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There is no way to categorize AMD’s recent launch of the RV770 graphics processor powering the Radeon HD 4800 series of cards as anything other than a resounding success. Cards based on the GPU hit the scene offering very strong performance in their respective price brackets, and forced rival NVIDIA to react with a quick round of price cuts that will surely eat into NVIDIA’s margins on the gigantic 65nm GT200 chip. Although actual sales figures aren’t available just yet, we suspect AMD is going to show strong

For some time now, rumors of the GPhone (or Google phone) have been circulating around the web.  While it didn’t make a whole lot of sense that Google was going to get into the hardware business, especially the highly competitive handset business, it seemed reasonable that Google had an interest in the handheld market for obvious reasons, not the least of which is the huge potential in search.  Though, as we came to find out, it wasn’t so much the hardware but the “platform” that

Your system will have the ability to read all popular digital media formats with this new Ultra All-In-One card reader/writer! You’ll quickly find that this All-In-One card reader is the fastest and easiest way to transfer images, music and data to your PC. Plus, you’ll extend your digital camera’s battery life when you transfer your files from the Ultra All-In-One card reader. And it’s fully compatible with both USB 1.1 and 2.0. This Ultra All-In-One card reader is easy to install (Plug & Play) and boasts handy LED lights that indicate power and media access status.
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New Intel vPro Technology Enhances Security, Adds Automatic Tune-Ups and Thinks for Itself Third Generation Enables Virtualized PC Models, Services for Small Businesses Intel introduces the third generation of Intel vPro Technology with a host of new features, some that enable PCs to “think and act for themselves,” and all can now operate outside the corporate firewall. New features include: Fast Call for Help, Remote Schedule Maintenance, Remote Alert, Access Monitor and Microsoft NAP authentication. Also,

New Intel vPro Technology Enhances Security, Adds Automatic Tune-Ups and Thinks for Itself Third Generation Enables Virtualized PC Models, Services for Small Businesses Intel introduces the third generation of Intel vPro Technology with a host of new features, some that enable PCs to “think and act for themselves,” and all can now operate outside the corporate firewall. New features include: Fast Call for Help, Remote Schedule Maintenance, Remote Alert, Access Monitor and Microsoft NAP authentication. Also,

Recent Internet reports regarding the future of Firefox Mobile (seen here and here) assert that Mozilla will be holding off on a launch of Firefox Mobile until sometime in 2010.  This seemed a bit odd to us, so we went digging.

Although these reports state that 2010 is the year for the mobile version of the Firefox web browser, the reference material the reports cite simply suggest that the goal of the organization is to have a mobile version of Firefox by 2010. 

It seems strange that users would have to wait a year and a half to two years for this software.  We hope it’s not anywhere near that long.

We’ve been hearing for a few weeks that AT&T Mobility is planning to release its own re-branded version of the HTC Touch Pro.  Based on various online information, We now believe this handheld will be marketed as the AT&T Fuze.

It’s not yet clear how much the device will differ from the baseline Touch Pro model (if at all), but according to BGR, the AT&T Fuze will launch on or around October 23, 2008. 

The world's largest atom smasher, which was launched with great fanfare earlier this month, is more badly damaged than previously thought and will be out of commission for at least two months, its operators said Saturday. Experts have gone into the 17-mile (27-kilometer) circular tunnel housing the Large Hadron Collider under the Swiss-French border to examine the damage that halted operations about 36 hours after its September 10 startup and now the collider has to be warmed up to be repaired.

Gillies said the sector that was damaged will have to be warmed well above the absolute zero temperature used for operations so repairs can be made, a time-consuming process. “A number of magnets raised their temperature by around 100 degrees,” Gillies said. “We have now to warm up the whole sector in a controlled manner before we can actually go in and repair it.” The $10 billion particle collider, in the design and construction stages for more than two decades, is the world's largest atom smasher. It fires beams of protons from the nuclei of atoms around the tunnels at nearly the speed of light.

Intel released its dual-core Atom 330 processor on September 21 which will mainly target the nettop market. The CPU features a core frequency of 1.6GHz, 533MHz FSB, 1MB L2 cache and has a TDP of 8W. The Atom 330 processor is priced at US$40 in thousand-unit tray quantities, while the single-core Atom 230 is priced at US$29. We took a look at the single core Atom processor against the VIA Nano processor in this article if you wanted to catch up on the Atom 230 processor performance numbers.

The initial launch price of Atom 330-based motherboards in the channel is expected to surpass US$70, which will put Atom 330-based nettop prices at around US$299, while Atom 230-based nettops will be priced around US$249. The dual-core and single-core Atom processors are pin-compatible, single-core Atom platforms will only need a BIOS update to support the dual-core CPUs.