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IBM Develops Smallest 32nm High-K Metal Gate Fabrication Process SRAM for Electronics Industry

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Nowadays the chipmakers are moving fast with the release of even smaller process technology to fabricate a processor, chipset or SRAM. Not to be left behind, the famous giant chipmaker, IBM has just announced the readiness to develop new SRAM using 32 nanometer (HKMG) High-K Metal Gate process. If you compare, Intel has just started to engage on 45 nanometer process technology for few of its new series of processors such as recently launched Intel Atom and upcoming Nehalem processor. Whereas AMD is leaving far behind with its 65-nanometer processor, although more focus has been spent on re-architect its silicon design to recap some of the loss market.

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Funny Gmail Promotional Advertisement Video Clip

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Does Gmail need to advertise in order to get people using it? Some Russians certainly think so. But they do come out with interesting and funny ads in video format for Gmail. The video promotional clip doesn’t rely on computer generated special effect, and simply depends on human to present the familiar Gmail user interface in real, and large scale.

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Get Wake Up Call From Maxim Edge Girls for Free

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

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How to Make a Laser Pointer from Mini Maglite Flashlight

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Mini Maglite (or MiniMag) flashlight is a normal flash light that uses normal light bulb mainly for personal use. While laser flashlight is a high power beam that does not mean for everybody, and often more costly. If you have a unused CD/DVD optical drive that you no longer wants, it’s possible to retrieve and take out the laser LED diode on the optical drive to mount onto Mini Mag-Lite to make the flashlight to become a laser pointer with burning power capability.

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Ford Announces Blind Spot Mirror And Cross Traffic Alert With Blind Spot Monitoring System

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

In an effort to keep drivers safer, the well-known maker of cars, trucks, SUVs and other vehicles, Ford Motor Company has recently announced its two new features to aid drivers’ visibility including Blind Spot Mirror (replacing traditional side view mirrors) and Cross Traffic Alert with Blind Spot Monitoring System, arriving in early 2009, utilizing radar to alert of cross-path traffic while in reverse and, in forward gears, warn when a vehicle enters the blind spot, aiming to enhance and secure your driving experience.


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NVIDIA Collaboration With VIA to Fight Intel in Low Cost Vista Platform

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

During the recent financial analyst meeting, NVIDIA has announced the new plan to develop a low cost but yet good graphics performance system for consumer market. The cost range is expected to fall below $45 that claimed to be the most affordable Vista premium platform in the world. If you recall, the price for the cheapest Intel Atom processor, Z500 series is also around $45 and now the same price seems to be able to cover both the core, chipset and basic peripherals to build up the whole system.

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Best-Selling Microsoft Wireless Notebook Optical Mouse 3000 Available In 5 New Vibrant Colors

Friday, April 11th, 2008

The American multinational computer technology corporation, Microsoft has recently announced plans to debut special edition versions of the No.1 best-selling notebook mouse in U.S - Wireless Notebook Optical Mouse 3000, offering in 5 fashionable new vibrant colors including Pomegranate (red), Dragon fruit (dark pink), Aloe (green), Milk chocolate (brown) and Creme brulee (khaki), which aimed to enhance your lifestyle.


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Exciting Potential of China in e-Commerce

Monday, April 7th, 2008

The biggest market in the world is in China and the untapped online retail market is stupefying. China’s online population is 220 million, ranked number one in the world, overtaking even the USA. Fifty-five million Chinese Internet users shopped online, recording turnover of US$8.25 billion. This is, however, only the tip of the iceberg: a consumer is calculated to spend an average of 1,000 yuan (a mere 0.64 of total retail spending in China).

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Intel Officially Launched Atom and Atom Centrino Family Processors in Shanghai IDF

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Intel has officially launched the new Atom and Atom Centrino processors during recent IDF (Intel Developer Forum) held in Shanghai, China. If you are aware, Atom is an official name replacing Silverthorne and Diamondville code name silicon released by Intel targeting for UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC), MID (Mobile Internet Device) and even for embedded market.

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Bill Gates: New Windows 7 To Be Released in 2009? Or 2010?

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Windows customers waited 5 years for an upgrade to Windows XP, i.e. Windows Vista, with several dateline delay, to be released to manufacturing (RTM) and available in retail and OEM channel, so how long would we have to wait for the next version of Windows series, successor of Windows Vista which codenamed Windows 7 to publish in final version?

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