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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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Nokia, together with the University of Cambridge, have came out with a concept phone which is radically flexible and able to morph or change itself — by using advance nanotechnology. The Morph concept is touted to revolutionize the future of phones and mobile devices where these devices need not have the conventional brick or clamshell […]

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Austin (TX) - The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin is now running the world’s most powerful supercomputing system for open science research. Ranger is expected provide more than 500 million processor hours of computing time to the science community, performing more than 200,000 years of computational work over […]

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Getting a reception would be the last thing on your mind if you happen to be half way to the top of the tallest mountain in the world. I don’t think you’d even bother to bring your phone up the treacherous climb! However, a technology breakthrough will change the way mountaineers communicate.
China Mobile have successfully […]

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So you’ve just got your new computer with your hard earned cash. If you’ve DIY-ed your rig, you’ll be in a tight position when you’re choosing one of the important component of your new computer — your operating system. You could choose to go with free OS like the various flavours of Linux distros or […]

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How do you actually recognize a good computer programmer? By looking at his/her CV? Looking at the companies he/she had worked for and the projects he/she was involved in? It could be a daunting task, to pick a good programmer from a pool of competent programmers (like picking a needle from a haystack — just […]

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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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A single computer that handles all your internet instructions; It could also probably store all the information that exists in the virtual world. Sounds like an AI from a SCI-FI book. But dreaming big, IBM looks to host entire internet on a single modified Blue Gene supercomputer.
Thomas Watson, founder of IBM, is oft misquoted as […]

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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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Latest on the Google vs. Microsoft fight to get Yahoo — For the first time in the company’s history, the multi-billion dollar company is actually planning to borrow money to fund the move on buying over Yahoo! It seems that Microsoft is planning to break the bank for Yahoo.
When Microsoft first announced its plan to […]

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