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6th May 2006 Archive

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  • AMD, Intel and MIT chastised for cheap PC fight

    WCIT Send in the phones

    The unusual struggle to provide adequate, cheap PCs to the world's poor has gone awry before it really even began in earnest. A group of technology leaders today chastised the likes of AMD, Intel and MIT for failing to cooperate around their efforts to create low-cost computers. Compounding the tension, the leaders added that …

    Data Networking 6 May 2006, 00:37

  • Hackers spamvertise World Cup wallchart Trojan

    What's the score?

    A Trojan horse that poses as a World Cup wallchart has begun circulating on the net. The Haxdoor-IN Trojan horse is been spamvertised in messages, written in German, that purport a program that will allow fans to keep tab on football teams participating in next month's eagerly anticipated tournament. Windows users who follow …

    Malware 6 May 2006, 08:02

  • Intel joins the herd with slimmer, four-core Itanium

    Cache diet

    Intel's future version of Itanium code-named Tukwila has gone under the knife more times than Michael Jackson's nose. During its slideware career, the chip has changed names twice and been said to range anywhere from four to even 32-cores. Now, however, Intel seems to have settled on four-cores once and for all. We've been …

    Servers 6 May 2006, 19:14

  • Could Drew Barrymore's memory loss in 50 First Dates really happen?

    Boy meets girl, girl loses memory, boy gets girl

    (Asked by Nikki Long of Waltham, Massachusetts) In the romantic comedy film 50 First Dates (2004) starring Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler, Barrymore’s character suffers short-term memory loss as a result of a head injury in a traffic accident. Each morning she wakes up without any memories whatsoever of anything that happened …

    Biology 6 May 2006, 22:08

  • Why do we say 'um', 'er', or 'ah' when we hesitate in speaking?

    Umm ...

    (Asked by Tom Lanier of Austin, Texas) Not everyone says "um", "er" or "ah" when they hesitate while speaking. It depends upon the language. For example, speakers of Mandarin Chinese often say"zhege" which roughly translates as “this”. In English we say "um", "er", "ah", or other vocalisations for reasons that linguists are …

    Biology 6 May 2006, 22:23

  • Dell stuns India with increased R&D spend

    Smart people rebadge best

    Dell tends to spend most of its time paring back research and development efforts at every opportunity. Fierce enterprise growth, however, has forced the no nonsense vendor to expand server and storage R&D work in India, according to a Dell official. A new Bangalore team will go at improving Dell's hardware portfolio, …

    Servers 6 May 2006, 23:37