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

We brought you a first look into Singapore’s Next Generation Broad-band Network (NGNBN) a few years back, slated for 2015 as the official completion date. At this point in time, a substantial number of Singaporean houses are already equipped with the optical fiber point. These fibre terminal points residing in the houses are […]

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After the recent spade of Apple’s bad publicity - specifically, the pointing of fingers to their direct competitors to defend themselves from an engineering fault - many of these companies that were brought into the circle of shame retaliated. And between all of those ‘come backs’, Motorola has the best of em all.
As of July […]

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Spec offers up to 7Gbps of wireless bandwidth
Wireless networking has changed the way we are able to access data in our homes and offices. Today we can move around the home while downloading documents and file without interrupting access to the internet. In the past, an internet connection meant using wires.
Like most things in the […]

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I noticed something fishy on Facebook a couple minutes ago. A few of my friends posted this message on their profile update on Facebook, via their mobile phone.
I’m 8 1/2 pounds lighter thanks to the FREE trial pack of this new colon cleanser that I got! visit ExpressColon.net to get yours! efO
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Looking through the list, some of these gadgets brought back bitter-sweet memories. Remember those days when it was unbearably funny to see your friends talking on their cool “N-Gage”? No doubt the concept of a portable gaming mobile phone was plausabile but what’s with placing the phone’s microphone at the side of the device? What […]

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The race to fast boot times is on, with MontaVista making the latest headlines. The embedded Linux vendor announced in the United States Tuesday its latest system is able to boot in one second, and released a video demonstrating a vehicle dashboard system going from cold boot into a “fully operational” state in that time.
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 The rumors may be getting closer to the truth, or vice versa, as a report surfaced from Taiwan today that Apple plans to releases its much discussed tablet computer this October. Guesstimated pricing: $800.
The Taiwanese site InfoTimes reports (in Chinese) that the device will have a 9.7-inch touchscreen, making it a tad smaller than most […]

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AMD beat its time to market estimates for “Istanbul”
The sluggish global economy has meant that not only were consumer computer sales down, but sales in the enterprise computing space for servers and data center computers were down significantly as well. The only thing for chipmakers like AMD and Intel to move ahead with new processors […]

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Intel has released some details of the next-generation Atom platform, code-named Pine Trail.
 
One of the most interesting revelation (apart from the late 2009 launch date) is that Intel is packing more into the CPU (code-named Pineview). The Pineview CPU will incorporate both the GPU and memory controller onto the CPU, which means that the number […]

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Smaller transistors mean lower prices are coming
Samsung Electronics has announced that it is shipping its 32GB moviNAND embedded memory card, built using a 30nm-class NAND manufacturing process. High density embedded memory cards are used to improve the performance of high-end multimedia phones and other mobile consumer electronics, especially when processing and storing large amounts of multimedia […]

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