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

Auburn (CA) – Most small businesses and consumers do not have elaborate disaster recovery plans in place, which means that their data may be at risk, especially if backups are stored nearby. Fire and water can wipe out at least portions of the contents stored on hard drives in a matter of seconds. ioSafe announced […]

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For many months, the Eee-PC has been at the top of many wish lists (including mine) and it had claimed consecutive months of being the “best-selling product” all over the world! Can the new MSI Wind dodge the Asus Eee-PC from its top spot? Let’s see!

News of an Eee-PC killer were going around way back […]

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So we’ve heard about the Intel’s revolutionary ATOM chip which consumes less than a few watts of power. Coupled that with a mobile device, it gives you the ability to have a longer battery life without much sacrifice with regards to performance. Asus saw the opportunity and used the Atom chip on its ever-popular Eee-PC.
The […]

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The next big thing with über sleek & thin laptops with crystal clear displays will be the Samsung AM-OLED (Active Matrix OLED) 12.1 inch laptop.  Move over MacBook Air because the Samsung SDI comes with a sleek touch sensitive keyboard which allows the laptop to be extremely thin. However, the keyboard is yet to be […]

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A wide variety of boot problems have been reported with Windows XP SP3, fortunately many of them are very fixable
Windows XP remains a standard throughout much of the IT community, and remains popular among consumers as well.  Thus many consumers are pleased that Windows XP Service Pack 3 is back in action, after being pulled […]

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Sunnyvale (CA) - AMD has updated its server processor roadmap with single-die 6-core and dual-die 12-core Opteron processors. The new processors will be manufactured in a 45 nm process that will be introduced with the Shanghai quad-core later this year.
When Intel rolls out its Nehalem processors later this year, AMD appears to be better prepared […]

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Beyond the horizon, a Dodeca-Core cpu exists? (Dodceca - combining form meaning “twelve,” used in the formation of compound words.)
Do you still remember the days when looking for a CPU was a pretty boring and easy task? Look for the highest frequency processor you could find and wa-la! You’ve just got yourself the beast-iest number crunching […]

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Like something straight out of the movies, MIT’s NEXI body has human-like expressions and speech, which is either really cool or really creepy
Scientist continue to push the boundaries of artificial intelligence, deploying robots and computer AIs into increasingly complex and varied situations.
Many observers on robotics and artificial intelligence, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, remain skeptical […]

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A chip that could lead to longer-lasting, self-charging mobile devices and more. 
Researchers at MIT and Texas Instruments have designed a new chip for portable electronics that could be up to 10 times more energy-efficient than present technology. Given its reduced power consumption, the new chip could lead to cell phones, handheld computers, and remote sensors […]

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Researchers at the University of Bangor have developed technology that could increase the speed of home broadband one hundred times over. A device the size of a DVD player, created by Dr Jianming Tang and his team at the University’s School of Electronic Engineering, can allegedly squeeze 100 times the data transfer rate from a […]

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