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1. Mammoths weren't killed off by meteor

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... about 14,800 years ago, and was virtually complete a thousand years later. "About 13.8 thousand years ago, the number of [fungus] spores drops dramatically," said co-author Jacquelyn Gill. These dates ...

2. Sony takes on Apple's iTunes

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   Confirms plans to launch online app and music store Sony has confirmed plans to launch an online store that will sell music, movies, books and applications. 
The virtual marketplace will also allow users ...

3. TechCrunch crucified over Google phone rumor

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   ... He can say and do virtually anything he wants. If he wants to abolish embargoes between companies and journalists, he'll simply say and do so," opined PC Magazine's Lance Ulanoff. "If he wants to write ...

4. Nvidia showcases Fermi-based Tesla GPUs

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 17 November 2009

   ... hierarchy (L1 and L2). The GPUs also support: C++. Up to 1 terabyte of memory. Concurrent kernel execution. Fast context switching. 10x faster atomic instructions. 64-bit virtual address space. System ...

5. McAfee indulges in bout of cyber scare mongering

   (Security/Security Features)

   Tuesday, 17 November 2009

   ... commissioned 20 so-called "experts" for its Virtual Criminology Report 2009. "War is not a term to be tossed around lightly. That is why the growing debate over cyber war has caught our attention," CEO ...

6. AMD powered Jaguar wins supercomputer race

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   ... management and virtualization features. AMD is also slated to introduce its "Bulldozer" processor architecture in 2011. The chip's modular design is expected to increase concurrency, simultaneous command ...

7. Apple outflanks Psystar in crushing legal victory


   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Saturday, 14 November 2009

   ... leave Apple's stuff alone." 
 See Also Atom Hackintosh netbooks crash and burn Psystar bootlegs Snow Leopard for the masses Psystar screws Apple with virtualization licensing program Psystar clones ...

8. How TG Daily is put together

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 12 November 2009

   ... it's very useful in everyday life. Or the iPhone virtual pint? Goes down a treat [10:18:17] Evil Spinola: A virtual pint is virtually useless [10:18:29] Good Spinola: I have 300 applications on my iPhone. ...

9. 'eBay for billionaires' launched

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 10 November 2009

   That's my Christmas list sorted out Of course, the really rich can't be expected to rub shoulders with the likes of us - not even virtually. So a new online auction and trade site, BillionaireXchange, ...

10. Beatles download site told to cease and desist

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 06 November 2009

    ... added that his client 'is a genius who is very well versed in psychoacoustics and has been studying this field for years.' He apparently has 'a method of transmitting sound recordings into a virtual 3D ...

11. Parallels takes on VMware

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    Parallels has introduced its Desktop 5 virtualization platform for the Mac. Parallels has introduced its Desktop 5 virtualization platform for the Mac. According to the Renton-based company, Desktop 5 ...

12. Karmic Koala displays bad karma

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 03 November 2009

    ... un-upgradable packages - wine and virtualbox-ose. I manually uninstalled the offending packages, but now I can't figure out how to restart the upgrade." "9.10 64bit has a major problem. It looks for the ...

13. Why Apple should license Windows 7

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Tuesday, 03 November 2009

    ... they control the hardware, software, user experience, most of the channel, the gate that allows applications in, and virtually all of the user experience. It is no surprise that this is one of their most ...

14. Gamer hardware to turn war into a game

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 02 November 2009

    ... to interact with medical imagery. The main technology is dubbed Haptics, which means touching a virtual object seems real and tangible.  ...

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

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    VMWare has rolled out its Fusion 3 virtualization platform for Mac OS X. The $80 Fusion 3 - which offers 50 new features - allows users to run native Windows applications with "Mac simplicity." VMWare ...

16. Google intros Android 2.0 Eclair SDK for Droid smartphones

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    ... new APIs for sync capabilities, Bluetooth, integrated cameras and virtual keyboards. "Developers can write applications to enable users to sync their devices to various contact sources," Ducrohet wrote ...

17. Tilera challenges X86 architecture with 100 core-processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 25 October 2009

    ... layer, virtualization capabilities, I/O devices drivers and a load balancer." The TILE-Gx36 processor will be sampling in Q4 of 2010 with the other processors rolling out in the following two quarters. ...

18. Psystar bootlegs Snow Leopard for the masses

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 22 October 2009

    ... set-ups are compatible, and through PsyLabs we will continue to work toward the Rebel EFI supporting an ever-broader range of hardware profiles." See Also Psystar screws Apple with virtualization licensing ...

19. AMD joins Windows 7 launch party

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 22 October 2009

    ... Microsoft to optimize our products for Windows 7," Lewis told TG Daily. "Graphics, virtualization, and power management." Lewis explained that AMD had worked with Microsoft to accelerate the performance ...

20. Opinion: Ditching Windows has never felt so good

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    ... exceptional generation of games such as Quake (OpenGL) and Unreal. My Windows experience was also much improved by a virtual smorgasbord of Open Source Software - such as Open Office - which offered ...

21. News aggregation sites threatened with legal action

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 20 October 2009

    UPDATED National, regional and local newspapers are attempting to force news aggregation sites to accept stringent new rules on linking to content in a bid to maintain their virtual monopoly on news, ...

22. AMD optimizes Athlon II processors for Windows 7

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    ... of the pack for the release of Windows 7. We are well positioned for it, with acceleration and virtualization support. Our drivers are all ready to go. From a CPU and graphics standpoint, we have a better ...

23. NASA does kick up moon plume after all

    (Space/Space Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    ... using an ultraviolet/visible spectrometer. With the spacecraft returning data until virtually the last second, the thermal and near-infrared cameras returned excellent images of the Centaur impact crater ...

24. Kindle is no answer to reading books digitally

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Sunday, 18 October 2009

    ... incompatible - producing copy on real paper and reproducing it digitally. HP figured this out with its printers years and years ago. Now the printers are virtually free and we pay for the electronics ...

25. BlackBerry Storm 2 lays siege to Apple iPhone

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Thursday, 15 October 2009

    ... attack on the successful Apple iPhone with Storm 2 - likely to be released by Verizon in the US in November.The Storm 2 will have wi-fi and improved touch technology and provide a full virtual keyboard ...

26. The great Apple / elf conspiracy is thwarted

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 14 October 2009

    ... His pudgy thumbs made typing on an iPhone a misery. He reckons that the developers of the iPhone actually hate people with broad, round thumbs.  “I can’t make very efficient use of the virtual ...

27. Acer beats up Dell on shipments

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 14 October 2009

    ... says out-performed the market in virtually all regions.  ...

28. WikiReader puts Wikipedia in your pocket

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    ... someone had the idea to put Wikipedia in a portable device. In fact, using the WikiReader can get addictive. Bring it along on your vacation and access information about virtually any location from the ...

29. Microsoft kills Works

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 09 October 2009

    ... internet, helping people maintain and keep their Office software up-to-date. Click-to-Run uses virtualization technology so it allows customers to maintain multiple versions of Office. This enables them ...

30. Vendors have their head in the clouds

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 08 October 2009

    ... questions. "Today, everything is virtual," he said. If your data was hosted in Sao Paolo Brazil and your enterprise was based in Manhattan or in Rome, the legal liabilities were far from clear.He also ...

31. Scientists demonstrate telepathy, well, sort of

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Wednesday, 07 October 2009

    ... signals and translating them into commands for computers, robots, rehabilitation technology and virtual reality environments. "Whilst BCI is no longer a new thing, and person-to-person communication ...

32. Psystar screws Apple with virtualization licensing program

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 05 October 2009

    Psystar has confirmed that it will begin certifying OEM hardware to expedite the licensing of its OS X virtualization technology. The technology - which is "specifically" engineered for Snow Leopard ...

33. AT&T launches Windows and tilt phones

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Sunday, 04 October 2009

    ... Straight Talk Technology for improved speakerphone quality. There are also two new models each from Pantech and Samsung that feature full web browsers as well as physical and virtual keyboards. They ...

34. Win7 XP mode released to manufacturing

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    ... is 2GB of RAM and 15 gig of disk space and a CPU capable of handling virtualization. Microsoft has released Windows XP Mode to manufacturing, and will make it available as a public download when Windows ...

35. Nvidia and "Starting the Next Age of Personal Computing"

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Opinion)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    ... from all of them was that GPU computing was allowing them to do the impossible.  Let’s take each in turn. Adobe:  Turning Dreams into Virtual Reality Simon opened for us and he spoke about engineers ...

36. Mental Image debuts iRay rendering technology

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 30 September 2009

    ... and raise the blinds covering the windows of a remotely-based virtual office. Kaplan also changed the time from day to night, which instantly altered the light and shadow balance within the room. iRay ...

37. Private Clouds are SaaS's future enemy

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Monday, 28 September 2009

    ... the firewall, into the so-called “private cloud.” Private clouds offer many of the advantages of SaaS. In place of the virtualized multi-tenant architecture, where one application is shared by many users, ...

38. Humans will be immortal in 20 years

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Tuesday, 22 September 2009

    ... nanotechnology will improve our brains to such an extent we will be able to write books within minutes. Of course there is no guarantee that anyone will want to read them. In virtual-reality mode, nanobots ...

39. AMD launches indigenous server platform

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 21 September 2009

    AMD has launched its first server platform with an indigenous chipset and six-core Opteron processor. The platform - code-named Fiorano - supports Hyper Transport 3.0 technology, PCI Express 2.0, IO-virtualization ...

40. Google prepared to compromise on digital books deal

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Sunday, 20 September 2009

    ...  The Department acknowledged in its filing that the deal would give Google a virtually exclusive license to millions of books which are either out of print or whose rights holders are unknown - so-called ...

41. States object to Google Books settlement too

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 18 September 2009

    ... on digitizing books, creating a virtual library of millions of volumes of out of print books which however still remain in copyright. Microsoft and Amazon both oppose such a deal. See Also What's wrong ...

42. Super Talent uncorks storage bottleneck with RAID SSDs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 16 September 2009

    ...  RAIDDrive ES - Enterprise Servers performing compute intensive applications such as database transaction processing, business intelligence and virtualization. RAIDDrive ES - whcih can be configured as ...

43. AMD introduces $100 quad-core processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 15 September 2009

    ... accelerated 3D performance and facilitates the quick setup of multiple displays. In addition, the platform provides smooth MCE video playback, virtual XP support, integrated power management and access ...

44. Oracle and Sun showcase 'world's fastest' database machine

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 15 September 2009

    ... is twice as fast as Exadata V1 for data warehousing, and it's the only database machine that runs OLTP applications. Exadata V2 runs virtually all database applications much faster and less expensively ...

45. Microsoft snipes at Google's market share with Visual Search

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 14 September 2009

    Microsoft has launched a virtual war of attrition against Google by introducing Visual Search for Bing. The Redmond-based behemoth is clearly hoping to lure surfers away from a traditional Google search ...

46. Insurance company sues HP for server melt-down

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 11 September 2009

    ... and lost profits. According to Information Week,   BDP International, a shipping and logistics company, was the proud owner of an HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) system which ...

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

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Thursday, 10 September 2009

    ... again? A virtual library online is a fantastic idea and can open up the world’s literature to people who would never see it otherwise. It’s a great idea. The trouble is, it’s not a public library. It’s ...

48. AMD showcases Eyefinity multi-display technology

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 10 September 2009

    ... single, next generation ATI graphics card - allows users to connect up to six HD displays to one PC. Rick Bergman, a senior VP at AMD, told reporters that Eyefinity creates a virtual environment so detailed ...