tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267718302011-12-15T10:07:53.175+07:00All Information You Need about Technology and Viruscronjobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00022460580872657631noreply@blogger.comBlogger6291100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26771830.post-1154269890977302822006-07-29T16:15:00.000+07:002006-07-30T21:31:31.030+07:00

For most computer users the term “spam” immediately conjures up the very negative image of unsolicited and annoying messages that inundate email boxes right across the globe. Spam has long become the scourge of the Internet, taking up a very large share of email communications and often being used to spread malware. For one artist from Romania, though, spam has become the inspiration for works of

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A study has found that almost all emails that are currently sent in the world are junk. In fact, more than 95% of all emails are either spam or error messages, or contain malware, a mail-monitoring firm has said. This means that junk mail has now taken up a much larger share of email traffic than in the not so distant past, when this number ranged between 70-80%. Email monitoring between June and

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Grow up 007!While some stores and businesses have cell phone recycling stations to drop off your old and worn cell phone which is then taken to a facility to be shredded or physically dismantled, Nokia is looking to a new method that could be more cost effective. Through research done at the Nokia Research Center in conjunction with three universities in Finland, is showcasing a prototype cell

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Catching up to Apple will require a lot of time and money says MicrosoftWhile Microsoft plans out its Zune strategy, Apple's ongoing success with the iPod and iTunes continue to grow on a daily basis. Analysts are expecting that Microsoft's new Zune portable media player will be an iPod-killer, but Microsoft says it's not going to be easy. During a financial analysts meeting, Microsoft president

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"Who said sit down!?"With Bill Gates slowly stepping away from his day-to-day activities as Microsoft's chief software architect, Steve Ballmer is seeing more of the spotlight shine on him as analyst and investors inquire about what direction the company will take in the coming years. At this month’s meeting with financial analysts in Microsoft’s home city of Redmond, Washington, it was Ballmer

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European Commission said a full investigation may followJust when we think that Blu-ray and HD DVD will start showing up in mass production, the two formats enter into more trouble, this time with the European Commission. According to reports, the European Commission believes that the companies that are backing each format may have licensing terms that breach European competition rules. The

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TW says CableCARDS can only be used in TV setsAn email response from a Time Warner representative has indicated to a user that TW is under no obligation to support TiVo devices and at the current time, TW will not support TiVo devices on its network. According to TW, TiVo devices harm the TW business and the company would rather users use CableCARDs with TV sets that are ready to accept them. The

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What's black and white and read all over... and blue and green and 4091 other colors?Hitachi and Bridgestone Corporation, who we all know for its tires, have taken their Albirey e-ink display and have added some color to the picture, literally.The first e-ink display, the Albirey, was a black and white display Hitachi and Bridgestone showed off not so long ago. Many thought this display would

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Look out Sunnyvale, look out Fishkill, here comes TehranParsé Semiconductor is a company relatively unknown to in the US, but the company may start making waves if its TACHRA processors take off. Parsé announced earlier this week that its TACHRA processor has been taped out at 180nm at TSMC.TACHRA is a V8 SPARC compatible processor based on Parsé's ARISTO architecture -- which is a 32-bit VHDL

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Smaller chips without wire interconnects are on the wayFor those familiar with ball-grid array (BGA) packaging, things may be about to change with the way we package processors. BGA, the nearly ubiquitous packaging for small mobile devices has a new competitor. Earlier this week, Freescale announced a new packaging technology called Redistributed Chip Packaging.Redistributed Chip Packaging is

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Availability of Core 2 Duo and reduced prices on Pentium DIntel officially lifted the performance NDA for its Conroe Core 2 Duo processors two weeks ago. While Core 2 Duo performed very well obtaining processors was a tad difficult. That was because the official Intel launch with retail availability was still set for July 27th, 2006. Now July 27th, 2006 has come and Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme

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Intel's Core architecture gets a makeover for notebooksIntel today announced a new range of Core 2 Duo processors for notebook computers. The Core 2 Duo processors build upon the successful dual-core Core Duo line that was launched earlier this year. Processors range from the 1.66GHz, 2MB T5500 on up through the 2.33GHz, 4MB T7600. All of the newly announced processors run on a 667MHz bus and run

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Core 2 Duo and SLI, a match made in heaven?NVIDIA has announced its SLI technology has made its way into enthusiast Core 2 Duo based systems from leading system builders. SLI equipped Core 2 Duo systems are available from gaming system manufacturers such as Alienware, Falcon Northwest and Voodoo PC. Other manufacturers include ABS, Alternate, Amax/Ajump, Atelco, Carri, Casper, CyberPower, Everest

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Here comes the first wave of Core 2 DuoIntel's Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme processors were announced two weeks ago with much fanfare from the hardware editors and the enthusiast community. Intel had brought a great-performing chip to the market that was faster than every processor currently available and was much cooler than its Pentium-D predecessor. Today, there were a slew of new desktops

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LG's sub 3-pound notebook packs in EVDO and a GeForce Go 7300 GPUIf you disregard the bikini-clad models for a moment, you would see that LG Electronics is showing a new 12.1" ultra-portable notebook for consumers. All we know at this time is that the LW25-EV comes equipped with a Core Duo T2400 processor, 1GB of DDR2 memory, a GeForce Go 7300 graphics processor, 3G EVDO connectivity and a DMB TV

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An update to the popular Firefox browser has been released that addresses a number of security issuesThe Mozilla Corporation yesterday released Firefox 1.5.0.5. The update corrects a number of security vulnerabilities, seven of which are labeled critical in Mozilla’s bug tracking software Bugzilla. Although the update is mainly a security update to the popular web browser, it also makes

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Trojan installs fake Firefox extension and reports collected data back to its serversAccording to Heise Security, computer security software company McAfee has issued a warning that a new Trojan, which disguises itself as a legitimate Firefox extension, is on the loose. The Trojan disguises itself as a legitimate extension called “numberedlinks” that adds numbers to links on web pages. The fake

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Sony's quarterly profits rise to 32.2 billion YenAfter suffering a 7.3 billion yen loss this time last year, Sony had a huge resurgence for this year's second quarter. The company saw its revenue climb 11% to 1.74 trillion yen while its profits topped 32 billion yen. The company cites a large uptick in its consumer electronics and Sony Pictures divisions for the increases.On the flip side, Sony's

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New MMC flash media based on Samsung's 8Gb NAND flash memory modulesSamsung Electronics announced today that it has taken the MMC card to a higher density and higher performance in a product line called MMCplus.The MMCplus flash memory cards are based on Samsung's 8Gb NAND flash memory that will alow it to hold up to 8GB of data on a single flash card. The 8GB version, along with the 1GB, 2GB,

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Samsung solid-state NAND hard drives will be cheaper than reported, more versatileEarlier today Samsung announced its 4GB solid-state NAND hard drives. The 1.8" and 2.5" devices will primarily be marketed for enthusiast and high-end desktops supporting Microsoft Windows Vista's ReadyBoost feature.TGDaily claims "Samsung confirmed to TG Daily that the SSD is likely to be priced below $200,"

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Easy, tigerATI just released the July Street News Flash, which was published in response to the recent news of an AMD takeover. There are just too many good quotes in this one, so we thought we'd just quote the whole news flash in its entirety:On ATI's Intel License: There is no truth to the rumor that Intel has pulled ATI's chipset license. We continue to ship Intel chipsets under license.On

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Mark Rein continues his discussion on what's wrong with the PC gaming industryThe last time we heard from Mark Rein, he was laying into Intel for the proliferation of "sub par" integrated graphics controllers on notebooks and desktops. He pointed at Intel's lack of motivation to design a graphics controller to rival NVIDIA or ATI has forced game developers to "dumb down" their games to cater to

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The launch of the first 4X Blu-ray drive is imminent, but features are not so outstandingThe word around the neighborhood is that Hitachi-LG will be launching the world's first 4x Blu-ray drive for the PC within the next few days in China.The GBW-H10N will be the first 4x recording drive that will be able to write not only to Blu-ray BD-R and BD-RE media but also to the standard DVD and CD

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If at first you don't succeed, try and try again until the FCC approves of a mergerAbout 6 years ago two of America's largest satellite media companies sought each other for a merger with no luck as the government would not approve a move to create a potential monopoly. 2006 has been quite a year in mergers and acquisitions and there has been a few hints on some more talks of DirecTV and EchoStar

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First Dell Direct store opens in Dallas, TX, another is planned for West Nyack, N.Y. later this year.Dell opened its first Dell Direct store yesterday in Dallas, TX and another is planned to open in West Nyack, NY later this year. The stores are focused on increasing the company’s direct to home sales and the stores will carry no inventory.Since no inventory is held at the facility, customers

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HDMI continues to pick up momentum over other standardsThe HDMI consortium announced earlier this month that it has reduced the licensing fees for using HDMI in devices from $15,000 per year down to $10,000 per year. Representatives from the organization said that the price reduction is designed to encourage companies to develop products that use the HDMI interface.The new price will go into

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A laptop per child takes a giant step towards realityAccording to a news release on Vanguard, the Nigerian government has ordered and fully paid for one million One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) notebooks. The order came through earlier this month and the Nigerian government hopes that the investment will encourage tech development and learning among its young citizens. The million-unit deal is the

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Doubling its software revenue and putting HP directly in front of BMC, CA and IBMFollowing a string of news on business acquisitions, HP announced this week that it agreed to buy Israeli-based Mercury Interactive Corp. for roughly $4.5 billion in stock. HP said that it will pay $52 per share in Mercury Interactive and the acquisition is aimed about expanding HP's business software portfolio.

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NAND flash market to hit $30B USD by 2010This week Intel and Micron announced that their joint memory company, IM Flash Technologies, produced the world's first NAND flash memory samples based on 50nm fabrication technology. The new memory is currently sampling out in 4Gbit devices. Both Intel and Micron said that they plan to ramp up production and mass produce a range of densities based on 50nm

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Customers voice concern over ThinkPad qualityThe ThinkPad brand of notebooks has been long synonymous with quality and reliability. Developed in 1992 at IBM under the guidance of Arimasa Naitoh, the ThinkPad quickly established itself as one of the most trusted line of notebooks. Since the sale of IBM's PC division to Lenovo in 2005, many have voiced concerns about whether or not Lenovo could

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Say goodbye to long application load timesSamsung is putting its high-speed NAND flash memory to good use with today's announcement of a 4GB solid state disk (SSD) which can be used in conjunction with traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) to increase I/O performance in Windows Vista. The flash SSD leverages Microsoft's new Windows ReadyBoost technology to improve system responsiveness and

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Customers with noisy MacBook Pro's get support from AppleApple has posted a support document advising users who are experiencing the now infamous whining issue with their MacBook Pro 15” models to contact AppleCare for service on their laptops. A number of users have complained that when their MacBook Pro warms up and the fan is active, the MacBook Pro will emit a high pitched whine.We have

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AMD shows off enthusiast platform performing "mega-tasking"AMD has been all over the news in the past week, first with its massive price cuts and second with its merger with ATI. In a bid to steal Intel’s quad-core limelight, AMD held a demonstration of its previously announced 4x4 enthusiast platform. The demo placed great emphasis on "mega-tasking," showing the 4x4 system running various

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The $100 notebook is to get a pull-string external generator and will be produced by QuantaWhen we last reported on the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) research initiative’s $100 laptop, the device had lost its hand crank which was to supply the unit with additional power when required. The laptop, looking very much like a production machine, sported USB ports, headphone and microphone jacks and a

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Bi-stable cholesteric display equipped flash drivesCorsair has launched a pair of new USB flash drives (PDF) equipped with displays. The new Flash Readout USB 2.0 Drives have bi-stable cholesteric displays that show disk space usage and a customizable 11 character alphanumeric display. A small pie-chart is used to show overall space usage while a 4-digit display shows available storage space. The

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ATI is still go for RD600Intel insiders have confirmed to ActivePanel that the license for ATI to manufacture chipsets for the Intel bus has not been revoked. ATI's board of directors recently approved a takeover bid from AMD which would make ATI a division of AMD if approved.A report on The Inquirer yesterday claims "ATI had its chipset bus license pulled, or at least not renewed by Intel."

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Mighty Mouse loses its tailApple has cut the cords off its Mighty Mouse. The Apple Mighty Mouse was released last year and was the first official Apple mouse to have more than one button. Yesterday, the FCC released news the Apple had passed the regulations to bring the mouse to market. While not as much of a feat in the two-button Windows world, the Apple Mighty Mouse was more than an official

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460PXn happens to be the first 46" LCDTargeted at the commercial and corporate space, Samsung is introducing two new displays that both have embedded versions of Windows XP. The SyncMaster 400PXn and 460PXn are standalone displays that do not require a computer to operate. In fact, the displays come preloaded with Microsoft Office document players and PowerPoint to create presentations on the

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What does the future hold for AMD and ATI?The AMD-ATI merger had been rumored for months. Many took it as wild speculation on a deal that would likely never come to fruition. Well, over the weekend the rumors became even more credible and yesterday AMD made the big announcement.FiringSquad has also completed an interview with AMD and in addition received some colorful commentary from NVIDIA's

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But it's still in beta and has a few bugsSkype today released a new version of its VoIP application for Mac that has support for video conferencing. DailyTech previously reported that an early version of Skype Video for Mac was leaked, but the Skype team quickly responded and informed that the leaked version contained a number of critical bugs. Today, a new version is available officially from

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The Mercury News puts Jen-Hsun Huang on the hot seatThe graphics industry was just turned on its head yesterday with the announcement that AMD was acquiring ATI Technologies. But while that news is of great significance, ATI rival NVIDIA has plans of its own when it comes to the future of graphics. Dean Takahashi of The Mercury News had the opportunity to interview Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of NVIDIA.

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Nintendo will replaced cracked DS LitesNintendo has acknowledged a flaw in the DS Lite that could leave some with a cracked case. Some DS Lite handhelds are showing cracks in the left hand side of the case near the hinge, just above the power connector. Nintendo claims the flaw is rare only affecting 0.02% of the total number of DS Lite handhelds shipped."This cosmetic issue in no way impacts the

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More product releases from AppleApple has submitted a filing with the FCC for the Bluetooth version of its single-button right-clickable mouse, the Mighty Mouse. The new mouse will be exactly the same as the current Mighty Mouse except for its wireless feature. The mouse comes with a single button that does both left-click and right-click duties. One omni-directional pointing ball in the middle

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Everything isn't perfect yet, but manufacturers are steadily improvingWith computer makers like Dell and network peripheral manufacturers like D-Link and Netgear releasing products based on the 802.11n draft standard, interest is starting to build for 100Mbps+ wireless network speeds. Back in April of this year, eWeek brought Linksys' WRT300N Wireless-N Broadband router and Netgear's RangeMax 240

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But there's still a chance Vista will be delayed againMicrosoft announced that it will spend roughly $900 million in sales and marketing initiatives to drive Windows Vista, Office 2007. During its financial results call, Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell said that his company will be spending roughly $450 million to market the three key products and another $450 to develop its sales team.According to

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Called the "M-Card"CableLabs announced this month that it awarded Motorola a qualification to produce CableCARD products. Motorola announced the M-Card, which is a multi-stream CableCARD that is compatible with both multi-stream CableCARD tuners and single-stream tuners. The M-Card is intended to give major digital cable operators a secure system to deploy high-definition services. From the press

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More large mergers and acquisitionsAccording to reports, Philips' semiconductor business is up for bids with three private equity teams that is expected to amount more than $10 billion. The reports said that Philips has just a few days to submit a final bid for its business. The company recently announced that it wanted to sell off its semiconductor business unit to focus more heavily on core

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"Torrenza" platforms and unified GPU/CPU processorsAMD announced the $5.4B USD takeover of ATI earlier today, but the new company is already making large plans for the future. Dave Orton, soon-to-be Executive Vice President of AMD's ATI Division, claimed that AMD and ATI would begin leveraging the sales of both companies by 2007. However, a slide from the AMD/ATI merger documentation has

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The waiting game continuesDell dropped the XPS 700 on gamers at the end of May backed with a 3.73GHz Pentium Extreme Edition dual-core processor and an NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP. At the time, Dell also offered up to 4GB of DDR2 memory, 1.5TB of storage and dual GeForce 7900 GTX graphics cards. That may have been a smokin’ system just a few months ago, but with the recent announcement of Intel's

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"Yeah. Uh, did you get that memo?"Sony is taking its fight to the streets in the ongoing portable gaming market. While Nintendo hold the lion's share of the market, Sony has a few tricks up its sleeve to make the PSP experience a better one for gamers.During Comic Con 2006 at Sony's PSP University in San Diego, the company announced that the PSP can be used as a remote for the upcoming

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The wait is over, ATI and AMD have sealed the dealThe official AMD-ATI announcement is still three hours away, but AMD sent the newswire out a few hours early. For those still in doubt, occasional ActivePanel blogger and T-Break Editor-In-Chief Abbas Jaffar Ali was able to sneak an image from the conference already; and a picture is worth a thousand words.AMD announced the deal is valued at

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Value pricing on all AMD productsAMD has officially cut prices on its product lineup. The price cuts are in line of what ActivePanel previously reported. AMD’s flagship Athlon 64 FX-62 has dropped down to $827 while the high-end Athlon 64 X2 5000+ is priced at a more affordable $310. Also previously reported, the Athlon 64 X2 4400+ and 4800+ for Socket 939 and AM2 platforms have been discontinued

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MadBoxPC has a leaked copy of the Catalyst 6.7 driverSpanish tech site MadBoxPC claims the new ATI drivers available for download (English). The new ATI Catalyst 6.7 driver package is WHQL certified and appear legitimate. It is the full 55MB driver package and includes Catalyst Control Center, ATI MCE Transcoder, ATI AVIVO Transcoder, ATI Display Driver, ATI MCE Encoder for All-in-Wonder graphics

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Zune will encompass PMPs and software applicationsIn what has been one of the worst kept secrets in the industry, Microsoft has finally confirmed the existence of Zune. However, with the confirmation also comes news that there will be multiple players and software products marketed under the name. "Today we confirmed a new music and entertainment project called Zune. Under the Zune brand, we will

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Reports claim a $5.6B deal is about to close on an unprecedented mergerAccording to a report in The Globe and Mail, the board of directors at AMD has allegedly approved the takeover of Canadian graphics firm ATI Technologies. The reports said that the information was released by an investment banker that was part of the discussions. According to other sources, AMD executives were also seen at

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Native quad-core en routeYesterday during AMD's Q2'06 earnings conference call, AMD's President and Chief Operating Officer Dirk Meyer recapped the long term plans for the company. Although the bulk of his comments were already stated in during the June AMD Analyst's Day, Meyer also added the tidbit that the company plans "to demonstration our next-generation processor core, in a native

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Ready or not, here comes GDDR4This week ATI sent an advisory out to its OEM partners announcing the details of the new Radeon X1950 and X1900 graphic cards. Both of these new cards are based on the same R580 core, but with some fundamental differences.R580, the 48 pixel-shader processor version of the R520 (Radeon X1800), was announced this past January. R580 features a robust memory controller

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New Samsung 17, 19 and 21" LCD'sSamsung has unveiled three new LCD displays. Two of the new LCD displays are catered towards the commercial and business markets. The new SyncMaster 740BX and 940BX are 17” and 19” LCD monitors, respectively. The 740BX and 940BX are virtually identical with the exception of size. Specifications of the 740BX and 940BX include a 1000:1 contrast ratio, 5ms response

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"Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers"Sony's PlayStation 3 has been in the news a lot in the past year. First there were issues with its Blu-ray support and then there were the reports on the console’s delay and finally the fallout from the $499/$599 pricing structure. Well, it appears that that high price of entry is not only turning away potential buyers, but also developers.Sony has

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AN9 32X and Fatal1ty AN9 32X motherboards recalled for quality issuesUniversal Abit has issued a recall on its AN9 32X nForce 590 SLI based motherboards. The recall affects AN9 32X and Fatal1ty AN9 32X motherboards. After detailed quality control testing Universal Abit found hardware issues with the boards that can cause overheating. This is due to improperly installed heatsinks that can get

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Modest estimates claim that India will have up to 40 million bloggers by 2010It was reported two days ago that the Indian government decided to block access to popular blogging web sites. There was no clear reason why the ban was put into effect by the government. After several days, Internet service providers have been told by the Indian government to stop blocking weblogs on sites such as

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Asustek threatens legal action over incorrect reports on PS3 developmentsOn July 19th, DigiTimes picked up on news that Asustek had commenced shipments of Sony's PlayStation 3 console. DigiTimes cited Apple Daily and the Commercial Times; both Chinese-language publications. According to those reports, Asustek had begun shipping the units in early July and the beginning allotment was supposed to

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Activision is the latest company to be in trouble over options grantingAn Activision regulatory filing has revealed that one of the company's shareholders is suing Activision because of its stock option grant practices. Ryan Vazquez, the disgruntled shareholder, also alleges in the lawsuit that Activision "colluded to improperly backdate dozens of grants of Activision stock options" to a number

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The company developed 12 internal principles to abide byStill feeling the pinch of the EU's decision to fine $357 million, Microsoft this week released a formal pledge, a list of 12 rules that the company said it will abide by, in order to facility healthy competition in the software market. Microsoft said that it will comply by the self-imposed rules, as well as comply with industry and

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NVIDIA enters the midrange AGP graphics marketActivePanel previously reported the GeForce 7600GS AGP was confirmed and expected to arrive soon. The GeForce 7600GS AGP has arrived at retailers such as Newegg and Chief Value. eVGA is the first manufacturer to have a GeForce 7600GS AGP based graphics card at the moment. Specifications of the 7600GS AGP is identical to the PCI Express version.400MHz

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Production QUAD SLI ready for August 3, 2006NVIDIA yesterday made a new quad-SLI driver available to end users that allow the use of two GeForce 7950 GX2 graphics cards in one system. The driver is currently in beta mode and NVIDIA said that it did not recommend the use of the driver in production systems, but only for end user beta testing -- one test that is quite expensive, requiring the

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SanDisk ratchets up the speeds on its Extreme seriesSanDisk has announced the world's fastest CompactFlash (CF) cards for professional photographers with its Extreme IV series. The new 2GB, 4GB and 8GB Extreme IV CF cards can deliver read and write speeds of up to 40MB/sec and can operate in temperatures of minus 13 degrees F to 185 degrees Fahrenheit.The company also released a new Extreme

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Novell is banking on SUSE Linux to help turn the company aroundNovell has announced the availability of the SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 operating system for servers and desktops. Novell plans on shipping the OS on Monday, which is going to be the first full release of SUSE Linux since the summer of 2004. The latest version of SUSE is said to be more user friendly than past versions of the

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"Tulsa," "Merom," "Kentsfield" and "Clovertown" moved upYesterday during Intel's Q2'06 earnings report, Intel CEO Paul Otellini revealed that Intel has moved up its launch schedule for quad-core processors to Q4 2006 instead of Q1 2007 as originally announced by Intel in roadmaps and public relations.Otellini claimed "We notified customers that we're pulling in both a desktop and server of the

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SLI for low power instead of high performanceLaptop Logic has scored some insider information on the one of the projects brewing in NVIDIA's secret labs. According to sources close to the company, NVIDIA is working on a new kind of SLI technology for notebook designs. Instead of pairing two identical GPUs for increased performance, NVIDIA is going for a pairing of integrated and discrete GPUs for

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NVIDIA to land possible deal with AppleYou never know when to believe analysts these days, but sometimes they strike gold when it comes to areas concerning tech. Today, we hear word that NVIDIA has been selected by Apple to provide video acceleration for Apple's next generation video iPod.Ever since PortalPlayer got the boot from Apple, many players in the market have been jockeying for position

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Bluetooth handsfree using car speakers and an integrated microphoneSony has announced its MEX-BT5000 car stereo head unit. The Sony MEX-BT5000 is a head unit with integrated Bluetooth technology designed to sync up with mobile phones. This allows the MEX-BT5000 to download up to 50 phone contacts and six speed-dial numbers from cellular phone devices. With the numbers downloaded drivers can flip

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LEDs offer a brighter picture over standard colorwheel and lamp designsSamsung Electronics has launched its LED-based DLP high-definition television, the HL-S5679, which promises a brighter picture along with a longer life than the standard UHP lamps used in previous models.The standard Samsung DLP sets used a UHP lamp and a colorwheel to project light onto the tiny mirrors which proved to be

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AMD moves away from Alchemy and Geode, but hints at more powerful embedded solutionsAccording to several reports, AMD announced that it will be closing down its embedded microprocessor design facility in Longmont, Colorado. Back in 2003, AMD purchased the facility from National Semiconductor that was working on a system-on-chip processor families. These original Geode embedded processors were x86

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Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 compatible with gyration technologyDell’s latest XPS M2010 is a stylish desktop system that walks a very thin line of being a desktop or laptop. Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 is the default operating system on XPS M2010 systems. A regular Microsoft Media Remote is bundled with XPS M2010 systems which doesn’t exactly match the stylish nature of the XPS

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TiVo says "soon" but no new date has been setAccording to a filing with the FCC, TiVo is currently in the final stages of testing its Series3 DVR set top box. The filing indicated that the new Series3 is already in the hands of several select consumers across the country.The new Series3 from TiVo is a dual CableCARD tuner, capable of supporting two independent single stream UDCP CableCARD hosts.

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Kernel expert Mark Russinovich becomes a Microsoft Technical FellowMicrosoft announced this week that it has acquired Windows utility and recovery company Winternals. The exact details of the deal were not disclosed, but Microsoft and Winternals say that the expertise in data recovery, management and protection exhibited by Winternals software was something that Microsoft had been keeping an eye

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Intel badge engineering at its finestActivePanel has received a roadmap outlining Intel’s entry-level single processor workstation and server plans. Intel will be pushing two platforms this time around: Kyloway and Kaylo.Intel’s Wyloway workstation platform is based around the Intel 975X Express chipset. Intel also positions the 975X Express as a premium chipset for its consumer platform. Wyloway

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"Rydermark developers" make bold claims which turn out to be nothing more than a Photoshop hoaxIt would appear The Inquirer was quick to jump the gun on a story accusing NVIDIA of lying about full DirectX 9 support. The story accused NVIDIA of not allowing developers to use 24-bit or 32-bit shader precision. Instead it claims NVIDIA forces developers into using 16-bit shader precision as the

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India is requiring ISPs to block access to Blogspot, Typepad and Geocities among othersAccording to an article in today’s Wall Street Journal the Indian government has decided to block access to a number of popular blogging websites. According to the article and recent coverage from BoingBoing, India’s Department of Telecommunications sent an order to the countries ISPs to block user access to

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Samsung quadruples NAND density in less than a monthSamsung continues its advancements in the area of flash memory development with today's announcement of 8Gb NAND flash memory devices. The new high density multi-level-cell (MLC) memory is based on a 60nm manufacturing process and allows a 25% increase in production output compared to 70nm designs.This latest advancement allows Samsung to offer

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Standalone DVD video recorders for the less technically inclinedSony has released two new DVDirect standalone video recorders—the VRD-VC30 and VRD-MC3. The new DVDirect standalone video recorders can record video from a variety of video sources including Composite, S-Video, Firewire and USB to DVD-R and DVD+R discs. Supported Firewire devices include camcorders and digital video recorders for

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A more cost effective Blu-Ray disc recorderSony has released its BWU-100A Blu-ray disc drive for computer systems. The BWU-100A is a standard 5.25" PATA disc drive with playback and recording support for Blu-ray discs. Playback of Blu-ray movies will be supported with the BWU-100A, however, an HDCP compliant graphics card and display is required to playback protected AACS content. A high

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Intel's latest roadmap talks of WWAN for its Santa Rosa platform in Q2 07Intel's Santa Rosa platform is shaping up to be quite a technology tour de force. We already know that Santa Rosa will feature Robson technology which incorporates flash memory into the motherboard to increase application performance and decrease boot/resume times. Santa Rosa will also feature a new network chip called

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Microsoft talks up the problems with Blu-ray discsIn its continued campaign against Sony and its Blu-ray next generation DVD format, Microsoft is once again touting the benefits of HD DVD over Blu-ray. And according to a recent podcast by Microsoft's Larry Hyrb, there was once a time when Microsoft was actively involved with both standards before taking a hard stance on HD DVD.Microsoft Vice

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$399 for a 30GB ZuneThe Zune info just keeps pouring and this time we're getting additional details from Digital Music News. The publication has seen various presentation materials sent to Microsoft partners which shed some more light on the portable media player that everyone seems to be talking about these days.According to the materials, Microsoft will initially be targeting Zune at young

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Piracy is not a business model Microsoft saysIn an effort to crack down on software piracy, Microsoft this week filed 26 lawsuits against resellers, alleging that many of them sell pirated versions of Windows and other Microsoft software. Microsoft filed the suit across several states and said that it found unlicensed software on many computer systems.Mary Jo Schrade, a senior attorney at

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Microsoft says Vista will be the most secure Windows everDespite all the interim releases of Windows Vista, Symantec has come out and said in a report that Windows Vista is very likely to be less secure when it ships than Windows XP is today. According to Symantec, it already has discovered many security flaws within Vista that have to do with networking. Symantec says that it's Vista's large

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Rambus may still receive $133M USD opposed to the $307M originally agreed upon, but the company is far from done fighting lawsuitsEarlier this year Rambus won a staggering $307M USD civil award against Hynix claiming the company infringed on its intellectual property. Specifically, Rambus claimed that Hynix used techniques for producing memory that were proprietary to Rambus. On Friday morning,

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Pentium D, Pentium 4 and Celeron D value pricingActivePanel has come across an Intel roadmap that reveals more Intel price cuts for October 2006. Intel’s previous launch of Core 2 Conroe processors brought drastic price cuts to a couple of Pentium D models, mainly the 945, 915, 820 and 805.Recently released Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme products will not be receiving any price cuts in the near

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Intel wants HDMI, ICH9 and picoBTX on its 2007 motherboardsActivePanel previously reported on Intel’s upcoming Bearlake, the successor to the current Broadwater 965 chipset lineup. Intel’s latest Desktop Board roadmap reveals nearly a dozen upcoming motherboards based on the upcoming Bearlake chipset. The boards are still in early development stages but do reveal quite a bit of information about

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Intel adds one more ultra-low voltage "Yonah"Intel's U2500 Core Duo Yonah processor was released just a few weeks ago. The chip marked Intel's first attempt at a dual-core ultra low-wattage CPU, and has thus far made quite a splash in the x86 world. So much so that Intel has decided to release an even lower wattage version, the U2400.The dual-core 65nm Yonah-based U2400 features a 1.06GHz clock

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A surprise or not, there is no 975X replacementAlthough some people had expected a surprise Intel 985X motherboard chipset announcement, it looks like it was not meant to be. In fact, it seems the whole concept of "high-end" nearly one-off chipsets from Intel is dead in the water.The most recent Intel roadmap revealed that Intel has no plans to produce a high-end "extreme" chipset through at

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Believe it or not, there's still more "Conroe" madnessThe official embargo for most things Conroe came and went, but it appears there is still one more card Intel hasn't played yet. The newest Intel roadmap has added a bin-5 Conroe processor, the Core 2 Duo E4300.E4300 is clocked at 1.8GHz and has two megabytes of L2 cache. Unfortunately, the processor lacks VT and vPro extensions, and also

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Another interim release goes to testersMicrosoft today released another interim build of its soft-delayed Windows Vista operating system. The latest build offers a host of improvements over the previous 5456 build including improved NVIDIA driver performance in Windows Media Center. According to Bink.nu, there will also be improvements made to the performance of this build compared to earlier

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AMD Mobile Turion and Sempron price cuts and moreAMD is expected to announce price cuts on October 23rd, 2006 for its complete mobile processor lineup. The price cuts affect Turion 64 X2 dual-core Socket S1 and Sempron Socket S1 and 754 mobile products. Desktop replacement catered Athlon 64 X2 and Athlon 64 will not receive any price cuts after the scheduled July 24th, 2006 price cut.However, a

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This is a public service announcement, there will be no price cuts on October 23rd, 2006ActivePanel previously reported AMD was planning a major CPU price cut a couple days after Intel ships Core 2 Duo Conroe processors. Those expecting AMD to announce another price cut in time for the holiday season will be disappointed. Now we have received an updated price list for October 23rd, 2006 that

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Dell's new 802.11n adapter offers transfer speeds of up to 270MbpsActivePanel reported a month ago that Dell was scheduled to use the 802.11n draft standard in its notebooks starting in Q3. Well, today the company is launching its Dell Wireless 1500 Draft 802.11n dual-band wireless card. The wireless cards will be available in select XPS and Inspiron notebooks systems.According to Dell, when

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Smaller than a grain of rice and requires no battery powerHP has developed a chip smaller than a single grain of rice that's able to store 512KB and transmit and receive information using Wi-Fi standards at 10Mbit/sec. Measuring 2-4mm square, HP said that its new chip is far superior to current Bluetooth or RFID standards. Although the new chip is roughly two years away from being complete, HP

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This new processor is, in a word, fast.The tech market has been buzzing for months, anticipating Intel's next processor launch. The industry's worst-kept secret is out: Intel's Core 2 Duo processor (formerly Conroe) is here—finally. Perhaps, Intel couldn't contain itself. After all, who wouldn't be boastful: this new processor is, in a word, fast.How Fast Is It?The anticipation surrounding this

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