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Hands on: A Mac fan takes on Vista
Computerworld - These are useful little apps like a clock, CPU meter, currency converter, a weather window and stock ticker. You can run multiple instances of each gadget, plopping two clocks set for different time zones right on your screen. Gadgets generally sit

Hantro Demos Hardware
Unstrung.com - Video stabilization is implemented all in hardware and completely off loads any computations from the host CPU, such as an ARM processor. The 7190 decoder is fully compatible with Microsoft Windows Media Video technology and conforms to the

Is the OS really going away?
TechWorld - With hypervisors metering out hardware resources to virtual machines -- CPU, memory, disk, I/O and so on -- the role of the OS is seriously diminished. And hardware is no longer important, they say. The extent to which you don't care about the

SanDisk and NEC Electronics Let Mobile Handset Users Store and
MSN MoneyCentral - Compared to conventional mobile phones relying on the host CPU for music playback, the AP131 chip from NEC lowers power consumption during music playback by as much as 85 percent, delivering up to 60 hours of continuous use from a standard 750mAh

Woman spotted on INQ Letters Page
The Inquirer - The bigger issue of multiprocessors is the invitation to developers to slop applications together which burn through CPU cycles. I don't doubt that code efficiency which is already suspect with some application developers will go completely out the

X86 chips are all Alpha processors now
The Inquirer - WE SEE TO our delight that august publications are trotting out the usual line that a CPU is the brain of a computer. So if Intel manages to produce 80 brains on a sliver of silicon that must be good, right? Wrong. While computers, like the best of

Intel unveils its 80-core processor
ZDNet UK - The operating system has the most control over the CPU, and it's got to change," said Jim McGregor, an analyst at In-Stat. "It has to be more intelligent about breaking things up," he said, referring to how tasks are divided among multiple processing

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PR Inside - Police has claimed that they have seized the CPU of Indulkar's computer in his office and residence and sent some pen drives recovered from him to forensic labs. They are also in touch with various portals like Yahoo, Hotmail and Rediff, where