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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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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.
Intel:
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
Joe / Techdirt:
Stuffy Economist Magazine Experiments With Social Media — from the Sir, dept — One of the mistakes many companies make when trying to embrace social networking or social media is to think that they should just build their own version of MySpace, or clone of some other popular site.
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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