Thanks to the efforts of Toshiba and Microsoft’s support campaign for HD-DVD, many more European film studios are adopting HD-DVD than Sony’s Blu-Ray. So far HD-DVD player sales have been ahead of Blu-Ray in Europe, although the launch of Sony’s Playstation 3 game console may change this. The late start and exurbanite cost of the […]

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Even if you are Bill Gates you will not be allowed to purchase Intel’s 3 GHz Quad Core Xeon quite yet, even though it is already included in a shipping product. The Mac Pro. These days Steve Jobs seems to be running three companies, Apple, Pixar, and Intel. Thanks to its recent transition from PowerPC […]

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I am no fanboy but I have used Linux since the 90s. I am not quite a kernel hacker, but I administer my fair share of LAMP servers. This is different, Ubuntu is not just Linux, it’s Linux all grown up wearing something very sexy. I had not touched Linux on the desktop since Redhat […]

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Every couple of years the technology industry is pressed to find inventive new ways to decrease our shiny new computers and consumer electronics product lifecycle. But do not fear, when standards change good companies like Monster Cable are always there to sell you $100 converter cables that costs pennies to manufacture. I guess someone has […]

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