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Data Centers
AMD’s Opteron 2222SE vs. Intel’s Xeon 5160

Today (April 4, 2007), AMD released the 3.0 Ghz Opteron 2222SE processor along with some benchmark charts that show it outperforming Intel's latest dual core Xeon 5160. However, questions regarding benchmark methodology, selection, and presentation remain.

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Published: April 3, 2007, 11:57 PM PDT Modified: April 4, 2007, 4:07 AM PDT Read More See more Data Centers articles
Microsoft
Sending PayPal money using Skype Beta 3.2

In the recently released beta version of Skype for Windows 3.2, Skype users can now send money to each other through PayPal without ever leaving the context of Skype. This image gallery shows the process.

For David Berlind's write-up on the Beta Version of Skype 3.2 for Windows, see his post in ZDNet's TestBed blog.

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Published: March 28, 2007, 2:10 AM PDT Modified: March 29, 2007, 1:25 AM PDT Read More See more Microsoft articles
Data Centers
Intel trots out misleading benchmark charts

In a manipulative attempt to demonstrate leadership over AMD for the press and analysts, Intel twists benchmark data to make it look as though it's latest Xeons are outperforming the best AMD has to offer. Yet, upon closer inspection, most of the data being shown is irrelevant.

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Published: March 16, 2007, 5:34 AM PDT Modified: March 27, 2007, 4:46 AM PDT Read More See more Data Centers articles
Data Centers
Near-Production One Laptop Per Child

The images in this library were taken during a press conference held by AMD in March 2007. They show a near-production ready One Laptop Per Child unit that contains AMD's Geode microprocessor.

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Published: March 5, 2007, 11:55 PM PST Modified: March 27, 2007, 4:47 AM PDT Read More See more Data Centers articles
Developer
eBay’s San Dimas Project

Under the direction of its senior director of disruptive innovation Max Mancini, eBay is explorer richer and more engaging user interfaces to its auction service. In this short screen gallery, we get a few peaks at San Dimas: an eBay user interface built on Adobe's new forthcoming Apollo platform.

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Published: March 5, 2007, 5:00 AM PST Modified: March 5, 2007, 6:22 AM PST Read More See more Developer articles
Hardware
ATI R600 Prototype

While at an AMD press conference, David Berlind captured some photographs of what apparently is a prototype of a discreet graphics card with ATI's R600 technology on it.

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Published: February 28, 2007, 9:10 AM PST Modified: February 28, 2007, 10:32 PM PST Read More See more Hardware articles
Hardware
Close Up: HP Touchsmart PC IQ770

In this photo gallery, we get up close an perosnal with HP's new TouchSmart PC IQ770 -- a Vista-ready system that has generated quite a bit of excitement and that many have positioned as a potential competitor to some of Apple's all-encompassing multimedia systems.

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Published: January 23, 2007, 1:55 AM PST Modified: January 25, 2007, 1:23 AM PST Read More See more Hardware articles
Enterprise Software
The Blue Screen of Hive Death

Strangely, Microsoft's solution is to run software on a PC that won't run...

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Published: December 18, 2006, 5:46 AM PST Modified: December 18, 2006, 6:02 AM PST Read More See more Enterprise Software articles