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Silicon Valley chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices will eliminate 1,100 jobs - roughly 9 percent of its workforce - in the first quarter, according to a report on Marketwatch. The company also said it will suspend its 401(k) match for employees and that executive chairman Hector Ruiz and CEO Dirk Meyer each will temporarily take a […]

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Medfield will feature memory controller, graphics, and I/O on single die
A new roadmap has cropped up that shows the future of Intel’s Atom processors that power the majority of netbook computers on the market today. The Atom has proven to be very successful for Intel and future versions will offer even more power and performance.
CNET […]

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I hope people can spread this around, especially on the web community. Someone apparently managed to get hold of Facebook accounts and have been spreading malicious links through personal messages. The message goes something like this,

Title: I hope, your friends will see this film as well.
<Embedded Link to a video>
Vid title: Tom’s Secret Video.
Vid link: […]

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AMD processors launching starting in January 2009 through June 2009 unveiled
AMD is placing its hopes of regaining market share lost to Intel on its new line of processors set for launch next year. AMD is planning to launch a lot of processors, 14 of them to be exact according to the latest roadmap uncovered.
HKEPC says […]

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Researchers have found an exploit in the designs of modern browsers which is now termed the “most dangerous exploit” ever. It was so highly classified that very little was disclosed after a closed door meeting between the researchers and the browser developers. Till now, no developer (not even Microsoft or Firefox developers) have release any […]

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Intel rounds off its developers forum with a wild new upcoming tech
Wireless is one of those hot tech catch-alls of the new millennium.  There’s wireless broadcasters and receivers, utilizing such technology as WiMax, 802.11n, and Bluetooth.  There’s wireless gaming controllers.  There’s just about wireless everything — except power transmission.
Wireless power transmission is something that inventor […]

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While its competitors languish, Google continues to rake in the money thanks to its hale advertising endeavors.

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“Never let go”

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Firefox’s 3 much heralded launch campaign appears to have worked, with the company reporting that in the first few hours of release 14,000 people were downloading the software every minute.
With each copy of Firefox 3 clocking in at 7MB, that means the company’s servers were dealing with a staggering 13 gigabits of data every second. […]

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Last heard from the PC Show that all the “Diamonds” offered from Starhub are snapped up this afternoon. I’m not sure whether will there be any replenishment of stocks later or even tomorrow.
Elsewhere, UK has already sold out all their HTC Touch Diamonds. It seems to me that Diamonds aren’t just “a girl’s best friend. […]

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