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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Intel shows off 80-core processor — Intel has built its 80-core processor as part of a research project, but don't expect it to boost your Doom score just yet. — Chief Technical Officer Justin Rattner demonstrated the processor in San Francisco last week for a group of reporters …
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Intel Research Chip Advances 'Era Of Tera' — 80-Core Programmable Processor First to Deliver Teraflop Performance with Remarkable Energy-Efficiency — Intel Corporation researchers have developed the world's first programmable processor that delivers supercomputer-like performance from a single …
John Markoff / New York Times:
Intel Prototype May Herald a New Age of Processing — Intel will demonstrate on Monday an experimental computer chip with 80 separate processing engines, or cores, that company executives say provides a model for commercial chips that will be used widely in standard desktop, laptop and server computers within five years.
Nokia:
Advanced technologies, new functionality, sleek designs and color appeal to working titans — 3GSM World Congress 2007, Barcelona, Spain/Espoo, Finland - Nokia (NYSE:NOK) today introduced the second wave of the Nokia Eseries portfolio with a trio of feature-packed, design-rich devices …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Nokia's E90 communicator launched! — You saw the first photos right here on Engadget. Now, Nokia brings the official specs on their S60-series E90 Communicator. Like we heard, it brings quad-band GSM, WiFi, and HSDPA radios along with a 3.2 megapixel camera with flash (and second up front for video calls).
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Universal Near Deal With Video Site on Royalties — Universal Music Group is poised to win a small battle in its war to claim royalties from sites that allow users to upload videos that contain its music. — Universal, the country's largest music label, is in the final stages of negotiating …
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Business Wire:
Adobe Flash Lite To Support Video for Mobile Handsets — Upcoming Release of Flash Lite to Integrate Video Playback Capabilities — BARCELONA, Spain—(BUSINESS WIRE)—At the 3GSM World Congress, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that support for video will be integrated …
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Adobe's Flash Video to Play on Mobile Phones, New Transcoding System …
Adobe's Flash Video to Play on Mobile Phones, New Transcoding System …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Reveals New Windows Mobile 6 Smartphone Software, Improves World's Fastest-Growing Mobile Operating System — Latest software to feature new messaging tools, tighter security and improved productivity features; devices to begin shipping worldwide by second quarter of 2007.
Kenneth Li / Reuters:
MySpace offers tools to block unauthorized videos — NEW YORK, Feb. 12 (Reuters) - News Corp.'s (NWSa.N: Quote, Profile , Research) online social network MySpace said on Monday it is offering free software tools to let media companies block the uploading of unauthorized video clips …
Peter / 99 Lives:
Xbox Live + Mac = MacLive — As any Mac user can tell you, Microsoft is notorious for leaving Mac users out in the cold. Being a 360 owner who prefers OS X as their platform of choice, I've always been green with envy of the ability to access Xbox Live and track friends within Windows Live Messenger.
Stuart Dredge / Tech Digest:
3GSM 2007: Will MusicStation be a mobile iTunes beater? — http://www.omnifone.comThat's certainly how Omnifone, the company behind the new mobile music service, has been spinning it in a series of pre-briefings to journalists this week. — MusicStation is a music subscription service for mobile phones …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Firefox 3 To Support Offline Apps — An interesting tidbit came out of the recent Foo Camp New Zealand (which unfortunately I wasn't able to attend). Robert O'Callahan from Mozilla, who is based in NZ but drives the rendering engine of Mozilla/FireFox, spoke about how Firefox 3 will deliver support for offline applications.
Peter Lauria / New York Post:
500 TO GET AX AT MTV — VIACOM CUTS $250M — Viacom could lay off as many as 500 people from its MTV Networks division next week as part of a $250 million cost-cutting move, according to three sources close to the company. — The directive for the cuts is coming straight …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
PowerHype At Powerset — The more I dig into the new search engine startup Powerset the more I am wondering if it is nothing more than a house of cards. They're an odd company with a bit of a split personality. For example, in some ways they are very secretive - everyone who gets to see …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Transmeta now officially out of the CPU business — The only thing surprising about Transmeta's quiet exit from the hardware component business was the good amount of time they took to make their not-so-grand exit since selling their CPU business nearly two years ago.
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
YOUTUBE HOLY WAR? — Apparently this fellow made a video showing violent quotes from the Koran, putting the holy book in a bad light. It was a slide show, that's it, no commentary. YouTube banned his account and pulled all his videos. He's an atheist, but not a nut. This is a bad precedent.
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