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Imagine this — You have a raunchy video of your honeymoon get away with your newly wedded wife in your 3-year-old Pentium 4 PC. Suddenly, your video card dies but you don’t know and send it to your friendly computer repairman. In the process of repairing your PC, he discovers your video and posts it […]

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San Jose (CA) – Samsung rolled out a new version of its Spinpoint 2.5” hard drive series. The new drive is the second drive in the market to offer a capacity of 320 GB in this form factor.
The new M6 version is looking to attract customers in the notebook PC, slim PC and blade server […]

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Imagine this — Gone were the days that you’d need to lug around that bulky laptop battery charger of yours. Gone were the days that you’d need to charge your mobile devices every 2-3 days. Now, in one charge, you can pack 10 times more battery lifespan than previously thought possible.
Researchers from Stanford University have […]

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This is totally funny! A student was apparently reprimanded because he was using Firefox browser when he was supposed to do school work, which needed an internet browser. The teacher asked him to stop using the program and to continue his work but he responded that he was doing his class work, only on a […]

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It’s been a wonderful year for all techies! We’ve seen lotsa drops in CPU prices, multitude numbers of DX10 cards in the market and many more. But not all products got positive remarks amongst the techies. PC world has named their most disappointing product in 2007 — Microsoft Windows Vista. I wouldn’t disagree at all!
So […]

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A CEREBRAL computer-scientist-turned-executive, Eric E. Schmidt has spent much of his career competing uphill against Microsoft, quietly watching it outflank, outmaneuver or simply outgun most of its rivals.
At Sun Microsystems, where he was chief technology officer, Mr. Schmidt looked on as Scott G. McNealy, the company’s chairman, railed against Microsoft and its leaders, Steven […]

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Researchers from the University of Queensland have taken a significant step in the quest to build a quantum computer, creating a light-based quantum circuit capable of basic calculations and moving quantum computing closer to a becoming a reality.
Theoretically, quantum computers leave even today’s most powerful conventional supercomputers in the dust. It has also been long […]

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Wikipedia has brought the internet community with bountiful information that can be easily obtained (and in different languages!). However, due to the way information are posted on these Wiki-pages, academics shun Wikipedia and questions its credibility. Factual errors, grammatical errors and articles written that are skewed to the writer’s opinions — These are just a […]

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Along with XP SP3 RC1, Microsoft released Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Microsoft Office 2007. Take note that this fix (for the XP SP3) is only a release candidate 1. You can download your copy here. Previous release of the SP3 is for beta testers only. This SP3 RC1 is opened for public testing and […]

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Google has become the most used internet search engine of today. It has, to a certain extent, revolutionized the way we search the web. Gone were the days where searching Toys will churn out search results like ¨adult toys¨, vibrators, sex dolls, etc. (you get the point). However, with this tool, you can do more […]

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