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All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the neophyte of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them no good. They must take the offensive if they are to survive, and they must discover why the machines want to destroy them in the first place. As they’ll soon come to learn, the very future of civilization may depend on them. Check out official website here –>Link |
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Archive for May, 2009
Company’s attack ads will now take on Google, not Apple.
By Seth H. Weintraub, May 26, 2009
Microsoft, according to some, is having success with its Laptop Hunter ad campaign. Personally, I think the ads are laughable at best and purposely misleading at worst. Regardless, it looks like we’re going to see more of the same attack ads. The difference, however, is that Microsoft has moved its cross hairs from Apple to Google. Google has about 65 percent of the search market share … and rising. Yahoo shows about 20 percent. Microsoft … well, do the math. But as software moves from the desktop to the cloud, advertising – search and otherwise – is becoming a key component of the ecosystem. This hasn’t been lost on Redmond. Microsoft has earmarked $80 million to $100 million to launch its improved Live … Kumo …Bing search engine . Yep, Bing is the name that this iteration of the search engine will be using.
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Bumpgate Bumps and payback
By Charlie Demerjian Tuesday, 26 May 2009
FOR A LONG TIME we have wondered when Nvidia’s abject stupidity would have a price. The answer, at least at Dell, is now. If you go over the Dell desktop lineup and look through the customization options, you will see that, with a few minor exceptions, there are no more Nvidia cards being offered in Dell systems. Whoopsie. I guess the $10M that Nvidia paid Dell wasn’t enough to make amends. This is nothing less than a sea change at Dell. Nvidia has basically been shown the door by Dell in a most unceremonious fashion. Nvidia either decided to stop buying market share, or Dell just got fed up with it, but don’t preclude both.
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by Bestofmedia Team May 23, 2009
In an interesting move, Friday, Cyberdyne Systems Corporation opened up bidding for its next generation chip production of the much-anticipated “T” line. The main contenders for the bid are shaping up to be Santa Clara-based Intel, Armonk-based IBM, and Sunnyvale-based AMD. Speculation abounds as to AMD’s upper hand in the bid due to its shared geographic location and similar corporate culture. “We’re entering an exciting new era of AI chip design,” said Dr. Miles Bennett Dyson, head of Cyberdyne special projects. “Having such an experienced and motivated group of contractors available to assist in the development and production is a real credit to the industry. The new T-series chips will revolutionize the way we interact with our machines; everything from new military applications unmanning the front lines to more intelligent, modern kitchens will soon be every-day realities, as opposed to science fiction.” Cyberdyne Systems leapt to prominence in the chip design industry in the mid-1980’s. Before that time, it was best known for its large-scale industrial hydraulic presses. “We saw the writing on the wall,” commented Dyson. “We just had a feeling that microprocessors were going to be the way of the future and we gambled with a massive investment in R&D. With a lot of hard work, and a bit of luck, that gamble has paid off big!”
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By Dean Takahashi May 25th, 2009
When Nvidia launched its Ion graphics platform for netbooks and small laptops in December, it landed with a thud. But today, the company is announcing that Lenovo is going to use the platform to create a small laptop with 10 times more graphics horsepower than typical laptops. Ion is a chip that combines an Nvidia graphics chip with a chip set. It’s meant to be paired with low-cost processors such as Intel’s Atom microprocessor in low-power computers such as netbooks, which surf the web and are smaller than laptops. Although the graphics chip is an older model, it is more powerful than typical Intel integrated chip set graphics. Until now, Intel had locked up the Atom market with its own chip sets. Nvidia executives suspected foul play. They’d heard that Intel wasn’t playing fair, pricing its bundle of Atom with an Intel-branded chip set with Intel integrated graphics at a lower price than for a stand-alone Atom. Nvidia hasn’t sued for antitrust, but it has complained loudly about it. Intel denied the allegations.
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The owner of TigerDirect.com hopes to begin Circuit City’s revival with an online push
By Jason Mick – May 25, 2009
Systemax is a company with a penchant for acquiring toxic assets which few others would consider taking. The company, whose cornerstone is the very successful TigerDirect.com, first acquired CompUSA soon after the retailer began liquidating its stores in 2007. After Circuit City collapsed last year, Systemax bought the company for $14M USD, pairing the former competitors together. Now online observers are noting that since May 23, CircuitCity.com has been back online and offering products, courtesy of Systemax. The site’s front page looks similar to the original front page, which will likely bring back memories for some. However, the rest of the site’s pages are remarkably similar in look to Systemax’s CompUSA.com and TigerDirect.com pages.
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Oh the irony
By Sylvie Barak Wednesday, 20 May 2009
DESPERATELY SEARCHING for ways to make itself seem more wholesome in the court of public opinion, after embarrassingly having been found guilty of anti-competitive behaviour for the third time, Intel has published a Corporate Responsibility Report to highlight all of the good things it does when it’s not too busy freezing competitors out of the market. The report highlights all the wonderful stunts Intel has pulled to get publicity for addressing social and economic issues, the environment and education, and it promises to continue trying to distract the world from its dodgy business practices through more of the same in the future. In rather banal, trite fashion, the huge chip firm promises to make “innovation and growth” a “strategic priority” in the next few years. As opposed to stagnation and shrinkage, we assume. As if a full back-slapping report wasn’t nauseating enough, Intel CEO Paul Otellini also chimed in to add a dollop of cheese to the mix, emphasising the importance of “engaging employees to apply technology and expertise to tackle serious challenges.” After all, how can one go wrong by doing things that are good for business and benefiting the world? Sheesh, we don’t know. Ask the EU. Or Korea. Or Japan.
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By Electronista 05/19/2009
eMachines this afternoon hoped to spark new life in its desktops with both a cosmetic and performance upgrade to its most economic AMD-based models. The EL1300 series switches from the typical black and silver of most PC builders (including eMachines itself) to a glossy white eMachines considers friendlier. They continue to use the small form factor design that most eMachines systems now use without affecting their prices. Two models, the 01w and 02w, break ground for the new range: the 01w at $298 is the least expensive but is planned for buyers who already have display, with the absence of an LCD letting eMachines fit a low-power 1.6GHz Athlon X2, 2GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, a DVD burner and Vista Home Basic. The 02w adds a 20-inch LCD but halves the RAM to 1GB to keep the price down to $398.
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By Jeff Bertolucci, May 19, 2009
LG Display says it has built the world’s thinnest 42- and 47-inch LCD TV displays. The two new panels measure just 5.9mm (0.23 inch) thick, making them a millimeter slimmer than JVC’s 7mm 32-inch TV prototype introduced last January. While LG says it has “succeeded in developing” the ultra-slim panels, there’s no word yet on when the products will ship, or what they’ll cost. The picture quality will likely be good but not spectacular, although we won’t know for sure until we see these panels in action. Unlike conventional LCD TVs that use Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp (CCFL) backlighting, the new LG models feature LED (light emitting diode) lighting, which enables a thinner, lighter design. The new sets weigh just 6.1kg (13.45 lbs) and 7.3kg (16.1 lbs) each, making them roughly half the weight of same-sized CCFL-backlit LCD TVs.
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Bumpgate Insurers bite back
By Charlie Demerjian Tuesday, 19 May 2009
A DOCUMENT HAS COME TO LIGHT that details the lengths to which Nvidia has gone to cover up the problems it has been having with its graphics chips. The most recent lawsuit against it by the National Union Fire Insurance Company (NUFI) claims the company has withheld information on the nature of its bad bumps. The very same information it has withheld from us or any other nosy hack or awkward analysts. The story was broken by a certain Mike Magee at TG Daily on Friday, and it has a lot of juicy bits. The short story is that the list of defective chips shipped by Nvidia goes back to the NV4x generation, and the list of OEMs affected counts ten and basically includes every Nvidia customer. NUFI complains bitterly that Nvidia has been covering up essential information it is entitled to receive as Nvidia’s insurer by refusing to disclose even the most basic facts about the company’s GPU chip failures. We had the same complaint. Let’s go back over what happened so you can see the depths of this debacle.
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