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1. Modern life is rubbish

   (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

   Sunday, 22 November 2009

   ...  They're powered by their own atomic substations, they howl like Heathcliff on the moor and they've got fans that an action movie hero could dive through to escape from peril. Everything's lovely and you ...

2. Mutant Koobface worm attacks Skype accounts

   (Security/Security Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... including Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, hi5, GeoCities and Friendster. However, the W32/Koobfa-O variant has also set its sights on Blogger, Wikipedia, Youtube, Yahoo and Google. 
 "The worm doesn't do much ...

3. Tiny brain is no bar to intelligence, say scientists

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   There's hope for us yet Insects could be as bright as much bigger animals, despite their teeny-tiny brains, say scientists at Queen Mary, University of London. Insects can show some pretty intelligent ...

4. Chrome OS: Lame Copy or Amazing new OS?

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   Depends on How Smart YOU Are Sometimes I wonder about new companies.   Apple and Google both have this way of bewitching people so that, no matter what they come out with, folks drool and say that’s wonderful.  ...

5. LucidLogix preps Hydra SoC for early 2010 launch

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 14 November 2009

   ... announced the availability of the Hydra 200 in Big Bang Motherboards on October 29. Up until that date, Lucid had met all requested MSI hardware and software requirements. "However, MSI has since revised ...

6. Dell touts Mini 3 Android smartphone

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 13 November 2009

   ... lack of functionality could be a crushing blow for the device," warned Morgan. 

"You think it would be obvious, but I can't tell you how many times companies have touted their smartphone as the latest ...

7. Intel maintains innocence despite $1.25 billion cash payoff

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 12 November 2009

   Convictions have not "wavered" Intel has agreed to pay AMD $1.25 billion to settle a number of anti-trust and patent cross-licensing disputes. However, the Santa Clara-based company continues to insist ...

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

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 11 November 2009

   ... as core silicon power.” He continued: “in 2010 we’ll see six hour battery life and in 2011 we’ll see an additional boost as Fusion comes in.” Macri then showed these slides: SLIDESHOW: AMD's fusion's ...

9. Nvidia: Fermi production schedule remains on track

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 09 November 2009

   ... to start shipping its Fermi-based GPUs in 2010, instead of the end of 2009 as originally planned."However, an Nvidia spokesperson told TG Daily that the production schedule for Fermi-based GPUs remains ...

10. Notebook benchmarks fail to convey performance, price

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 05 November 2009

    ... can’t go it alone. And the problem too is that AMD doesn’t seem entirely clear what to replace the old metrics with. At its Lone Star facility in Austin, Texas, earlier this week, AMD showed a video ...

11. Apple's small-minded strategy

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    ... strange about the whole thing, though, is that someone inside Apple thinks making life more difficult for its software customers is good for business. That's how Microsoft is supposed to think. Not the ...

12. Karmic Koala displays bad karma

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 03 November 2009

    ... serious problems upgrading to the new OS. A poll of more than a thousand users at ubuntuforums.org shows that while 12 percent report a 'flawless' upgrade, 21 percent say the upgrade worked but with a ...

13. Why Apple should license Windows 7

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Tuesday, 03 November 2009

    ... iPhone efforts, so far, has been minor at best. In the early years the two companies partnered. for a while and when Steve Jobs came back Bill Gates actually helped him out showcasing that the two firms ...

14. Strike!

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 30 October 2009

    ... also adopted management's anti-union bias, believing they didn't need one because management told them how special they were. So, as their jobs are sent overseas or taken in the U.S. by H-1B visa holders, ...

15. GM is world's least green automobile maker

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Friday, 30 October 2009

    ...  It also looked at how efficiently automobile manufacturers used key natural resources. It caclulated the ratio of sustainable value to sales so that different companies could be compared directly, irrespective ...

16. Intel, Numonyx trumpet phase change memory breakthrough

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 29 October 2009

    ... expanding the capabilities for performance and memory scaling." "The results are extremely promising," adds Greg Atwood, senior technology fellow at Numonyx. "The results show the potential for higher ...

17. Aussies reckon Apple's got a tablet e-reader

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    ... are for everyone. Microsoft and a number of vendors have proved that people are quite indifferent to the format. However, the rumors don't go away. And the normally reliable Sydney Morning Herald is adding ...

18. Raindrops keep falling on Mozilla's head

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 23 October 2009

    ... According to the Raindrop site, it aims to make life enjoyable  and will use a sort of miniweb server to pull out the most important bits to you and show them in your favorite web browser. It's asking ...

19. How Microsoft blindsided vulnerable Apple with Windows 7

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 22 October 2009

    ... no pun intended, of how Microsoft blindsided Apple and left the firm looking like they had given the PC market back to Microsoft. The other part is that Apple is now fighting on two fronts against two ...

20. Nvidia: Windows 7 "dramatically improves" GPU performance

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 22 October 2009

    ... SLI." Industry analyst Jon Peddie expressed similar sentiments. "Despite rumors to the contrary, research shows that PC gaming is growing at a rapid pace," stated Peddie. "Superior graphics, stereoscopic ...

21. Apple takes on Microsoft's Zune with FM Radio iPhone app

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 14 October 2009

    ... "in the background" and is likely to offer the "same functionality" as the Nano FM radio. However, Apple has apparently experienced difficultly with integrating the Mobile iTunes Store purchases into ...

22. Football fans get fanboi game

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 07 October 2009

    ... his friends. "I was taking this very seriously, and I thought I'd spice it up and put a table of standing in. But I'm a football fan, not an engineer," he says, plaintively."You can show your talent, comment ...

23. Scientists demonstrate telepathy, well, sort of

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Wednesday, 07 October 2009

    ... via the nervous system was shown previously in work by Professor Kevin Warwick from the University of Reading, here we show, for the first time, true brain to brain interfacing," said Dr Christopher James ...

24. Windows 6.5: Living in a Post iPhone World is a Bitch

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 06 October 2009

    In watching Microsoft deal with the world since the iPhone launched you have to wonder if the Robbie Bach and the other Microsoft executives leading the Windows Mobile Effort think they somehow dropped ...

25. First real Windows Mobile 6.5 spotted in Lisbon

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 06 October 2009

    ... it had come straight from China and nobody has a spare TMN SIM card. So it wasn't set up properly. This was a tad unfortunate because the launch was held in Lisbon. It was, however, very obviously ...

26. Acting fast could cut climate change risk, says MIT

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Sunday, 04 October 2009

    ... show what the risks are either way."  ...

27. The hanging gardens of Boston: empty building could become biofarm

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    ... out what to do with it. Howeler Yoon Architecure's Eco‐Pod, created with design company Squared Design, is a temporary vertical algae bio‐reactor, built with custom prefabricated ...

28. Sony's PSP Go is go

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    ... TV shows, 2,300 movies and 225 games. Sony adds that the new SensMe software ‘detects music mood and tempo’. SensMe uses 12 Tone Analysis technology to evaluate Media Go content imported tracks to ...

29. Nvidia showcases next-generation Fermi GPU

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 30 September 2009

    Nvidia has finally unveiled its next-generation Fermi GPU. According to Jen-Hsun Huang, Fermi architecture represents the "foundation" of the world's first computational graphics processing units. Nvidia ...

30. Judge overturns Microsoft patent judgement

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 29 September 2009

    ... down complex computer software programs to a kind of generic word find puzzle, that ignores how the allegedly infringing system actually works and, most important, the actual disclosure in the ‘216 patent," ...

31. How Smart are Twitter's Investors?

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Tuesday, 29 September 2009

    Opinion Twitter is all the rage. And while it's great fun, is it really worth $1 billion, which is what the Wall Street Journal pegs it at after a $100 million investment led by T. Rowe Price and Insight ...

32. Intel Developer Forum was a bishop’s egg

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 28 September 2009

    ... layers here that need unpeeling.ChipsIntel showed us all a number of developments that make it entirely clear that it’s bang on course on its roadmap and nothing short of a catastrophe is going to stop ...

33. Apocalypse anytime you want

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 25 September 2009

    ... 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 ...

34. Intel and Apple are at the crossroads

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 23 September 2009

    ... be the last truly great Intel CEO. It is amazing how companies seem to lose their way once a founder that has been so instrumental in driving the company to success departs.  Microsoft just ...

35. MCCI showcases 270MB/s USB 3.0 system

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 22 September 2009

    MCCI and Symwave are showcasing the world's "highest performing" USB 3.0 system at IDF 2009. The next-generation platform - powered by MCCI's optimized host software and Symwave's SuperSpeed SATA controller ...

36. Intel shows off 22 nanometer, optimistic about future

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 22 September 2009

    A senior Intel executive opened up this year's Intel Developer Forum this morning. Usually it's Pat Gelsinger who opens the show. Intel has thoughtfully provided white boards for people to write messages ...

37. EU says Google AdWords are fair game

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 22 September 2009

    ... corresponding to trade marks, establishes a link between those keywords and the sites advertised which sell products identical or similar to those covered by the trade marks. However, in the view of ...

38. Intel's talking about my g-g-g-generation

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 20 September 2009

    ... biggest thing missing will be Kicking Pat Gelsinger - we're wondering just how Intel is going to replace him. His sheer passion is enough to fire everyone up. We still can't figure why he disappeared to ...

39. Point Grey debuts USB 3.0 digital video camera

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Friday, 18 September 2009

    Point Grey has announced plans to showcase the "world's first" SuperSpeed USB-enabled digital video camera at the 2009 Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco. Point Grey has announced plans to ...

40. Handwriting gives liars away

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Thursday, 17 September 2009

    ... in sleazy chat shows, the polygraph has always been an unreliable tool. But while the polygraph is supposed to identify physiological changes during the act of lying, the Haifa study looked at whether ...

41. MIT develops hybrid chip

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 17 September 2009

    ... uses eight or 12-inch wafers. "We have several ideas in that direction," Palacios said. "We are already discussing with several companies how to commercialize this technology and fabricate more complex ...

42. Microsoft's Zune tunes in to HD Radio

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Monday, 14 September 2009

    ... that Zune users would enjoy HD radio without compromising battery life, form factor or cost. "The first issue we encountered was how to insert our chip - fabricated using TSMC's advanced RF CMOS process ...

43. Motorola aims Android phone at social network users

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 11 September 2009

    ... talk time is six hours, with a standby time of 13.5 days. SLIDESHOW: Motorola Cliq with MotoBlur (9 pictures) The phone features the company's new Motoblur technology which syncs contacts, ...

44. What’s wrong with a Google virtual library?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Thursday, 10 September 2009

    ...  There’s an element of jealousy and there’s probably a bigger element of vested interests. How dare a company do what we could do? There is an easy answer to the whole problem. Rather than sniping at ...

45. Sony marketing campaign plumbs new depths

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 10 September 2009

    Consumer electronics giant Sony can surely afford to hire the sharpest brains around. How, then, do we explain the sheer Jeffdamned awfulness of its new online marketing campaign? Consumer electronics ...

46. Exclusive content boosts game sales

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 08 September 2009

    ... 360 SKU outsold the PlayStation 3 SKU by nearly 2.5 to 1 (Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 hardware sales ratio is only 1.95 to 1)." However, Divnich noted that the PlayStation 3 version of Batman: Arkham ...

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

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Tuesday, 08 September 2009

    ... how to press the buttons they'd be damn good by now." Wyman and Mason were speaking ahead of the launch of The Beatles: Rock Band game which features songs from the Beatles' back catalog. The game allows ...

48. IFA and 3D Wars: Blu-Ray is Once Again Obsolete

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 03 September 2009

    ... so you can get excited about stuff to buy rather than right after when you are trying to hide from your credit card bill.    There is a lot of cool stuff here at the show but something that ...

49. Mac clone war sparks fierce debate over Apple tax

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 03 September 2009

    Our article telling of the bloody Mac clone wars sparked a fierce debate over Apple's controversial "tax" and its control over OS X. However, EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich told TG Daily that Club ...

50. Gray screen of death hits Snow Leopard

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 03 September 2009

    ...  Said one user: "I have experienced several performance issues after upgrading to Snow Leopard on a brand new MacBook Pro. Does anyone have a good walk through on how to downgrade and roll back using ...