t e c h i e - t a l k s ::: technology at its best

IDA is planning to provide a National Broadband Network (NBN) that promises up to 1 Gigabit per sec. bandwidth to half of Singapore by 2012. An island wide increase in bandwidth will be available by 2015. There’s a reason why I highlighted NBN and I’ll explain this later.
The first time when I saw this news, […]

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There are times when your Windows machine starts to slow down or when everything comes to a halt frequently. Although there might be many reasons to why such a slow degeneration of your Windows machine occurs, most of the time these reasons are related to malwares/spywares. These nasty programs attaches itself to your computer unknowingly […]

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IBM’s new optical interconnect may shape the future of supercomputers — and all the other ones, too
A growing issue involved with the new gamut of multi-core processors, from dual-core to quad-core and beyond, is shuttling data between the cores themselves. Problems arise as the bleeding edge of electrical and thermal physics are pushed by the […]

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Microsoft will take the fight to pirates with new security features in Vista SP1
Microsoft has big plans in store for its Windows Vista operating system. The company released a release candidate version of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows Vista in mid-November. SP1 is supposed to address a number of performance-related issues with Vista and […]

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Lately, Microsoft has been stabbing Firefox’s back through insulting remarks and comments. Well, of course the opensource firm, whose internet browser users has overtaken IE 7, did not keep quiet. They did some trash talking of their own.
Microsoft released a press release titled “Internet Explorer and Firefox Vulnerability Analysis” last Friday, 30th November. The report […]

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Social networking giant Facebook deals with frustrated users who feel it has violated their privacy

Many of Facebook’s traditionally carefree users are not so happy these days.  The reason for much of their anger was due to Facebook’s launch of new tracking software early last month, which loaded users up with an adware platform dubbed Beacon.
The […]

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We have seen how popular the Eee PC is world wide and also in Singapore. Asus ups the ante with the awaited 8GB version of the Eee PC (double the storage space). The newer 8GB model will cost about US$499 and will be out late this December. The 8GB model comes with two flavours — […]

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After several days of testing and using Fedora 8, I was kinda loving it until I found out that my sound wasn´t working! Usually I will switch off my speaker when not in use, but yesterday I wanted to watch Prison Break S3 (again) and I was greeted with a silent video. I went to […]

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Singaporeans have been waiting eagerly for the launch of the Asus EEE PC after its debut on the market few months back. The launch of Asus EEE PC (4GB edition) was overwhelming. Scores of people were seen to have queued for the launch of the EEEPC yesterday. Sources said that by 9a.m., a queue had […]

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