Category: Hardware
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GeForce 177.40 beta drivers ready for download
These new drivers are dated June 16 and come with support for the GeForce 6, 7, 8 and 9 series cards, the recently-introduced GeForce GTX 280 and 260s and a few more, yet unreleased, 9 generation and GT200-powered cards. read more | digg story
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The Horror: iPhone Runs Windows XP
Citrix used its thin client technology to demonstrate an Apple iPhone running Windows XP, at the recent Citrix Application Delivery Conference in Melbourne. read more | digg story
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3G iPhone GPS confirmed – Broadcom to supply GPS Chips
According to a report on GIGaom, thanks to legal requirements put in place by the FCC, Apple is going to be adding GPS to its new and future phones. The contract for the GPS Chips has be awarded to Broadcom according to GIGaom. read more | digg story
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Touch Screen Turntables
The ATTIGO TT was created by Scott Hobbs, a student at Dundee University studying innovative product design. read more | digg story
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History of Computing: Chronological Timeline
The History of Computing Project is a collaborative effort to record and publish the history of the computer and its roots. The timeline covers prehistory, ancient, pre-industrial (1886-1946), and industrial (1947-present) read more | digg story
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Nvidia 174.85 graphics drivers for Vista leaked
The 174.85 beta graphics driver for both the 32 and 64bit version of Windows Vista is dated March 29 and features support for Nvidia’s latest IGPs – GeForce 8200, 8300, nForce 750a, 780a and more, plus the desktop-prone GeForce 6, 7, 8 and 9 series cards. read more | digg story
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The Great Dell Linux scam
A look at how Dell is really scamming Linux users into paying more for hardware and how Dell really does not want to offer Linux because they will be dumped by the almighty Microsoft. read more | digg story
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Interview With Steve Wozniak at Boston Robotics Competition
At a recent robotics competition in Boston, Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple was one of the judges. CIO caught up with him and asked him some questions on a variety of topics read more | digg story
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29% of Windows Vista crashes caused by NVIDIA drivers
There’s a class action suit working its way through the courts to determine whether Microsoft changed the definition of “capable” to help Intel sell computers. But some of the documents released in the case are interesting in their own right. For example, Microsoft has a chart that lists identified causes of Windows Vista crashes read…
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IBM explores 67.1m-core computer for running entire Internet
A research paper shows that IBM is working on a computing system capable “of hosting the entire internet as an application.” This mega system relies on a re-tooled version of IBM’s Blue Gene supercomputers to create a theoretical mega-system of 67.1m cores, 32PB of memory, and an IO output of 10.4Pb/s. read more | digg…