Archive for August, 2006

Sun Microsystem to Introduce Eight Core Niagara ll Processor

Sun Microsystems is set to introduce Niagara II processor featuring Eight cores. The servers based on these processors will feature the following:

Expected to Clock at 1.4 Ghz
Featuring Eight (8) Cores.
4MB of Shared L2 cache.
Four dual-channel FB-DIMM memory controllers
Two 10 Gig-E ports
One PCI-E port.

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Pluto Loses its Planet Status

Astronomers at International Astronomical Union have voted against Pluto there by demoting Pluto’s planet status. Many people are not happy about this as pluto was demoted based on a controversial definition of planets. Well now there are only eight planets and 2003 UB313 nick named Xena is staking its claim as a planet.
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Apple to Recall 1.8 Million Laptop Batteries

After Dell now it is now Apple’s turn to recall the around 1.8 million laptop batteries which pose fire hazard due to overheating. Apple is recalling these laptops batteries as they were similar in characteristics to affected Dell batteries and were manufactured by Sony Energy Corp. The following battery models are affected:

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Seagate 500 GB eSATA External Hard Drive Review

Tom’s hardware has reviewed seagate eSATA 500GB ST3500601XS-RK hard disk drive. This drive has capacity to store 500GB of data, runs at 7200 rpm and has whooping 16MB cache. The eSATA’s strength lies in the fact that it offers 300 Gbit/s transfer bandwidth when compared to 400 to 480 Mbit/s of USB based interface. In [...]

Plextor Releases World’s Smallest External USB Powered DVD Writer (Burner)

Plextor has released PX-608CU, the smallest USB powered DVD writer in the world. The main specialty of this drive lies in the fact that it requires no messy external power supply. All you need to do is connect it to the USB port of your computer and the drive is operational. The drive is aimed [...]

Lite-ON Introduces Blu-Ray Disc (BD) Triple Writer (Burner)

Lite-ON America has introduced LH-2B1S Blu-ray Disc triple writer which is capable of recording and playing back today’s most popular media formats including Blu-ray, DVD, and CD. The drive features a 2X read and write speed on BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE media, and supports DVD±R media at 12X. LH-2B1S writes DVD±R DL (Double Layer) media [...]

Sophos Offers Free Rootkit Detection and Removal Tool

Sophos a leading antivirus software provider has offered a free Rootkit detection and removal tool. The software is capable of scanning your windows registry, running processes and the files in your hard drive for presence of rootkit. Once a rootkit is detected we can remove the suspected rootkit with is utility. This free software [...]

Memorex Starts Shipping HD DVD-R

Memorex has started shipping its HD DVD-R media. The HD DVD-R Media manufactured by Memorex can hold 15GB of data, is a write once disc and comes in 1x speed. You can get these HD DVD-R for USD $19.99 (INR 890).
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