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AMD launches dual-core Sempron CPUs in China (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - AMD has recently launched the first dual-core Sempron processors in China in a bid to counter Intel's dual-core Celeron product line in the entry-level market, according to sources at motherboard makers. AMD Sempron 2100+ processors adopt a 65nm process, and have a core frequency of 1.8GHz. Prici... |
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LG to replace 'explosive' notebook batteries (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - LG Electronics has offered free replacement batteries after two users claimed that their notebook PCs exploded. Despite the recall offer, LG has so far described the incidents as "isolated ". The partial recall applies to batteries manufactured by LG Chemical for two recent notebook models, th... |
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Intel Unveils Processors, Chipset For Embedded Market (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - Intel on Wednesday introduced five 45-nanometer processors and a chipset for the embedded market. In addition, the chipmaker is offering a 7-year support lifecycle for the new embedded processors, instead of the 5 years offered with previous products. The new processors and the 5100 Memory Contr... |
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Sony Introduces New Blu-ray Disc Players (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - Sony has announced its timeline for refreshing its Blu-ray Disc player line. At its product showcase today in Las Vegas, the company showed its BDP-S350 and BDP-S550 models. Sony showed prototypes at the International Consumer Electronics Show in January, but they didn't announce a timeline or m... |
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Nokia reveals flexible Morph phone (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - Nokia has built a flexible mobile phone using nanotechnology which the company says will become increasingly commonplace in the future. The Morph device can be used as a keyboard, then bent around the wrist and worn as a bracelet. The handset giant first touted the system five years ago and it... |
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MacBooks Get Multi-Touch and a Speed Bump (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - Apple today announced updates to the MacBook and MacBook Pro, adding the Multi-Touch trackpad first introduced on the MacBook Air last month. It works similar to the iPhone's touchscreen, letting users zoom in and out or rotate photos with simple finger motions, or swipe to simplify browsing in Safa... |
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Lenovo's Thin ThinkPad X300 Notebook Arrives (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - Lenovo officially announced the arrival of its much-anticipated ThinkPad X300 notebook computer on Tuesday, bringing to market the company's thinnest, lightest notebook to date and giving Apple's MacBook Air an ultra-thin competitor. Weighing in as low as 2.9 pounds, the ThinkPad X300 is about t... |
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Fujitsu latest to show 500GB laptop drive (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - Laptop computer storage is racing fast toward the 500GB level with Fujitsu becoming the third hard-disk drive maker to announce a drive at that capacity. Fujitsu is accomplishing this capacity by combining three disk platters -- the magnetically coated disks on which data is stored -- each with ... |
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Sony Refreshes Two Cyber-shot Cameras (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - Sony today announced two updates to its Cyber-shot camera line for 2008. The W300 and the H50 will replace the W200 and H9, respectively. The Cyber-shot W300 now sits atop the W series line, replacing the W200. Updates include a bigger LCD screen at 2.7 inches, a 13. |
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AMD not fazed by impending Nvidia 9600 launch (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - With the launch of Nvidia's first next-generation GPU, the GeForce 9600 GT, less than a day away (February 21), AMD has sent out a pre-emptive strike against the new competition, pointing out that AMD has, in its opinion, had cards offering similar, if not better, features on the market for the past... |
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Biostar launches GeForce 9-based card (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - Biostar Microtech International has announced the V9603GT52 graphics card featuring Nvidia's GeForce 9600 GT GPU. The 9600 GT offers 64 stream processors and a 256-bit frame buffer. The graphics card has an increased performance of 90% compared to the previous GeForce 8600 GTS, according to Biost... |
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Asustek delays launch of U2E laptop PC (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - Taiwan's Asustek Computer has delayed the launch of its 1.25 kilogram, battery-friendly U2E laptop so it can launch it along with a few other products, a company representative said Thursday. There is no problem with the launch of the laptop PC, which comes wrapped in either black or brown leath... |
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Sprint Launches Two Samsung Mobile Devices (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - Sprint this week refreshed its smartphone and mobile phone offerings with two new devices: the Samsung Ace for business travelers and the Samsung M520 for multimedia-hungry consumers. The Ace is a Windows Mobile 6 smartphone with quad-band capabilities for global use. It works overseas on CDMA a... |
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Dell launches Inspiron notebooks with 'Penryn' chip (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - Dell is now offering Inspiron notebook PCs with the Intel Core 2 Duo "Penryn" chip as an optional configuration. This is the first time that Dell has included the 45-nanometer processor as an option in the consumer-oriented Inspiron line. An Inspiron 1720 with a T9300 (2.5GHz, 6MB cache) process... |
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First GeForce 9 series GPU to be launched on Feb 21 (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - Nvidia is planning to launch its first GeForce 9 series graphics chip, the GeForce 9600 GT (G94), for the mid-range market on February 21, according to sources at graphics card makers. The 9600 GT adopts a 65nm process and is manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). The ... |
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Mozilla in talks with carriers about mobile Firefox (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - Mozilla is in informal talks with mobile operators about its mobile Firefox project, which the organization hopes will shake up the market as much as the introduction of the desktop browser did in 2004. "Mozilla's mission is to break open a closed market," said Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla's vice pr... |
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Guinness World Records Validates Longest Document Scan (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - The record for the longest document scan at nearly three quarters of a mile has been set and certified, scanner manufacturer Bowe Bell & Howell on Friday said. The Truper 3600, a low-volume production scanner, was used to scan a document measuring 3,875 feet. A Guinness World Records judge valid... |
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Will Lower-Priced Microsoft Vista Attract Business Users? (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - Microsoft is lowering the cost of its Windows Vista OS, sparking debate on whether a price slash will be enough to spur sales of the system, which is unpopular with some solution providers and business users. A full version of Vista Ultimate will sell for $319, down from $399, according to the c... |
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Microsoft: Windows XP Sometimes Faster Than Vista SP1 (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - Windows XP is faster than the new Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) in completing common consumer and business tasks on PCs coming out of sleep mode, but the differences are slight. The performance tests, conducted by Principled Technologies Inc. on Microsoft's behalf, showed that the older XP o... |
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PayPal warns: Steer clear of Apple's Safari browser (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - If you're using Apple's Safari browser, PayPal has some advice for you: Drop it, at least if you want to avoid online fraud. Safari doesn't make PayPal's list of recommended browsers because it doesn't have two important anti-phishing security features, according to Michael Barrett, PayPal's chie... |
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Google Readies Google Health (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - Having more or less recovered from Wall Street's infectious doubt about the health of its ad business earlier this week, Google on Thursday offered a glimpse of Google Health, its upcoming personal health records management service. "Google Health aims to solve an urgent need that dovetails with... |
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New Trojan Endangers Windows Mobile Devices (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team released an advisory warning to users about a Trojan that disables security applications on Microsoft Windows Mobile application installations. The malware affects Windows Mobile PocketPC devices, security experts say. Researchers at McAfee Avert Labs f... |
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Vista update detects counterfeit Windows (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - Yesterday Microsoft released a new update for Windows Vista via Windows Update - [url=http://support. microsoft. com/kb/940510]KB940510[/url]. This update, when installed, will detect certain software used to bypass Windows product activation. |
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Yahoo adds Digg-style 'Buzz' feature (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - Yahoo has added Digg-style functionality to its site that will pinpoint popular news stories and blog posts from across the internet based on user votes and search patterns. The Yahoo Buzz extension counts the 'BuzzScore' for news stories, videos, images and blog posts. Content with the most vote... |
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EU Hits Microsoft with Record Fine (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - The European Commission fined Microsoft a record 899 million euros ($1.35 billion) on Wednesday for defying sanctions imposed on the software giant for antitrust violations, far exceeding the original penalty. The Commission, executive arm of the European Union, has now fined Microsoft 1.68 billi... |
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Scammers launch 'out of office' spam (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - Spammers are increasingly using 'out of office' features in web-based email to relay junk messages, security experts warned today. McAfee Avert Labs reported several instances where spammers set up web-based email accounts and configured auto responders with spam messages. The scammers then se... |
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Internet Explorer 8: Beta to be launched (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - Microsoft will shortly make available the test version of Internet Explorer 8, which is set for final release in the first half of this year. The website ActiveWin has published the contents of a beta invitation that said Microsoft is nearing a launch date for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, which wi... |
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Microsoft Windows Live Services Suffer Global Outage (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - Microsoft on Tuesday said it's looking into reports of a possible service outage affecting East Coast users of its Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger, and Skydrive services. But the service outage could actually be much more widespread: If posters on Huliq.com forum are to be believed, the outage i... |
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Blu-ray Disc faces fight against downloads (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - Blu-ray Disc may have beaten out HD DVD as the high-definition optical disc format to replace DVDs, but it now faces a new test against Internet downloads, market researchers Gartner and iSuppli said. The two high-definition disc formats had battled for the past few years until Toshiba last week... |
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Ultimate Planet Earth Collection (Mar 01 2008 02:42 GMT) - Take a 13 hour DVD journey around our planet. No, you don't have to do it all at once. This 5 DVD, 11-part series is narrated by actress and conservationist Sigourney Weaver. By watching these movies you'll get to follow... |
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