Sunday, August 31, 2008

Motorolla RAZR2 V9 Phone

Newest version of iconic clamshell phone with stainless steel frame and large 2-inch, glass-housed 262K color display.Operates on AT&T's 3G and EDGE networks for fast AT&T music/video downloads and streaming; quad-band connectivity for global roaming.2.2-inch internal LCD; 2.0 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom; handsfree.

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Dell Vastro 1510 laptops and 1710 notebooks

hi have you ever heard about dell vastro series laptops or have you experienced these vastro laptops if not then read more about it and know what dell offer to their customers.

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Thermalright HR-03 GTX - the monster GPU cooler

6 quality nickel plated heat pipes offers maximum amount of heat transfer from copper base to aluminium fins where a 92mm fan removes the thermal load quietly and effectively.

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SmartVM Announced new features for USB Extender and HDMI Ext

SmartVM now offers wide range of new USB extender products ideal for extending devices like USB cameras, printers, and scanners. This USB Extender over Cat5 breaks the 15 feet USB extension limitation. The USB 2.0 Extender Cat5 will allow you to extend from 1 to 4 USB peripheral devices up to 330 feet via Cat5 / Cat5e / Cat6 UTP cable. The USB sta

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Nvidia strikes back: 9500GT, 9800GT and 9800GTX+ released!

During the last few days, Nvidia released three new desktop video cards: The 9500 GT, the 9800 GT and the 9800 GTX+. The first one is to challenge ATI in the lower-end market, while the latters are facing ATI's R700 series. Specs, prices and my opinion on thoses cards are all in the article!

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Building 'The Matrix'

Using quantum physics, rather than using data kept in a classical computer, the new device demonstrates a technique that could enable physicists to create, in the virtual world, materials that don't yet exist in nature.

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AMD Fusion details leaked

It appears that AMD’s engineers in Dresden, Markham and Sunnyvale have been making lots of trips to little island of Formosa lately - the home of contract manufacturer TSMC, which will be producing Fusion CPUs. Our sources indicated that both companies are quite busy laying out the productions scenarios of AMD’s first CPU+GPU chip.

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Intel Plans to End the "MHZ Game" with a "many core" Game

To keep up with the demands of the increasingly digital world, the "multi-core" or "many core" approach is necessary because by 2015, running chips at faster and faster frequencies could have yielded products like laptop or desktop computers that create as much heat as a nuclear reactor, engineers said.

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Forget the '$100 Laptop' ... Try $12!

As the prices of educational laptops for children in developing countries creep upward, a group of researchers attempts to create a new, even lower-tech computer that would cost as little as $12.

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25 Awe Inspiring Custom Computer Case Mods

If you’ve thought of it, chances are there is a computer case mod inspired by it. This year, the modders have really outdone themselves with even more drool-worthy designs! Check out these crazy pics and more.

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Amazing advancements in Invisible Cloak Technology: See pic

Long the stuff of fantasy, practical invisibility shields have been brought a step closer to reality by researchers who say they have engineered materials that can hide an object by bending ordinary light like balloon animals at a circus. Includes a stunning picture in which the technology is put to use!

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Guy builds Massive folding farm with 51 nVidia Video Cards

A person over at the overclock.net forums and their folding@home team has put together an amazing folding farm, Consisting of 51 nVidia 8800 series GPU's and 13 MSI P6N Diamond motherboards which each have 4 PCI Express slots for 4 video cards per board, based on calculations this folding Juggernaut can put out about 265,200PPD.

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USB 3.0 ready!

In the has put the final piece for USB 3.0 hardware development in place.

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Saturday, August 30, 2008

How GPS Helped Convict Murderer of Killing 4 Family Members

Eric Hanson's trial was among recent criminal cases around the country in which authorities used GPS navigation devices to help establish a defendant's whereabouts; Garmin GPS units, similar to this one can be used in court cases to pinpoint for jurors the places defendants have been.

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TED Prototype: Scope, a camera for kids

Inspired by James Nachtwey's TED Prize wish, designer Bas Groenendaal shares this prototype camera with TED. The Scope camera has a fresh look and a singular purpose, he says:to be used as a therapeutic instrument for underprivileged children, e.g. children living in (former) warzones.

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HTC Dream / Googlephone first pics!

We've gotten our hands on a slew of pictures showing off a very real T-Mobile-branded Dream in all its Android-running glory.

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MySpace's Tom Anderson Was A Real Life “WarGames” Hacker

In 1985, when he was fourteen and in high school in Escondido, California, Anderson was subject to one of the largest FBI raids in California history after hacking into a Chase Manhattan Bank computer system and subsequently showing his friends how to do it.

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The era of the American Internet is ending

Andrew M. Odlyzko, a professor at the University of Minnesota who tracks the growth of the global Internet, added, “We discovered the Internet, but we couldn’t keep it a secret.” While the United States carried 70 percent of the world’s Internet traffic a decade ago, he estimates that portion has fallen to about 25 percent.

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Random Acts of Kindness: A Social Site I’d Love to See

I don’t think anything like this exists yet, so if you’re looking for an idea for a website/service, I’ve got one for you:

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100 Best and Top Classic Website of 2008

An awesome list of some of the best and most noteworthy sites

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Google stretching underwater cable

google admitted that it was partnering with five Far Eastern outfits to stretch a cable from the US to Japan.

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Woman Called Yoda Blocked From Facebook

A woman claims she was blocked from joining Facebook because she has the same name as a famous Star Wars character.

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250 GB Challenge & 5 Tools To Monitor Your Bandwidth

With Comcast announcing a 250 GB cap on its broadband service and Time Warner trialling a tiered service with limits that range from 5 GB to 40 GB, we’ve decided to challenge people to break those caps.

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250 GB Challenge & 5 Tools To Monitor Your Bandwidth

With Comcast announcing a 250 GB cap on its broadband service and Time Warner trialling a tiered service with limits that range from 5 GB to 40 GB, we’ve decided to challenge people to break those caps.

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NASA - The Eagle Prepares to Land (Image)

The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle, in a landing configuration was photographed in lunar orbit from the Command and Service Module Columbia. Inside the module were Commander Neil A. Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin. The long rod-like protrusions under the landing pods are lunar surface sensing probes. Upon contact with the lunar surface,

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New Milky Way map reveals a complicated outer galaxy

The halo of stars that envelops the Milky Way galaxy is like a river delta criss-crossed by stellar streams large and small, according to new data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II). While the largest rivers of this delta have been mapped out over the last decade, analysis of the new SDSS-II map shows that smaller streams can be found thro

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Integral locates origin of high emission, from Crab Nebula

Thanks to data from ESA’s Integral gamma-ray observatory, scientists have been able to locate where particles in the vicinity of the rotating neutron-star in the Crab Nebula are accelerated to immense energies.

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Friday, August 29, 2008

24 Core, 48GB Linux Render Cluster built inside IKEA Cabinet

This amazing Linux Cluster consists of 6 Intel Core 2 Quad(2.4GHZ) Processors, 48GB of RAM spread across 6 GIGABYTE GA-G33M-DS2R Micro ATX motherboards and put inside an IKEA Helmer cabinet, WHY YOU ASK? 3D computer rendering is very CPU intensive and the best way so speed up slow render problems, are usually to distribute them on to more computers

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IBM Tests 4-Terabyte Solid-State Drive

First it was Intel. Now, Big Blue is keen on solid-state drives. IBM said Thursday it is testing a 4-terabyte, high-speed solid-state drive array targeted at the enterprise, as the technology giant gives its imprimatur to flash-memory-based storage.

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15 Astonishing Real-Life Applications of Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology is already used in more ways than even science fiction authors could have dreamed up a decade ago. From helping paralyzed patients move and feel limbs again to creating real-life cloaking devices here are 15 amazing real-life applications of nanotechnology.

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First Android Phone Just Approved By FCC

The first handset to run Android (aka "the Google Phone") has been approved by the FCC. In the documents provided, it appears that we have now a release date for this highly anticipated phone: November 10th, 2008. So what will the HTC Dream offer? We take a look at some of the details and unknowns surrounding this device.

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Solar plane makes night flights

The Zephyr-6, as it is known, stayed aloft for more than three days, running through the night on batteries it had recharged in sunlight. The flight was a demonstration for the US military, which is looking for new types of technology to support its troops on the ground.

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Shapeways Allows Materializes Any 3D Object, Star Trek Style

Imagine being able to create any 3D object you want—a World of Warcraft avatar, a chess set, a lamp, a Lego piece you are missing, a house for a train model, or a fully articulated astromech droid—, print it remotely, and have it delivered to your house in just ten days, even without knowing any 3D software. This is exactly what Shapeways does.

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Official: First Google Android Phone Design Image

The first design image of the HTC Dream AKA T-Mobile G1 better known as the first Google Android OS powered phone is out via the AndroidGuys. The phone seems inspired by HTC's Sidekick in its QWERTY keyboard, buttons layout and slide out screen. It also seems to have a slim form factor, which should help it compete with Apple's iPhone or the new Bl

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The rise of the all-conquering Liliputer

The number of models of "Liliputer" - low-cost ultraportable PCs running Windows or Linux - has exploded to more than 100 in less than a year,

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