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It’s coming to 2008, a year after Singapore’s move to a wireless broadband nation through the launch of Wireless@SG. So how has Wireless@SG fare since it’s rather quiet launch early this year? Some would say that it didn’t live up to expectation and it was a failure. Well, I beg to differ.
When the prime minister, […]

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Are you thinking of buying new RAMs to get your Vista to work faster? Or probably just to make your computer function generally smoother? Good news is that DRAM prices have dropped drastically for the past year. The bad news — It could get more expensive soon!
DRAM makers are seeing price cuts of RAM prices […]

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Samsung 31-inch OLED screen prototype to be displayed at CES 2008
OLED panels are the next big thing when it comes to TVs and other consumer electronics from cameras to cell phones. The OLED screen promises more compact dimensions, less power consumption and brighter images.
Small OLED screens are currently found on some cell phones and LCD […]

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We have seen Microsoft release their new IE7 early this year and Mozilla Firefox releasing their Firefox 2 browser late last last year. Both browsers were bleeding edge technology with a fresh new look. With the release of the new versions came the browser war which is still on-going till this day. Each camp claiming […]

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If you are one of the people who upgraded to Windows XP after having a nasty encounter with Windows Vista, there is still hope. Although Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) release candidate 1 is already released, note that RC1 is meant only for beta testing. It is a version short from the final release, […]

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During the dot com boom, people were giving money away just by doing surveys, writing reviews and sending e-mails. It sounded like a scam but it was a truly real means of getting cash, sitting in the comfy of your own chair. However, the dot com boom didn’t last and when it burst and disappeared, […]

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Apple is developing a volume control device for its iPods that would automatically calculate how long a person has been listening and at what volume, before gradually reducing the sound level, all in an effort to protect users’ hearing, according to the London-based Daily Mail.
Citing a new patent application, the report–to which Apple declined […]

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A solid state drive (SSD) is a data storage device that uses solid-state memory to store persistent data. An SSD emulates a conventional hard disk drive, thus easily replacing it in any application [Wiki].
SSD stores data onto arrays of non-volatile NAND-flash memory. This enables the SSD to consume lesser power and good data read-write throughput. […]

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To push desktop processing to another level, Intel has came out with a smaller processor at 45nm, which touts to be the “next biggest advancement” in processor technology in 40 years. Although Intel had launched some of their 45nm processors last November, these were meant solely for servers and only one 45nm processor was released […]

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2007 was touted as ‘the year for Linux’ and indeed the first quarter looked promising but things never really took off. Why is that?

Ultimately 2007 was a good year for Linux but it wasn’t “the” year. 2008 won’t be the year either unfortunately. I hoped Vista would be the catalyst for the mass […]

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