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2nd December 2006 Archive

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  • Blackberry implicated in Lindsay Lohan letter caper

    Little keys ruin pure thoughts

    Lindsay Lohan's publicist has blamed a Blackberry as the culprit behind the star's rambling, grammatical disaster of a tribute to deceased director Robert Altman. "She quickly put something together on her Blackberry," spokeswoman Leslie Sloane told Reuters. "It was written very quickly, and it was from the heart." Lohan's …

    Entertainment 2 Dec 2006, 00:55

  • DOJ taps Nvidia and AMD in anti-trust graphics hunt

    Let's talk GPUs

    AMD and Nvidia have been put on notice by the US Department of Justice in relation to an investigation around possible anti-trust violations by graphics chip makers. The two companies this week confirmed the receipt of subpoenas from the DOJ. They were quick to note that no specific allegations have been made thus far and …

    Reg Hardware 2 Dec 2006, 01:07

  • AMD rocks Intel with, er, four-core demo

    We'll show you . . . in mid-2007

    In a most anti-climatic move, AMD has fought back against Intel's release of four-core processors with a demo unit. AMD this week showed off its four-core "Barcelona" version of Opteron at a company event. The chip - due out in the middle of 2007 - should show 40 to 70 per cent better performance than today's dual-core Opterons …

    Servers 2 Dec 2006, 02:27

  • Sun ditches jet, puts McNealy on Southwest

    The network is the airplane

    Only Sun Microsystems could turn scrapping its corporate jet into a product pitch. The company recently whacked its corporate flyer after years of loyal service, deciding that chartering private planes and hitching rides on Southwest made more sense for the likes of Chairman Scott McNealy and CEO Jonathan Schwartz. The move was …

    Bootnotes 2 Dec 2006, 02:52

  • Surveillance society turns citizens into iso-dopes

    Letters And confiscates segways

    If there's one subject that's bound to divide opinion, it's the surveillance society, and Clive Longbottom's analysis of the database state certainly did just that: Can we have one of these next Monday called 'Quocirca "Analysis": Is wasting two pages' worth of your readers' time a good idea?' Seriously, I'm not sure what I'm …

    Letters 2 Dec 2006, 10:02