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1. AMD culls Phenoms

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... only the Phenom II X4 900 series which has been axed. AMD will also stop taking orders for several Phenom II X4 800, X3 700, X2 500, Athlon II X4 600, X3 400 series CPUs next year. This will leave the ...

2. Apple iPhone released in China at high price tag

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   ... $500 more than a similar package in the USA. The price tag is likely to make the iPhone popular only with the super rich - there are many smartphones available in China which cost considerably less.  ...

3. Sony, Philips get wrists slapped very lightly over storage monopoly

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... a not very severe ticking off for behaving monopolistically in the recordable media market.Sony got fined NT$1 million ($30,739), Philips NT3.5 million ($107,586.37) and Japanese firm Taiyo Yuden NT$500,000 ...

4. WiMAX far from dead in Taiwan

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   ... used international roaming on the net.Ron Resnick, president and chairman of the WiMAX Forum, said: "Roaming is important to operators today, as there are more than 500 WiMAX deployments in more than 145 ...

5. Apple refreshes iMac lineup with 21.5 and 27-inch displays

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... memory and a 320GB hard drive. Finally, Apple introduced a $1,000 Mac Mini that is specially configured with Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server and two 500GB hard drives. Mac Book The Mac Book received ...

6. AMD optimizes Athlon II processors for Windows 7

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... and entertainment performance in comparison to the Intel Core 2 Duo E8500. Barry also noted that AMD was "well positioned" for the official debut of Windows 7. "It was important for AMD to get in front ...

7. The Delusions of IT Startups

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   ... information about companies that are, in most cases still in or barely out of beta with their products (or features). In fact, its own product is still in beta. Most helpful is its YouNoodle 500 list, ...

8. Gartner veep outlines Windows 7 migration costs

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... 7 assume that a 2,500 user organization where users have admin access to their PCs would have about 250 apps that need to be tested. If we assume an average of 10 apps per PC and that 15 percent need to ...

9. Can the Palm Pre knock the iPhone off its perch?

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   ... 500 texts and unlimited wi-fi for £34.26. Eighteen-month tariffs are also available, with the 8GB Pre priced at £96.89 for breaking off the relationship early. Not too far off the iPhone 3G deals, but ...

10. 'World's biggest crater' discovered

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... Shiva's outer rim forms a rough, faulted ring some 500km across, encircling a central peak, known as the Bombay High - about three miles tall from the ocean floor. Most of the crater lies submerged on ...

11. "We're through the recession," says Google

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... 30 percent of the total, up seven percent on last year. The company has been tightening its belt over the last two quarters, cutting its headcount by about 500. As a result, profits for the quarter ...

12. Win a $500 Nokia N97

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Omio is holding a Halloween competition and all you have to do is enter your scariest video or picture to win the prize.Omio is holding a Halloween competition and all you have to do is enter your scariest ...

13. Mac users cast into outer darkness

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... to the Bible was made, but it has to be about 1,500 years ago, so don’t hold your breath for the next one. Glo is a snip at just $89.99 and launches today. But only in the US. And only in English. Mac ...

14. Atom microarchitecture buoys Intel revenue

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... "ideas" would utilize advanced NAND Flash and SSD technology. See Also Intel reverses semiconductor recession Intel: Xeon 5500 servers are "cash machines" Is Intel's Atom really the future? ARM ...

15. Sun and Fujitsu upgrade SPARC processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Oracle is "committed" to SPARC architecture Intel: Xeon 5500 servers are "cash machines"  ...

16. Poke lands Facebook user in court

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... and will produce them in court. Jackson could face a year in jail and a fine of up to $2,500 if she is found guilty. She'll appear in court later this month.    ...

17. Radio waves used to see through walls

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... a moving person or object. The devices transmit radio waves at powers 500 times less than a typical cell phone. In their experiments, the team obtained radio signal strength measurements from all the ...

18. European VCs bin majority of entrepreneurs' business plans

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... he received 1,500 business plans a year but they're all consigned to the trashcan. He said these business plans were full of "bullsh*t" and were a "complete waste of time". He said: "I don't care if we ...

19. Free Software Foundation goes mad

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    ... a letter to the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies including that most open and unmonopolistic of them all, Apple, which was no doubt received with as much amusement and derision as it was when it landed ...

20. Gateway takes on Apple's iMac

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... X4500HD Graphics4GB DDR2 dual channel memory (800MHz)750GB SATA hard drive 8x DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti optical drive Multi-in-one digital media card readerIntegrated 802.11 b/g/DRAFT-N Wi-Fi10/100/1000 (Gigabit) ...

21. Cisco expands management from 10 to 2,500 people

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Mohsen Moazami, VP of Cisco's internet business solutions group, told the Etre conference today that it has devolved its management from 10 top stars 10 years ago to 2,500 to 3,000 people now.Mohsen Moazami, ...

22. Intel: Xeon 5500 servers are "cash machines"

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Former Intel CTO Pat Gelsinger once predicted that Nehalem-based Xeon 5500 servers would act as "cash machines" for the IT industry. Although Pat recently left the company to pursue other opportunities ...

23. Top 13 reader comments revealed

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... bones in the earth 3000 years ago. How else could they have been put there? Did the Buddha put them in there 500 years before Jesus? Where the heck was Vishnu and Shiva at this time?11. [Bonus item] SCREW ...

24. Fat used to generate stem cells for heart conditions

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... using a person's bone marrow to obtain stem cells. Coronary artery disease is the biggest killer worldwide - and over 500,000 people in the USA have heart bypass surgery each year. ...

25. World’s largest windfarm breezes into Texas

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... and Siemens. "Completing the world's biggest wind farm took more than a billion dollar investment, coordination with more than 300 landowners and management of more than 500 workers," North American ...

26. Microsoft finally gets anti-malware right

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... is a 500MHz CPU and 1GB of RAM, while under Windows 7, the memory footprint is a commendably-compact 4MB A glance at the screenshots shows the UI is pretty uncluttered and elegant while offering excellent ...

27. Apocalypse anytime you want

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... the fact that boasts no fewer than six contra-rotating rotors. The X6 isn't by any stretch of the imagination cheap, however. An entry-level system will set you back around £12,500 courtesy of Air2air which ...

28. €5K cellphone has concierge on call

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... it's compatible with any operator. It's available round the world from this week, with prices between €4,900 and €6,500.  ...

29. Dell unveils five Alienware gaming rigs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... boasts a mobile Core i7 processor, along with a 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M GPU and up to 8GB DDR3 1333MHz memory. Prices start at $1,500.  ...

30. Toshiba targets high-end gamers with Qosmio X500

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Toshiba has unveiled a laptop targeted at high-end gamers and multimedia enthusiasts. The Qosmio X500 - which is powered by Intel's new Intel Core i7 processor - features a 18.4-inch diagonal widescreen ...

31. SGI introduces Octane III 'personal' supercomputer

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... analytics, rendering, visualization and CAD. The Octane III has a base price of $8,000 and is available in the following configurations: Ten dual-socket, Quad-Core Xeon 5500 One dual-socket, Quad-Core ...

32. 2TB SSDs released

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... can run up to 500MB/s read speed and up to 470MB/s write speed. ...

33. First rocky exoplanet is identified

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... planet, dubbed Corot-7b, orbits a rather unremarkable star, now known as Corot-7. It's located towards the constellation of Monoceros (the Unicorn) at a distance of about 500 light-years. Slightly smaller ...

34. Atheists get more dates online

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... devout compatriots. The company analyzed how certain key words affected the chances of a positive response to over 500,000 first contacts. It found that there were a number of clear turn-offs. Around ...

35. Porsche to build hybrid car

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... already have 4,500 orders for the Panamera, most of them from customers who have not even seen the car yet," said Macht.  ...

36. Euro phone operators agree to auto crash alert system

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... country. According to EU figures, the system is expected to save some 2,500 lives a year across Europe and reduce severe injuries by at least 10 percent. The initiative concerns only new autos and the ...

37. New Hubble instruments take dramatic images

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... portrait of the universe to reveal for the first time infant galaxies that existed when the universe was less than 500 million years old. Other planned observations will attempt to shed light on the ...

38. Why play a plastic guitar when you can have a real one?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    ... love for music, musical instruments and guitars in particular, which is my excuse for owning nine of them. They're not terribly exotic - the most expensive costing around $1,500 - but I love them all dearly. ...

39. Merger creates new UK mobile leader

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... employs 12,500 people in the UK, while T-Mobile has 6,500 staff. It is likely that both brands will continue separately for at least 18 months after the deal is completed, but that they will eventually ...