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AMD fans may have to book the next flight to Tokyo if they want to get their hands on the firm’s new Istanbul six-core Opterons as quickly as possible.

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DELL has released new offerings in its EqualLogic PS4000 storage array line aimed specifically at SMBs and remote offices, boasting “all inclusive” software packages filled with goodies like storage virtualization, thin provisioning, server virtualization integration and more.

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Rumours are growing louder that Intel will be launching new SSDs based on the firm’s 34nm NAND chips within just a couple of weeks. Previous reports had said Chipzilla planned to come out with its new 34nm flash memory drives in Q4, but that timetable has been nudged up.

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WESTERN DIGITAL has launched a 2TB enterprise HD. If you think that’s big, it has a 64M cache to back it all up too.

The drive, RE4-GP, has what WD claims is “next generation” green technology, saving up to 40 per cent more power than normal drives. The cache is claimed to be good for a 25 per cent increase in performance as well, so this appears to be a win/win before you even consider the massive size.

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Apple today announced the details of its Mac OS X Snow Leopard Up-to-Date Program, which allows U.S. customers who purchased or will purchase a qualifying Mac after June 8th, 2009 with OS X Leopard installed to upgrade to OS X Snow Leopard upon its September release for a shipping and handling fee of $9.95 plus tax. Similar programs are available in a number of other countries. While Apple announced general information related to the program in its initial press releasecovering Snow Leopard’s launch, today’s update provides full details for customers looking to upgrade.
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The mirroring tower from VinPower Digital, known as SharkCopier, is designed to perform massive duplicates of  Blu-ray disk  from a reader unit  or its hard disk to 15 of  its recorders, reaching  up to 60 Blu-ray discs per hour using 4x recording speed in all its units. Read the rest of this entry »

From CNET comes the information that Microsoft plans to offer a version of Windows 7 without Internet Explorer in Europe. So PC manufacturers will be those who choose to integrate the browser or choose another one, to avoid sanctions by the European regulators and the Competition Tribunal.

According to CNET, the information comes from a note that Microsoft has distributed to PC integrators.

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Microsoft has launched a Silverlight-based interactive game called: “Are you certifiable?”

This is a new and interesting way to test our knowledge and learn. Created as a television style game “Who wants to be millionaire?”  There are actually two versions of the game, a developer one and another for system administrators. Read the rest of this entry »

Today had been confirmed that incoming iPhone will be 100% compatible with Symbian S60 v5.

It seems Apple had been thinking seriously about this, and they decided that is difficult to fight against an ultra introduced phone OS like Symbian. Next incoming iPhone will have a dedicated rom with Symbian code to allow the user to install 99% of incoming software designed for the new Symbian S60 v5 plattform (like the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music), but the users will be able also to install iPhone dedicated apps.

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Looking at the specifications for the 3.0 firmware version for Apple iPhone , shows the intention of Apple to include support for 802.11n wireless standard in the next generation of its smartphone and iPod touch that the company marketed. Read the rest of this entry »