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AMD To Counter Conroe With '4x4', Power Programs — AMD executives say they remain "supremely confident" in the strength of their own architecture, even though the launch of Intel's Core 2 Duo or "Conroe" processor steals several pages from AMD's own book. — For all the details on Conroe …
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Here they come: Intel unveils Core 2 Duo processors — The reign of Core Duo has dominated 2006, but now is the time for a line of desktop processors to take the stand for justice. Or something like that. Announced in June, Intel's Core 2 Duo is officially "out" today …


Intel's Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme processors — Conroe at last — INTEL'S DESKTOP PROCESSORS HAVE NOT been in a good place for the past two and a half years. Pentium 4 and Pentium D CPUs have run at relatively high clock speeds but delivered relatively low performance compared to their competition from AMD.

The Core 2: Intel Goes for the Jugular — It's been a long time coming. — Over the past year, the hype machine has been beating the drum for Intel's new processor architecture. Dubbed Core, the new architecture is a radical shift for a company that was once the chief proponent of ramping up CPU frequency.

Skype's Opportunity for IM Federation Leadership — It's been a busy week: — The previously announced (eight months ago) MSN/Yahoo IM federation became real. Yawn. — Phil Wolff and Alec Saunders have commented on the Skype code cracking by a Chinese engineering team.
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Mtn. View WiFi net being tested by 100 users — GOOGLE SAYS ENTIRE CITY COULD GO ONLINE IN ABOUT TWO MONTHS — More than 100 people are test-driving Google's free, wireless Internet network throughout the city of Mountain View, officials from the search giant said at a community meeting Wednesday evening.

Broadband Video is overrated too ! — No i dont hate technology. I just prefer a little realism with my technology planning. Broadband Video is smoking hot right now. Why ? Because thats where the money is. Advertisers have gone bonkers over it. For good reason. Its a great use of the net for advertisers.

Mac OS X: Viruses and Security — Researchers and engineers who are working in the security field must have strong constitutions—especially when it comes to weathering negative backlash and tired conspiracy theories whenever security and Mac OS X are mentioned in the same breath.


Microsoft Windows XP Fundamentals for Legacy PCs Screenshots — I have been playing around with "Microsoft Windows XP Fundamentals for Legacy PCs". The result can be seen in screenshots posted on my gallery. — Microsoft Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs (WinFLP) …


Apple gives up on hunt for moles — Apple has ended its legal fight to make bloggers reveal who leaked secret information about its new products. — Legal action began in 2004 after details of an audio breakout box, code-named Asteroid, appeared online. — Apple won the first round …
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Dailies Strike Back At Web — This just in: Newspapers and Yahoo! in talks to reslice the ad pie — Major newspaper companies and three online giants are deep in discussion about the future of newspapers on the Web. — Yahoo! (YHOO ) and a loose consortium of newspaper publishers …

Time, space put Eventful at the intersection of, .. well, of everything — This week, at Mashup Camp at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, I had the opportunity to sit down with Eventful.com's API Developer Chris Radcliff. The interview is available for download …

Google Spreadsheets getting Charts soon? — To quench my curiosity, I had to take a closer look at the source code for Google Spreadsheets after it was updated yesterday. To my surprise (or not), it shows clearly that Google has definitely been working on a "Chart Create" feature that many users have been waiting for.

"Let click fraud happen"? Uh, no. — You may have seen some of the media coverage generated by a blogger's quoting Eric Schmidt about click fraud. By using select excerpts and ignoring the context of the remarks, that blog post made for an interesting read, but was unfortunately misleading.

Rumor: Mother compilation coming to US? — From the EGM rumor mill (which is often a bit more reliable and well-connected that some rumor sites) comes rumbling that Nintendo may re-release Earthbound in America as a DS title. To make the deal sweeter, Nintendo would make it a compilation and have touch-screen capabilities.

The "river" versus "folder" RSS approach — Dave Winer has been talking about RSS aggregators again. I don't use a River of News style aggregator. I use NewsGator which comes into Outlook. It is NOT a river of news style aggregator. But, I don't delete either. I just read each folder and mark all as read.


Dr. Google Sends Pain Relief — WOW! Digg.com is going crazy!!! For those "unbelievers," here it is, the actual scanned letter. I am sure new comments will appear that I wrote it, but I am not sure how I can prove I did not. I guess you are going to have to take my word for it :) Al


Multiply closes first funding round — Online social network Multiply has closed a Series A funding round with $5 million from Transcosmos and $1 million from the company's founders. Multiply is a service that filters all networking functions, from highlighted users to visible tag clouds, through a proximity filter with a slider.