New Intel processor badges with "die" accent
The new badges include a die (the chip minus the packaging) accent in the upper right hand corner, a prominent main brand (e.g., “Core”), and the modifier (e.g., “i7″).
Intel is in the process of moving to a “pretty aggressive brand simplification plan,” Calder said. “When we launched Core [...]
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Intel launches new chip logos, rating system
Yahoo plug-in gives brains to browser search
In addition, on Internet Explorer, Inquisitor can help retrieve sites a person has bookmarked.
Inquisitor is an example of the increasing intelligence that Internet companies are trying to build into computers. The search engines from Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google all suggest search queries as users start typing them in, for example. And in the browser, Firefox [...]
iTunes to be more accessible to the blind
Apple released iTunes 8 earlier this month, along with a revamped iPod Nano and updated iPod Touch.
Under the agreement, Apple will make iTunes U–a portion of the iTunes Store dedicated to educational content provided by colleges and universities–fully accessible to the blind by December 31, 2008. It will then work to provide full accessibility of [...]
Finding gems in troubled tech funds
Several factors Scandalios took into consideration included the potential upside Qualcomm’s revenues would see if Nokia had to pay royalties; a reduction in costs by eliminating the Nokia litigation; and an expansion of the chipmaker’s valuation by removing the uncertainty that could come from litigation.
Seligman Communications and Information not only benefited from Qualcomm’s performance, but [...]
Windows starts to show some supercomputing strengt
But although Top 500 results are nice, Hilf said perhaps more important is the potential for HPC Server 2008 to allow cluster computing to move further beyond government and university labs and into corporate departments where the massive computing power can be used for things like fraud detection.
Hilf said it’s this release that will really [...]
Tendril Smart grid meets Zigbee home networks
Basic in-home displays show consumers how much electricity they are consuming at a given moment. More sophisticated systems, as Tendril Networks has developed, are designed to give consumers more options to save energy by collecting information over time and to communicate with the utility through networked meters.
By the middle of next year, it will sell [...]
Does it matter if Google’s search results are fixe
Many who reside in Inner Accolyteville cling fondly to the belief that the Web, with Google as its artificial heart, symbolizes a new democracy, a new honesty, a new pulsating, life-affirming form of justice.
But Google’s is surely a “pragmatic approach.” It’s an advertising agency. It makes its money out of advertising. Mundane classified advertising at [...]




