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AMD Announces Graphics-Fused Answer To Intel Sandy Bridge

Staff Writers July 26, 2011 No Comments

The new chips come optimised for power saving and graphics integration and are already cropping onto new notebook releases beginning as early as August from the likes of Samsung and…

Google, Do I Suffer From Memory Loss?

Staff Writers July 18, 2011 No Comments

The famous line from the song by pop group Chumbawamba, called Amnesia, has some resonance in reality, new research claims. A study by psychologists from Colombian University in the US,…

Toshiba Goes Up Against Samsung & Intel For World Smallest Flash Memory

Staff Writers July 13, 2011 No Comments

Toshiba is currently behind Samsung in production of NAND flash memory chips that are used in devices like smartphones and tablets, but the company aims to push to the top…

Smartphones Don’t Cause Brain Tumors Say Scientists

July 3, 2011 No Comments

The debate over the use of mobile phones has flared up again with new scientific evidence prepared by Australian scientists claiming that the constant use of Smartphones does not increase…

Fujitsu Crowned World’s Fastest Supercomputer

Staff Writers June 21, 2011 No Comments

The supercomputer, dubbed the ‘K computer,’ reached speeds of 8.16 quadrillion calculations per second, tripling the previous speed-topper. This put the latest computational powerhouse at the top of the 37th…

TDK Goes Green With Smaller Energy-Efficient Tech

Staff Writers June 20, 2011 No Comments

Japanese electronics company TDK is setting plans to be more energy-efficient in its means of productions in order to pass the potential for being green down to consumers with lighter,…

Kingston Takes On USB 3.0 Standard With Fastest Thumb Drive

Staff Writers May 24, 2011 No Comments

Now marked as the memory-specialist’s fasted USB 3.0 flash drive, the DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 G2 is the typical USB thumb drive on steroids, with Kingston upping the transfer speeds in…

Intel Set To Take On Apple In Tablet Market

Staff Writers May 20, 2011 No Comments

Intel plans to unveil more than 10 tablet models powered by the latest “Oak Trail” version of its Atom processors at the coming Computex trade show in Taiwan, signalling its…

Italian Spends $200K To Reawaken Apple 1

Staff Writers May 10, 2011 No Comments

Marco Boglione bought the rare ‘Apple 1’ – number 82 of less than 200 ever sold – at Christie’s auction and booted the computer up in a makeshift, disassembled set…

32% Performance Gain From Radical New Intel 3D Processor

Staff Writers May 4, 2011 No Comments

The chip, which uses 22-nanometre technology, was demonstrated by senior fellow Mark Bohr at a media conference in San Francisco around 2.30am, Sydney time, running on a server, a desktop…