AMD and Intel’s six-core CPU plans revealed by mobo makers You have to love DigiTimes and those loquacious sources it seems to keep finding. The latest word from the Taiwanese grapevine suggests that both Intel and AMD will be bringing out six-core CPUs to the consumer market by the middle of this year. We’re...
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Virgin goes underwater with Necker Nymph aero submarine Cor blimey! Sir Richard Branson sure is ambitious. Just when you thought conquering the final frontier was all that the Virgin empire was fixated upon, today it announces a new product for its Limited Edition retreats on Planet Earth — the Necker Nymph aero submarine. As...
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Apple and Fujitsu inevitably caught up in iPad trademark dispute Well, here we go again. Apple might have stolen all the headlines yesterday with the iPad, but as we’ve already noted, that name has been in dispute since September — and it doesn’t look like Fujitsu, which has been selling its own iPad since...
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Researchers aim to give surgeons 3D maps, directions of human body While a GPS-style ‘navigation system’ for surgeons may not seem like the best idea to anyone that’s ever been led astray by their dash-mounted co-pilot, it apparently seemed like a good enough idea for a group of researchers at the University of Twente...
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Microsoft reports $6.66b Q1 net profit, Windows 7 ‘fastest selling OS in history’ Microsoft‘s gotta be pretty happy with its second quarter results, especially after two previous quarters of somewhat downtrodden reports. The company’s posting a record $19.02 billion in revenue, a 14 percent increase year-over-year. Net income / profit was $6.66 billion. Buoyed...
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Apple iPad first hands-on! Here it is folks, the Apple iPad. The screen is gorgeous, tilting is responsive, and the thing is super thin. Still, if you’ve used the iPhone before — and you can see the two devices side-by-side here — there’s not a lot of surprises here so far. Here are some...
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Apple iPad first hands-on! Here it is folks, the Apple iPad. The screen is gorgeous, tilting is responsive, and the thing is super thin. Still, if you’ve used the iPhone before — and you can see the two devices side-by-side here — there’s not a lot of surprises here so far. Here are some...
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Apple Makes It Official — and It’s Called the iPad Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad, Apple’s new tablet computer today at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. Apple’s CEO said that it is designed to be ‘better than the laptop, better than the smartphone,’ and can handle many basic functions: ‘Browsing the web....
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EntroSys motorcycle air conditioning and heating system now taking pre-orders, we wants it (video) We’ll go ahead and say what you’re thinking: a silver hose running up the front of your jacket doesn’t really augment any established motorcycle style. This thing looks like a canister vac that’s gone rogue and hitched a ride on...
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‘Avatar’ Passes ‘Titanic’ to Become Highest Grossing Movie Ever Made Surprise, surprise! Titanic has finally been de-throned. Just yesterday in our Weekend Box Office, Eugene Novikov noted how Avatar was sure to become the number one-grossing film in the next day or two. Right on schedule, The Hollywood Reporter posts that Avatar is now...
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