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Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processor Codenamed “Suzuka”
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by John Fruehe July 3, 2009
Brad Pitt’s brother isn’t the only one to live in the shadows of a more famous sibling. The latest AMD OpteronTM 1000 Series processor, codenamed “Suzuka”, was launched in the shadow of its 6-core bigger brother, the Six-Core AMD Opteron processor codenamed “Istanbul.” The AMD Opteron 1000 Series processor is designed for applications that are driven by cost or power concerns more than scalability. In the past, this meant a single core in a single socket, but in today’s multi-core world, this means four high performance cores in a single socket. Typically, these processors are used in web servers, small business servers, workstations and even cloud computing. The flexibility of four cores and a low cost infrastructure gives customers an edge when designing for a cost-effective or power efficient platform. With speeds of 2.5GHz, 2.7GHz and 2.9GHz, these single-socket processors pack a punch. It’s based on the same core as the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor codenamed “Shanghai,” so all the great features that you find in “Shanghai” are also in “Suzuka.”
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Month Of Twitter Bugs exposes microblogging flaws
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Making a hashtag of Web 2.0 security
By John Leyden, 3rd July 2009
The Month Of Twitter Bugs has begun with the publication of a flaw in a URL shortening service often used in conjunction with the microblogging service. Four cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the bit.ly URL-shrinking service were published on Wednesday. TweetDeck, one of the most popular Twitter clients, integrates bit.ly, making the flaws much more risky than might otherwise be the case. Fortunately, three of the four bugs were fixed before an alert was published. The last flaw was addressed hours after the release of a notice via Twitpwn, the home page of the Month Of Twitter Bugs project. On Thursday, the Twitpwn project published details of a resolved cross-site scripting flaw in HootSuite toolbox. The Month of Bugs series was inaugurated three years ago with a four week period that offered a different browser bug every day. Originally, the brainchild of HD Moore, of Metasploit fame, noted researcher Aviv Raff is applying the idea to Twitter and associated service during July. He notes that the idea might just as easily be applied to any other Web 2.0 service.
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World’s Smallest LCD Screen Created: 0.27 Inches in Diameter
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Written by Andrew Kessel
Any insecure Hummer owner with a bad track record on the dating scene will tell you “it’s not the size that matters, it’s how you use it” and, for once, that might actually be true. The Kopin Corporation, a self-described nanosemiconductor company, has created the minuscule range of LCD displays dubbed Cyberdisplay. The newest member of the display range measures in at 0.27 inches along its diagonal with a resolution of 600 x 480. Reported to be the smallest full-color VGA screen in the world, this powerful combination of diminutive screen size and monster resolution is an innovation that could have a serious impact on the miniature display market.
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Apple's latest iPhone has powerful flaw
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High-tech tools taxbattery's short life
By David Sarno July 3, 2009
The new, high-octane iPhone 3GS is loaded with features that could light up your life — but its battery isn't one of them. Buyers are finding that the phone, introduced two weeks ago, has trouble making it through a work day without a rest stop at the electrical outlet. It's proving to be something of an Achilles' heel on Apple's flagship device, more than 1 million of which were sold in the first weekend. Even the company suggests on its Web site that users disable some of the phone's most vaunted features, including the faster 3G network itself, to keep it from shutting down during the day. Industry officials and outside experts sketched a complex picture of the technical and bureaucratic limits that might explain why, after two years and three generations of the device, the newest iPhone has less stamina than the first. "There's trouble in the battery field in that there's only so much energy you can squeeze in a certain space," said Allen Nogee, a wireless technology analyst at research company In-Stat. Try to pack in too much juice, he said, and the battery could overheat or even melt. "There's not really a solution in sight," he said.
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Comment: Can't be The Best SmartPhone when your Battery Sucks. OverHype claims another Victim - Recalls and Lawsuits lurking around the Corner. |
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AMD preps RS880 integrated graphics
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Solid GPU execution
By Sylvie Barak, 2 July 2009
WITH THE ADVENT of Windows 7 and just before delivering its first DX11 GPU to the world, AMD is also preparing a brand new integrated GPU, according to certain mainboard partner roadmaps. Designated the RS880, the device will sport AMD's new Radeon HD 4200 graphics core, which is almost 15 per cent faster than anything comparable that's currently available. Support for AMD's ever evolving Stream technology will purportedly also be included, for all that's worth, considering the paltry number of Stream partners at present. With all of the chest thumping between DAAMIT and the Green Goblin over discrete graphics, it's sometimes easy to forget that the global market for integrated graphics parts is actually much larger. So large, in fact, that the sheer volume of those hardworking integrated graphics chips is enough to put Intel, rather than either Nvidia or AMD/ATI, at the top of the global graphics pyramid.
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Apple to NVIDIA: I’m so breaking up with you
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by Devin Coldewey on July 1, 2009
Just when we thought the two companies had found true love, it turns out there’s some turmoil beneath the surface. After NVIDIA’s acknowledgment of mobile GPU breakdown (and denial that the faulty GPUs were in Apple products), Apple determined that many video failures in MacBooks were in fact NVIDIA’s fault. Okay, they worked through that. But it seems NVIDIA has been taking Apple for granted, and displaying “arrogance” in its proposals for continuing a partnership. NVIDIA arrogant? Well blow me down! So what happens next? After the end of this current product cycle (so probably next year), Apple may be dropping NVIDIA like a rock. But wait a second, it would take a lot of convincing to get AMD to put their GPUs in an Intel system, considering their growing interest in whole-system advantages. It’s all so confusing! Fortunately, it’s also all speculation, so we can wait it out and see what happens.
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Intel fast tracks 32nm process
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by Nick Farrell, 02 July 2009
Intel has fast tracked its transition to 32nm process technology considerably earlier than originally scheduled. According to the dark satanic rumour mill the outfit wants to start very aggressive promotion of its code-named Clarkdale processors in the Q4 2009 by shipping them in mass quantities about a quarter ahead of its original cunning plan. Intel will start shipping 32nm dual-core microprocessors with 4MB of cache, Hyper-Threading, dual-channel DDR3 memory controllers and integrated graphics cores codenamed Clarkdale for mainstream desktop computers. Clarkdale, with its merged CPU , memory controller, graphics core as well as PCI Express interconnection inside means that there will be no need for North Bridge on the mainboard.
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Bing Now Shows Some Twitter Updates
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By Miguel Helft July 1, 2009,
Microsoft is dipping its toes into the hot new area of real-time search. The company said Wednesday that Bing, the search engine it unveiled a month ago, would begin including the latest output of popular Twitter users in its search results. “There has been much discussion of real-time search and the premium on immediacy of data that has been created, primarily by Twitter,” wrote Sean Suchter, general manager of Microsoft’s search technology center in Silicon Valley, in a blog post about the feature. “We’ve been watching this phenomenon with great interest and listening carefully to what consumers really want in this space.”
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USB 3.0 May Arrive on PCs by Q4 2009
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by Kevin Parrish July 1, 2009
The July edition of Nikkei Electronics Asia is reporting that PCs featuring USB 3.0 may ship from Taiwanese manufacturers by the end of the year. The verdict stems from the SuperSpeed USB Developers Conference recently held in Tokyo May 20-21, displaying numerous prototypes containing the upcoming technology that included PC hosts transferring data to connected external SSDs, and "mutual" interoperability between components from different vendors. NEA's Tadashi Nezu said it was clear that the industry is quickly pushing forward with compliant integrated circuits and more, and that the technology has actually matured since its earlier showings.
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Dell accidentally sells 140,000 monitors for $15 a pop
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And Taiwan demands they stay sold
By Austin Modine, 1st July 2009
Taiwan consumer regulators have ordered Dell to honor an online pricing error that offered 19-inch LCD monitors for only NT$500 (US$15, £9). News of the supposed bargain spread quickly over the internet when it was posted June 25 at 11pm. Within the eight hours before it was removed, more than 26,000 customers placed orders for nearly 140,000 monitors, according to Taiwan's Consumer Protection Commission. The agency said in a statement (in Chinese) it received 471 complaints after Dell corrected the listing to the intended price of NT$4,800 (US$148, £90). Dell has been ordered to make good on the erroneous price for customers who placed an order on one monitor and offer diminishing discounts on additional monitors ordered.
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