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- intel itanium 2 microarchitecture Enables MKB to Compete in a Growing Market
- MKB, one of Hungary's top three banks, wished to support its growth strategy and stay ahead of the market by acquiring more companies and customers. To achieve this, the bank needed to improve and extend the services it offered to customers, by improving its Internet banking system and optimising core...
- Tags: Internet Banking, Intel Itanium, Intel Itanium 2, Intel Corp., Intel Itanium 2 Microarchitecture, Banking, Internet, Processors, Financial Services, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
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- Microsoft, HP ready XP SP3 endless-reboot patches
- Help is on its way for users affected by the Windows XP Service Pack SP 3 endless-reboot problem that has plagued some users for the past week-plus. Both Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard are readying patches that should remedy the glitch, which seems to affect primarily users of AMD-based...
- Tags: Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Rumor Mill: What's next from Apple (updated)
- It's Friday, which means that it's time to look at the latest raft of rumors about our favorite Cupertino company. Atom-powered mini-tablet This one was pretty hot. ZDNet.de reported that Intel Germany CEO Hannes Schwaderer confirmed that there is an iPhone that will be using Intel's...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Minitablet PC, Intel Corp., Notebooks, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Fight card: AMD Radeon 4800 vs. Nvidia GTX 200
- The high-end graphics card market isn't the straightforward, mano-a-mano battle it used to be. Graphics cards with dual GPUs, systems with multiple cards in CrossFire or SLI implementations, and most recently hybrid graphics have all muddied the picture. Meanwhile, Intel has improved its integrated graphics and has long-term plans in...
- Tags: Card, NVidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Radeon, GPU, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Verdiem spruces up its Survey PC power management software
- Verdiem, one of the better known developers of power management software that counts Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Microsoft among its close partners, has delivered an impressive upgrade to its Surveyor technology. According to the Seattle-based company, the focus was on providing IT managers with even more configuration flexibility than previously available....
- Tags: Software, Power Management, PC, Power Consumption, Survey, Verdiem, Desktops, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- OCZ debuts DIY gaming notebooks
- Here's something that fans of building their own PCs will be interested in - OCZ has launched a build-it-yourself gaming notebook kit. The idea is simple. You buy a kit (currently there's no word on pricing but the wording on the OCZ website suggest that this will...
- Tags: Game, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Dell Inspiron desktop now $300
- Dell Inspiron desktop now $300Those lower-end dual-core Intel Core 2 based machines run around 50 wattsThose lower-end dual-core Intel Core 2 based machines run around 50 watts idle http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=934. A Sempron single-core machine idles at around 70 watts and performs much slower.Two weeks only?So, they are offering this price...
- Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Dell Computer Corp., Dell Inspiron, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Corp., desktop
- Discussion threads 2008-05-14
- Dell Inspiron desktop now $300
- Dell has cut the price of its budget Inspiron 530 by $140. The $300 configuration includes a 2.0GHz Pentium E2180 dual-core processor, 1GB of memory, a 320GB hard drive, Intel GMA 3100 graphics, and Windows XP. The deal is part of a Dell tax rebate marketing gambit...
- Tags: Desktop, Hard Drive, Dell Computer Corp., Memory, Microsoft Windows Vista, Rebate, Graphics, Dell Inspiron, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Notebooks, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Benchmarks: Psystar v. Mac mini (and all three MacBooks)
- Benchmarks: Psystar v. Mac mini and all three MacBooksThe tests Adrian refused to runI guess he was going to find that his Mac Mini was not a good purchase anyway.RE: Benchmarks: Psystar v. Mac mini and all three MacBooksWell what do the numbers indicate ??? Larger numbers better or worse...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Desktops, Psystar, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, computer, Tiny Computers
- Discussion threads 2008-05-14
- Intense (and really thoughtful) ranting from the OLPC front
- Ivan Krstić has made his way into this blog before. As OLPC's former director of security architecture and one closely involved with their Peru rollout, his posts offered great insights into just how the XO worked or was supposed to work on the backend. Now he,...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Ivan KrstiÄ, Nicholas, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- The MS Office 2008 for Mac scandal continues
- Can Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit expect anything but frustration from its installed base of users? The excuses from the development team are wearing very, very thin. The news today was that the group was able to get its first batch of 1,000 bug...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office 2004, MacTech, Ticktin, Scripting Languages, Microsoft Office, Desktops, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Intel shows mobile Internet devices
- Intel shows mobile Internet devicessevenOS : vhat ve see is vhat is stored in memorisevenVeb on sevenFon sevenOS : http://sevenfon.googlepages.com/vys9vsm.JPG S9P9KS : http://www.sipix.com/applications/smartcards.html sevenfon : http://sevenfon.googlepages.com/ halfbyte : http://wysiwsm.googlepages.com/countonhand.JPG pcb : http://wysiwsm.googlepages.com/pcb.bmp ...
- Tags: mobile Internet device, Internet device, Intel Corp., mobile
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- The key to Windows success? It's all about the drivers
- The key to Windows success? It's all about the driversTrialware payolaSo I read Item#5 as something of curiosity in terms of who pays and who gets. So if Widget Mfg. installs Widgette software as trialware, Widgette pays Widget Mfg. a fee to get into the installation rotation? Then...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Widgette, Widget Mfg, Microsoft Corp., OEM
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- The key to Windows success? It's all about the drivers
- The greatest advantage of the Windows ecosystem is that there are so many choices. The biggest problem with the Windows ecosystem is that there are so many choices. Ironic, isn't it? The sheer number of choices means you can almost certainly...
- Tags: Problem, Driver, OEM, Graphics Subsystem, Vista/Server 2008/Win7 Ecosystem, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Notebooks, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Could "not so high end" gaming systems tarnish Alienware's reputation?
- Just as it seems that Dell is exiting the high-end gaming PC market by ditching the XPS line, Alienware announced its entry into the "not so high end" gaming market. Is this a good move for Alienware or could it dilute a brand considered to represent extreme gaming? ...
- Tags: Alienware, Games, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- New AMD Opterons are good news for schools
- New AMD Opterons are good news for schoolsYou need to get out more!The low power Intel designs have been out for months.And, with continuing competition, Intel will deliver what customers want.Isn't AMD great????Not a flame, just a question.I just happened to look today and saw that the AMD Phenom quads...
- Tags: Processors, Servers, AMD Opteron, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Xeon, New AMD Opterons, server
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- New AMD Opterons are good news for schools
- AMD, a company that has been struggling to compete meaningfully with Intel in the last year, announced new "highly efficient" quad-core processors for blade and rack servers. With energy costs increasing drastically and no relief in sight, schools looking to shave costs, as well as green their IT departments,...
- Tags: Desktop, Data Center, Performance, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Data Centers, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Thin Clients, Performance Management, Storage Management, Storage, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Components, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- HP seals EDS deal; Services No. 2 behind IBM; Hurd touts efficiencies
- HP seals EDS deal; Services No. 2 behind IBM; Hurd touts efficienciesShould have bought AMD first.They could have obtained EDS at a later date, then filled it with cheap AMD products. AMD is a steal right now! EDS is currently filled with IBM products.RE: HP seals EDS deal; Services No....
- Tags: Electronic Data Systems Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., No. 2
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- Microsoft's plan to block Linux on laptops
- Microsoft's plan to block Linux on laptopsHow in the heck did you reach that conclusion?Somehow I missed how MS will "block" Linux on laptops from the writeup. I assume you're implying that XP is so desirable over Linux that charging less than $30 is a slam dunk. ...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Notebooks, Microsoft Corp., Linux, laptop computer, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- Microsoft's plan to block Linux on laptops
- Details of Microsoft's recently announced plan to extend the life of Windows XP for ultra low-cost PCs are trickling out. IDG News got its hands on what it says are Microsoft documents outlining the program for PC manufacturers. Until now, the big question was: What exactly defines...
- Tags: Linux, PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
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