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Transoft Solutions Launches Ahead of the Curve

New Transoft Solutions" Blog Aimed at Giving Transportation Infrastructure Engineers Corporate, Industry, and Tech News

More cache for more speed: AMD launches Athlon 64 X2 5200+.

Sunnyvale (CA) - AMD has begun offering a new processor in its mainstream dual-core lineup. The 5200+ joins the Athlon 64 X2 series as new flagship. There no clock speed increase, but AMD has integrated twice the cache of the 5000+ and re-enters the $400+ segment of CPUs.

Next-gen MacBook/Pros on 32nm Core i7.

With Apple"s tradition of jumping onto the latest bandwagon at the start of a major product transition, such as chipset or CPU, we"re expecting a transition to Intel"s new Westmere platform later in the year.

ATI releases driver package Catalyst 4.10.

Chicago (IL)

Gainward to ship NV45s.

Gainward said it has finally got Geforce 6800 Ultra PCIe chips in its mitts. We know that all Taiwanese based companies have been waiting for NV40 chips for some time. Gainward was able to get NV40 chip running at 350 MHz and use them for the Geforce 6800GT AGP or PCI Express but not for the Ultras.

Transmeta demos 2 GHz Efficeon processor.

San Jose (CA)

Amazon.com Wins JK Rowling Stories In Auction For $4 Million.

Seattle (WA) - Amazon.com was represented in an auction in Sotheby"s yesterday, and the online retailer became the proud owner of a never-before-released handwritten book from J.K. Rowling, for around $4 million.

Danielle LeDuc Named to Exclusive Membership Organization

Danielle LeDuc recovers revenue, confirms compensations and forecasts at Sun Microsystems, Inc.

A solar boat to cross the Atlantic.

A group of Swiss people will soon attempt to realize the first Atlantic crossing with a solar boat. This ship, named "sun21," is a 42 ft catamaran able to sleep 5 or 6 persons. The goal is to leave Seville, Spain, in December 2006 and to reach ports in Florida and New York in the spring of 2007.

"Bumps" help to create scratch-less CD-R.

Westlake Village (CA) - CDs and DVDs already are tough to scratch under everyday circumstances, but just in case your your music and data CDs get damaged once in a while there is a new option that may keep your discs from getting scratched. Highlands Ranch, Col.-based Scratch-Less Disc integrates bumps and ridges onto surface of a CD to craete a "scratch-resistant" CD.

Shipment of Vista notebooks to start taking off in Q2.

The shipment proportion of notebooks supporting Vista operational system (OS) will soar in the second quarter since Microsoft has ruled that branded makers upgrade all of their consumer notebooks to the new OS by March or the company will suspend its marketing subsidy, according to industry sources. With the strategy from Microsoft, Vista-supporting models will account for over half of consumer notebooks to be shipped in the second quarter, Taiwan-based PC branded makers said.

Nvidia intros 512 MByte GeForce 6800 Ultra.

Nvidia expanded its product lineup with two new news graphics processors for the high-end and the low-end. As an answer of ATI"s recently shown 512 MByte Radeon X850, the company announced that it is shipping a version of its GeForce 6800 Ultra with 512 MByte GDDR3 memory to card manufacturers.

Mass production of rollable displays set for 2006.

Early last month, Philips Polymer Vision, a business unit within Philips Technology Incubator, Royal Philips Electronics, revealed its Concept Readius rollable display at the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) in Berlin, Germany. The company claims Readius is the world"s first prototype of a functional electronic-document reader that can unroll its display to a scale larger than the device itself.

Scio Consulting Joins Microsoft BizSpark Program to Enable SaaS Startups

BizSpark Startups can now leverage Scio"s experience designing and building .NET based, fully commercialized multi-tenant Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings.

Web Part Calendar for SharePoint - now with attachments and images!

Virtosoftware Team is proud to announce beta version 1.3. of Ajax Web part Calendar for SharePoint.

Intel Offers Peek at Working Sandy Bridge PC.

Surprise! It"s not Westmere.

Intel researchers build laser on chip.

Working with the basic material of computer chips, Intel researchers have constructed an all-silicon laser that could lead to computers one day harnessing light waves rather than electrical currents to shuttle data swiftly.

New online dating website only accepts hotties.

There is a new online dating website that promises to only let beautiful people join. The aptly named hotenough.org functions like a regular dating website with pictures and profiles, but members must maintain an 8 out of 10 rating to continue their membership.

SDRAM prices to increase in Q2, says Etron.

Prices for SDRAM are expected to rise in the second quarter of this year as current supply cannot satisfy increased demand coming from handset, LCD TV and memory card applications, according to Nicky Lu, CEO and president of SDRAM specialist Etron Technology. Etron is negotiating with its clients to hike contract prices for the second quarter, with new prices set to become available this month, Lu said.

World\'s Most Powerful Laser Fired Up.

Austin (TX) - Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have turned on the Texas Petawatt laser on March 31 for, well, a very brief period of time. The specs of the device are mind-boggling: It has the power output of thousands of power plants and is brighter than the surface of the sun. Yet, the total power output of the atom-splitting laser is just enough to keep a light bulb burning for only a few seconds.

Xilisoft iPhone Software Now Supports iPhone OS 3.0

Xilisoft Corporation, a leading provider of digital media software, announced today that all iPhone/iPod software fully supports iPhone OS 3.0.

Intel to ship 10 million 865-series chipsets in Q2.

Intel is expected to ship 10 million entry-level 865-series chipsets in the second quarter, with half of that amount going to motherboard maker Asustek Computer, according to industry sources.

Intel\'s LaGrande security platform to arrive in H2 2007.

Intel"s LaGrande technology (LT), an approach to protect applications and data from software and simple hardware attacks will be arriving in mobile and desktop business platforms in the second half of 2007, TG Daily has learned. According to sources, the upcoming Averill Pro (desktop, due in Q3 2006) and Santa Rosa (mobile, due in Q2 2007) platforms will support LT through the new ICH8 southbridge, but complementing trusted platform modules (TPM) will not be available until the following chipset generation.

AMD releases new consumer flagship processor X2 6000+.

Sunnyvale (CA) - A few months late, AMD today fired up the latest and likely last performance stage for its 90 nm Athlon 64 X2 processor with Windsor core. The new 6000+ model is clocked at 3 GHz and represents a consumer-focused socket AM2 version of the FX-74 enthusiast processor that is based on the socket 1207FX.

Price competition emerges in grid hosting.

This year"s hot trend in web hosting is grid computing, which employs server clusters to bring the advantages of enterprise-level infrastructure to affordable web hosting plans. As with any trend in web hosting, it hasn"t taken long for a price war to break out.

Viiv PC ASP to go down by Q4.

The average selling price (ASP) for Viiv PCs is expected to go down by the fourth quarter of 2006, according to Charlotte Lamprecht, director of digital home brand management at Intel"s sales and marketing division, who added that Viiv-based models will be positioned as mainstream desktop PCs in 2-3 years. Currently, the ASP for Viiv PCs begins at $900 and goes as high as $1500-1800.

Global LCD-TV panel inventory to reach 15 million units in 2006.

TFT-LCD panel makers are expected to suffer from serious inventory issues throughout this year, with LCD-TV panel inventory likely to reach 15 million units in 2006, according to estimates from Taiwan-based panel makers. The global supply for LCD-TV panels will total 55 million units in 2006, while worldwide demand for LCD TVs will only attain 40 million units, Taiwan-based panel makers noted.

Alienware unveils desktop PCs with Pentium EE 955 processor.

Just about a week after announcing upcoming availability of AMD"s FX-60 processor in its performance systems, Alienware added Intel"s most recent Extreme Edition processor, the 65 nm dual-core 955 chip to its website.

SMIC and Aurora Systems in volume production of LCOS panel chips.

China-based Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) and US-based Aurora Systems have announced Aurora"s LCOS (liquid-crystal-on-silicon) panel chips have successfully entered volume commercial production at SMIC.

Methanol-powered artificial muscles start to flex.

Methanol-powered artificial muscles have been created by researchers aiming to create battery-free robotic limbs and prosthetics.

Ventana Research Unveils The 2009 Value Index for Sales Performance Management

New research-based index provides authoritative metrics to guide technology buyers on value of vendors support sales performance management

More powerful Athlon 64\'s in time for the holidays.

Reportedly, AMD will be unveiling the new Athlon 64 FX-55 chip next week. They hope to bump up the performance of gaming desktops and other high-end PCs in time for the holiday season. The chip is expected to be unveiled on Tuesday, along with the Athlon 64 4000+, AMD"s highest-performance processor for mainstream desktops.

Internet Grows To More Than 150 Million Websites.

Chicago (IL) - The Internet continued its rapid growth rate in the final month of last year, adding more than five million websites for a bottom line of more than 150 million.

Hitachi, Toshiba, three others to jointly build fabrication facility.

The Yomiuri newspaper is reporting, and Reuters is translating this afternoon, that Hitachi, Toshiba, NEC, Matsushita, and Renesas Technology (a Hitachi/Mitsubishi joint venture) will pool together up to 200 billion yen toward the production of a jointly managed chip fabrication facility. Rumors of this move have been covered by DigiTimes for several weeks.

HD DVD Responds To Slate Of Bad News.

Burbank (CA) - The HD DVD Promotional Group has issued a statement in response to this month"s announcements regarding huge industry players Netflix and Best Buy moving away from its format.

Nvidia expands holiday lineup with 6800 GS graphics processor.

Santa Clara (CA) - While we are still waiting for the general availability of most of ATI"s recently announced X1000 graphics chip family, Nvidia is bolstering its holiday portfolio. Today, the company announced the 6800 GS, a new GPU that aims to compete with what is expected to be ATI"s most bang for the buck - the X1600 XT.

Microsoft offers new window to the world.

A few months ago, the pilot of a small Cessna flew low in the skies over Seattle, taking pictures from 3,000 feet.

Intel to upset the balance in high-capacitance MLCC market.

Intel plans to change part of the high-capacitance multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) for supporting its dual-core CPU from 0402 X5R 1 μF to 0402 X5R 2.2μF, and the move will affect supply of other MLCC series, making Japan-based MLCC providers hesitant to support the plan, according to sources in the channel. Intel has decided to make the change since tight supply for 0402 X5R 1μF MLCCs continues to persist, the sources indicated.

AMD extends 64-bit feature to Sempron processors.

Sunnyvale (CA)

Optimus LED Keyboard Shipping.

Chicago (IL) - Art Lebedev today announced that it has begun shipping Optimus Maximus keyboards.

Missing CNET Editor found deceased.

The body of missing CNET senior editor James Kim was found earlier today. He and his family were stranded in the mountains for eleven days after taking a wrong turn in the family car. He left his car to find help for his stranded family on Saturday, but never made it back. Kati Kim, James" wife, and his two daughters were found safe two days ago.

YouTube Coming To Tivo.

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First Intel next-gen news: Lower wattage, fewer pipeline stages.

San Francisco (CA)

Logicalis Earns Top 100 Spot on VAR 500 List

Breaking the $1 billion mark in revenue and proving excellence in providing IT solutions, Logicalis ranks #87 on the 2009 VAR 500 list.

Analyst: AMD will have an edge over Intel through 2005.

Piper Jaffray said Advanced Micro Devices should have an edge over Intel "throughout 2005" but resumed coverage of both companies at "market perform" and both at price targets of $25. The market research firm believe that AMD will be able to capture "more and more" market share until Intel rools out its 65 nm processors early 2006. Intel currently "is about the most vulnerable it has ever been in its history", Piper Jaffray said.

What Nvidia Had to Say About Larrabee\'s Delay.

Making a parallel computing chip is hard, says Nvidia.

Nvidia expected to launch C19 core-logic chipset for P4 CPUs in 1Q 2005.

Taiwan-based core-logic chipset makers are bracing for fierce competition in the Intel Pentium 4 chipset market as Nvidia plans to begin marketing its SLI (Scalable Link Interface)-enabled core-logic chipset, codenamed C19, at the end of first quarter of next year, according to market sources.

Atari\'s blast from the past console: Flashback2.

Some of us with graying hair may remember Atari"s 2600 console. The wood paneling was fashionable for the times and the uniquely designed joysticks were murder on the hands. Well you can relive those days because Atari is bringing it back with their Flashback 2 console.

First Cell-powered computer ships.

The first product based on IBM/Toshiba/Sony"s Cell processor has shipped, reports Mercury Computer Systems. Mercury"s Cell Technology Evaluation System (CTES) is a 470-pound behemoth with one or two dual-Cell blades running Linux. It targets defense, medical, and industrial inspection markets.

Samsung, Sony lead LCD-TV price declines - report.

Samsung Electronics and Sony appear to be pushing new models into the market at leading price points in May, undoubtedly as a result of increased production at their joint S-LCD fab facility and others may follow next month as they try to match this downward trend, according to research firm Insight Media.

Deals of the Day: Weekend Edition.

Holiday gift shopping can be very stressful. Thanks to our sponsors, Logic Buy, you can get it all over with quickly and painlessly! And don"t forget, it"s always way more fun if you follow the "one for them, one for me" rule.

Electronic Frontier Foundation decodes printer tracking dots.

The next time you use the office printer, you may be printing up a lot more than sales figures or quarterly reports. Many color laser printers are secretly embedding tracking dots, minute and almost invisible yellow specks, on documents. While many have speculated on the meaning of the dots, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) appears to have decrypted the code.

ATI launches 512 MByte X800 XL graphics card.

Markham (ON)

AMD Radeon HD 4830: R.I.P.

There"s talk that the latest batch of AMD"s Radeon HD 4830 GPUs may be the last, as many partners wouldn"t even let the chips come in through the front door. As it stands, it looks as though the 4830 will be heading out to the pasture soon.

Computer tech accidentally wipes out Alaska oil fund data.

Juneau (AK) - Alaska is calling a routine maintenance check gone wrong "the worst-case scenario", after a technician accidentally wiped out a series of crucial government data. Two sets of back-up data were also corrupted, and Microsoft consultants were unable to retrieve the data.

Nanomechanical device bridges classic and quantum physics.

Nanotechnology leapt into the realm of quantum mechanics this past winter when an antenna-like sliver of silicon one-tenth the width of a human hair oscillated in a lab in a Boston University basement. With two sets of protrusions, much like the teeth from a two-sided comb or the paddles from a rowing shell, the antenna not only exhibits the first quantum nanomechanical motion but is also the world"s fastest moving nanostructure.

Research group says \'quadruple play\' the wave of the future.

ABI Research believes that a bundling of wireless broadband with traditional telephone, television and Internet services are about to arrive in the US. Dubbed in the telecommunications industry as the "quadruple play" or "grand-slam," companies are trying to reduce costs by unifying their networks and handing their customers a single bill for their Internet, voice and mobile services.

Ventana Research Unveils The 2009 Value Index for Business Intelligence

New research-based index provides authoritative metrics to guide technology buyers on value of vendors in business intelligence

Philips: Widescreen adoption in LCD monitors not as quick as expected.

Although panel makers have aggressively pushed widescreen LCD monitor panels, the adoption rate is not expected to proceed as fast as expected, with the penetration rate of the segment now set to increase from 2% in 2005 to 9.8% in 2008, according to Sara Liu, assistant manager of market intelligence, Philips CEBLC-MMFD, Royal Philips Electronics.

Displaytech Demos Pico- Projector.

Fast switching FLCOS microdisplays and high-brightness LEDs from Osram Opto Semiconductors will power Displaytech"s working demonstration of pico-projection at the International CES show, January 7-10 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The demo projector can output 6-8 lumens, producing images up to 30 inches diagonal depending on ambient lighting.

Samsung plans biggest chip plant.

Samsung Electronics, the South Korean chipmaker, is planning to spend $33 billion expanding output and building a research and development plant by 2012.

AMD Ships 50 Million ATI \'Hollywood\' Wii GPUs.

While everyone can see that Nintendo is making money hand over fist thanks to amazing sales of the DS Lite and the Wii, some of the console makerò€™s partners are also riding the wave.

myLittleTools Announces Datacenter License for its MS SQL Administration Tools.

myLittleTools announces a new Datacenter license for its SQL Server Admin tools, myLittleAdmin and myLittleBackup. This license perfectly fits the VPS and Managed Servers markets.

Original Ada Lovelace Painting Purchased On EBay.

Redlands (CA) - Computer geeks on opposite ends of the Earth have found the original sketch of the world"s first programmer. In a story worthy of a Hollywood movie, an Army sergeant in Tajikistan and a programmer in Texas resurrected the legend of Ada Lovelace by buying up her nearly 150-year-old sketch portrait on eBay.

CES 2007: Roadmaster shows programmable license plate frame.

Las Vegas (NV) - We checked out Roadmaster"s booth at CES today - although it didn"t really fit the trend of most other in-car products around the show. While Roadmaster does not have a whole lot of entertainment products, it does have interesting Bluetooth technology devices and rear-view video camera systems. And then there was a programmable license plate frame.

Nvidia intros nForce Professional, Quadro SLI.

San Jose (CA)

CMC, Ritek to produce 30 GB HD-DVD-R DL discs in Q4.

CMC Magnetics and Ritek, the top two makers of optical discs, have recently started volume production of 15 GB HD-DVD-R SL (high-definition DVD recordable single-sided single-layer) discs and are prepared to begin production of 30 GB HD-DVD-R DL (single-sided double-layer) discs in the fourth quarter of this year at the earliest, according to industry sources.

God of War PC Case Mod is Awe Inspiring.

We love non-traditional case mods, and I"m personally a huge God of War fan. This latest case mod is those two worlds collided.

Palit Mashes 2 GB GDDR3 onto GTS 250.

Palit has announced its new custom designed addition to the GT200 series, the GTS 250 2 GB, 1 GB and 512 MB.

Mainstream LCD TV segment to remain at 32" this year.

DisplaySearch estimates that the 40-/42" LCD TV segment is growing faster than the 37" segment, but the mainstream segment will remain 32" this year, according to the research firm.

Corel WordPerfect Office X3 follows Microsoft\'s lead.

Ottawa (Canada) - Now on its thirteenth edition, the brand of word processor that at one time commanded an industry, today must humbly find its way in a market long ago seized by Microsoft. WordPerfect - a topic about which many pages of computer magazines have been expended, and I wrote a book - bears very little resemblance today to the highly respected, if somewhat overrated, document processor of the 1980s. No, right out of the box, what it resembles - in large measure - is today"s Microsoft Word. And Corel, the product"s current manufacturer, has no problem with that at all.

Opera 9 joins the party.

With most of the browser buzz surrounding Microsoft"s upcoming Internet Explorer 7 and first public versions of Firefox 2.0, it"s easy to miss the launch party of a browser with the third largest market share. Opera Software today released the download of the final version of Opera 9, which still comes in a compact package (4.6 MB), but offers a range of new features.

Inno3D Unveils Green 9600GT E-Save, GTS 250.

Inno3D sent over some info and screenshots based on its GeForce GTS 250 and GeForce 9600GT E-Save cards, currently on display at CeBIT 2009.

Catalyst 5.5 brings updates Win x64, Linux driver for ATI cards.

ATI posted the fifth Catalyst driver package for this year. Version 5.5 includes an updated driver for Windows XP x64 Edition, Windows XP, Windows 2000 as well as Linux. The package also comes with an updated Control Center and a new Multimedia Center.

Oversupply of LCD monitor panels to widen in 1Q06.

The oversupply ratio of LCD monitor panels is expected to widen in the first quarter of 2006, as the period is a traditional slow season for the segment and panel supply will continue increasing, according to Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT).

LG Display Develops Elliptical And Circular-shaped LCDs.

 

HP, IBM launch dual-core wares.

As previously expected, HP and IBM launched new servers to accompany the launch of Intel"s Xeon DP dual-core chips, code-named Paxville.

Nvidia Ion Named "Best Enabling Technology".

Nvidia announced today that its ION platform was named as the "Best Enabling Technology" during last week"s CES "09 expo.

Gigabyte and ECS expect mobo shipment growth of up to 30 percent.

After reporting on-month drops in February motherboard shipments, Gigabyte Technology and Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) expect sequential 25-30% and 10% shipment growth, respectively, in March, amid escalating channel demand, according to sources at the makers.

Enhanced TFT LCD TV panels to put squeeze on CRT.

Improved brightness and contrast ratios for TFT LCD TV panels will add pressure on color CRT technology, AU Optronics (AUO) said. The brightness of LCD TVs will rise to 600 nits, up from 500 nits last year, while the contrast ratio will go up to 1200:1, compared to 800-1000:1 in the past.

Asustek G965-based motherboards with Shader Model 3.0 support expected later.

Products utilizing Intel"s G965 Express chipset with Shader Model 3.0 support are not among Asustek Computer"s current motherboard offerings, though the company released its ASUS P5B-V series in August, featuring the Intel Core 2 processor/G965 chipset platform without Shader Model 3.0, sources indicated. The sources said that G965-based motherboards from Asustek suporting Shader Model 3.0 are expected later and that sales of the P5B-V have been poor so far.

Gateway updates LCD product line.

Gateway announced three new LC displays which the company claims include an easy to use on-screen display to simplify setup. The screens come in sizes of 15-, 17-, and 19" and are priced at $210, $300 and $350.

KOffice 1.5 released.

The KDE Project today announced the latest version of its open-source office suite. KOffice 1.5 now uses the Oasis Open Document format as the default file format. The majority of the programs directly compete with applications in Microsoft"s Office suite. In addition, the suite has improved accessibility features including mouseless operation and text-to-speech translation.

ATI Radeon HD 4770 Info Leaked.

Japanese website PC Pop managed to acquire a batch of slides pertaining to the upcoming ATI Radeon HD 4770, complete with the first 40nm desktop chip.

Crawler Releases Spyware Terminator 2.5.7 with Client-to-Client Updater

Spyware Terminator, one of the world"s most popular free antispyware programs, delivers new features to users.

AMD schedules 65 nm "Taylor" launch for Q2 2007.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will announce the Rev G Turion 64 X2 and Mobile Sempron CPU lineups, which will debut as the chip vendor"s first 65 nm-made mobile processors, in 2007, according to motherboard makers familiar with AMD"s latest CPU roadmap. The Tyler series - replacement parts for the AMD Turion 64 X2 (codenamed Taylor) CPUs - will be launched in the second quarter of next year, noted the makers.

Field Precision Enhances Simulation Technology for 3D Relativistic Electron Guns

The latest version of OmniTrak from Field Precision LLC features an order-of-magnitude increase in computational speed for three-dimensional simulations of high-current, high-voltage planar electron guns.

Q1 semiconductor sales surge 13 percent.

San Jose (CA)

Intel BTX boards go on sale.

Long heralded Balanced Technology Extended (BTX) Intel motherboards have started to go for sale in Japan.

Nvidia chisels away at ATI market share.

ATI"s Q3 2004 lead over arch-rival Nvidia was eroded during Q4, the latest figures from market watcher Mercury Research suggest.

LCD TV demand weak in Q1, but should pick up in Q2.

Although LCD TV demand has been weak this quarter, especially in the Europe market, most investment firms and panel makers expect demand to rise significantly next quarter due to aggressive price reductions from panel makers. Current LCD TV sales are not strong in Europe and makers were overly optimistic about Christmas season demand last quarter, so panel inventory levels have picked up, according to Wan-Li, Wang (transliterated from Chinese), an analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston.

PCMCIA: Broad acceptance of ExpressCard likely in H2 2007.

Originally codenamed Newcard (introduced under this name in February 2003 at the Intel Developer Forum in San Jose), ExpressCard technology represents the new generation of hot-pluggable I/O expansion cards that the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA) is positioning to replace CardBus as the preferred solution for notebooks and desktop computers.

ATI to explain trilinear filtering in live chat today.

Markham (ON)

New facilities at Comarch Contact Center implemented

Comarch facilitates the use of a new tool in the Contact Center application dedicated to supervisors and managers of consultants.

Sony ships sneaky DRM software.

Mark Russinovich couldn"t understand how the rootkit had sneaked onto his system. An expert on the internals of the Windows operating system, he was careful when it came to computer security and generally had a pretty good idea of what was running on his PC at any given time. And yet the security tool he was using to check his PC was pretty clear: It had found the rootkit cloaking software typically used by virus and spyware writers. After a bit of detective work, Russinovich eventually tracked down the source: a Sony BMG Music Entertainment CD titled Get Right with the Man, performed by country music duo Donnie and Johnny Van Zant.

Lottery.co.uk Release Free Lottery App for iPhone and iPod Touch

Lottery.co.uk has announced the launch of its new lottery application for the iPhone and iPod Touch

Snort vulnerability "wormable" but not widespread.

A three-month-old flaw in a preprocessor function for the open-source intrusion detection system may attract worm writers, but the number of vulnerable systems is likely low, security experts said on Wednesday.

AMD 40nm RV740 with GDDR5 Coming.

AMD could have a monster midrange card on the horizon. According to sources, RV740 may be a 40nm process shrink of RV770LE - the currently available HD 4830.

Gigabyte intros entry-level GeForce 6200 graphics card.

Gigabyte announced a new addition to its product lineup. The GeForce 6200-based GV-N62128DE is targeted at users who intend to upgrade from an integrated graphics chipset to a discreet graphics solution. Features of the card include support for DirectX 9.0, Shader Model 3.0, as well as Nvidia"s PureVideo to improve video quality on the screen. The card will become available during this month. Pricing has not been announced. (THG)

Aibo Cures Loneliness As Well As Real Dogs - Study.

St. Louis (MO) - Sony"s robotic Aibo dog is just as effective as a real dog in curing loneliness. According to a study conducted by the St. Louis University, elderly patients in a nursing home became attached to the dog after several weeks of playing with the non-pooping plastic pet.

Kingston packs data recovery software on Compact Flash cards.

Kingston today said that will be upgrading its "ultimate" line of Compact Flash (CF) cards by preloading Ontrack"s Easy Recovery Professional software 6.1 onto the devices. The application is designed to assist users to recover accidentally deleted or damaged files.

CES 2007: The unusual stuff.

Las Vegas (NV) - Some people take CES all too seriously. There are lots of vendors at the show who know how to have a little fun and still make a dollar. We have picked three examples.

Foxconn Shows Off Bamboo PC Cases.

Foxconn giving PC some wood.

Teenager Jailed After Posting YouTube Vid Of Airborne Baby.

Atlanta (GA) - A 16-year-old is behind bars today after he posted a stomach-churning YouTube video of a baby being launched in the air. The teen placed the eight-month-old baby on an inflatable pillow which he then jumped on. The baby flew several feet and was crying after hitting the ground.

Asus Launches 5 GeForce GTS 250 Cards.

Asus this week broke NDA with Nvidia and accidentally leaked details of the upcoming GeForce GTS 250 based cards. Although the original press release was removed just several before time of writing, we were able to save details of the release.

Amazon Doles Out $50 Credit To HD DVD Buyers.

Seattle (WA) - Amazon.com has announced that it will offer a $50 store credit to anyone who bought an HD DVD player from the online store before February 23.

A photonic \'lab-on-a-chip\'.

Georgia Tech researchers have shrunk an optical device called wavelength demultipler (WD) by combining into one crystal three unique properties of photonics crystals. This optical discovery opens the way to sophisticated and cheap biosensors mounted on "lab-on-a-chip" devices - sensors to run blood tests, detect chemicals in water supplies or for drug testing.

Moms catching up with dads for electronic gifts.

Port Washington (NY) - Market research firm NPD Group says Mother"s Day gadget buying is catching up with Father"s Day. Sons, daughters and husbands purchased over $865 million dollars in gadget gifts for mom, while $873 million in gadgets were purchased for fathers day. This represents a year to year increase of 9% for mothers versus only 3% for fathers.

The Cell revisited.

David Wang of RWT has posted a lengthy followup to his previous article on the CELL processor. This new article contains more technical details, some of which were disclosed in a recent presentation at the Eleventh International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture.

VIA pitches chipset at multi-display applications.

VIA Technologies today announced wide industry support for its K8T890 chipsets for AMD 64-bit processors.

ATI: Consumers need to understand DRM.

Montreal

Foxit Reader SDK ActiveX 3.0 Just Released

Today Foxit is pleased to announce the new release of Foxit Reader SDK ActiveX 3.0. This updated version introduces a variety of new features along with many enhancements.

BFG\'s Passively Cooled 9800GT, Still Big.

Apparently, BFG has released a passively cooled 9800 GT card to US online retailers without officially announcing its shipment.

Shuttle\'s New Flagship SX58H7 HTPC.

Looking to downsize your rather large and mundane tower case that currently hosts your Home Theater PC or semi-extreme gaming rig? Shuttle delivers with its latest Prima flagship model--the SX58H7.

Chipset prices may rise 10 percent.

ATI Technologies, Nvidia and VIA Technologies may raise chipset prices by approximately 10% as demand is outpacing supply, according to sources in the Taiwan chipset industry. The increase will follow a 10-15% price-hike earlier planned

Acorp to withdraw from motherboard market.

Second-tier motherboard makers Acorp Electronics will withdraw from the motherboard market and instead migrate into the production of networking devices such as ADSL2+ modems, the company said after a provisional shareholders meeting on Thursday, March 10.

Intel delivers Alviso chipsets for sample production.

Intel has delivered small volumes of one of its Alviso core-logic chipsets, the 915PM, to Taiwan notebook makers, for sample production, with volume shipments of the chips to begin on January 18, 2005, according to sources at Taiwan notebook makers.

Taiwan Makers Conservative About 6x BD Burners.

In response to the launch of LG Electronics" latest Blu-ray Disc (BD) burner (GGW-H20L), complete with claims of it being the first BD burner to support 6x BD-R SL (single-sided single-layer) write speeds, sources at Taiwan-based makers of optical disc drives commented that the 6x write speed claims are meaningful more for marketing purposes rather than practical ones, as 6x BD-R discs are not available yet. LGE last week announced the launch of the GGW-H20L in South Korea at a recommended retail price of 490,000 Won (US$532) and some online shopping websites in the US market have quoted US$514 for the model, which will be available later this week or early next week, the sources pointed out.

Nvidia to Rename GeForce Models at CeBIT.

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Qsan iSCSI Redundant Controller Storage Solutions Launch at Computex Taipei 2009

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Deacom President Jay Deakins Named American Business Awards Finalist

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ELEKS Software Implements a New Customs System for the States of Jersey

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Remote Backup Systems, Inc. Will Host a Live Seminar

Remote Backup Systems will host a live seminar focusing on service providers starting and running a successful Online Backup service.

Beijing Fastweb Boost Up Tsinghua University Website Performance

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Calvin Klein Making Optical Storage Solution.

Sunglasses that conceal a 4 GB USB stick is not quite what we mean by "optical storage," but ok.

Aneesoft Video Converter Pro Released for Windows

Aneesoft Released Video Converter Pro for Windows PC. Enables Consumers to Easily Convert Among all Popular Video Formats and View Video Content on Popular Portable Devices.

LaCie Blu-ray Burns at 8x.

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Avangate powers up the Intel Business Exchange Software Store in Europe

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CES \'09: Asus\' 512GB SSD Laptop; World First.

We had the chance to briefly talk to Asus tonight, prior to CES" full opening in the morning. One thing we learned from Asus is that the company is preparing to launch what it claims is the world"s first 512 GB SSD ultra-portable.

TestSoft Inc. Releases Explicore Continuous Improvement Software

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SSDs Get Ready for a Late 2009 Boost.

As the market for NAND Flash stabilizes in the latter half of the year, consumer and enterprise demand for solid-state drives is expected to surpass hard drives.

HR Data Manager Announces New HR Software Release

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Seagate Rolls Out Speedy 320 GB Notebook Hard Drive.

 

Micron Preps 256 GB SSDs For Notebooks.

Boise (ID) - Micron announced a new generation of its RealSSD flash disk drives for server and notebook applications Capacities are now hitting 256 GB, but the real questions appears to be pricing and not storage space.

Corsair Enters Case Market, Launches Obsidian.

Computex isnò€™t just about whatò€™s inside your machine and proof of that is Flash maker Corsair"s first foray into the case market.

Retouching Images and Enhancing Portraits Made Easy with AKVIS MultiBrush

AKVIS announces the releases of AKVIS MultiBrush, an all-in-one photo enhancement and portrait retouch solution for Windows and Mac users. MultiBrush helps to enhance portraits, retouch image flows and remove unwanted objects from digital pictures.

Intel 34-nm SSDs Officially Launched, Cheaper.

They"re the same, only newer, cheaper and faster.

Content Circles Offers New Connector to Xerox DocuShare

Innovative Collaborative Desktop Solution Enhances Enterprise Content Management

Magic Particles 1.61 released

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Renegade R2 SSDs Ships, 256 GB Version Soon.

pureSilicon has shipped its line of rugged SSDs, with a 256 GB version to follow in Q1 2010.

Transoft Solutions" AutoTURN 6.1 Software Now Shipping

Better Database Technology, Compatibility, and Functionality Highlight Latest Version Release of Transoft Solutions" Seminal Vehicle Swept-path Analysis Software

Lightning SSDs Provide Crazy Fast Speeds.

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Corsair\'s Extreme SSDs Use Indilinx Controller.

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Microsoft Not Cool With Hybrid Storage Netbooks.

Microsoft isn"t too keen on SSDs and HDDs living under the same roof.

Logicopolis Technology Releases Whiteboard for iPhone -- Jail Breakers Taking Over?

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Use Your SSDs In or Outside Your Case, Anytime.

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Fixing Modern SSDs for the Enterprise.

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Corsair Enters the Case Market.

Shortly after the new year rang in there were reports made by various sources that Corsair was planning to enter the PC case market and it came through, showing off a case at CeBIT.

Online Backup Company Reduces Prices for its Cloud Computing SaaS Solution

Remote Backup Systems has announced a significant price reduction on its Virtual Hosting service. This Software as a Service (SaaS) allows companies to start their own branded Online Backup business in the Cloud using RBS" software and data center.

Will Windows 7 Kill SSD-based Netbooks.

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Maximise Customer Retention with Intelligent, Reliable Technology

Xynomix consider the importance of utilising Business Intelligence (BI) and supporting underlying database systems to improve customer retention and value.

Adeptia offers BPM Solution for Insurance companies

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MaineGeneral Health Selects AnyWare Group"s ROAM platform for Remote Access

ROAM delivers on promised benefits for users, physicians, and IT staff

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The Bigger, Quieter Xbox360; Not from Microsoft.

Is your Xbox 360 noisy? Perhaps you don"t own an Xbox 360 because you"ve heard that they"re noisy (maybe). This week a company called Quiet PC launched a line of Xbox 360 consoles that aren"t Xbox 360 consoles at all.

ICONICS Announces 2009 Spring Webcast Series

Latest Automation Technology Topics Covered - from Geo SCADA to Energy Analytics

QOTD: Have You Bought An SSD Yet.

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Seagate Releases Firmware to Fix HDD Bricks.

Itò€™s been a rough past week for Seagate, and even more so for owners of new large-capacity Seagate hard disk drives.

Skill Trees Removed From Diablo III.

Blizzard"s Jay Wilson said that skill trees will not be a part of Diablo III.

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Archive Systems Announces Virtual Records Center, Release 4.0

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Western Digital Caviar Goes Green ò€“ Faster, More Efficient.

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200 GB Per Disk: Toshiba Leads 2.5" Hard Drive Storage Density.

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This mouse still has its tail.

New MacBooks Dump Intel Chipsets in Favour of Nvidia.

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TORUS Roundabouts Launch Presentations Draw International Sales

Transoft Solutions" Innovative New Roundabout Software Impresses Webcast Participants, Leads to Quick Sales

Jaspersoft Extends Global Footprint to Greater China through AsiaSoft

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Supply Chain Management for Great Plains Dynamics GP notes - Alba Spectrum

Microsoft Dynamics GP ERP and MRP is robust and flexible platform for barcoding, consignment, warehouse management, picking up ecommerce.

Corsair, OCZ intro new DDR modules.

Corsair Memory said it has begun shipping a PC3200 CAS2 model of the blinking "Xpert" series memory modules. The new model is named TwinXP1024-3200C2 and represents a matched pair of 512 MByte DDR DIMMs.

Collanos and Translumina launch LumiMagic telephone switchboard for SMBs

At CeBIT 2009, Collanos and Translumina Networks launch LumiMagic, a cost-effective Linux box combining the functions of a VoIP telephone switchboard, network router, and WLAN access point.

Corsair to unveil DDR2 and DDR memory solutions at CeBIT 2006.

Corsair Memory is saying that it will launch the world"s fastest DDR2 and DDR memory solutions for Intel and AMD platforms at CeBIT 2006 in Hannover, Germany. Rated at 1066 MHz, the new TWIN2X1024-8500 from Corsair targets Intel users, while the TWINX2048-4400PRO at 550 MHz is aimed at the AMD platform.

eCommerce for Dynamics GP Notes: eConnect Batch Posting - Alba Spectrum

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Meet ZSL at Microsoft Convergence 2009 between March 8-13, 2009 (Booth no: 233)

ZSL is participating in Convergence 2009 to be held between March 8-13, 2009 in New Orleans, LA. ZSL is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner & recognized ISV and is focused in providing business solutions - CRM and ERP - for industries of various verticals - BFSI, Pharma, Telecom, MFG, Retail & More

Team Fortress 2 Updates Incoming.

While they won"t be on the same scale as other major update rollouts, Valve is will soon tweak two classes in its smash hit Team Fortress 2.

e-Zest to showcase OpenSource Competency at CeBIT 2009 Hannover Germany

e-Zest Solutions, a software development company, is demonstrating open source competency at CeBIT 2009 Hannover Germany for the third time in sequence. CeBIT is the world"s largest IT exhibition.

New Lynx Systems Services Enhance Intuit MRI and Yardi Software

Lynx Systems Inc. introduces two new services for users of Intuit MRI, Yardi Systems and other property management software. The Four Day System Assessment gets the most from your property management software and the Ten Day Process Review ensures management has access to strategic information.

QOTD: What Was Your First Computer.

IBM PC Bus, ISA, EISA, math co-processor, floppy disk. So many forgotten terms, from years ago.

China: Green Dam Project Will Go Ahead.

The Chinese government has confirmed that its plans to roll out filtering software on all PCs sold in mainland China has not been canceled.

Chieftec puts New Faces on Classic Cases.

Long respected for its rugged quality, Chieftec has updated parts of its line with trendy design and enhanced features.

Transoft Solutions Launches the Revolutionary Roundabout Design Software, TORUS

New Roundabout Software from Transoft Solutions Offers Impressive One-of-a-kind Features and Functionality

Key Solutions, Intermec Media Products To Host Lunch and Learn Session

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Zalman\'s LQ1000 Case Integrates Liquid Cooling.

Zalman has introduced its latest low-noise case, the integrated liquid cooling LQ1000.

Ibuypower announces sub-$2000 Quad FX system.

Chicago (IL) - Ibuypower was one of the first system builders to offer AMD"s new Quad FX platform, previously code-named 4x4. The basic configuration of the computer runs for less than $2000 and includes two FX-70 processors, a 500 watt power supply, 512 MB of memory one Geforce 6600 graphics card and an 80 GB hard drive.

Naizak Hosts Riverbed"s MENA Partner Conference In Dubai

Conference to cover new business opportunities for resellers, update them on the latest products and honour the best-performing partners at the event.

Blizzard Wants Copyright Laws Changed.

Cheating is bad, but does cheating infringe on a video game publisherò€™s copyright? World of Warcraft-maker Blizzard, a subsidiary of Vivendi, is trying to argue in court that it does. If this argument succeeds, it could change the way all software copyrights operate in the eyes of the law.

Danaher Tool Group Selects Apptricity Warehouse Management System

Apptricity Warehouse Management System (WMS) gains momentum with new implementation slated at Danaher Tool Group.

University Management System (UMS) from Navayuga Infotech Pvt Ltd

University Management System (UMS) is a large database system which can be used to manage, maintain and secure your university"s day to day business.

Dynamics GP Partner News: Great Plains ERP performance tuning - Alba Spectrum

If you have Microsoft Dynamics GP formerly known as Great Plains Dynamics implemented in your organization and you are experiencing performance issues, we would like to present you this small publication, written in the form of FAQ and highlights

MSI Brings Back the Turbo Button.

Turbo buttons on the PCs went extinct after the 386/486-era. But now, according to TweakTown it appears that MSI will be trying to resurrect it for the button happy crowd with the MSI GeForce N9600 GT Diamond graphics card.

UCG Enhances VAULT400 with DR and H/A Services

New managed service offerings have been released the IBM System i and Intel Servers by Vault400 Disaster Recovery.

Mystic Management Systems Releases ensur 4.0

Mystic Management Systems builds more functionality in its web based Quality Management System granting more freedom with more control.

Nvidia Halts Chipset Developments.

Nvidia yesterday confirmed that the company is halting development of its chipsets because of legal issues with Intel.

Intel, Microsoft Show More Win 7 CPU Efficiency.

Windows 7 to get more out of your laptop battery.

Synaptris Wins Prestigious IBM Lotus Innovation Award

Synaptris part of the Cybernet-Slash Support Corp has been named winner of the IBM Lotus CTO Innovation Award at the 15th annual IBM Lotus Awards.

Peel District School Board capitalizes on KWizCom"s Calendar Plus capabilities

The Peel District School Board, Canada"s second largest and one of North America"s fastest growing public school systems recently acquired KWizCom"s Calendar Plus web component for SharePoint and is already seeing the benefits.

Meaningful Use Confidence is High but Plenty of Gaps Still Exist

New KLAS report looks at how ambulatory EMRs stack up against expected meaningful use requirements

Dell and Intel rebound in workstation market, says Jon Peddie Research.

Despite their dominance, workstation industry leaders Dell and Intel were in a tailspin 12 months ago, both steadily losing ground to their respective rivals Hewlett Packard (HP) and AMD, according to Jon Peddie Research (JPR). But the research firm said there was a reversal in fortunes for both companies in the third quarter of 2006.

Biostar Launches First AMD Dragon MoBo.

Monday Biostar unveiled the very first Dragon Platform qualified motherboard, the TA790GX A3+

Phoenix software allows pre-boot access to Outlook data.

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Eos Systems Introduces Affordable Automated 3D Measurement in PhotoModeler

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