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November 15, 2008 (IDG News Service) Intel began sales of its high-end Core i7 desktop chips in Tokyo late Saturday night, bringing to market a series of processors that are significantly more powerful than any of the company's current desktop products.In a move intended to stoke demand among Japanese PC enthusiasts, shops in Akihabara, Tokyo's main electronics district, stayed open past midnight to put the first Core i7 chips on sale. The launch preempted a San Francisco news conference planned for Monday, as signs increasingly point to softening global demand for computers."This is a major new architecture for Intel and to be able to launch it here first to the user-community that Akihabara supports is a really exciting thing for us to do," said Steve Dallman, vice president of sales and...
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Hidden Windows 7 Features Exposed
A programmer has unlocked several still-unfinished features of Windows 7 that Microsoft Corp. has hidden from users who received the alpha build at two recent developer conferences.Last week Rafael Rivera, a developer for a Virginia-based company that sells secure messaging software to the U.S. government, posted a utility he dubbed "Blue Badge" that patches nine system files in Windows 7, including "explorer.exe" and "shell32.dll." The tool disables the protection scheme that Microsoft added to the alpha to keep eyes off some features that still need work.The utility's name is a nod to the background color of card keys given to full-time Microsoft employees. According to Rivera's analysis, Windows 7 checks the user's allowed domain and username, then unlocks the features if it decides the...
Fla. teen accused of stabbing 5 girls after game
STUART, Fla. (AP) — Investigators are searching for a teenage girl they say stabbed five other girls during a melee after a high school football game in southeast Florida.None of the injuries are life threatening.The stabbings occurred Friday night after rival high schools in Martin County played each other.Sheriff's spokeswoman Rhonda Irons says the girls' wounds were in the leg, shoulder, forearm and hand. The girls were taken to a hospital.Irons says a woman also was arrested in a series of unrelated fights that involved around 30 people outside the Martin County High Scho...
At Global Finance Talks, 20 Different Agendas
WASHINGTON — With 20 world leaders in town for 24 hours, there wasn’t much time for grand gestures or bold promises at Saturday’s summit meeting on the global financial crisis. But that did not stop the leaders from bringing 20 different agendas, some more ambitious than others.There was the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, without his glamorous wife, Carla, but with a raft of proposals to “change the rules of the game,” as he said last week after a meeting of European leaders.There was Hu Jintao, the president of China, heading a delegation of 100 people and wielding a fat checkbook — nearly $2 trillion in foreign exchange reserves — that...
Bolta Pakistan 14 nov 2008
Click to Play Mushtaq Minhas and Nusrat Javed present another fresh episode of Bolta Pakistan and talk with Tariq Mehmood Khan,...
Hum Sab Umeed Say Hain 14 Nov 2008
Click to Play Geo TVs hilarious political comedy show Hum Sub Umeed Say Ha...
Capital Talk 13 nov 2008
Click to Play Hamid Mir brings a fresh & special episode guests include Senator Kamil Ali Agha Opposition Leader Senate, Humayun Akhtar Former Fed. Min. for Trade and Commerce, Kaehmaia Tariq MNA(PML),...
