AMD’s fastest Phenom X4 9850 desktop CPU is tested. Free of the nasty TLB (Translation Lookaside Buffer) bug, the stage is now set for a head-to-head with Intel’s best. While it’s a significant step forward for AMD, the 9850 proc hardly compares with Intel’s best quad-core desktop CPUs. Nevertheless, as PCPer says, “any enthusiast or gamer looking for a ~$240 processor is going to have a fantastic experience with the 9850.” We’re just happy to see AMD back on track and ready to compete. Now get to it AMD, faster clock speeds and 45-nm processes please? Intel needs someone banging at the door to keep Moore’s Law from becoming Moore’s Recommendation.
Search engine Ask.com is putting a new strategy with a reduction of its work force by 8%, about 40 jobs. Ask will focus on a narrower market consisting of married women looking for help managing their lives.
“The company found that about 65 percent of its user base are women, with a high concentration of users in their late 30s in the U.S. Midwest and Southeast,” Ask’s CEO Jim Safka said.
Ask.com was formerly Ask Jeeves, Inc. The company was founded in 1996 in Berkeley, California. When it started out, Ask positioned itself as a search engine that could spit out answers to requests that were posed as natural-language questions instead of being entered as a string of loosely related words.
Kingston 4GB CompactFlash Memory Card
Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products is upgrading its “Ultimate” line of CompactFlash memory cards by preloading the cards with Ontrack’s EasyRecovery Professional software version 6.1. Kingston’s “Ultimate” line of CompactFlash cards is targeted for professional and advanced amateur photographers. The Ontrack EasyRecovery Professional software provides data recovery capabilities for lost digital photos. In addition, Kingston will increase the sustained write speed on its 2/4GB CompactFlash Ultimate cards from 100x to 133x and will add a new 8GB capacity card with a write speed of 133x to the line.
EasyRecovery Professional version 6.1 provides a complete, easy-to-use interface to recover photos, providing photographers with added peace of mind and greater image protection.
Asus emulates high-performance sports car Lamborghini by creating a VX1, a high-end automotive-inspired mainstream notebook powered by Intel Core Dou Processor T2500, 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 7400, 160BG hard disk, DVD Super Multi Double Layer Drive, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and built-in Intel PRO Wireless 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a leading mobile phone and telecommunication equipment provider, has announced a sleek new camera phone, the Samsung G600. Housed in a fashionable black two-toned slider shell and equipped with a 5 mega-pixel camera, the Samsung G600 is a fusion of design, photography and the ultimate in phone functionality.
