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Just how valuable is the newly appointed CEO, Tim Cook to Apple?

Published on 2011-08-28 13:46:00

Just how valuable > read more

Computer Tools for Stress Testing, Overclock Validation and Monitoring

Published on 2011-07-14 12:05:00

Hi guys!I was wondering what to post today - So i thought i would share some good applications with you! Enjoy! All > read more

Badly Stuffed Animals! :-D

Published on 2011-07-13 14:44:00

Hey guys! Check out this page on Facebook. I pissed my self laughing by all them pictures of "badly" stuffed animals! Good stuff! Enjoy! http://www.facebook.com/badlystuffedanimals > read more

Google+ Soon Over 10 Million Users

Published on 2011-07-13 14:28:00

After some calculations and estimations by Paul Allen, he have got to the number that around 9.5 Million users have joined Google+ and the 2.2 Million of them have joined Google+ in the last 32-34 hours!Though, this is coming from a 3rd party source so these data isn’t official! Accordingly some other News sites have asked Google for a comment about these numbers, but haven’t received any so far. Google+ Page on Facebook announced earlier that Google+ might hit 20 Million users by Sunday thi [..] > read more

400 Million Windows 7 Licenses sold.

Published on 2011-07-12 11:11:00

Microsoft announced this Monday that they have now sold 400 million Windows 7 licenses and also are encouraging users to switch from Windows XP to Windows 7. CEO Steve Ballmer said that on the 1-Year Anniversary of Windows 7 last year, they had sold 240 million licenses. Microsoft also announced that customer will have 1,000 days until the company will stop support Windows XP. Senior Director for Windows Commercial Product Marketing Team, Erwin Visser says: "Windows XP served us well, but in the [..] > read more

Fundamental breakthrough in heat transfer for microelectronics

Published on 2011-07-12 10:37:00

Sandia National Laboratories are a big company with a lot of visions and “missions” to do. They are also in charge of ensuring that U.S. nuclear arsenal is safe, secure and reliable. They are also doing research on killing cancer cells with nanotechnology.Anyway, they have also developed a new thing for Computer environments. Sandia National Laboratories have now developed a new technology which has the potential to dramatically change the air-cooling for computers and microelectronics, and [..] > read more

Mini DisplayPort-to-HDMI now illegal

Published on 2011-07-11 11:53:00

The people who are responsible for the licensing of HDMI ( High-Definition Multimedia Interface ) are now making a demand for companies that are making DisplayPort-to-HDMI cables/converters, that they need to stop their productions of those and recall ALL products. The President of HDMI Licensing, Steve Venuti, says the following: "We are committed to protecting the over 1,000 HDMI adopters and the many consumers who use HDMI products by enforcing the HDMI trademark against counterfeiters." "It [..] > read more

BREAKING NEWS: NVIDIA 28nm Kepler Delayed! 2012 Launch instead.

Published on 2011-07-09 04:41:00

It has been announced that Kepler is NOT going to be released Q4 2011, sorry folks. The reason for this is bad production yields and lower performance than expected. Also TSMC expected to be at full scale production of the 28nm chips in 2011, but because of growing inconsistencies resulting in delays, this is not going to happen. So it also seems that AMDs Southern Islands are going to be delayed since they are also relying on the 28nm chip production. I really don’t want to be TSMC right now; [..] > read more

HTC have bought VIA S3 Graphics technology

Published on 2011-07-08 10:56:00

The Taiwanese company HTC, have bought VIA Technology S3 Graphics technology for $300 million dollars, which will give HTC an advantage regarding graphics in their tablets and smartphones. The CEO of S3 Graphics, Dr. Ken Weng said that their S3 Graphics technology has been implemented in over more than one billiom game consoles, mobile devices and computers worldwide. Also it seems that the deal is going to be settled at late 2011 So it is going to be exciting to see when HTC will start impleme [..] > read more

NVIDIA: 28nm Kepler chips ready for Notebooks

Published on 2011-07-07 00:27:00

NVIDIA held a conference or partner roundup in Lisbon Portugal, where some of the people who attended that conference have confirmed that some of NVIDIAs 28nm notebook chips are almost ready for production, maybe even this week! So we might see some good news later this week or next week, even some more details please! J Anyway, it seems that NVIDIA might try to start launching these notebook chips along with Ivy Bridge 22nm. Again it depends on how NVIDIA feels and what the right time is to do [..] > read more