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1. Weekly hardware roundup

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 21 November 2009

   ... (ORNL) - features six-core AMD Opteron processors that deliver 2.3 petaflop/s theoretical peak performance and 1.75 petaflop/s performance on the Linpack benchmark. As expected, Intel responded to AMD's ...

2. Nvidia auctions "ultimate" gaming system on eBay

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   2x GTX 295 SLI, Core i7 975 Extreme and 12GB DDR3 Nvidia is auctioning off a custom-built "ultimate" gaming system on eBay. 

Company spokesperson Brian Burke told TG Daily that the machine was "hand ...

3. Microsoft Bing grows its market share a bit

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   Google does too The latest report from Comscore shows that Bing is edging its way upward in the search engine market in October. But it's not at Google's expense - it appears to be Yahoo that's suffering. ...

4. AMD debuts ATI Radeon 5970 GPU

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   ... overclocking capabilities were enabled by next-gen fan and vapor technologies, as well as a "fully vented" exhaust to keep the card cool. 

 "The 5970 features the world's most powerful graphics core ...

5. Electronic Arts closes Pandemic Studios

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Tuesday, 17 November 2009

   200 layoffs confirmed Electronic Arts has reportedly shuttered Pandemic Studios and laid off 200 employees. Although a "core" IP team was shiftted to EA's Los Angeles office, a number of top employees ...

6. Nvidia showcases Fermi-based Tesla GPUs

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 17 November 2009

   ... GPU series significantly accelerates a number of processor intensive applications, including ray tracing, 3D cloud computing, video encoding and computer-aided engineering. 
"At their core, Tesla GPUs ...

7. Intel would like to give AMD a Glaswegian kiss

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   ... and it will grab market share from Intel.  The roadmaps look interesting. There's everything to play for. No doubt, AMD and Intel have made scores of lawyers very very happy in the last several years. ...

8. Intel claims it's driving supercomputers. Not AMD

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   ... Computing (HPC) optimized version of a six core chip called Nehalem-EX. This runs at higher frequencies than eight core versions and that will give advantages on some HPC workloads. The chip will be ...

9. AMD powered Jaguar wins supercomputer race

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   ... National Laboratory (ORNL) - features six-core AMD Opteron processors that deliver 2.3 petaflop/s theoretical peak performance and 1.75 petaflop/s performance on the Linpack benchmark. Spokesperson ...

10. Microsoft: Windows 7 "looks and feels" like Mac OS X

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    ... a touch format – is create a Mac look and feel in terms of graphics." According to Aldous, Windows 7 "significantly" improved the Microsoft GUI, which is built on "stable" core Vista technology. "[The ...

11. AMD says Fusion will knock Intel for six. Or five

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    ... for the future. He said some interesting things.  He said: “We went to multicore because we knew we could exploit that area. But with GPUs we needed to run things in parallel.  We’re at three teraFLOPS ...

12. CO2 levels 'stable since 1850'

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    ... tonnes a year in 1850 to the current 35 billion tonnes. The report is based on historical records taken from Antarctic ice core samples rather than unreliable climate models. The report's author, Wolfgang ...

13. Atom Hackintosh netbooks crash and burn

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 10 November 2009

    ... the rebellious masses - whose ranks were recently bolstered by the introduction of Psystar's rogue $50 Hackintosh patch. The patch, known as Rebel EFI, is reportedly compatible with Intel Core 2 Duo, ...

14. Internet users do have friends

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Thursday, 05 November 2009

    ... a variety of internet activities were associated with larger and more diverse core discussion networks - groups of friends, to you and me. The size of core discussion networks is 12 percent larger than ...

15. Parallels takes on VMware

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    ... 3 supports Aero, Flip 3D, OpenGL 2.1 and DirectX Shader Model 3 for 3D gaming. Finally, Fusion 3 is fully optimized for Snow Leopard with a 64-bit core engine that was specifically designed to function ...

16. Nvidia may be moving into X86 market

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    ... mainstream and low performance areas rather than the Core i7 end of the market.  ...

17. AMD discovers several Fusion mantras, disses Larrabee

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 03 November 2009

    ... doesn’t need to do that, does it? Said Bergman: “We’ll have a breadth of Fusion solutions and one of them will be a quad core.” That’s going to give good X86 performance, he reckons. And in between now ...

18. AMD culls Phenoms

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 03 November 2009

    ... the second quarter of 2010. DigiTimes also claims that AMD will also bring forward the launch of its six-core desktop CPU codenamed Thuban to the second quarter of 2010. Thuban uses a 45nm process and ...

19. Why Apple should license Windows 7

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Tuesday, 03 November 2009

    ... So it shouldn't be surprising that impossible things can happen between these two companies. Apple vs. Microsoft Core Differences While Steve Ballmer and Steve Jobs are often compared to each other the ...

20. Maingear Shifts into overdrive with hard-core gaming machine

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 02 November 2009

    ... by choosing an Intel processor (Core i7/Xeon) and selecting an Nvidia or ATI GPU.
 Additional specs include:
 Silverstone power supply - up to 1.2KW. Closed-loop watercooling - up to 4.GHz. Kingston ...

21. Apple drops Atom bomb on Hackintosh netbook rebels

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 02 November 2009

    ... against the rebellion - whose ranks were recently bolstered by the introduction of Psystar's $50 Hackintosh patch. The patch, known as Rebel EFI, is apparently compatible with Intel Core 2 Duo, Core 2 ...

22. Unidentified bug causes massive CPU spike on 27-inch iMacs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 30 October 2009

    ... core. Doing anything within the browser creeps and is very sluggish. The only why I found to temporary resolve the issue is to either restart or have the system sleep by pushing the power button." Unsurprisingly, ...

23. Intel: Windows 7 offers "improved" performance and stability

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 28 October 2009

    ... coalescing and core parking. The former improves efficiency by automatically extending idle periods and the latter loads tasks onto a specific core, allowing the others to idle when possible." He noted ...

24. VMWare tempts Mac users with "ultimate" Windows 7 experience

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    ... VMWare, Fusion 3 is fully optimized for Snow Leopard with a 64-bit core engine that was specifically designed to function alongside Windows 7's 64-bit kernel. Fusion 3 also supports Windows Aero, Flip ...

25. Ubuntu is still rubbish

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    ... something. Version 9.10 is due for unleashment in a couple of days and it's, err, just as crap as the last version I tried. This machine has a Core 2 Duo, 4GB of RAM and three SATA hard disks. The C: ...

26. Is Windows 7 too good for Apple to FUD?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    ... strengths. Apple is trying to do this with one current spot that focuses on their better customer satisfaction scores but they seem to be focusing too much on what Microsoft used to do wrong rather than ...

27. MSI plans Tegra e-book, talks up notebook shipments

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    ... 20 percent of notebook shipments in the first half of 2010 and 30 percent in the second half as Intel starts to ship dual-core CPUs for the segment later this quarter. Gigabyte says that while it will ...

28. TG Daily: A readers' Guide

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Monday, 26 October 2009

    ... But, more crucially, experience. When we receive a press release evidently written by a six-year old child, containing such terms as 'solution', 'world-class', 'leverage' and 'core competency', we reach ...

29. Kingston accelerates Windows with 40GB SSD

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 26 October 2009

    ... score of 13,883, while a standard 7200RPM hard-disk only managed to rack up a score of 3,708.  The test system comprised an Intel DG45ID desktop motherboard, Core 2 Duo E6550 desktop process @ 2.33 ...

30. Tilera challenges X86 architecture with 100 core-processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 25 October 2009

    ...  "The TILE-Gx line, available with 16, 36, 64 and 100 cores, employs Tilera's unique architecture that scales well beyond the core count of traditional microprocessors," Tilera spokesperon Bob Doud told ...

31. Psystar bootlegs Snow Leopard for the masses

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 22 October 2009

    Psystar has introduced a $50 software suite that allows OS X Snow Leopard to run on generic Intel-based hardware. The suite - known as Rebel EFI - is reportedly compatible with Intel Core 2 Duo, Core ...

32. How Microsoft blindsided vulnerable Apple with Windows 7

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 22 October 2009

    ... one of the strongest marketing companies in any industry and Steve Jobs is a considered to be a master while Microsoft in recent years hasn’t really seemed to be in their league. This goes to the core, ...

33. Acer introduces Aspire 3D laptop

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    ... price point of $800, also offers an Intel Core 2 Duo processor T6600 (2 MB L2 cache, 2.2GHz, 800 MHz FSB), Dolby surround sound and Windows 7 Home Premium. Additional specs include: ATI Mobility Radeon ...

34. ARM multicore chip challenges Intel's hegemony

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 20 October 2009

    Microprocessor design company ARM said it has introduced the Cortex A5 MPCore CPU, a low power chip designed to make the internet available on a wide range of devices. Microprocessor design company ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 20 October 2009

    Apple has refreshed its iMac lineup with 21.5 and 27-inch widescreen displays. The new iMac line - starting at $1,200 - features a wide range of Intel processors, including the Core 2 Duo, Core i5 ...

36. Massachusetts aims to boost interest in science and tech careers

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Tuesday, 20 October 2009

    ...  Despite leading the nation in math test scores, Massachusetts students don't have a lot of interest in STEM careers. According to 2009 SAT data, only 22 percent of all SATs students in Massachusetts ...

37. AMD optimizes Athlon II processors for Windows 7

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    ... high-performance, low-power dual-, triple- and quad-core processors to meet a [variety] of computing needs." However, Barry emphasized that AMD remained "focused" on delivering a "real" PC experience ...

38. Analysts spout crap, charge megabucks

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Friday, 16 October 2009

    ... a mystery as to where the figure of almost two thousand bucks a seat to upgrade to Windows 7 comes from. Especially when a quick glance at Dell’s site tells us we could buy any number of quad core, 4GB ...

39. Acer Liquid Android has a super screen

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 15 October 2009

    ... Snapdragon chipset, and an ARM core that runs at 768MHz, weighs 135 grams and has a rather nifty 3.5-inch WVGA 800x 480 capacitive screen.It supports a heap of networking stuff including wi-fi, Bluetooth, ...

40. Mac users cast into outer darkness

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 14 October 2009

    ... during normal East Coast business hours, Monday through Friday. The Chosen System requirements include Windows 7, Vista or XP and a dual core processor (mandatory), although our limited knowledge of ...

41. AT&T slates Google Voice: nun today, nun tomorrow

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Wednesday, 14 October 2009

    ... underscores why the Commission cannot rationally exempt Google or any provider of Internet based information services from any rules designed to preserve a 'free and open Internet'."  ...

42. Rumor: Nintendo selects Tegra processor for new DS

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 14 October 2009

    ... work on the new device and plans to debut it in late 2010 during the Tokyo Game Show. "Given the fact that Nintendo DS hardware is based upon 16-bit and 32-bit ARM cores, it looks like next-gen DS could ...

43. Sun and Fujitsu upgrade SPARC processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu have introduced an advanced line of quad-core SPARC64 VII processors. The retooled chips - which run at 2.53GHz and 2.88GHz - reportedly deliver up to 25 percent "better ...

44. Cisco buys Starent for $2.9 billion

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    ... internet applications and infrastructure. Starent provides core network functions and services to manage access from 2.5G, 3G and 4G radio networks to mobile operators' packet core networks, It's applicable ...

45. Windows, users, guns and stupidity

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Monday, 12 October 2009

    ... didn’t bother to read the story before posting a comment on it. It occurred to us that we hadn’t told the full story and had omitted to include what happened on a Mitac 1.66GHz Core 2 Duo laptop with ...

46. HP takes on Apple with music notebook

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 12 October 2009

    ... a PC. There are two stereo outputs plus an ultraloud output level. Based around an Intel Core i7 mobile processor, it weighs 5.19 pounds and is just an inch thick. There's a choice of two 15.6-inch ...

47. Windows 7 boots fast enough for normal people

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Sunday, 11 October 2009

    ... the detailed and no doubt peer-reviewed scientific research done by iolo, but I can put a stopwatch on this 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo machine with 4GB of RAM running the 64 bit version of Windows 7 build 7600 ...

48. Sun: Oracle is "committed" to SPARC architecture

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 11 October 2009

    ...  "Although [the merger] is in a state of limbo, the big theme here is innovation. Our core is innovation, along with our technology," explained McNealy. "Combined, Oracle and Sun will have one of the ...

49. Free Software Foundation goes mad

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Thursday, 08 October 2009

    ... to freedom and join a growing list of organizations who understand that sinking money and time into proprietary software is inconsistent with the core values of freedom and progress." The FSF also sent ...

50. Nanoradio takes on the giants: Forget Bluetooth!

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 07 October 2009

    ... it will bring down power consumption to very small numbers. He also claimed that its benchmarking showed it was two to six times better on this score than his closest competitors.He claimed his competitors ...