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SAPPHIRE and The Story of Stuff

SAPPHIRE and The Story of StuffExcellentIt's hard to fight the obsolete items, but when someone criticizes you on the Perceived Obsolescence it makes you feel less of a person. I think women have it worse in this cases so they can stay high in their social groups.For me on...

Tags: Gender and diversity, birth credit, SAPPHIRE

Discussion threads 2009-05-19

Sapphire 09 Live: Smart business plans, moral benchmarks

Sapphire 09 Live: Smart business plans, moral benchmarkssuperbMost comprehensive and objective review of a vendor event. Great job!RE: Sapphire 09 Live: Smart business plans, moral benchmarksadadadRE: Sapphire 09 Live: Smart business plans, moral benchmarksPaul, I would like to clarify a misunderstanding with regards to the words I had used in...

Tags: Blogging, Sapphire 09, Sapphire 09 Live, SAPPHIRE, moral benchmark

Discussion threads 2009-05-13

Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 (PCI-e 2.0, 2GB, GDDR3)

AMD bestowed its ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 graphics chips exclusively on board partner Sapphire to bring to retail. It started at $399 when it launched back in November, but prices have come down as low as $299 for the 2GB version reviewed here. At that price especially, we find...

Tags: PCI, Video cards, PCI Express, Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2, SAPPHIRE, Sapphire Radeon, Radeon HD, Radeon HD 4850, Radeon, card

Product reviews 2009-02-06

Sapphire make the Radeon HD 4650 and HD 4670 even better

Sapphire make the Radeon HD 4650 and HD 4670 even betterNeed some help Adrian!!!Adrian, I like to think of myself as somewhat tech-savy. Last year I bought an MSI ATI 2600 with 256 mbs of GDDR4 ram for about $110. I get decent performance with older Source games at max...

Tags: Games, Radeon HD 4650, HD 4670, Radeon HD, SAPPHIRE, Radeon

Discussion threads 2009-02-03

Sapphire make the Radeon HD 4650 and HD 4670 even better

Sapphire has taken two of ATI's mid-range Radeon HD 4600-series graphics card, thrown away the reference specification and added its own brand of special sauce to make the cards even better. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Card, Radeon, Sapphire, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-02-02

Sapphire debuts fastest Radeon HD 4670

Sapphire has just made the Radeon HD 4670 faster. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Memory, Radeon, Sapphire, Flash Memory, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-01-16

Sapphire debuts fastest Radeon HD 4670

Sapphire has just made the Radeon HD 4670 faster. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: sapphire, hd, radeon, gpu, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Image galleries 2009-01-16

On the road to Midori: RedHawk, MinSafe and Sapphire

On the road to Midori: RedHawk, MinSafe and SapphireFinally...So finally, Microsoft is embedding the .net framework into windows.. of course I totally agree, I mean I wanted that (http://www.amreldib.com/2007/12/windows-7-what-it-rumored-to-have-and.html) to happen.The managed code concept will really put the OS in charge of running all the applications and their security and...

Tags: .NET, Middleware, Microsoft Corp., RedHawk, Midori, SAPPHIRE, MinSafe, backward compatibility

Discussion threads 2008-07-09

Sapphire ships liquid cooled TOXIC X1950XTX and X1950 CrossFire Edition cards

Sapphire ships liquid cooled TOXIC X1950XTX and X1950 CrossFire Edition cardsPretty cool!Water Cooling is becoming more mainstream and much easier with solutions such as this.Fan speeds? having it both ways perhaps?In high-efficiency mode the fan spins at 2000RPM and generates 26dBA of noise. In quiet mode the fan reduces...

Tags: Toxic X1950XTX, X1950 CrossFire Edition, SAPPHIRE, Water-Cooling

Discussion threads 2006-10-13

Sapphire ships liquid cooled TOXIC X1950XTX and X1950 CrossFire Edition cards

Lets put DRM, WGA and SPP behind us for a little while and look at some cool new gear thats getting ready to hit the streets. And it doesnt get much cooler than the liquid cooled TOXIC X1950XTX and the limited edition X1950 CrossFire Edition graphics cards by Sapphire...

Tags: SAPPHIRE, card, Toxic X1950XTX

Blog posts 2006-10-13

The blogger corner at SAP's Sapphire conference

I missed SAP's Sapphire conference this week, attending to the Future in Review, Gartner Symposium, JavaOne and a root canal, but there is plenty of coverage. Some good, although sparse, coverage is coming from the bloggers Jeff Nolan coralled into attending the event in Orlando. Among ZDNet bloggers and SAP...

Tags: SAP AG, SAPPHIRE, blogger

Blog posts 2006-05-18

Sapphire 3.1 build 830 (Windows)

Sapphire is a full-featured, yet easy-to-use e-mail client which focuses on eliminating spam, avoiding virus and spyware infections, and keeping your emails neatly organized. No special setup or knowledge is necessary; simply install the software, configure your email account, and you're automatically protected against most virus threats and spam.version 3.1...

Tags: Backup, Microsoft Windows, Virus, Kurt Swasing, Sapphire, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications

Software downloads 2005-06-07

Additional Resources

Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Laptop computers

This year the laptop list was a tough assignment for several reasons. First, the emergence of a new class of ultra-thin laptops--spawned by lower-cost processors from Intel and AMD--has made things more complicated. Second, there's a fresh crop of Windows 7 laptops, and...

Tags: Processor, Hard Drive, Performance, Apple MacBook, Memory, Graphics, Laptop Computer, Netbook, Computer, Intel Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Compaq CQ61z, Timeline 1810T, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows 7, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-11-01

Ballmer to headline Windows 7 launch in New York City

Developers, developers, developers, developers... [nt][nt]Here's to that rounding error getting smaller:DRE: Ballmer to headline Windows 7 launch in New York CitySweet! Wish I could be there to see it. Who knows, maybe something will come up in NYC and I'll be there.RE: Ballmer to headline Windows 7 launch in...

Tags: Chipsets, Branding, developer, Microsoft Windows 7, Steve Ballmer, Gigabyte Technology, motherboard, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-08-27

Easy Hash 1.3 (Windows)

Simple file and text hash value calculator. Supports more than 130 hash functions including: Adler 16-3, BKDR Hash, CK SUM, CRC DNP, CRC-16 IBM, CRC-16 Kermit, CRC-16 Modbus, CRC-16 Sick, CRC-16 (X25), CRC-16 CCITT XModem, CRC-16 CCITT ZModem, CRC-24, CRC-32, CRC-32 bzip2, CRC-32 jam, CRC-32 mpeg-2, CRC-64 ECMA, FCS 16-32,...

Tags: Mambo, Drupal, Wordpress, CRC-16, Microsoft Windows, Digital Video, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-08-07

Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Reduces Inventory Costs by 15%, Cuts Reporting Time With Oracle E-Business Suite R12

Al-Abbas Sugar Mills wanted to replace ageing accounting system with a more advanced platform to increase visibility into payables and receivables and automate procure-to-pay process and improve supply chain management. The challenge was to implement a system to track requisitions and approvals and ensure a transparent audit trail and reduce...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle E-Business Suite, Al-Abbas Sugar Mills, Operational Accounting, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Finance, Software

Case studies 2009-08-01

Scientists create 'transparent aluminum,' call it a new state of matter

Scientists create 'transparent aluminum,' call it a new state of matterSo I guess...We are not quite to the star trek level of using transparent aluminum to replace all our glass... dang...pic or it didn't happen! ntntI guess they can be paid in "femto-dollars"?What is next .... military "intelligence"?Cool! They can...

Tags: aluminum, transparent aluminum

Discussion threads 2009-07-31

SAP: Is the worst over?

Analysts have been tripping over themselves trying to call the trough of demand for SAP applications. SAP detailed quote has been upgraded twice in two days. Bank of America-Merrill Lynch upgraded SAP to buy from neutral on Thursday given "the low expectation level." Simply put, business isn't...

Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Outsourcing, Financial Planning, Financial Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-09

Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit List' for Jul/Aug 09

Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit List' for Jul/Aug 09Adrian:Use Intel much?I appreciated your lineup, but noticed one glaring fact: while I can agree that Intel offers the best extreme processor in the i7 965 EE (for $1000), I noticed the glaring omission of any AMD parts. I think that if...

Tags: Processors, Virtualization, RAID, Jul/Aug 09, Hardware 2.0, Intel Corp., CPU, HyperThreading, hardware

Discussion threads 2009-07-02

What really happened with SAP Business ByDesign?

Many of us who have been following the SAP Business ByDesign saga have used a combination of first hand accounts, intuition, inference and plain guess work to figure out what's been going on with the product. Or is it service? As far as I can gather, those commenting in detail...

Tags: Team, SAP NetWeaver, SAP AG, BYD, Engineers, Team Management, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-22