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Hands-on with the AMD Spider - Phenom 9700, 790 chipset and Radeon 3850 graphics

Hands-on with the AMD Spider - Phenom 9700, 790 chipset and Radeon 3850 graphicsOh, that's right. I did forget. Thanks Adrian! ;)How come such a 'slow' drive? What? Only 10,000 rpm? ;)Seriously, spin that puppy up. Rock and Roll.I'll be waiting for a 65w Quad-Core...

Tags: Chipsets, Semiconductors, Games, Processors, 64-bit, Network technology, 64-bit computing, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Phenom 9700, GPU, Radeon 3850, Hands-On, Radeon, chipset, graphics

Discussion threads 2008-01-08

Flash analysis: Takeaways from Jobs keynote; 64-bit Leopard is big

Flash analysis: Takeaways from Jobs keynote; 64-bit Leopard is bigNews flash for you99% of people in this world have no desire to control their OS on a low level. However, 99% of people in this world do think WGA is a pain in the *** and that Vista's tiered pricing...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Network technology, Operating systems, 64-bit computing, analysis, Tiger OS X 10.4, 64-bit, Microsoft Windows, Apple Safari, Microsoft Windows Vista, Leopard, Apple Inc., job

Discussion threads 2007-06-11

Adobe 'no64' Photoshop CS3 launches

Adobe 'no64' Photoshop CS3 launchesHummmmmm!!"Double wide 64 bit CPU registers which allow larger number calculations to be performed in fewer CPU cycles."Wrong cow-boy, in 64 bits processors only the register for the integer units get to be 64 bits wide, the floating point units have been using 64 bits registers...

Tags: Network technology, Kinda, 64-bit computing, 64-bit, Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PhotoShop

Discussion threads 2007-03-28

Good introduction to multicore systems

Good introduction to multicore systemsThanks Will Hold Off On My Intel 8088 UpgradeI'll hold off on upgrading my IBM PC/XT Intel 8088--maybe the price on one of those 'average' multicore cell Desktop systems will come down some more!Thanks for the multicore article George! :)According to Wikipedia.....The POWER 4 was...

Tags: Network technology, Games, PC-Gamer, 64-bit, multi-core, game, 64-bit computing, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-12-12

Intel expanding 64-bit Xeon family

Intel expanding 64-bit Xeon familyMe too, me too!!Too little, too late. AMD has the momentum now - Intel, you were caught sleeping . . .IgnoreRANT disToo little too late? 64 bit computing is not mainstream, outside of the limited enterprise market, no one uses 64bit. What is Intel late to?...

Tags: Network technology, Processors, 64-bit computing, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., 64-bit, Intel Xeon

Discussion threads 2005-02-09

AREVA - Energy Management Software Ported to Cost-Effective 64-bit Computing Platform

The Automation and Information Systems group of the Power Transmission and Distribution unit of multinational company AREVA needed to update its e-terraplatform suite of products for the electric power industry to run on a modern, cost-effective 64-bit computing platform. The e-terraplatform suite, which consists of roughly 3.5 million lines of...

Tags: Software, 64-bit Computing, Suite, Microsoft Corp., 64-Bit, Network Technology, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Networking

Case studies 2004-11-30

Poste Italiane Group Takes Advantage of 64-Bit Computing With Messaging Upgrade

Poste Italiane Group offers its customers throughout Italy a variety of services, from postal products and delivery to e-Business solutions. Poste Italiane wanted to further develop the business-critical areas of its technology infrastructure. One major component of this project was the consolidation of its messaging systems and a migration to...

Tags: 64-bit Computing, Environment, Messaging, Poste Italiane Group, Messaging Environment, Instant Messaging, 64-Bit, Groupware, Internet, Online Communications, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Enterprise Software, Software

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Audio Professionals Get Better Sound Quality, Higher Performance With 64-Bit Computing

Steinberg Media Technologies, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, provides audio-processing software for more than 1.5 million musicians, composers, sound engineers, and other audio professionals, worldwide. The company's Virtual Studio Technology VST is the standard interface through which most of the software interacts on an audio workstation. Third-party vendors use VST to...

Tags: Software, 64-bit Computing, Performance, Plug-in, Performance Management, Taxes, 64-Bit, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Financial Planning, Finance, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

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AMD turbo boosts Flash Player 10.1 with ATI Stream technology

AMD seems to be the more viable choice nowThey certainly have improved their offerings over Intel and NVIDIA, which both seem to be up in the air at the moment. Intel isn't focused on offering good mainstream performance for the dollar - they're only working on Atom and the...

Tags: Chipsets, Processors, Semiconductors, Macromedia Flash Player, NVidia Corp., Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., ATI Technologies Inc., AMD 785G, GPU, AMD Athlon, chipset

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Schmidt: Worst of recession is over; Google is hiring

Google exceeded Wall Street's expectations for the third quarter by reporting net income of $1.88 billion, or $5.89 per share, on revenue of $5.94 billion, up 7 percent from the same quarter a year ago. Excluding traffic acquisition costs, Google's revenue was $4.38 billion. Wall Street analysts had been expecting...

Tags: Hiring, Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Advertisement, Mobile, Recession, Investment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-15

Microsoft buys desktop parallel-computing software maker ISC

the regulators should stop this dealM$ is an evil monopoly and should not be allowed to buy any company.Sounds great! NT.Hoping this brings massively multi-cpu/gpu supportThis is a technology area they badly need to boost. The future lies with massive numbers of CPU and GPU cores. Bringing in some expertise...

Tags: Processors, Operating systems, desktop, CPU, Microsoft Corp., operating system, software, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

Would you buy a personal supercomputer (for $8K)?

I would buy one if I were...a research company crushing data, a graphics design films or static,... There are other candidates, not preciselly niche-players.I understand this goes against curent cluster computing, but it must make sense in some cases.O.o personal...sure >.> NTntOne Question?Can it play Doom?RenderingDepending on the video specs...

Tags: Memory, Processors, supercomputer

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

Live blog from Apple's "It's only Rock n Roll" event

No "We're Dumping AT&T"??I'm disappointed.No way they'd mention AT&T at allit would be embarrassing for the hall to fill with the boo's.Whoopty doo...An iPod Nano with a video camera. That's all they could come up with? :-(So......? Isn't the whole point of an MP3 player to choose the songs YOU...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Investment, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., FM-radio, ZuneHD

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

Rackspace goes for it: Plots infrastructure buildout; Notches enterprise wins

Rackspace is adding cloud and hosting customers at a healthy clip and plopping down the capital spending to go with it. The company upped its 2009 capital expenditure outlook as it builds out its infrastructure and chases enterprise customers. On Rackspace's second quarter earnings conference call, the...

Tags: Rackspace, Patrick Walravens, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Revamped NetApplications data: Bad for IE and Mac OS, good for Chrome

Revamped NetApplications data: Bad for IE and Mac OS, good for ChromeFinally Properly Weighted Statistics ...This is what I've been screaming about in numerous posts about Net Applications so called "global" market share data that excluded most of the world's population. Finally they got the hint because they were starting...

Tags: Operating systems, Linux, Desktops, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, operating system, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-08-03

The history and future of Chrome OS

The history and future of Chrome OSGoogle - MicrosoftMicrosoft MS like all monopolies has grown fat and sloppy - just look at Vista. What a piece of crap that was and is and MS made millions off this nightmare. They more than control all desk top software, they...

Tags: Operating systems, INTERNET, Network Boot, Chrome, Chrome OS, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-07-11

Are legacy game consoles making a comeback?

I am not a gamer. I don't spend hours of my time in front of a computer screen playing games because quite simply, I don't have the time. That is until this summer when I moved into my new house, everyone else buggered off back to their respective homes around...

Tags: Console, Game Console, Games, Personal Technology, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-07-09

Skalc (Club version) 1.2.2 (Mobile)

Skalc is a complete program computing skating scores using the new OBO-2000One By One Method defined by the ISU International Skating Union running on a PalmPilot organiser.NB: Zip files are the same in Personal and Club version. The difference is the registeration key type for which you will apply.NB: WABA...

Tags: Mobile, Data Entry, Limitation, Skating OBO Calculator, Skalc

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Maine remains at the forefront of 1:1 with 64k Macs on order

Maine remains at the forefront of 1:1 with 64k Macs on orderRock on Maine! [nt][b][/b]RE: Maine remains at the forefront of 1:1 with 64k Macs on order"Imagine going to a job where the company provides you with a laptop for 3 years and then switching jobs, only to find that...

Tags: Desktops, Recruitment & Selection, Apple Macintosh, job

Discussion threads 2009-06-30

Maine remains at the forefront of 1:1 with 64k Macs on order

InformationWeek is reporting on Maine's latest efforts to expand its 1:1 computing initiative. According to the posting, The massive order stems from the state Department of Education's decision to expand the Maine Learning Technology Initiative into all public high schools. Maine has been providing Apple...

Tags: Maine, Apple Macintosh, Teacher, Notebooks, Recruitment & Selection, Desktops, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-06-30