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Battery saver: BlackBerry Patent app describes screen illuminated by ambient light

A new BlackBerry Patent application details a way for a you guessed it BlackBerry device to harness ambient light in order to illuminate the device to a degree and in a manner appropriate to the immediate surroundings. That would be ambient light, and...

Tags: Body, Panel, Device, Light, System, Section, Battery, RIM BlackBerry, LCD, App, Path, Embodiment, 14A, Backlighting, Collector Section, 12A, Lens 414, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-08-30

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VIA HyperionPro (zip)

VIA HyperionPro drivers are suitable for any VIA chipset and all Microsoft Windows 32-bit operating systems. There are two main differences between a VIA Hyperion 4in1 driver package and a VIA HyperionPro package: The HyperionPro package includes SATA/RAID drivers and supports 64-bit Microsoft Windows XP and 64-bit Windows Server 2003....

Tags: VIA Technologies Inc., Microsoft Windows, 64-Bit, Serial ATA, Chipsets, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, RAID, Network Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Storage, Networking

Software downloads 2007-12-26

If the truth about Linux hurts ... shoot the messenger

Apparently, a fair number of my readers think I am either clueless about Linux or worse, that I am just plain anti-Linux.  Actually, both assumptions couldn't be further from the truth!  Linux is a great operating system.  In fact, it is as good a UNIX clone as there ever was.  Lots...

Tags: IT Community, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Marc Wagner

Blog posts 2007-11-14

AMD: Is closing the quad-core deficit enough?

AMD kicked off the "premier" of their latest microprocessor offering with a launch party at the Herbst International Exhibit Hall Monday night.  Partners like VMware, HP, Dell, Sun, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and others were on hand or were there by video link to celebrate the launch of AMD's single-die quad-core...

Tags: Processor, Performance, Quad-core, Barcelona, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., SPECint_rate2006, SPECjbb2005, FBDIMM, Scott Wasson, Performance Management, Processors, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-09-12

Leaked - AMD Barcelona versus Intel Clovertown and Tigerton

[UPDATE 9/10/2007 - My leaked extrapolated scores below are now officially confirmed on SPEC.org for Integer and Floating Point.  Since I only had two significant figures on percentage gain to work off of from the leaked slides, I was off by up to 0.3 which is to be expected.  AMD's official Barcelona launch announced newer scores...

Tags: Performance, Barcelona, Slide, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., George Ou

Blog posts 2007-09-11

BlackBerry patent app describes Bluetooth headsets with less interference vulnerability

A newly published BlackBerry Patent application calls for a Bluetooth headset with less vulnerability to RF electromagnetic interference.The Patent app is entitled: Wireless headset having improved RF immunity to RF electromagnetic interference produced from a mobile wireless communications device.A read of the Abstract gets us in the ballpark in terms...

Tags: BlackBerry hardware, BlackBerry Patents

Blog posts 2007-05-31

Say hello to HoverPod

Remember all the rumors about Apple's "true video" iPod? The one with the full-screen display and the virtual click wheel that appeared and disappeared as needed? My problem with that concept was something that has been the scourge of the iPod nano - scratches.I originally dismissed the early "all-screen" (or...

Tags: full-screen display, Apple Computer Inc., full-Screen

Blog posts 2006-07-21

Voting machine transparency costs one county clerk

Voting machine transparency costs one county clerkThe Problem Is....If you buy a new car and it has problems WHO do you take it to first?? The Dealer which you bought it from or your cousin the mechanic down the street. If he didn't like the quality of the machines...

Tags: SECURITY, Diebold Inc., Bruce Funk

Discussion threads 2006-03-29