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- 26 March 2013
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News: Remains of the Day: A long, long time ago
Next time you drive the Chevy to the levee, you can do it with Siri's help. Elsewhere, do you remember where you were the day the MacBook Pro's slogan died? And Apple proves no moss grows on a rolling iPhone. The good ol' remainders for Monday, March 25, 2013 are drinking whiskey and rye.
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News: Foxconn deal to become major shareholder in Sharp falls apart
A deal that would have made electronics giant Foxconn a major shareholder in Japan display maker Sharp has fallen apart, though the companies remain close partners in the complex global electronics supply chain.
- 25 March 2013
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News: Samsung refreshes Series 9 Ultrabook, but where's the 'Retina' display?
Samsung launched an even pricier version of its high-end Series 9 Ultrabook Monday, but the company isn't quite ready to trade blows with Apple on the "Retina" display front.
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News: HP's prototype 3D display creates holograms viewable from 180 degrees
Glasses-free stereoscopic 3D sounds like a great idea, right? Just sit down and watch the images reach out to you. Unfortunately, in practice, we've seen glasses-free 3D fall short, with a darkened 3DS display and reduced viewing angles on 3D HDTVs.
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News: Imagination, TSMC collaborate on graphics chips with 3D transistors
Graphics processors with 3D transistors could come to smartphones and tablets through a technology collaboration between Imagination Technologies and contract chip maker TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.).
- 22 March 2013
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News: AMD's newly-announced Radeon HD 7790 guns for the budget 1080p gaming crown
Last month's release of Nvidia's Titan graphics card--the most powerful consumer GPU ever announced--may have inspired uncontrollable drooling among the enthusiast crowd, but at a cool $1000, the card simply isn't priced to move. AMD's latest release takes a different tack. Today, the company announced the Radeon HD 7790 series graphics card, a $150 mid-range GPU designed to bring better 1080p gaming to the masses.
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News: Samsung launches Southeast Asia's first Enterprise Experience Centre in Singapore
Samsung Electronics so far has been known for its consumer mobility products and solutions in this region. Now, the South Korean electronics giant has trained its eyes on the enterprise segment of the market.
- 21 March 2013
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News: Big monitor demand grows as overall display market shrinks
Monitor shipments will continue to sink in 2013. But when consumers do buy a monitor, they’ll turn to larger screens—31-inches or more in size.
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News: IBM moves toward post-silicon transistor
Exploring methods of computing without silicon, IBM has found a way to make transistors that could be fashioned into virtual circuitry that mimics how the human brain operates.
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News: Apple's hire of Adobe CTO foretells move toward iOS-OS X hybrids
Apple's hiring of Adobe's former CTO Kevin Lynch opens some intriguing possibilities for the company's future moves, analysts said today.
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News: Apple leads consumer cloud storage wars
Apple is dominating the cloud storage wars, followed by Dropbox, Amazon and Google according to Strategy Analytics "Cloud Media Services" survey.
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News: QLogic promises speed, simplicity with first Mt. Rainier cache-on-adapter products
QLogic's technology for clustered cache storage on SAN adapters will hit the market this month in the form of adapters with integrated 200GB or 400GB flash cards.
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News: Oracle's storage business falters as market slows in Q4, says Gartner
Oracle suffered the most as growth in the storage market continued to slow during the end of 2012. Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM also struggled while EMC emerged as the big winner.
- 20 March 2013
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News: Mac troubleshooting: dealing with hard drive woes
Your Mac has begun showing signs of trouble. Perhaps you frequently get errors when trying to open or save files. You suspect a problem with the hard drive. Before panic sets in, you want to launch Apple's Disk Utility and select Repair Disk from the First Aid tab. Hopefully, that will remedy the situation. One problem though: Repair Disk is dimmed and you can't select it. Why? Because OS X cannot attempt repairs on an active startup drive. You can still use Repair Permissions, which may help in certain situations. But let's assume it doesn't.
- 19 March 2013
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News: Nvidia to speed up graphics processors with Maxwell, Volta
Nvidia wants graphics processors to create avatars with realistic human faces, and power visual searches in which images can be identified to produce matching search results.
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News: Warren East explains why he's leaving ARM
Warren East, the outgoing CEO of UK chip design company ARM, has never displayed the bravado of his counterparts across the Atlantic, and that was on show Tuesday when he explained his surprise decision to leave the company on July 1.
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News: Nvidia unveils new Tegra chips for smartphones, tablets
Nvidia wants to bump up graphics and application performance on tablets and smartphones with the two new Tegra mobile processors it announced on Tuesday.
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News: ARM appoints Segars as CEO after Warren East retires
Simon Segars will become ARM CEO when Warren East retires July 1, the company said Tuesday.
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News: Flash storage cost claims need 'careful examination'
Storage will be all solid state at some point in the future, but the vision of an all-flash data centre is still some way off, according to Nimble Storage.
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News: HP's Itanium secrets cost us $95 million, Oracle says
Hewlett-Packard misled IT buyers about plans to phase out its Itanium server platform and in the process stole potential sales from Oracle and other rivals, costing Oracle about US$95 million in profits, the company plans to testify in a jury trial starting next month.
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