DualCor has just launched a new device called the CPC. It is the first of its kind to run both Windows Mobile 5.0 AND Windows XP. You now have the advantage of both a computer and a PDA in......
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"Say I Can" is a software that uses speech recognition capabilities; you can turn on your computer simply by telling it to turn on. Speak to it naturally as if you were talking to a friend...
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"Silicon Valley" has a nice ring to it. Two words: three syllables, then two. Each word is stressed on the first beat. The L's alliterate in the midst of otherwise diverse consonants....
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by Scott on September 18, 2006
No, it's not Dr. Evil and his quotation-mark fingers, but an advance in computer processing by Intel and UC Santa Barbara that may promise to create a step-change in computing speeds. According to...
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by Eric Roston on September 13, 2006
Philoneist checked his Hotmail account yesterday, used only for occasional commercial transactions and professional subscriptions, and found 1100 new messages. Shouldn't it be easier to catch a...
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by Scott on August 11, 2006
On August 12, 1981 the PC was born with the advent of the IBM 5150, not the first but the PC that set the standard for personal computing expectations at the time. For just over $1,500 a buyer got...
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The push for storage devices with greater data density has led to a breakthrough in hard drive engineering that allows bits to be stacked vertically and horizontally. This is in contrast to the...
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Scientists at the University of Michigan have announced they created the world's first quantum microchip. Due to its construction on a semiconductor, there is hope that a practical quantum...
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Rakon Ltd, makers of crystals and oscillators that are incorporated into 50% of the world's GPS hardware, have developed the world's smallest GPS radio frequency receiver. At about the size of...
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CNET is running a feature about the future of flash storage. Offering nearly instantaneous boot-up times and reduced energy demands, computer manufacturers are anticipating an expected drop to $9 per...
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HP Labs' Quantum Information Processing Group has made a discovery which permits bits of light in a quantum computing environment to interact with each other. This method also surmounts a...
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Using indium antimonide, a semiconductor with conventional applications in radio-frequency amplifiers, microwave hardware, and semiconductor lasers, Intel has constructed a transistor capable of...
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A theory worked on by Einstein and his colleagues in 1935 that explains how particles of light interact predictably with each other is the foundation for a new method of data encryption that has the...
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Toshiba's new 11.1" notebook LCD, just announced for in mass production, is 50% the thickness of the previous industry thin screen record holder at 2.75 mm thick. The displays reportedly...
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From Philoneist's recent and humble origins on Blogger.com, click continue for a chronologically ordered record of posts from before October 13th.......
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