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TomsHardware.com http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/06/23/toshiba_hddvd/ El Segundo (CA) – The first generation of HD DVD players are priced 50% below their Blu-ray rivals. While it is no secret that the HD DVD camp is using a lower price to make up for feature disadvantages, a market research firm today reported that Toshiba in Read more…
TomsHardware.com http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/06/25/amd_to_build_32nm_fab_in_ny/ Sunnyvale (CA) – AMD has still room to expand its current manufacturing capabilities in Dresden, Germany and through its contracted manufacturing partners, but a recent surge in demand for its microprocessors apparently has prompted the company to build another high-capacity factory – New York State has won the Read more…
Commodore just bought its distribution channel, Support Plus. It brings about 150 new employees and a solid distribution model for about 20 countries. Support Plus is moving into the North and South American markets this year and they will be distributing C= product. Click HERE to read the press release.
By Nate Mook, BetaNews January 11, 2006, 1:15 PM With the announcement of the first Intel based Macs yesterday, many users have rejoiced in being able to dual-boot both Mac OS X and Windows. Unfortunately, this is not the case; due to Apple’s use of the extensible firmware interface (EFI) Read more…
Microsoft Windows Live Safety Center is a new, free web based service designed to help ensure the health of your PC. Check for and remove viruses Learn about threats Improve your PC’s performance Get rid of junk on your hard disk I have tested this service and found it to Read more…
Pro-Networks.org With the release of Beta 1 this past July 27th, this would have placed the Beta 2 release date towards late January – early February 2006. This has been reported numerous times in various media outlets. In my last conversations with Microsoft staffers, I was told that we could Read more…
microsoft.com Register for the free public beta HERE Command Tabs The traditional menus and toolbars have been replaced by a set of Command Tabs. Presented graphically, Command Tabs display the commands that are most relevant for each of the task areas in Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint, Excel, or Access. For Read more…
TomsHardware.com CPU Level 1 Cache: Enabled. CPU Level 2 Cache: Enabled. Quick Power On Self Test: Enabled. This will skip the repetitive memory count that occurs when you turn on your PC; chances are that if you really do have bad memory, this basic test won’t catch it anyway. First, Read more…
TomsHardware.com … It’s not strictly accurate to call the surface “printable,” because the technology works by etching – the laser actually burns the surface. That’s why it’s limited to monochrome results. The results are effective, but for simple tasks like backups, it’s hard to justify the time it takes apply Read more…
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betanews.com RadioShack said on Friday it plans to sell AMD’s low-cost Internet terminal in its stores next week. The $299 USD device, dubbed the Personal Internet Communicator, was launched last year in an effort to bring Web access to low-income families in developing countries. The unit is part of an Read more…
betanews.com Microsoft is ramping up efforts to take on rival Adobe by relesing on Monday a second beta of Acrylic, a program intended to ease the process of creating graphics for Web pages. Microsoft initially released a preview of Acrylic in June, and since that time the application has been Read more…
computerworld.com …MSN Virtual Earth , first announced in May, is similar to Google Maps in that it provides both street-map and satellite views of locations and provides driving directions between locations… …In a later release of the product due out before the end of September, Microsoft will add a “bird’s Read more…
computerworld.com …Companies with 25 to 250 PCs will be targeted with the new discounted offer for a single SKU that combines three copies of the standard edition of Windows Server 2003, one instance of Exchange Server 2003 Standard Edition and the workgroup edition of Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005. The Read more…
It looks like a cell phone or a portable 900Mhz house phone but this device will connect let you place calls from any hot spot or office wireless network. Pretty cool stuff!
Here are the key features: For complete details and screen shots go to our Windows Vista page: http://www.commodore.ca/windows/vista/windows_vista.htm GUI: New interface called Aero which appears to be me to be little more than a simple new skin. DEPLOYMENT: Windows Imaging Format (WIM) which stores images (like Ghost and RIS, including Read more…