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1. Phoenix ties knot with Samsung for "instantly on" notebooks

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... boot in the background while you are able to surf the web, check email or access Facebook until it boots up. It also connects to the best network available wherever you are. Samsung said it plans to deliver ...

2. WiMax in Las Vegas now, coming to Macs on August 17

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   ... is also a new software that will enable Macs to connect to Clearwire’s WiMax network as well as a new 4G/3G hybrid modem that will be offered beginning next month. Las Vegas (NV) – Clearwire today announced ...

3. NEC, Renesas combine will outsource chip production

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   NEC Electronics will merge with giant Renesas next April but already there's plans to outsource more and more semiconductor production.NEC Electronics will merge with giant Renesas next April but already ...

4. The death of the netbook

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

   ... to an embedded product than a full OS. They were initially targeted at kids and the education market and they were intended to be wirelessly connected to a low cost wireless service where they would get ...

5. Lack of cash forces supercomputer re-think

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Both Hitachi and NEC have decided to withdraw from a Japanese government project to build a nex-gen supercomputer.Tokyo, Japan - Both Hitachi and NEC have decided to withdraw from a Japanese government ...

6. DDR SSD claims a massive 300,000 IOPS

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... with today’s computer hardware. He mentioned that the possible IOPS are purely limited by the processors driving the applications. A current 4 GHz CPU would be necessary to test the limits of a single ...

7. iPhone OS 3.0: A thousand new APIs for developers

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... Text alerts that visually appear just like text message (SMS) alerts.While the supported application is running on the phone, it maintains connectivity via Apple's servers. When the user exits the app, ...

8. AT&T converting to natural gas on 8,000 fleet vehicles

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   ... To put that volume of gas back into the ground they are reportedly using 50 jet turbine engines, the same as are found on 747 airplanes, to power the pumps necessary to compress the natural gas back into ...

9. LG Versa: Unboxing the "iPhone Beater"

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   ... and VCAST VPak, plus unlimited megabytes for Mobile Web and Media Center. Mobile Broadband Connect can be added to their plans for $59.99 monthly access for 5 GB, and Visual Voice Mail is available for ...

10. Nvidia passionately responds to Intel court filing

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... Gigabyte, HP, Lenovo, MSI, NEC, and Toshiba all ship exciting innovations created by NVIDIA as a result of its agreement with Intel." Nvidia states they have been attempting to resolve this disagreement ...

11. Marvel to debut motion comics on the iPhone

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... the Grey, we both have exactly what our imaginations feed us and allow us to see. In that way it’s personal and connected, and of deep meaning. With these voices and animation-like features being ...

12. UPDATED: Swiss develop cheaper, alternate Hybrid-like technology

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... connected instead of a battery unit. "When required, e.g. when starting from rest or after changing gear, compressed air flows into the engine through an electronically controlled valve. If fuel is also ...

13. Mozilla's chief lizard wrangler meshes mobile and desktop via web

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... to fulfilling at least two of the four stated goals: Fennec has seen two public alpha releases which focus on performance and extensions platform, while desktop Firefox climbed above a 21 percent web ...

14. CES 2009: Nvidia releases GeForce GTX 285 and GTX 295 for high-end

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... card is 4.4 inches x 10.5 inches on a PCI-e 2.0 x16, supports Quad-SLI, PhysX, CUDA, has HybridPower, GeForce Boost, DirectX 10, Open GL 2.1, one 6-pin power connector, one 8-pin power connector, maximum ...

15. CES 2009: MSI debuts U115 hybrid notebook

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... the U115 weighs just over 2 pounds. Availability and prices were not announced. Also new is the U120 netbook that can be equipped with 3.5G or WiMax connectivity. No word on pricing yet.    ...

16. MSI to show hybrid-storage netbook at CES

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... the U120, which will be available with integrated WiMax or 3G connectivity. The company also announced that it will showcase its new all-in-one Wind NetOn nettop systems. The computers are based on a dual-core ...

17. LG to unveil netflixed HDTVs

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... box to connect to the online movie resource.   Available this spring, the new LCD and plasma HDTVs will join the BD300 Network Blu-ray disc player, which was the first Blu-ray disc player to stream ...

18. AMD updates chipset schedule for next year

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... Decoder (UVD) and Hybrid CrossFireX technologies nor HDMI and Display Port connections, according to sources at motherboard makers. More here at Digitimes.  ...

19. UPDATE: Removing a major hurdle to wide acceptance of battery powered vehicles

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... and drop it off. They're all connected through the same system, just pick one up where it's needed and drop it off when you're done. And of course, once home again and the trailer's back at the facility, ...

20. Michael Dell to present keynote at Supercomputing Conference 2008 today

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... discussions about supercomputing jobs and how industries are shaped by supercomputing, open source software support, hardware design, current and future software concepts, communications fabrics, interconnects ...

21. Apple expected to refresh its iMac on November 10

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... place. The move is not without logic: Most recent video cameras rely on USB to transfer video files to a computer. Apple could opt for the latest specification that allows Firewire over Ethernet connection ...

22. Apple unveils new MacBook

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... Magsafe power connector, Gigabit Ethernet, two USB ports, a Mini DisplayPort for external display units, audio in and out (both analog and optical digital), an ExpressCard 34 expansion slot and a battery ...

23. Apple fires up new MacBook Pro

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... ports are located on the left side and the optical DVD-R drive is found on the right side. The notebook features Magsafe power connector, Gigabit Ethernet, FireWire 800, two USB ports, a Mini DisplayPort ...

24. Last minute rumor round-up: New Apple notebooks

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... Cinema Display with MagSafe adapter and DisplayPort connector. The MacBook Pro is expected to integrate two Nvidia GPUs and there may be an iMac-like docking station that will turn the notebook into ...

25. Rumor round-up: New Apple laptops

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... with prices of less than $200 even in the retail market. It would be nice to finally see a permanent Internet connection through 3G (HSDPA or EV-DO) module or even WiMax but don't hold your breath for ...

26. 4000 hard drives in the palm of your palm with Fusion IO’s flash card

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... traditional high capacity hard drives.  The card even has an integrated network connection for 10 GigE or 40 Gb/s InfiniBand. Fusion IO claims the IO-SAN card can turn any off-the-shelf server into ...

27. 20 Cleantech Industry Movers and Shakers

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... battery systems, and Cobasys’ future way may see some challenges, but for now it is a key player in the battery market. Nanotech & Materials 12. Hycrete: Concrete is a necessary material in construction. ...

28. Interest in small cars shifts to crossovers as gas prices decline

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    ... SUVs, is on the rise. Even interest in the popular hybrid segment is down 34% compared to June as gas prices have declined. “There’s been a rush to small cars, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the shift ...

29. Nanoantennas envisioned as possible replacement for solar cells

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... advances” are necessary to turn this vision into reality. They said that  infrared rays create alternating currents in the nanoantennas that oscillate trillions of times per second, requiring a component ...

30. Nissan unveils hybrid vehicle, promises all-electric car by 2010

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... one motor is directly connected to an engine and transmission via two separate clutches. Under changing driving conditions, the motor switches between the two clutches to optimize and conserve energy utilization ...

31. Firefox 3 and Safari 4 in browser speed race

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... by current Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich while he was employed by Netscape. JavaScript acts as glue that connects a user interface rendered in a web browser with a database and programming logic running in ...

32. Roadrunner: 130,536 cores break the Petaflop barrier

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... an open AMD x86 platform that takes advantage of Direct Connect Architecture and the Hypertransport interface. However, we haven’t heard much about Torrenza anymore and we don’t expect AMD to make a big ...

33. Texas startup says it will be offering a hydrogen exotic sports car this fall

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

      BMW’s Hydrogen 7 sedan may still be a few years away, but if you just can’t wait and have the necessary cash on hand, you may be able to buy a hydrogen car later this year. Ronn Motors has begun ...

34. AMD’s best idea in years: Want to play?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... simply sounds like AMD offers every essential part of a computing platform, but doesn’t excel at either one, which, in fact isn’t far from the truth. The CPUs aren’t necessarily a match for Intel’s offering ...

35. Concurrent Programming: A solution for the multi-core programming era?

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... should continue to scale (run faster) with the increasing number of cores. 2)    Programs based on shared memory model will suffer serious bottlenecks on memory bus. Shared-memory concurrent ...

36. NY psychiatrist creates Prius Federation shuttlecraft

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    ... necessary sound effects.  You’ve got to check out the link below to see Yee in his spiffy Federation uniform. Read more … Toyota Open Road blog.  ...

37. No more discrete chipsets from Nvidia

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... and notebook parts. The goal of this move is also to connect a display through DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort or a similar cable directly to the motherboard. One, two, three or four discrete GPUs would provide ...

38. Zotac jumps the gun on new Nvidia Hybrid SLI chipset for AMD

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... in Quad-SLI configuration. Tri-SLI is not supported, since there are only two PCIe x16 connectors. The new chipset is compatible with past, current and future AMD processors. Yes, the AM2+ lineup is a ...

39. Product news roundup Monday, March 24: Plextor hybrid Blu-ray/HD DVD drives, Alienware quad-core PC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... products that caught our eyes today: NEC NP100 and NP200 projectors: Entry-level priced projectors for consumers and small businesses. The NP100 offers a brightness of 2000 lumens, the NP200 2100 lumens. ...

40. Update: AMD's chipset game: Rien ne vas plus

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... connectivity). Vendors will have a close look at this one and if they can save a few bucks, they will – no matter how great hybrid graphics is. From the consumer view, it may be worth your while looking ...

41. Has Lenovo created the “perfect” laptop?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... - deal with the current performance bottleneck and allow a notebook in this class to actually have a balanced performance range between long battery life and high-end graphics performance. Flash is too ...

42. A Porsche hybrid? Does that make sense?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... Manager oversees about 20,000 data parameters at any given time, compared to about 6000 in a regular engine. It is directly connected to power electronics that control the flow of electric current between ...

43. HD DVD’s rise and fall: A timeline

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ...  Group formed to promote Blu-ray Disc format EE Times     21 NEC, Toshiba add HD-DVD to PCs in 2005 Digit Mag   ...

44. Chicago Auto Show 2008: Riding the hybrid wave

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... green. A small engine is combined with a bio-plastic roof, plug-in electric connection and net seats. Read on the next page: Ford, General Motors       Ford   Ford is certainly ...

45. Wrap-up: All stories and slideshows from CES 2008

    (Event Coverage/Event Coverage Features)

    ... HDTVs Users will soon be able to send high definition signals to their HDTV sets without any physical cable connection, thanks to a new partnership between Westinghouse Digital and semiconductor ...

46. Pioneer plans to innovate plasma, in-car entertainment

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... new sources and will switch when necessary, for example when a cell phone call comes in.  It will all be touch-screen and from the preliminary photos, AVIC-Linc products will feature an interface ...

47. IBM breakthrough, one step closer to optical computers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... a silicon nano-photonic waveguide, like an on-die fiber optic wires which connects two points both terminated by MZEOMs.  The signal is modulated as required by the on-die circuitry, sending data ...

48. In the year 2057, an Ant could carry today’s cars, says GM

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... no windows in the surface, but “flat surface panels” that are connected with “artificial muscles” (electroactive polymer actuators), allowing a silent reconfiguration of body panels ...

49. Tech Tour Intel: Gainestown spotted in the microsurgery silicon debug lab

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... of 68F and 45% humidity.  I was told this tight atmospheric control is necessary because the test conditions are very explicit and prone to error. The time slices each processor works with represent ...

50. Toyota says lithium-ion batteries not needed on all hybrids

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Tokyo (Japan) – The Toyota Motor Company says lithium-ion batteries aren’t necessary in all future hybrid vehicles.  Toyota’s general manager of the hybrid engineering division, ...