AMD Delivers Dual-Core CPU: Athlon 64 X2

betanews.com As expected, AMD has announced the immediate availability of its dual-core processors for desktop PCs. The Athlon 64 X2 was unveiled at the Computex conference in Taiwan and pits AMD against rival Intel’s Pentium D, which launched late last week. Swapping their usual positions, however, Intel is taking the Read more

By Ian Matthews, ago

Microsoft Giving Away 9,072 Xbox 360s

betanews.com Microsoft and Pepsi have announced a way that Xbox fans can get their hands on an Xbox 360 earlier than its planned holiday release date. Starting August 28, Pepsi will give out an Xbox 360 every 10 minutes – 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for nine Read more

By Ian Matthews, ago

CommVEx 2005: Commodore Vegas Expo

To see what is old and new with (primarily) 8 bit Commodore machines, go to http://www.commodore.ca/forum. It contains information and provides you with a place to ask questions about the Commodore Vegas Expo schduled for late July 2005.

By Ian Matthews, ago

Top Spammer Gets 9 Years in Prison

By Nate Mook, BetaNews A Virginia judge has sentenced spammer Jeremy Jaynes to nine years in prison for sending over 10 million e-mails a day with the aid of 16 broadband lines. Because the case marks the first felony prosecution for spam, however, Judge Thomas Horne postponed the sentence while Read more

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Microsoft Completes Groove Buyout

By Ed Oswald, BetaNews Microsoft announced Friday that its $120 million acquisition of Groove Networks had completed, just days after a Delaware court threw out a lawsuit by a former Groove executive to prevent the merger. Michael Matthews sued because he claimed the deal was unfair to the employees of Read more

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Intel, AMD in Race to Dual-Core

By Ed Oswald, BetaNews.com Locked in a battle to be the first chipmaker to release a dual-core processor, AMD and Intel are both stepping up efforts to bring their chips to the market faster than originally anticipated. AMD, which originally was planning a mid-year release of its dual-core processor, has Read more

By Ian Matthews, ago

HP’s New Boss

zdnet.com Mark Hurdpresents his mission of improving performance through clear and measurable targets and a “team” approach. Watch the video

By Ian Matthews, ago

Google Doubles GMail Capacity

www.news.com posted by Ian @ 1:05 AM …(Google will) double the free storage on Gmail from 1GB to 2GB, said Georges Harik, Gmail product management director. After that, Google will add a yet-to-be-determined amount of extra storage daily, with no plans to stop…

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No Cost Difference Between Windows and Linux

By Reuters …”What we found is that costs are not really dependent on the underlying functionality in the core operating system,” DiDio said. In the independent study, 88 percent of respondents said that the quality, performance and reliability of Windows was equal to or better than Linux. Linux, which can Read more

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MS Makes Longhorn Avalon Interface Available to Public

Following a release to MSDN subscribers last week, Microsoft has made its March Community Technology Previews of Avalon and Indigo available for public download. Avalon and Indigo are two “fundamentals” of Longhorn, the next release of Windows. Avalon is the presentation subsystem and Indigo is a platform for Web services. Read more

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