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BEIJING: China’s main Internet search engine Baidu.com said its chief financial officer Shawn Wang, who helped it list on the Nasdaq stock market, has died while on holiday in China.
Wang, a key figure in Baidu’s successful 2005 listing on the Nasdaq, died on December 27, the company said in an announcement seen on [...]
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Baidu.com says CFO killed in China accident
Posted by mus on December 31st, 2007
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Apple working on auto-volume control for iPods
Posted by mus on December 27th, 2007
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Apple is developing an automatic volume control device for iPods amid growing fears that its users are at risk of hearing damage from listening to loud music, according to London-based Daily Mail on Monday.
The next iPods and iPhones could automatically calculate how long a person has been listening and at what [...]
Facebook sues porn site
Posted by mus on December 20th, 2007
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FACEBOOK is suing a Canadian porn company and 17 individuals claiming they used bots to gather members’ personal data.
The outfit claims Istra Holdings and others accessed Facebook’s computers 200,000 times in a two-week period in June.
“Each of these requests sought to direct Facebook’s computers to send information on other Facebook users back to [...]
How to mix DDR3 modules
Posted by mus on December 18th, 2007
DDR3 MEMORY is still very expensive, yet the most of it is only available right now in 2 x 1GB kits for a 2GB total capacity. This is not exactly enough for running, say, a resource-hog like Windoze Vista there.
Now, you’ve seen the new “rules” that the upcoming Intel X48 chipse – the first to [...]
Microsoft gives away Vista Ultimate
Posted by mus on December 14th, 2007
SOFTWARE giant Microsoft is giving away copies of Vista Ultimate and Office if you will let the Vole closely monitor how you use the software.
While the more cynical amongst us might think that Vole can’t sell its software and so is giving it away, the deal is part of Microsoft’s Feedback programme.
According to its website, [...]
Free Wi-Fi coming to trains, planes and automobiles
Posted by mus on December 8th, 2007
AFTER A FAIR amount of smoke and mirrors about security, mickey-taking tariffs and general faffing about, it seems that free Wi-Fi is finally coming to a transportation system near you. Well, not you perhaps, but definitely in the region of you, him, or her over there.
First up, codgerish trainspotters like Dr Spinola will be delighted [...]
Relief at AMD, Intel as price war flags
Posted by mus on December 5th, 2007
BOTH AMD and Intel ratcheted up their market share in the third quarter, with figures buoyed by an easing off of the price war which has dominated 2007.
Figures published by market research firm Isuppli showed that during the third quarter, both chipsters managed to claw a bit more share in the global microprocessor market after [...]
Facebook adjusts Beacon ad-system
Posted by mus on December 4th, 2007
Facebook announced in a statement posted on its website that it had made some changes to its Beacon online ad-system, media reported Monday.
The changes came after more than 50,000 users signed a petition, complaining that the Beacon was too intrusive and too confusing to opt out of.
Beacon is an advertising platform that tracks Facebook’s member [...]
Intel “copied everything from AMD”
Posted by mus on December 3rd, 2007
HECTOR RUIZ, AMD’S CEO, presumably headed back home after opening an R&D centre in Bangalore, took time off to talk to Gulf News, and said some interesting things.
One was that every single innovation in computing technology came from AMD, and not one from Intel.
He has a point, in a way. Intel copied X86-64 technology, even [...]
