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 Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has completed its quad-core Opteron portfolio, as it has started shipping two new processors for the 2300 series as well as two more for the 8300 series. The new chips are designed for high-end four-socket / eight-socket servers.The newcomers are called Opteron 2358 SE (2.4GHz), Opteron 2360 SE (2.5GHz),...
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 On June 9, San Francisco will host the 2008 edition of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. The event is stirring up quite a lot of interest as several new products are expected to be launched on this very special occasion.The most anticipated device is probably the new 3G version of the iPhone. Apple said it would produce at least...
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 On Friday, Time Warner Cable Inc. Chief Executive Glenn Britt said the company is planning to present its subscribers with a more accessible way of bringing Internet video material to their TVs. "Right now it's pretty hard to get Internet stuff on your TV," Mr. Britt said during the Sanford C. Bernstein Strategic Decisions...
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 On Tuesday, an agreement was signed between Sony and the six largest U.S. cable companies, that will eventually lead to the development of a TV capable of receiving cable services in the absence of a set-top box.Sony’s LCD set will work on the Tru2way cable platform that Comcast introduced in January. Through Tru2way, cable service...
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 Verizon managed to get the Franchise and Concession Review Committee’s approval to bring its FiOS service in New York City. There is one more hoop the company must jump through: getting the New York Public Service Commission’s approval. Once this is taken care of, the service will immediatly be made available in the city.According to...
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 Technology seems to be evolving
towards a new era of solar power. MacRumors.com brings out a recently published
patent that Apple is investigating to use in some of its handheld devices and
even portable computers. By integrating solar panels in its mobile devices, the
battery will no longer be the only one to generate power and...
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 According to local sources, in the helicopter crash that happened last night at the Lake of the Ozarks, there were five people involved. Out of the four children and one adult, a nine-year-old boy, Zachary T. West, is still missing.Once the helicopter touched the water at around 7:15 p.m., it began to sink quickly. The causes of the...
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 On Monday, at the annual Samsung Mobile Solution Forum in Taipei, Taiwan, Samsung Electronics announced the development of its new solid state drive (SSD).The SSD is around 2.5-inches long and only 9.5-mm thick; according to the company, it is the world’s smallest drive in its class. Size is definitely not the only thing that sets this...
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 Altough the mysterious crystal skulls were brought back in the public’s attention by the launch of the new Indiana Jones movie, according to a new study, visitors aren’t really getting their money's worth, as the items found in both London’s British Museum and Washington DC’s Smithsonian Institution are fake.Researchers came to the...
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 On Friday, May 23, 53-year-old artist and inventor Paul St George unveiled his "Telectroscope," a telescope-like apparatus, which is said to connect New York and London through a 3,471 mile-long tunnel. What it does is it uses a complicatedly arranged series of mirrors in order to transmit images from one side to another. As...
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