-one computer inside the familiar Apple packaging, down to the signature black-and-white box. (After this story originally ran, Web sites such as Engadget declared the photos a hoax. Thanks goes to CNET News. |
TechConnect Magazine :: Est 1997
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Will XP update give tablets a boost? (Aug 31 2004 07:58 GMT) - After nearly two years on the market, makers of tablet PCs based on Windows XP Tablet PC Edition have yet to prove that the pen is mightier than the keyboard. But manufacturers are hopeful that Tablet PC Edition 2005, a new version of the operating system unveiled last week, will mark a turning point by making tablets easier to use. Tablets are laptop-like portable computers that allow people to jot down notes using a pen and a touch-sensitive screen. They can convert handwriting into typed text and sketches into image files. But sales of devices based on Windows XP Tablet PC Edition have been lukewarm since the introduction of the operating system in November 2002. |
TechConnect Magazine :: Est 1997
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Update for Windows XP (KB838989) (Aug 31 2004 07:58 GMT) - When you connect a Pocket PC handheld device to a USB 2.0 hub or turn off the device and then turn it back on while the device is still connected to the USB 2.0 hub, Windows may not redetect the device. This problem may also occur with other USB devices that have pending transfers if the device is disconnected and then reconnected, or if the device is turned off and then turned back on while it is still connected to the USB 2.0 hub. |
TechConnect Magazine :: Est 1997
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Intel Drives Moore's Law Forward With 65 Nanometer Process Technology (Aug 31 2004 07:58 GMT) - A significant milestone in developing next-generation chip manufacturing technology has been achieved by Intel Corporation. The company has built fully functional 70-megabit static random access memory (SRAM) chips with more than half a billion transistors using the world's most advanced 65 nanometer (nm) process technology. The achievement extends Intel's effort to drive the development of new manufacturing process technology every two years, in accordance with Moore's Law. The transistors in the new 65nm (a nanometer is one-billionth of a meter) technology have gates (the switch that turns a transistor on and off) measuring 35nm, approximately 30 percent smaller than the gate lengths on the previous 90nm technology. For comparison, about 100 of these gates could fit inside the diameter of a human red blood cell. |
TechConnect Magazine :: Est 1997
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Foundertech Selects ATI’s RADEON® 9100 PRO IGP for New Consumer PC (Aug 31 2004 07:58 GMT) - ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX: ATY, NASDAQ: ATYT), the performance leader for integrated graphics, today announced that Foundertech has selected the RADEON® 9100 PRO IGP as the platform technology for its new XINRUI T2000 desktop PC. Designed for home consumer use, the T2000 desktop PC provides users with a broad range of high performance components combined with the industry’s fastest integrated 3D graphics processor. |
TechConnect Magazine :: Est 1997
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AMD to demonstrate dual-core chips (Aug 31 2004 07:58 GMT) - Aiming to deflate archrival Intel, Advanced Micro Devices this week will show off its dual-core chips, which will start to trickle out toward the middle of next year. AMD on Tuesday will show off a Hewlett-Packard ProLiant server with four dual-core Opteron chips at a facility in Austen, Texas, bringing the functional number of chips in four-processor servers to eight. "When you load Microsoft (Server 2003), it shows up as eight processors," said Marty Seyer, vice president and general manager of the microprocessor business unit at AMD. The chip "taped out"--semiconductor shop talk meaning that the design was completed--in June, and AMD recently produced the samples that will be displayed in Austin, Seyer added. Read the entire article at CNET News. |
TechConnect Magazine :: Est 1997
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Cell phones could keep atomic time (Aug 31 2004 07:58 GMT) - Atomic clocks may be headed into cell phones, thanks to a breakthrough by federal researchers. Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated the heart of an atomic clock that's believed to be a hundredth the size of any other atomic clock, NIST said Monday. The development opens the door to more precise timekeeping in portable, battery-powered devices for secure wireless communications, more precise navigation and other applications, according to NIST. The clock's inner workings are about the size of a grain of rice, consume less than 75 thousandths of a watt, and are so stable that just one second every 300 years is gained or lost. The "physics package" of the clock, which includes a laser and atomic vapor, could be made on semiconductor wafers using current techniques for producing micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), NIST said. |
TechConnect Magazine :: Est 1997
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Switching to Linux picks up steam (Aug 31 2004 07:58 GMT) - About a third of businesses plan to migrate at least some Windows machines to Linux, according to a recent survey, but adoption will continue to be both slow and cautious, as companies evaluate a maze of economic factors. In a report on total cost of ownership for the Linux, Unix and Microsoft Windows operating systems, research company The Yankee Group found that only 4 percent of businesses planned to migrate Unix servers to Linux within the next two years. A total of 11 percent intended to move Windows servers to Linux, while 21 percent proposed to add Linux servers to a predominantly Windows environment. On the desktop, 36 percent of businesses expected to have a few Linux PCs in their business, but only 5 percent planned a total migration to Linux. A majority--57 percent--planned no changes for Windows on the desktop. |
TechConnect Magazine :: Est 1997
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Longhorn Delay Stirs Dismay, Delight in Developers (Aug 31 2004 07:58 GMT) - Developer reaction to Microsoft's decision to hold off on delivering planned parts of the next release of Windows Longhorn to meet the 2006 deadline has been mixed, with many calling it a prudent move and others outright upset by the decision. Microsoft Corp. on Friday announced it would be making key elements of the Windows WinFX developer platform in Longhorn available for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Microsoft will deliver the WinFS Windows storage subsystem after the release of Longhorn, the company said. Meanwhile, Microsoft will be delivering its new presentation subsystem, code-named Avalon, and the new communication subsystem, code-named Indigo, for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 in 2006, the company said. |
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