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Microsoft Previews Next-Gen Financial Services Solution
eWeek - The new Excel 2007 Client will feature usability and performance improvements, he said. Meanwhile, Excel Services will deliver centralized management and increased scalability via native support for multi-CPU x64 servers, among other features.

SightSpeed - an alternative to iChat
ZDNet Blogs - In early testing SightSpeed appears to be more CPU intensive than iChat, but it seems to get around Firewalls and NAT much better than iChat. One reader using SightSpeed tells me that it's better than iChat but not perfect: I did get a message about

Intel Moves To Nix Special Pricing Deals For Some OEMs
CRN - One distributor of Intel CPUs said the lower-end Core 2 Duo parts will be priced aggressively. For example, the distributor said a 1.8GHz CPU with 2 Mbytes of cache and a 1,066MHz front-side bus will be priced in the $200 range. Another source

Mega Storage to Go
PC World - The DiskOnKey ($165 with 256MB of storage space) uses an on-board ARM7 CPU to accelerate transfers impressively: It took less than one-fourth as long as its closest competitor, the Cruzer, to complete our write test, and about one-third as long as

Intel didn t comment on the story
Softpedia - As far as gaming performance goes, Intel is looking very strong and as we have predicated and Intel told many people at the Computex show throughout the week, Intel is looking like they will be the gamer CPU of choice in the remainder 2006 and all of