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- Internet Explorer 9 to feature GPU acceleration
In recent months, Apple, Google, and Mozilla have really managed to squeeze impressive amounts of performance out of their respective web browsers, making page rendering and web applications noticeably snappier with each release. Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 lags behind a bit in current benchmarks, but the IE team has a...
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Last by blubje at 2:22 PM on 11/21/09 - Deal of the week: A $550 ultraportable and a $225 home server
Black Friday isn't here quite yet, but that doesn't mean you can't find any good bargains around—you might just need to look a little harder than usual. For instance, Newegg is currently selling a 13.3" Aspire Timeline 3810 consumer...
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Last by UberGerbil at 4:52 PM on 11/21/09 - Office 2010 beta is now available
If spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations get you all hot and bothered, then you might be happy to know that Microsoft has released a public beta of its upcoming Office 2010 productivity suite. You can grab the beta right now from the official download page; just click "Get It Now"...
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Last by Coran Fixx at 10:54 AM on 11/21/09 - Asus hops on the Atom home server bandwagon
Following in the footsteps of HP and Acer, Asus has announced a small-form-factor Windows Home Server machine based on Intel Atom hardware. The new Asus TS mini is debuting at an affordable $349.99, and with dimensions of...
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Last by Usacomp2k3 at 11:00 AM on 11/20/09 - $700 MSI 'nettop' has dual-core Pentium, Nvidia graphics
MSI's latest Wind "nettop" doesn't have the looks or software of Apple's iMac, but it's definitely not far from it in terms of hardware. Unlike previous all-in-one nettops, the new Wind AE2220 features a dual-core Pentium T4300 processor clocked...
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Last by shaq_mobile at 10:56 AM on 11/20/09 - GPU-accelerated Flash 10.1 beta hits the web
A little over a month ago, Adobe announced plans to release a beta of its GPU-accelerated Flash 10.1 player "later this year." Well, we're now later in this year, and as planned, the beta has become available for download from the Adobe Labs site. Adobe offers versions of the...
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Last by insulin_junkie72 at 5:14 PM on 11/18/09 - Microsoft warns of Windows 7 zero-day flaw
Is this the first zero-day security vulnerability in Microsoft's new operating system? According to ComputerWorld, Microsoft has confirmed the presence of a flaw through which attackers could crash Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 machines. Reportedly, exploiting the flaw can bog down those operating systems "so thoroughly that the...
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Last by TO11MTM at 7:58 PM on 11/17/09 - AMD claims spots in top supercomputers
The new Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers is now out. Who came out on top this month? AMD believes it did, and it has a pretty strong case. Jaguar, a Cray XT5 system situated the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, has become the world's number-one supercomputer thanks...
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Last by Sahrin at 12:59 PM on 11/17/09 - Dell Zino HD reaches the U.S., starts at $229
Well, that didn't take long. Two days after its first appearance in Europe, Dell's Zino HD has made it across the Atlantic and onto Dell's U.S. online store. We expected Dell's U.S. arm to charge around $349 for the AMD-based nettop, but as it turns out, the company only...
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Last by MadManOriginal at 12:58 AM on 11/13/09 - Microsoft to get some Wolfram in its Bing
Wolfram Research's Wolfram|Alpha "computational knowledge engine" isn't meant to be a Google-killer, but it might just help turn Microsoft's Bing into one. Microsoft has announced on the Bing search blog that it has partnered up with Wolfram Research to integrate some Wolfram|Alpha features inside its search engine.
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Last by Pettytheft at 8:37 AM on 11/12/09 - Dell Zino HD 'nettop' is cheap, has AMD guts
Eat your hearts out, nettops. There's a new kid in town, and it's got a little more power under the hood than your typical Atom processor and old-school Intel chipset. Dell has started offering the Zino HD, a low-cost, small-form-factor, Athlon-powered PC, on its Irish website. Measuring just 7.8" x...
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Last by Creamsteak at 9:42 AM on 11/12/09 - Amazon releases Kindle app for Windows
No need to shell out 260 bucks for a Kindle reading device—so long as you don't mind reading books off of your PC monitor or laptop display, that is. Amazon has released a Windows application that lets...
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Last by bender at 3:36 PM on 11/11/09 - European Commission holds up Sun, Oracle deal
Remember how Oracle and Sun shook hands on a $7.4-billion merger this spring? The U.S. Department of Justice okayed the deal in August, but now, the European Commission has thrown a wrench into the works. As the Associated Press reports, the Commission has issued a "statement of objections"...
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Last by RagingDragon at 8:44 PM on 11/11/09 - CyberLink speeds up photo, video apps with GPUs
A year on from the release of Elemental's Badaboom, GPU-compute acceleration for consumer video apps seems to have creeped into the mainstream. Earlier today, CyberLink and Nvidia announced "unique new features and significantly improved performance" now available in CyberLink's suite of photo- and video-editing applications. The acceleration features span...
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Last by stmok at 11:43 AM on 11/10/09 - Epic lets devs make standalone Unreal Engine 3 titles for free
id Software often gets credit for opening the source code of old game engines a few years after their release. Epic Games has now pulled a comparable feat, except with two major differences: the new Unreal Development Kit doesn't include game-engine source code, but it does give developers all of...
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Last by OneArmedScissor at 1:01 PM on 11/06/09 - New Chrome beta is faster, has bookmark sync
Mozilla Firefox may be getting all the market share points, but Google is still hard at work improving its own web browser. The search giant has released a new Chrome beta that features both improved performance and the ability to synchronize bookmarks across different PCs. The bookmark sync feature...
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Last by Trymor at 5:59 AM on 11/07/09 - Firefox beats Internet Explorer 6 in popularity
Web developers rejoice: more people are now browsing the web using Firefox than Internet Explorer 6, according to Net Applications figures quoted by Ars Technica. The data show Firefox commanded 24.1% of the market last month, compared to 23.3% for IE6. (In September, the same two browsers had 23.8%...
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Last by Palek at 12:53 AM on 11/06/09 - Quadro, Tesla users get free ray-tracing engine
Ever since Intel started talking about Larrabee, the concept of accelerating ray-tracing on graphics hardware has generated an increasing amount of buzz. Today, after six months of beta testing, Nvidia has introduced a free ray-tracing engine for workstation and servers with Quadro and Tesla GPUs. The engine is called...
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Last by Shining Arcanine at 5:40 PM on 11/05/09
