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Intel Nehalem Xeon X5570 2.93GHz
Around 2004, it became clear that Intel's quest for clockspeed had burned out. The final "Prescott" revision of the Pentium 4 processor architecture was struggling to meet ambitious targets for operating frequency. A new paradigm in CPU design was ...
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Sony's Blu-ray recorders get PSP functionality
Sony has released its latest batch of Blu-ray recorders in Japan, and has unveiled some forward-thinking new features in the process. The 500GB Sony BDZ-A950 and 320GB Sony BDZ-A750 have the ability to automatically convert file formats ready to ...
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Panasonic hoping 3D tech means TV price hike
Panasonic showed off its 3D technology this week on one of the company's 103-inch plasma screens at its base in Osaka, Japan. The demonstration was similar to the one TechRadar was privy to at this year's CES, with footage of the Beijing Olympics ...
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PS2 price cuts not extended to UK
Europe and North America get €30 and $30 cut from the recommended retail price of the Sony PlayStation 2 this month, although the UK gets no price cut from SCE UK. While many gamers will not really bat an eyelid (after all, you can pick up a used ...
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Deodr's new lampshade laundering tech
If you hate having to do all that laundry every weekend, then Deodr's new concept for a photocatalytic lampshade that does all your laundry for you – with no water or washing machines required – may well appeal. According to Wu Kun-chia from ...
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Science
Nintendo to update DSi Shop weekly
The Nintendo DSi launches later this week, with the Mario factory announcing that it plans to update the DSi Shop with new games to download every week. "Like the Wii Shop Channel, the Nintendo DSi Shop will offer a growing library of downloadable ...
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NASA reveals full-size Orion mock-up
NASA is celebrating the fact that its latest spaceship is nearer production by taking a full-size mock-up of the craft and its abort system on a road trip. The massive launch abort system (LAS) – also known as the LAS pathfinder – is the orbit ...
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Opinion: GhostNet is a wakeup call to switch to Linux
It's compromised over 1,000 machines in 103 countries, with targets including the Dalai Lama and government departments. It's called GhostNet , it's a spy network, and it wouldn't exist if government departments and other public bodies used Linux. ...
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Exclusive: Microsoft staff sent home during G20 protests
Microsoft has advised workers at its London office to remain at home on 1 April, for fear of the G20 demonstrators targeting the software giant. Microsoft is apparently fearful that staff could be targeted by protesters and that transport will be ...
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Canon PowerShot A480
The Canon PowerShot A480 has a meagre set of controls and a relatively lacklustre 2.5-inch LCD. Despite the plasticky feel of the camera, there are a few thrills, including face-detection auto-focus which is linked with metering and flash exposure ...
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Is the PS Cloud the PlayStation 4?
Sony has patented the 'PS Cloud' with the US Patent and Trademark Office, following the announcement of a number of new 'cloud gaming' services such as OnLive and Playcast Media at this year's Games Developers Conference. The patent has lead to ...
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Screen Digest: '3DTV in 10% of homes by 2011'
Media analyst Screen Digest has put its neck out and announced that 3DTVs will be in 10 per cent of homes worldwide by 2011, but only if a 3D standard is put in place. This figure could even rise to around 16 per cent by 2016, which equates to 2.8 ...
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Firefox 3.0 is Europe's most popular browser
Firefox 3.0 is officially the most popular web browser in Europe, according to StatCounter's latest statistics. Although Mozilla's browser lags behind Microsoft's Internet Explorer if you add all of the latter's different versions together, ...
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New releases catch-up
Here's some recent updates for those of you too busy to hit F5 on Freshmeat every 10 seconds. Ardour 2.8 is now available featuring track and bus templates, distributable VST support and AudioUnit state saving -- stuff which has to be cool if ...
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Windows 7
Not with Vodafone? Here's how to use Twitter on your mobile
SMS delivery for Twitter-using Vodafone customers was announced late last week, but what happens if you're not paying your hard-earned beans to Vodafone? O2, T-Mobile, Virgin, Orange and 3 Mobile customers, we feel your pain. There's plenty of ways ...
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Microsoft kills off Encarta encyclopaedia
News has arrived that Microsoft will be ending MSN Encarta, with the encyclopaedia project doomed by the rise of the likes of Wikipedia. A note on the Encarta FAQ page was spotted by Ars Technica's Emil Protalinski which confirmed that the ...
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Hard drives are the new VHS, says Seagate
Hard drives could be the next video cassette, if Seagate's new FreeAgent Theatre HD media player takes off. The unit, which connects to a TV, accepts branded FreeAgent hard drives in a top-mounted slot. Speaking at its UK launch last night, the ...
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Eclipse TD510
The Eclipse speaker company has been around for a few years now – we reviewed the £4,000 TD712z in 2005 – while the TD510/D6 would seem to be an attempt to retain many of the TD712z's best qualities in a much less costly package. Certainly the ...
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Disney signs content deal with YouTube
After numerous announcements about music distributors pulling content from YouTube, it's good to hear that the video site is making progress in other areas. Disney has signed on the dotted line, which means that the website will now be able to ...
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WhatTheFont
Ever looked at a page and wondered what font has been used? WhatTheFont promises to end this dilemma once and for all, turning your iPhone into a handy font detective powered by MyFont's service of the same name. The theory is sound, but a couple ...
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BitDefender
In Depth: Hands on: Skype on the iPhone
Skype has arrived on the iPhone. So we've been making some calls and deciding whether it's great news for us - or if it's been too hobbled by Apple in order to keep its operator chums happy. Free to download now, the app will go online if you're ...
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Google Venture to fund bright new ideas
Google has launched its venture capital fund, insisting that the time is ripe to invest in hot new products that can turn a profit for the company down the line. Although venture capital companies are nothing new, Google's arrival in the sector ...
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QuadCamera
Long before the iPhone's camera was being criticised, enthusiasts exploited the low-fi effects from Holga and Lomo's cameras. All produced images with crazily saturated colours and prominent vignetting, and some models have four lenses, which take ...
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BitDefender
Google search exposes UK credit card data
The credit card details of thousands of British online shoppers were made available online recently, giving anyone using the Google search engine access to the sensitive information. The details, which included credit card numbers, names and ...
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Online
GDC debrief: do gamers need to grow up?
This year's Games Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco has now drawn to a close, leaving games developers, publishers and journalists with a number of interesting new games and gaming tech developments to ponder, discuss and digest back in ...
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LG more transparent about GD900 details
LG announced today that its upcoming transparent mobile phone, the LG GD900, will make another appearance this year, this time at the CTIA Wireless 2009 in Las Vegas on 1 April. As TechRadar reported back in February, the handset debuted at the ...
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Mobile
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In Depth: Unlike Digg, Fark embraces power users
While some reports suggest Digg may be trying to reduce the influence of power users - where a handful of users dictate what appears on the front page - Fark founder Drew Curtis says they're essential to Fark. In an exclusive interview with ...
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The Pirate Bay heads to Facebook
Torrent link sharing site The Pirate Bay has added a 'Share on Facebook' button on its website, allowing faster file sharing between friends via the leading social network. "Soon you may be seeing links to download copies of Star Wars or the ...
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Facebook twice as popular as MySpace
Facebook is conclusively winning the social-networking battle if recent figures are to be believed, with the website having twice as many visits as its nearest rival MySpace. Rupert Murdoch purchased MySpace back in 2005, when it was just a year ...
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MySpace
In Depth: Windows 7 to usher in the $200 netbook age
Microsoft recently invited PC manufacturers to Redmond to talk about Windows 7 and revealed some interesting details about its thoughts on the netbook market - not least predicting a $200 (£140) price point for Starter Edition variants by Christmas. ...
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Industry responds to Digital Britain vision
Lord Carter may have published the Digital Britain Interim Report way back in January, which set out to map out the future of Britain in the digital age, but it has taken the government this long to collate all the companies' responses and release ...
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Playing games can improve your eyesight
A new 'Nature Neuroscience' study from the University of Rochester in the US claims that playing videogames can improve certain problems with deteriorating eyesight, such as 'lazy eye'. The research proves that games improved the subject's ...
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Nintendo
Exclusive: Opera seeks dominance in world of widgets
Opera's future could well lie in the world of widgets, according to Director of Products Jean-Christophe Vuillot, with the company's already extensive presence giving them access to a huge range of connected devices. Although Opera's share is ...
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Spotify adds option to buy music
If you want to buy a tune you are listening to on the streaming service Spotify.com, then one mouse-click will soon give you the option to purchase a high-quality MP3 version of the song via 7digital.com "7digital, the home of MP3 downloads, and ...
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Skype for iPhone and BlackBerry announced
The official version of Skype for Apple's iPhone finally launches this week, with no need for iPhone users to use slightly clumsier workaround options such as Fring any further. BlackBerry users will also get their own version of Skype later in ...
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Twitter looking to keep celebrity users happy
You would think that celebrities get enough VIP attention in the real world, but it seems that this treatment is extending to cyberspace. Twitter, the micro-blogging website, has put out an advert for a job which caters to the every need of its ...
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BitDefender Antivirus for Unices
Just because you use Linux, it doesn't mean your computer doesn't have viruses or worms. They are just lying dormant, embedded in the EXE files on the NTFS partitions, or hiding beside those DLLs on the dual-boot computers, waiting for you to send ...
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Security
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Linux
IBM on defensive over 'open' cloud strategy
IBM's plan to launch an 'open' cloud computing strategy appears to have been hamstrung by major withdrawals and doubts about the transparency of the plan. Microsoft's exit from the industry-wide strategy talks came with a blog post from the ...
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Is this the new MacBook Mini?
When it comes to Apple rumours, we don't just take them with a pinch of salt, we have a full bag to hand. So while these newly-unearthed details of a MacBook Mini look very believable, it just might be a case of guesswork and a few minutes on ...
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Photoshop
Intel
Photo fx
We've been waiting a long time for a photo editor on the iPhone that's not just about adding moustaches to your mother-in-law, and it looks like we might have seen the first - Photo fx. Photo fx is no Photoshop-wannabe – you're limited to applying ...
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Software
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GhostNet, spying on a government near you
A carefully constructed network of compromised computers have been acting as spying tools within government offices and major institutions across the world, with one report hinting that 'Chinese spooks' are to blame. Two reports, one from Cambridge ...
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Hardware
PC
Plinius 9100
The Plinius 9100 is an integrated amplifier with a moderate 120-watt output rating, but what you probably don't know is that it is also the entry-level model in an extensive range of two-channel and multichannel power amplifiers, integrateds and ...
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eBay launches bespoke version of IE8
EBay has launched its own bespoke version of Internet Explorer 8 with all of its high-profile add-ons pre-installed. The launch of IE8 has seen numerous mentions of eBay, a company that has produced a visual search option, Accelerator and Web ...
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AirPhones
Wireless headphones can be pricey, however, so we're glad to see this £3 app that turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a wireless audio receiver. Just plug in some headphones or dock and your iPhone is a speaker set. It needs a server app to run ...
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In Depth: Boost your career with social media
While yet another mention of the words 'credit crunch' might make you want to run screaming, the truth is that times are uncertain for freelancers and the employed alike. It's hard to find new clients and seemingly secure jobs could be gone ...
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Kensington SlimBlade Media Mouse
There's no doubting its ambition. Kensington's two-button SlimBlade Media Mouse not only features a scrollerball instead of a wheel (putting it on a direct collision course with Apple's own Mighty Mouse) but flip it over and you find an iTunes media ...
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SlidePad 1.0.1
The concept is simple. An easily summoned and retractable space for note-taking while you're working in another application, controllable from the keyboard so as not to interrupt your flow. The question is whether SlidePad delivers $20-worth of ...
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In Depth: Web designers - how to make the perfect pitch
For many agencies, pitching is seen as a necessary evil, that painful, time consuming process required before the 'real work' can start. But agencies and their staff shouldn't be scared of pitches. With the right approach, pitching can be a ...
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Science
In Depth: Why aren't we all watching TV via the web?
The old broadcast format of scheduled programming should be dead by now. Time-shifting – recording shows onto a storage device to watch whenever you want, rather than when they're broadcast – and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) were supposed ...
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UK iPhone users leading mobile revolution
We already know the iPhone has done reasonably well in the UK, selling over a million handsets, but the latest data on how people use the device provides a few surprises. Market research from comScore shows that almost 80 per cent of iPhone ...
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