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1. Wintel alliance fires first shots of OS war

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 02 September 2009

   The old Wintel alliance is going strong again with both Intel and Microsoft taking the stand to peddle Windows 7. San Francisco (CA) - The old Wintel alliance is going strong again with both Intel and ...

2. Pensioner billed $109,000 for connection to power grid

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Wednesday, 26 August 2009

   ... They then came back to me and said it would cost £67,000. I'm on just over £100 ($162) a week with my pension, and I have to keep coal in two fires and feed myself, so there isn't much left over." A ...

3. MySpace fires 400 employees as ad revenue declines

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Tuesday, 16 June 2009

   MySpace has responded to declining advertising revenue and a decreased market share by firing 30 percent of its staff. San Francisco (CA) - MySpace has responded to declining advertising revenue and a ...

4. New telescope to map the southern skies

   (Space/Space Features)

   Monday, 25 May 2009

   ... skies using the Great Melbourne Telescope at Mount Stromlo. But just 18 days after the grant was awarded the GMT was destroyed in the Canberra bushfires. The SkyMapper project grew from that as part of ...

5. Intel and AMD may be radically changing the future of the PC

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

   Thursday, 14 May 2009

   ... is being born from the fires of this crumbling market and it may have the potential to be truly amazing.  Rob Enderle is one of the last Inquiry Analysts. Inquiry Analysts are paid to stay up to ...

6. Evolved Machines fires up Nvidia Tesla supercomputer

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 09 April 2009

   Evolved Machines said that it has powered on a new GPU-focused supercomputer, which runs on 42 Tesla C1060 cards as well as 14 quad-core AMD Phenom processors, which has a theoretical maximum performance ...

7. BlackBerry's heat problem, not batteries but cause still unknown - Japan sales halted

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 27 February 2009

   ... week. More than 30 users have reported their keyboards were heating up during recharging, causing concern with all of the recent reports of battery fires and recalls. Chicago (IL) - The Canada-based Research ...

8. UPDATED: NASA to launch orbiting carbon observatory to study CO2

   (Space/Space Features)

   Thursday, 19 February 2009

   ... each year 30 billion tons of carbon dioxide are released into the atmosphere through man's burning of fossil fuels, forest fires and land-use practices such as slash-and-burn. These activities have reportedly ...

9. Yahoo/Twitter combo rolls out a news search engine

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 19 January 2009

   ... messages which can be delivered by individuals witnessing the events first hand - much like in the case of the airplane landing in the Hudson River, the Mumbai attacks, and the California wildfires. Sunnyvale ...

10. U.S. Temperatures in 2008 very near 20th century average

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 09 January 2009

    ... that during this time, 6.8 million square miles of North America were covered by snow (including Canada), which is 0.4 million square miles above the average. In 2008, NOAA estimates 77,772 wildfires ...

11. Verizon fires employees over snooping on Obama’s phone records

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Sunday, 23 November 2008

    The curiosity in President-elect Barack Obama's phone records came with a high price tag for Verizon Wireless employees. According to CNN, the workers who snooped on Obama’s phone records have been fired. ...

12. NIST releases final report on 9/11 WTC7 collapse

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Friday, 21 November 2008

    ... column (number 79) failed due to uncontrolled fires burning on several floors which produced "an extraordinary event." Once column 79 failed, it "initiated a fire-induced progressive collapse that brought ...

13. NASA satellites capture powerful California wildfire images, shows smoke over ocean

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 17 November 2008

    NASA's Aqua satellite captured powerful images of the California wildfires yesterday using their Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). These images show a clear trail of smoke extending ...

14. AMD gets serious about stream processing

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 13 November 2008

    ... its Firestream product line with the new 4870 GPU-based Firestream 9270 card. Priced at $1499, it is much more expensive than a regular 4870, but the card includes 2 GB of GDDR5 memory and more capable ...

15. Apple pokes fun at Microsoft's $300 million Vista ad campaign

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 20 October 2008

    ... Seinfeld ads were complex enough to keep you busy figuring out each message for hours, each Apple ad focuses on one key topic and fires away. Microsoft seems to be struggling to find a compelling angle ...

16. Apple fires up new MacBook Pro

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 14 October 2008

      Apple CEO Steve Jobs today introduced the new MacBook Pro notebook at the Apple Town Hall event held at Apple's Cupertino campus. As expected, the new notebook comes with more graphics horsepower performance ...

17. HP fires and outsources thousands

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Monday, 15 September 2008

    Big acquisitions are rarely good news for employees, especially when companies are starting to use words such as “streamlining” or “restructuring”. 24,600 HP and EDS employees will have to sacrifice ...

18. Artifical Intelligence key to teach helicopter robots to fly

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 02 September 2008

    ... their teachers and master challenges in a much more secure way? The researchers pointed to autonomous helicopters to search for land mines in war-torn areas or to map out the hot spots of California wildfires ...

19. Windows 7 = Vista SE?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Tuesday, 19 August 2008

    ... difficult task these days. The SP1 update extinguished dozens of burning fires, but did not change the fact Vista remains below the expectations of many users – low enough to convince a significant portion ...

20. Lenovo fires up 17” mobile workstation

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 12 August 2008

      A new 17” mobile workstation will join Lenovo’s Thinkpad family in September: The W700 is Lenovo’s first 17” workstation notebook, the first with a palm rest digitizer and one of the first notebooks ...

21. Hitachi fires up second-generation terabyte hard drives

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 09 July 2008

      Hitachi renovated its 3.5” hard drive family and now offers the second-generation 1 TB drive, which does not offer more capacity or speed, but comes with effective power saving features that may ...

22. Ice-free North Pole ... maybe

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 27 June 2008

    ... agree that the historic data shows an alarming trend at the Pole with the total amount of sea ice decreasing every summer.  According to a Scientific America article, soot from cars, forest fires ...

23. SimCity for Big Boys: Preparing for the Katrina of earthquakes

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 20 June 2008

    ... come up with a structure of residential, business and industry areas, fine-tune the infrastructure over time in order to build a strong economy and prepare for disasters such as floods, fires or earthquakes ...

24. Clearspeed squeezes 96 GFlops out of 12 watts

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 16 June 2008

    ... add-in card delivers 50% more performance that its predecessor and while the device does not have the same peak performance as Nvidia’s Tesla or AMD Firestream cards, it is an extremely power efficient ...

25. AMD puts 5 TFlops in your PC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 15 June 2008

    ... for example, unveiled its Firestream 9250 card, based on the upcoming RV770 GPU, which will be part of the 4800 series of graphics cards. According to AMD, the new GPU can deliver out more than 1 TFlops ...

26. Hard drive withstands fire and water

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 09 June 2008

    ... during a fire, as 98% of radiant heat can be deflected. Typical house fires reach a heat of about 1100 degrees Fahrenheit with 3 to 5 minutes. There was no detailed information on the water protection ...

27. TJX fires security whistleblower

    (Security/Security Brief)

    Thursday, 29 May 2008

    Lawrence (KS) – TJ Maxx employee Nick Benson thought he was doing a good deed by posting his work’s security horror stories on a popular web forum, but those posts recently got him fired.  23-year-old ...

28. Nvidia has more than 70 million GPGPUs in the market

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 23 May 2008

    ... hardware future and we are looking forward to products surrounding GeForce, Tesla, Quadro, Radeon, FireGL, FireStream and Larrabee.  ...

29. ATI Radeon 4800 launch details: Meet (Terry) Makedon and Trojan (Horse)

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 14 May 2008

    ... it simply expanded its GPGPU capabilities from professional FireStream cards to the desktop. The Radeon 4800 series also includes 7.1 channel-via-HDMI support and color output also got a “significant” ...

30. NCAR fires up liquid-cooled Power6 supercomputer

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 08 May 2008

      The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) announced that it has taken delivery of its “Bluefire” supercomputer, a new system that is powered by 4.7 GHz IBM Power6 processors to provide ...

31. Intel and Nvidia co-sponsors in parallel programming initiative

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 01 May 2008

    ... similar to AMD’s interests surrounding its Firestream stream processor cards. But AMD may have a different idea how its x86 CPUs can be exploited and Sun adds another completely different variable to that ...

32. Intel to build supercomputers with Cray

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 28 April 2008

    ... future supercomputers. But it is just a supplier agreement and it certainly is a missed chance for AMD to get into a deeper agreement with Cray to position its own Firestream stream processor products.       ...

33. Getting inside Steve Jobs’ head

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 25 April 2008

    ... company and ask them about critical corporate initiatives.   If Thomas didn’t get the answer he was looking for he would reprimand the employee and their managers. Steve Jobs evidently fires ...

34. AMD’s Radeon 4800 in production

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 20 April 2008

    ... introductions will include desktop and mobile (M88) graphics parts. RV770 will launch as Radeon 4800 and will make its way into the FireStream stream processor and FireGL workstation cards. Both GDDR3 ...

35. Intel builds Atom CPU for $8, sells it for up to $135

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 04 April 2008

    ... article “Intel fires up Atom processor”, then you already know all the details and specs of this processor. The company is currently offering these models: - Atom Z500, 800 MHz clock speed, 512 KB L2 ...

36. Intel fires up new Atom processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 01 April 2008

      TG Daily In-Depth – Intel officially launched its new Atom processor, previously code-named Silverthorne (for Mobile Internet Devices) and Diamondville (for Netbooks and Nettops), which carries ...

37. Update: AMD managers leaving in Europe

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 01 April 2008

    There is lots of confusion about AMD cutting its workforce these days. And even if AMD has publicly stated that there won’t be any reductions in its workforce, we have received word that that two managers ...

38. What if … you had to play a simulation game before you could run for office?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Tuesday, 25 March 2008

    ... have forest fires, earthquakes, floods, and massive storms. It would have crops and transportation issues, water usage disputes, and demands from the federal government for the National Guard. Schools ...

39. Inside Intel's ray tracing research

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 24 March 2008

    ... involved in GPGPU applications. Companies like British Petrol (BP) have been using FireStream cards based on X1900XTX chips for GPGPU purposes ever since ATI’s GPGPU platform was launched back in September ...

40. Larrabee and Dunnington to star at IDF

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 17 March 2008

    ... crank out more than a Teraflop. This puts the card head to head with Nvidia’s Tesla cards and AMD’s Firestream stream processor cards, but Intel believes it will have the decisive edge: Since there are ...

41. Intel churning out 100,000 45 nm processors every day

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 06 March 2008

    ... processor Firestream cards, Larrabee is expected to focus on visualization applications with supercomputer-like processing capabilities in floating point operations. Other than Tesla and Firestream however, ...

42. Can Singularity heal Microsoft’s Windows Vista wounds?

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 04 March 2008

    ... of exploiting the massive floating point horsepower of graphics chips. AMD and Nvidia have begun pitching their Tesla and FireStream stream processor cards as integral parts of deskside supercomputers, ...

43. AMD's RV670 does double-precision at half the speed

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 01 February 2008

    We have been talking about a hidden supercomputer in your graphics card for a while and now that AMD offers double-precision capability in its latest Firestream card we get a first taste how powerful ...

44. Washington DC fires and suspends 41 employees for porn surfing

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Thursday, 24 January 2008

    Washington DC – 41 Washington DC workers have been fired or suspended after they accessed thousands of porn sites on city computers.  Nine employees were fired while the other 32 were suspended.  ...

45. AT&T to replace batteries after supplier goes bankrupt

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 17 January 2008

    ... around the time AT&T first started experiencing problems with them. In about a year's time, AT&T said it experiences two explosions and two full-on fires as a result of the faulty batteries.  ...

46. Alienware fires up new flagship notebook

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 15 January 2008

    If you have well more than $2500 to burn on a performance notebook, then there’s a new option at Alienware. Miami (FL) – If you have well more than $2500 to burn on a performance notebook, ...

47. Transportation Department restricts loose lithium-ion batteries on airlines

    (Security/Security Features)

    Monday, 31 December 2007

    ... prevent accidental fires in both the cargo hold and passenger compartments.  Fires in the cargo hold will generally spread unnoticed until the automatic fire suppression systems do their work.  ...

48. Ontrack publishes “top 10 of data disasters”

    (Security/Security Brief)

    Monday, 17 December 2007

    Data recovery firm Ontrack is giving some insight in its most unusual data recovery cases. The top 10 list includes everything from fires, hard drives that are run over by a truck, damages caused by fluids ...

49. ClearSpeed's CATS purr along at near teraflop speeds

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 14 November 2007

    ClearSpeed demonstrated teraflop performance in a 1U server space yesterday at Supercomputing '07, dubbed CATS.  Comprised of approximatley ten e620 boards in a box, sustainable teraflop levels ...