Getting this 256GB SSD in a notebook “is analogous to having a 15,000-(revolutions-per-minute) drive, without all of its size, noise, power, and heating drawbacks,” Jim Elliott, vice president of memory marketing at Samsung Semiconductor, said in a statement.
Samsung did not mention random write performance, however. Despite being generally faster than hard-disk drives (particularly at [...]
This is the internal display system of an Addco sign, according to i-hacked.com.
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And if you’re in the Boston area and saw signs hacked in this way, there’s always a decent chance it was done by students from MIT.
“Programming is as simple as scrolling down the menu selection to ‘Instant Text,’” i-hacked reported. “Type whatever [...]
Not only will new music downloads be free of copy-protection software, but Apple and the labels will begin removing DRM from music already available in the iTunes Store, the source said. However, it’s unclear what will happen to songs that have already been purchased.
Apple has cut deals that will finally enable iTunes to offer songs [...]
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Good OS)
Good OS, the people who brought you the Linux-based gOS found on the $199 Wal-Mart gPC last year, announced a browser-based OS called Cloud at the Netbook World Summit in Paris on Monday. (You know you’ve made it as a form factor when you have your very own world summit. Kudos, Netbook!)
The Cloud [...]
All of which, in my mind, begs for MySQL to “fork” itself and start providing commercial value that can’t easily be had elsewhere. If it’s fair to fork with Drizzle and enhance with OurDelta, why can’t Sun extend MySQL Enterprise to provide add-on functionality to the base MySQL build that enables MySQL to thrive amongst [...]
The great inventor is undeterred: “I’ve had a couple of bemused looks. But I walked several hundred meters outside, talking into the shoe, and no one really paid much attention.”
Mr. Gardner-Stephen told the Telegraph: “The phone rings, you slip off the shoe, then you open the heel, press the button, and you’re talking in [...]
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AddictingGames, the site that brought you the ecology sniper game evocatively entitled “Shoot The Bastards,” now brings you “Trillion Dollar Bailout.”
However, because this game stems from a sense of change you can believe in, you can give these people a backhander of the more physical kind. The kind that burns like [...]
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Brooke Crothers)
The USB 3.0 specification, a next-generation high-speed connection standard due in 2009, is significant because all future PCs and devices will use connectors based on it. The spec is also expected to offer 10 times the speed of USB 2.0–used in virtually all PCs introduced in the last few years–or roughly 5 gigabits per second.
Hewlett-Packard, Intel, NEC, NXP Semiconductors, Microsoft, and Texas Instruments are all backers of SuperSpeed U
Previously: Spying on the Circuit City liquidation sale.
So I asked him if the company matched pricing and showed him my
iPhone, which was displaying Amazon’s price of the same Panasonic plasma. His response was short and biting: “Nope. We don’t do that anymore.”
You don’t do that anymore? How is it possible that a company that needs to liquidate its entire inventory won’t sell a product to a customer for $200 less? It’s a guaranteed sale!
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