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10 Watts, 4 Watts — why stop there? Intel debuts 0.6 Watt x86 processor

A flurry of announcements and roadmaps from Intel this week shed light on the company’s 5.5 Watt Penryn and the 4 Watt Diamondville processors. The company went one step further today, claiming it can get a fairly powerful x86 processor down […]

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With more advanced technologies like voice recognition and touch screen, the role of the conventional QWERTY keyboard may reach it’s final destination soon. The conventional keyboards will be replaced by high tech key recognition modules that can be attached or embedded within a computer system.
Microsoft envisions the future computers without keyboards but voice recognition modules […]

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I was just surfing around for Asus Eee PC prices when I came across this offer @ BIZGRAM (a shop at Sim Lim Square). In my opinion, that’s really a good price for the Asus Eee PC. Too bad I don’t have spare cash with me now to splurge on it. Do check this out!

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Microsoft’s decision to hold back Vista SP1 from IT professionals has caused a deluge of complaints on the TechNet blog, which Microsoft has swiftly silenced. Although PC manufacturers have been given access to copies of the software, IT professionals will have to wait until March when the update will also be released to home users.
This […]

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Many of us have already snapped this swanking gadget by Apple, despite its bugs and its locked-in mechanism. We managed to look pass these drawbacks and be mersmerized by its beauty and ingenuity. I must say, the Apple iPhone is a piece of art. But if you are amongst those who haven’t own this piece […]

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Apple has announced that they will upgrade the memory size of new generation iPhones to 16GB and iPod Touch to 32GB. Although a bigger memory space will definitely benefit most users with more space for music, videos and photos but it does come with an added premium cost. An iPhone with 16GB will be priced […]

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Late last month, Apple added to it’s colourful range of iPod Nano – a chick-pink version of the iPod Nano. The colour Pink on electronic gadgets, a new tech-fashion-fad-colour, is on the rise to cater to the growing proportion of women buying their own electronic devices. Unlike the past, where the ladies aren’t very fond of small gadgets, the colour/aesthetics […]

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Dell is reportedly close to releasing a smartphone based on Google’s Android operating system. Senior industry sources suggest that the two companies will make an announcement about the new hardware at next month’s 3GSM conference, claims Marketing Week.
Dell has experience in the PDA market, selling Windows Mobile devices under the Axim brand […]

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Zdnet ran an interview with Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla (the person who worked on Netscape and father of Javascript) in one of their shows, “_super_ _techies_”. A must watch, sincere and awe inspiring interview, especially for those who are thinking of breaking through to the IT industries.
Watch the video here.

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I was trying to get work done today when all of a sudden, my internet connection started to crawl to snail-speed. And it has been happening quite often lately. It’s so frequent that I find it unproductive to do work online at times! Initially, I thought I was the only soul experiencing the speed problem. […]

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