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Comment: HP hardware business.... (Score 1) 156

by Cambo67 on Friday August 19 2011, @06:59PM (#37149086) Attached to: HP's Shift On PCs Could Boost Acer, Dell and Lenovo

I can't imagine HP are just going to say "OK, all you engineers and technicians; you're out of work. And we will scrap all the tools, demolish the factories, salt the fields...." They are probably going to create a seperate company, and give it a suitable name to deferentiate it from themselves. Hmm. Maybe even call it Compaq. Not sure they would choose DEC :) Existing HP customers could then be shifted over to Compaq, without any significant change. Cambo

Dutch provider KPN using DPI to bill customers ext-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 13 2011, @09:14AM

An anonymous reader writes "KPN is using DPI to see whether or not traffic is extra billable. KPN (who made a big profit; & is buying back a lot of stock while complaining about their profits on the SMS & cell-phone voice calls & threatening to transfer half of their staff to India for more profit) is now using DPI to see if traffic is being generated that would cause customers to pay less.. Usng free SMS? then u have to pay extra.. using VoiP? same deal; coz they need the profits.. KPN is breaking the dutch privacy & net neutrality laws while doing so & is currently losing more than 4000 customers per DAY."
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VIA Launches Low Power QuadCore Nano CPU-> 0

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MojoKid

on Friday May 13 2011, @09:00AM

MojoKid writes "VIA introduced its dual-core Nano just four months ago, but the company is already demonstrating that processor's big brother. The newly minted VIA QuadCore is--you guessed it--a quad-core processor that connects two dual-core Nano cores in an MCM (multi-chip module). When it ships, the new CPU may offer a higher-performance alternative to Intel's Atom platform and AMD's Brazos. The QuadCore incorporates 128K of L1 cache (64K instruction, 64K data), and 4MB of exclusive L2 cache (1MB per core). One feature the new chip lacks is an integrated memory controller. Via's V4 bus, clocked at 1333MHz, links the CPU and northbridge together. At 27.5 watts, the QC Nano's rated TDP is significantly higher than AMD's Brazos chips (which are rated at 9-18W) or Intel's Atom (12-14W). That knocks the chip out of the netbook/ultra-mobile market, but low-end notebooks often use parts with similar TDPs."
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16 year old discovers cure for Cystic Fibrosis-> 1

Submitted by Bob the Super Hamste on Friday May 13 2011, @08:56AM

Bob the Super Hamste writes "According to yahoo new a 16 year old Canadian 11th grade student has discovered a possible cure for Cystic Fibrosis. The treatment is a drug combination that in a computer simulation on the Canadian SCINET supercomputing network appeared to cure the symptoms. He has also tested the drug combination on living cell with "results exceeded his expectations"."
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Rise Of Internet Pharmacies = Drug Usage Increase-> 0

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gabbo529

on Friday May 13 2011, @08:29AM

gabbo529 writes "A recent report has linked the rise of prescription drug abuse to an increasing amount of rogue online pharmacies, which dispense medications without a doctor's prescription. The report, led by researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the University of Southern California (USC), found states with the greatest expansion of high-speed Internet access from 2000 to 2007 simultaneously had the largest increase in admissions for treatment of prescription drug abuse. Furthermore, the study's authors said the rising use of painkillers such as Percocet and Oxycontin has directly corresponded with an increasing amount of rogue online pharmacies."
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Yahoo Beats Patent Troll That Beat Google-> 0

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jfruhlinger

on Friday May 13 2011, @07:57AM

jfruhlinger writes "You may recall the saga of patent troll Bedrock, which claims that it has patents over Linux and successfully sued Google over Google's Linux use. Well, the verdict from Bedrock's suit against Yahoo on similar grounds has come in — and Yahoo is victorious, not least because Yahoo went second and got to see how the arguments in the Google case went."
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Solar Impulse took off for its first intl. flight-> 0

Submitted by piripiri on Friday May 13 2011, @04:44AM

piripiri writes "The prototype plane Solar Impulse, which draws its power from the sun, has took off today at 06:40 GMT from Payerne, Switzerland and is expected to pass over Luxembourg and land at Brussels airport at approximately 9pm (GMT+2). Once again, the plane will be piloted by André Borschberg, who achieved the world's first manned 26 hour solar flight in 2010. The event can be tracked via the official iOS and Android smart phone applications or online via the Solar Impulse website or follow the project on twitter or YouTube."
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Adobe Flash update puts users in charge of privacy-> 0

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angry tapir

on Friday May 13 2011, @12:14AM

angry tapir writes "Adobe has released an important update to its Flash Player software that fixes critical security flaws and gives users a better way of controlling whether they are being tracked on the Web. A new Flash cookie management option will work with the Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers. In the future, it will also be available to Chrome and Safari users, according to Adobe."
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iPad 2 components in Japan may be in short supply-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 18 2011, @04:55PM

An anonymous reader writes "With the iPad 2 still in short supply, the ongoing tragedy in Japan may further limit Apple's ability to churn out iPads and sufficiently meet demand. Looking at the iPad 2, Andrew Rassweiler of iSuppli identified 5 component parts sourced from Japan (NAND flash, DRAM, an electronic compass, the touch screen overlay glass and the battery), a few of which Apple may have trouble replacing from other sources."
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HP Calls Out RIM For Copying TouchPad Features-> 0

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cgriffin21

on Thursday March 03 2011, @11:07AM

cgriffin21 writes "As Apple basks in the afterglow of its iPad 2 unveiling, HP is accusing RIM of mimicking the TouchPad's webOS user interface in the Blackberry Playbook. "From what we’ve seen in the market, there are some uncanny similarities," Jon Oakes, HP's director of TouchPad product marketing, told Laptop Magazine Tuesday. Oakes also sarcastically expressed his desire to see RIM to continue "following us by about a year.""
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