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2007 September 10

IBM To Join Sun In Open Office Development

IBM today announced that it will join Sun in development of Open Office. The resulting additions are expected to work with the remains of the software IBM markets under the Lotus name.
The announcement stated that IBM would contribute to the Open Office product, and that the Open Office product will be contributing to IBM [...]

Vista SP1 Still Not Good Enough For Some

With the announcement of the upcoming release of Service Pack 1 for its Vista operating system, there are still many corporate entities that are not falling into the line that Microsoft wishes.
In the past, most corporate users were switched to the newest OS  as soon as the first service package was released, and pronounced solid. [...]

Apple iPhone Not First Touch Screen In Oz

Apple either wasn’t able to ramp up production enough, or it thought that Aussies would not care much for its fancy offering, as the iPod has been released in America and in Europe, but not down under.
Now it will have to settle for just being there, instead of leading the pack, as LG has launched [...]

AMD: Miles To Go Before It Sleeps

The results are flowing in from all the usual places, but the most telling story is provided by the AnandTech site, that has a very long article comparing most any aspect you would ever care to know about the current AMD Barcelona release.
While not being a complete rout of Intel’s offerings, like the 2003 release [...]

AMD Begins Barcelona Shipping With 15,000 to One Customer

Later today, the AMD quad core Barcelona chip will be launched officially. Already AMD has a major client in the Texas Advanced Computing Center, as the builders there have purchased 15,000 Barcelona chips for the upcoming supercomputer called Ranger.
The chips, working in unison, are expected to turn out in excess of 500 teraflops (trillion floating [...]

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