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Nintendo Wii Surpasses Microsoft's Xbox 360 in Sales (Update1)
July 17 (Bloomberg) -- Nintendo Co. said U.S. retailers sold more than 666,000 of its Wii consoles last month, making the machine the overall leader among the new generation of video-game machines.
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AMD changes CEO as chip maker struggles
Hector Ruiz was pushed aside Thursday after six tumultuous years as CEO of Advanced Micro Devices Inc., as the chip maker tries to pull itself out of a deep financial hole caused by a questionable acquisition and a major product gaffe.
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Nintendo Wii Surpasses Microsoft's Xbox 360 in Sales (Update1)
July 17 (Bloomberg) -- Nintendo Co. said U.S. retailers sold more than 666,000 of its Wii consoles last month, making the machine the overall leader among the new generation of video-game machines.
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AMD changes CEO as chip maker struggles
Hector Ruiz was pushed aside Thursday after six tumultuous years as CEO of Advanced Micro Devices Inc., as the chip maker tries to pull itself out of a deep financial hole caused by a questionable acquisition and a major product gaffe.
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Google profit up 35% at $1.69 bil
SAN FRANCISCO - GOOGLE'S second-quarter profit rose 35 per cent from a year ago to US$1.25 billion (S$1.69 billion), led by strong growth outside the US market in online advertising operations, the Internet giant said on Thursday.
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Recent Original Stories
"Red Flag Linux has turned out to be little more than a key bargaining chip in a high stakes game of commerce between the Chinese government and the world's largest software maker.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 19th Aug 2006 22:32 UTC
"In the last few months, there has been a lot of talk about Xgl, compiz, AIGLX et cetera. It seems that 'Xgl' has become a synonym for fancy desktop on Linux - but no one seems to talk about the alternatives or how it all works.
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Google Goos Up The Quarter
Search engine's finances befuddled.
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Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 16th Jul 2008 22:22 UTC
After a few delays and tons of rumors, Intel's fifth generation notebook platform has arrived. Centrino 2 , previously known as Montevina, comes with with it a line of new Core 2 Duo processors, upgraded graphics and Wi-Fi, and DDR3 RAM. One of the first notebooks to be released with Centrino 2 is Lenovo's newest ThinkPad, the X200 . This is the update to the X61 which not only had all the new ...
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Samsung, Sun boost flash drive endurance
Samsung Electronics has worked with server maker Sun Microsystems to develop a new 8 Gbit single-level-cell design for computer servers that it claims increases the number of read/write cycles for NAND flash memory chips five-fold.
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Forex in 60 Seconds - US Dollar, Equities Rally On JP Morgan Earnings, But Disappointing Google, Merrill Lynch News ...
· US housing starts, building permits surge - why was this misleading? · Japanese yen cross, equities rally as JP Morgan profits fall less than expected, but will disappointing Google, Merrill Lynch Q2 reports reverse the moves?
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 4th Jan 2007 21:09 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"Today, you can do everything you want with a Linux desktop, except play the latest games. Even there, Linux is catching up. So, why do only a handful of people run Linux instead of Windows? Here are my top-four reasons why Windows wins and Linux loses."
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 28th Oct 2007 16:55 UTC
This is the second article in a series on common usability and graphical user interface related terms [ part I ]. On the internet, and especially in forum discussions like we all have here on OSNews, it is almost certain that in any given discussion, someone will most likely bring up usability and GUI related terms - things like spatial memory, widgets, consistency, Fitts' Law , and more.
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iPhone challenges quirky Japanese mobile world
TOKYO - Kentaro Tohyama is proud of his new iPhone. He stood overnight in line to get it when the device became available in Japan for the first time. But the 29-year-old computer engineer isn't about to part with his made-in-Japan cell phone either.
The New Zealand Herald |
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iPhone challenges quirky Japanese mobile world
TOKYO - Kentaro Tohyama is proud of his new iPhone. He stood overnight in line to get it when the device became available in Japan for the first time. But the 29-year-old computer engineer isn't about to part with his made-in-Japan cell phone either.
The New Zealand Herald |
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Microsoft dips 5% in spite of sales increase
Microsoft said its sales had benefited from a strong PC market in its fourth quarter but its shares dropped more than 5 per cent as profits fell short of expectations and its outlook also disappointed.
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IBM shrugs off glocal economy fears
IBM , the world’s biggest IT services company, on Thursday shrugged off concerns about the global economy as it raised its full-year outlook and reported better than expected sales and profits for the second quarter.
Financial Times |
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Samsung, Sun boost flash drive endurance
Samsung Electronics has worked with server maker Sun Microsystems to develop a new 8 Gbit single-level-cell design for computer servers that it claims increases the number of read/write cycles for NAND flash memory chips five-fold.
EETimes |
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S. Korea to spurn Japan minister over island row
SEOUL - South Korea has rejected Japan’s proposal to hold a bilateral foreign ministers’ meeting at an Asian forum later this month, in anger over a territorial dispute, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said on Thursday.
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Icahn Says Yahoo Should Negotiate With Microsoft for a Deal
July 17 (Bloomberg) -- Yahoo! Inc. should negotiate with Microsoft Corp. about selling its online search business, billionaire activist Carl Icahn said in an interview today.
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U.S. Futures Fall on Google, Merrill, Microsoft Earnings Misses
July 18 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stock-index futures retreated after Google Inc. , Merrill Lynch & Co. and Microsoft Corp. missed analysts' profit estimates, indicating the market's two-day rally may be short-lived.
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XTension home automation adds new hardware support
Sand Hill Engineering on Thursday unveiled XTension 6.0, a major update to its home automation software that adds support for a number of new hardware devices, as well as a new web-based interface. XTension now offers connectivity with multiple concurrent powerline and RF interfaces, supporting devices from Oregon Scientific, such as barbeque tempe...
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Coffee and ... a little entertainment
It's hard to justify ordering a $4 latte. But if you're going to do it (and that's pretty much a given in this caffeine-run city), you should at least get a side of entertainment with your java.
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11-Year Old Kentucky Kid Lays Down Hot Wheels Justice On Speeders [Novelties]
Landon Wilburn has a grudge. Staked out by the side of the road, armed with nothing but a Hot Wheels-brand radar gun and a siren-equipped flashlight, he's tackling his Louisville, Kentucky...
Jalopnik |
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AMD Names New CEO
President and chief operating officer Dirk Meyer was named CEO, and Hector Ruiz will become executive chairman of the chipmaker and chair of the board.
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