Feed Dell’s Founder Is Rethinking Direct Sales (nytimes.com)
Michael S. Dell is now thinking about changing the way the company markets its computers.
Feed Intel's Ultra Mobile strategy gets official (engadget.com)
Filed under: Handhelds, Portable Audio, Portable Video, Wearables
We already knew of Intel's 2007 "McCaslin" ultra mobile platform strategy after peeping their pre-show slides: professional UMPCs paired with consumer-oriented MIDs. Still, it's always good to get the official word even if means that Intel must travel all the way to their IDF in Beijing to make it so. As the strategy goes, before 2007 is up we'll see product from Aigo, Asus, Fujitsu, Haier, HTC, and Samsung all based on the Intel A100 and A110 processors -- essentially underclocked Pentium M cores operating at 3W and certainly besting the UMPC underpinnings we saw in 2006. In the first half of 2008 then, Intel tells us to expect their "Menlow" platform of ultra mobile devices. Pumping Intel's 45-nm dual-core "Silverthorn" processor and "Poulsbo" chipset for longer battery life in smaller handheld devices. But if you're chomping at the bit for Intel's vision of the ultra mobile future, well, you'll be waiting around until well after 2008, boy. Intel doesn't expect to break into magical sub-0.5W territory until the naughts are up. Until then, you'll have to deal with mysterious slabs like the new Fujitsu pictured after the break.[Via Impress]
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BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD A new documentary series. Be part of the transformation as it happens in real-time
Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Feed Rogue Roomba breaks all iRobot's three laws of Roombotics (engadget.com)
Filed under: Robots
It's the stuff robotic room-cleaner nightmares are made of. According to The Onion, Ken Graney's third-gen Roomba (with Scheduler) is among the first known to have actually shattered iRobot's three prescribed laws of Roombotics:- Roombots must not suck up jewelry or other valuables, or through inaction, allow valuables to be sucked up.
- Roombots must obey vacuuming orders given to it by humans except when such orders would conflict with the first law.
- Roombots are authorized to protect their own ability to suction dust and debris as long as such protection does not conflict with the first or second law.
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BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD A new documentary series. Be part of the transformation as it happens in real-time
Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Journal Journal: Feds getting better at identifying your face w/Google tech
Such a deal -- an article in Live Science (April 13, 07), says that the Accuracy of face recognition has skyrocketed! Aren't you comforted by this fact?
Journal Journal: Bush Admits He Doesn't Know Why We Invaded Iraq
Under relentless questioning by reporters from the Monroe Evening News about the reasons for going to war with Iraq, a clearly frustrated George Bush said: "The hell if I know. I mean, come on...I'm just a pin boy in all of this..."
Journal Journal: Wikipedia screws up its students at Google Summer of Code
This year's students for Google Summer of Code have been selected and assigned to one of the 137 partecipating organizations or free software projects. To all of them except the Wikimedia Foundation, which asked to partecipate and was accepted and assigned five student slots by Google. But Wikimedia then failed (despited repeated warnings fro
Submission + - IBM Extends Moore's Law to the Third Dimension
Andreaskem writes: "IBM today announced a breakthrough chip-stacking technology in a manufacturing environment that paves the way for three-dimensional chips that will extend Moore's Law beyond its expected limits. The technology — called "through-silicon vias" — allows different chip components to be packaged much closer together for faster, smaller, and lower-power systems.
The new IBM method eliminates the need for long-metal wires that connect today's 2-D chips together, instead relying on through-silicon vias, which are essentially vertical connections etched through the silicon wafer and filled with metal. These vias allow multiple chips to be stacked together, allowing greater amounts of information to be passed between the chips.
IBM is already running chips using the through-silicon via technology in its manufacturing line and will begin making sample chips using this method available to customers in the second half of 2007, with production in 2008.
I think it does run Linux and yes, a Beowulf cluster of those would be great."
The new IBM method eliminates the need for long-metal wires that connect today's 2-D chips together, instead relying on through-silicon vias, which are essentially vertical connections etched through the silicon wafer and filled with metal. These vias allow multiple chips to be stacked together, allowing greater amounts of information to be passed between the chips.
IBM is already running chips using the through-silicon via technology in its manufacturing line and will begin making sample chips using this method available to customers in the second half of 2007, with production in 2008.
I think it does run Linux and yes, a Beowulf cluster of those would be great."
Submission + - Woman offers herself in exchange for WoW gold
aneeshm writes: A Spanish website writes about a woman who offered sexual services to any man who would give her 5,000 gold in World of Warcraft. The woman, a female Night Elf, Level 70 (the highest level), offered one night of sex to any guy who would give her the gold necessary to purchase the new Epic Flying Mount of the expansion The Burning Crusade. The woman finally accepted one guy's offer, and after the transaction was completed, he gave her the WoW money.
Submission + - Palm turns to Linux
knp writes: Palm appears to be betting it's future on Linux. The new platform was announced in a meeting with analysts yesterday. Details are still sketchy, but it looks like it will run Opera and Chattermail, and be released with an expanded rang of devices. I've been a Palm user for a long time, but none of their current devices excite me. Maybe there's hope.
