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Microsoft Is Slowing Reeling Yahoo In

February 15th, 2008 · No Comments

More news circulating from the New York Post today about the Yahoo/Microsoft acquisition we’ve heard so much about over the past couple of weeks. The Yahoo board of directors have begun to split, while some of the directors remain strong, supporting their decision to remain Microsoft free, some of them are starting to waiver toward [...]

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Merging Asymmetrical Cores Adds Benefits To Chip

February 15th, 2008 · No Comments

The secretive competitor to Intel and AMD named Montalvo Systems which is based out of Santa Clara California, is working on a chip that is apparently not so different from the Cell Processor found in the PlayStation 3 console. The chip that Montalvo is working on is “asymmetrical” in that its cores are not [...]

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First Chess, Now Towers Of Hanoi

February 15th, 2008 · No Comments

We’ve all heard about Deep Blue the chess-playing computer developed by IBM, but take a look at this little guy, a machine that plays Towers of Hanoi on the Iphone.

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F-Secure Health Check

February 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Recently Acrobat and Quicktime both had some major security flaws, that could be alleviated with product upgrades/patches. The problem is, more often than not people simply don’t know they’re running a vulnerable version of a product. Either the software informs them, depending on settings, or they never upgrade and end up with a [...]

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Which SDK has better ROI?

February 15th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m sure everyone has heard that Google just released the Android SDK. The release of Android is great news for developers as it will allow them to put the latest and greatest mobile apps on your shiny new phone, and hopefully make money (or not depending on their motivation). The market for mobile [...]

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