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US State Department Rejects Firefox, Which Is Entirely Free, Due to "Expense Questions" [Government]
At a State Department townhall conducted by Secretary Clinton, a staffer asked why Internet Explorer is mandated, even though Firefox is security-approved for the “entire intelligence community.” The answer? A whole lot of bullshit, especially the insane citing of “expense.”
Internet Explorer isn’t mandated in every governmental department, and Firefox has been vetted and cleared as [...]
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Roadmap for Intel’s First Nehalem-Based Mobile Chips Leaked [Intel]
Details for Intel’s new quad- and dual-core i7 and i5 chips have leaked in the form of a roadmap, so we’ve got some excellent specifics, including release dates and prices.
The new quad-core “Clarksfield” chips are the most expensive and powerful, and will be able to scale up clock speed with a feature called “Turbo Boost” [...]
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Leaked Intel roadmap specs upcoming Core i5 and i7 ‘Lynnfield’ CPUs
Looking for something to print out and put on your wall that demonstrates the full extent of your Intel dedication? PC Watch has some mighty high resolution charts of the company’s desktop and mobile CPU roadmaps, including a handful of chips that we haven’t seen before. On the Lynnfield / desktop side, there’s the Core [...]
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$400 eMachines EZ1601-01 All-In-One [PCs]
If you are looking for a low-cost All-In-One that somehow reminds me of a Darth Vader version of Humpty Dumpty, the Atom 1.6GHz-powered eMachines EZ1601-01—loaded with Windows XP and 1GB of RAM—may be the ticket for just $400.
eMachines EZ1601-01 All-in-One Desktop • $399.99 (MSRP) • Microsoft® Windows® XP Home • Intel® Atom(TM) Processor N270 (1.6GHz, [...]
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eMachines offers up stylish, underpowered EZ1601-01 all-in-one PC
Remember that EZ1600 we peeked back in April? Seems its long lost cousin just got official courtesy of eMachines, as the EZ1601-01 all-in-one retains that same PC-in-a-monitor feel yet sports a clearly different model name. Or, you know, maybe eMachines just changed the label up on us. At any rate, the newest member of the [...]
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The North Korea Cyberattack Aftermath: We Are F*cked [War]
Defense Tech has some interesting analysis of what happened with the North Korea’s attacks on United States and South Korean government sites. Given Kim Jong Il’s pathetic telecommunication infrastructure, their summary is both scary and kind of saddening.
To start with, the U.S. Government ignored the attack warnings and has admitted that they didn’t handle the [...]
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AMD six-core Opterons get new ‘Highly Efficient’ and ‘Special Edition’ siblings
We can beat about the bush or we can just admit that Intel has AMD beat on pretty much all fronts right now. Cognizant of this, AMD sprung the Istanbul server chips months ahead of schedule, and is now seeking to maintain momentum by adding meat to the bone. Three new chips are being added [...]
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Bandai RilakKuma netbook suffers from serious supercuteitis
The RilakKuma is what’s known in the business as a money-printing device. It might have the same spec — Atom N270, 1GB memory and 160GB storage — as every netbook since the time of Moses, but its killer feature is a set of eyes and whiskers painted on the lid. Having once already cashed in [...]
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Intel’s Core i7 ‘Clarksfield’ CPUs for laptops launching late September?
Taiwanese rumor-rag, DigiTimes, has a knack for sniffing out insider information from within Taiwan’s MoBo manufacturing cartel. So it’s worth paying attention when it claims to have the latest launch schedule for Intel CPUs. Up first is a trio of laptop-based Clarksfield CPUs — 2GHz Core 2 Extreme XE, 1.73GHz Core 2 Quad P2, and [...]
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Lenovo IdeaPad S12 not-a-netbook sized up
The Lenovo IdeaPad S12 just started shipping last week, and it looks like units have begun to arrive — the folks at GottaBeMobile just posted up some quick impressions of their review unit. Sadly, it’s sporting Intel GMA 950 graphics instead of the NVIDIA Ion chipset that’s available for $50 extra, so it runs pretty [...]
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Rubin: Android getting more social features; Donut, Eclair, and Flan all in the oven
You don’t have to look far past Palm’s Synergy tech for webOS and smaller-scale operations like INQ to understand that social internetworking — an intelligent aggregation of every corner of your life — is the wave of the mobile future, and Google’s going on record saying that it understands. At a T-Mobile- and Google-sponsored event [...]
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No surprise: Intel has known about Chrome OS, worked with Google on ‘elements’ of project
So as it turns out, Intel isn’t just casually accepting of Google’s new OS initiative, it’s actually been privy to the project for some time now, according to a spokesperson for the chipmaker. The two have apparently also worked together (and are potentially still working together) on portions of Chrome OS, he says, which really [...]
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The Week In iPhone Apps: Navigation, Inebriation, Multiplication [IPhone Apps]
Oh, I can keep going: financial news aggregation, slideshow presentation, carrier lamentation, lyrical collect-ation, and… and… tethering? Seven out of eight ain’t bad. Anyway, enough of that—here’s your weekly app dump:
Navigon Lite: Hark! Dedicated navigation units are dead, for the iPhone hath slain them! Except no, not at all, because navigation apps are still fresh, [...]
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Windows 7 Touch Pack: Surface Interface Without the Big-Ass Table [Microsoft]
I scored one of the only copies of Windows 7 Touch Pack out in the wild, and it really blew my mind, bringing the full power of Microsoft Surface to touch-enabled Win 7 PCs. Have a look:
In my first go-around with Win 7 touch, I didn’t feel so much ooh-aah as I felt relief, relief [...]
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ASUS U50VG announced, naming scheme remains impenetrable
Coming in today with no less than five new laptops — the U50VG, K50AB, K70AB, K50IJ and F52Q — the king of market segmentation is clearly still in good form. Announced in Italy today, the main attraction for Intel fans is the U50VG, which sports a 2.1GHz Core 2 Duo T6500 chip alongside 4GB of [...]
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Android, Chrome OS Relationship Confusing Everyone, Including Google [Google]
The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.Just as companies were starting to get serious about installing Android, a mobile Linux OS, on netbooks, Google announces Chrome, a netbook Linux OS. The relationship between the two OSes is already getting tense, or at the very least, awkward.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt is [...]
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Sony Vaio W hands-on roundup
Looks like our friends across the pond were among the lucky few to get a their hands on Sony’s Vaio W netbook — that still feels weird to write — and the big takeaway here is that despite its size, the 10.1-inch, 1366 x 768 resolution screen is gorgeous. As for video, though, it’s still [...]
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Getac 9213 "business rugged" laptop tones down the toughness, the ugly
Looking for something a little tougher than your average notebook yet a little less fugly than your typical Toughbook? Getac’s 9213 is a “business rugged” device that sports a full magnesium alloy chassis, a spill-resistant keyboard and touchpad, and a 13.3-inch WXGA display. With a 45nm Intel Core 2 Duo Penryn-class ULV processor, 3GB of [...]
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Bossa Nova Prime-8 Robot Walks Runs on His Hands, Smashes Aibos to Bits [Robots]
What’s special about Bossa Nova’s Prime-8 robot—a $100 descendant of DARPA and Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute’s $20,000-a-pop all-terrain RHex designed for 10-year-old boys? It’s the fastest bipedal toy robot ever. Just watch.
Prime-8 and Penbo (shown here) are the launch products for Bossa Nova Robotics, a spinoff of Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute with a [...]
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Asus Eee PC T101H launching this fall to a world in crisis
As all you hardcore ASUS-heads undoubtedly recall, we got our first fleeting images of the Eee PC T101H way back in January. Now here we are six months later and man, how the world has changed: Jacko’s in a better place, there’s been a coup in Honduras, civil unrest in Iran, and Lindsay Lohan has [...]
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