Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced today that it has made a significant advancement in the push for higher volume memory chips by developing the world’s first four gigabit (Gb) DDR3 DRAM chip, using 50 nanometer (nm) process technology. With more and more data centers seeking a reduction in…
Month: January 2009
WD Launches Monster 2 Terabyte (TB) Green Drive, Tested
Today Western Digital is announcing their WD20WEADS hard drive, otherwise known as the WD Caviar Green 2.0TB. With 32MB of onboard cache and special power management algorithms to balance spindle speed and transfer rates, the WD Caviar Green 2 Terabyte monster claims a top rung spot on the density-per-square-inch and power-efficiency ladder. read more |…
GNOME developer says “KDE 4.2 rocks”
Jason D. Clinton, maintainer of the GNOME Games module: “I just wanted to continue to praise what the KDE people are doing since I poorly reviewed 4.0. I just installed KDE 4.2 (what is tagged in SVN) and played with it for a few hours. In short: it is amazing! It is so, so impressive….
Rumour: Google to buy Skype
Leading VoIP service Skype goes from strength to strength, with revenues rising by 26 per cent last quarter. Yet despite this success, parent company eBay is rumoured to be looking to offload its cash-cow to none other than Google. read more | digg story
A Quick Look at VirtualBox 2.1
Parallels and VMware are the two top contenders in the Mac virtualization game, but there’s another virtualization package that you should know about: VirtualBox. Put out by Sun, VirtualBox is free, and in today’s world that means something. So we took VirtualBox for a spin, to see how it stacks up against the non-free competition….
Free Ubuntu Pocket Guide Available for Download
Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference is available from Amazon for $10, but —best of all—the book is also available as a free PDF download from the official web site. Can’t go wrong with free. read more | digg story
