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20 Apr 2007
Nvidia's 8600GT GPU may save $$$ but does it cost more in performance? We take cards from Gigabyte and XFX and find out.
TweakTown
Electronics Weekly
Comverge recently announced that it has joined the ZigBee Alliance, a global ecosystem of companies creating wireless solutions for use in residential, commercial and industrial applications.
PRNewswire
Company release
Thunderbird 2 is the next generation release of the award-winning Thunderbird email client from Mozilla. New features in Thunderbird 2 include: Message Tags, and new visual theme, and easy access to popular Web mail services such as Gmail and .Mac.
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"...a noteworthy achievement that Taipei followed through on its promise to allow Taiwan chipmakers to transfer 0.18-micron technology to China, but this step really should have been taken a year ago....Taiwan needs to find ways to reduce the heavy political rhetoric surrounding..."
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Ubuntu is the award-winning Linux distribution for the desktop, laptop, thin client and server which brings together the best of open source software every 6 months. Ubuntu 7.04 desktop edition includes a ground-breaking Windows migration assistant, excellent wireless networking support and improved multimedia support.
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The Register
"...The Marvell 88W8686 WLAN processor draws less than 400mW - and the smallest total WLAN footprint available – less than 50 mm2..."
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Thunderbird 2.0 has been released, and the newest version of Mozilla's free, open-source e-mail client has several new features that make it an attractive alternative to other e-mail clients. The new version is available in over 35 languages for users of Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows.
Ars Technica
19 Apr 2007
Politicians from both parties of the US Congress on Wednesday unveiled a new proposal designed to make the most sweeping changes to the US patent system in decades.
News.com
Ars Technica
Manila Bulletin Online
The Inquirer
Business Week
AP (via Business Week)
Electronicstalk
ECS claims the 965PLT-A motherboard offers mainstream performance at a budget price. Let's put it to the test.
TweakTown
Acacia Research is targeting Oracle, Corel, Kodak, Nuance, Borland, Novell, and others with a federal lawsuit over use of hyperlinks in CD and DVD media.
Ars Technica
There was a massive outage of Blackberry mobile devices across the globe Wednesday and analysts estimated that up to 80% of Blackberry's eight million users were affected and complaints of business disruption rang out from London, mainland China, New York and the West Coast of the US.
Mercury News
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