Updated Extreme unlocking with AMD Overdrive
By Paul Taylor Monday, 1 June 2009
THE PHENOM II X2 550 Black Edition chip is much more than a simple "low-end" Phenom II. First tests show that not only is it a joy to overclock, but if you hook it up to the right mainboard, you can activate all four cores on the processor. Yes, that's right. The cheapest Phenom II around can have all four cores activated... for free. Using AMD's OverDrive we were able to switch on all four cores through the ACC. Unexpected to say the least. This means four 3.1GHz cores, all with 512KB of active L2 cache and sharing 6MB of L3, just like a high end Phenom II X4 950. Now, with four cores in hand we've set off to see precisely how far this can take us.
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Monday, June 1, 2009
Uh Oh, Amazon: Google's In The E-Book Business
by Chad Berndtson June 1, 2009
Google has confirmed it will later this year launch a partner program for authors to sell digital versions of their books online -- a move that will put Google in direct competition with Amazon, Amazon's Kindle device, and anyone else with a stake in the exploding market for e-books and e-reading. Google issued a statement Monday after The New York Times first reported its potential e-book plans Sunday. According to the statement, Google is at work on a "digital book ecosystem" that would allow authors to partner with Google and release and promote their works on a variety of platforms, including any device with Internet access. "Eventually, we hope to extend this functionality to retailers who embed Google Previews on their Web site," Google said in the statement.
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Google has confirmed it will later this year launch a partner program for authors to sell digital versions of their books online -- a move that will put Google in direct competition with Amazon, Amazon's Kindle device, and anyone else with a stake in the exploding market for e-books and e-reading. Google issued a statement Monday after The New York Times first reported its potential e-book plans Sunday. According to the statement, Google is at work on a "digital book ecosystem" that would allow authors to partner with Google and release and promote their works on a variety of platforms, including any device with Internet access. "Eventually, we hope to extend this functionality to retailers who embed Google Previews on their Web site," Google said in the statement.
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Microsoft Bing Goes Live
Software maker's revamped Live Search program is now online.
By Paul McDougall June 1, 2009
Microsoft's Bing search engine went live in the U.S. over the weekend, formally launching the company's latest attempt to wrest a larger slice of the lucrative online search market from incumbent Google. As of Monday, Bing.com featured a home page festooned with colorful hot air balloons rising against a desert backdrop. The page also included links to specific search categories, such as news, videos, shopping, maps, and travel. Also present were tabs that direct users to bonus features such as Microsoft's "cashback" search rewards program and links to pages for developers and Webmasters. Bing, according to Microsoft, is designed to deliver a more functional experience than existing search engines, including Google's. That is, queries entered into Bing yield not only information related to the search term, but also links to sites where users can make purchases and engage in other, related activities.
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By Paul McDougall June 1, 2009
Microsoft's Bing search engine went live in the U.S. over the weekend, formally launching the company's latest attempt to wrest a larger slice of the lucrative online search market from incumbent Google. As of Monday, Bing.com featured a home page festooned with colorful hot air balloons rising against a desert backdrop. The page also included links to specific search categories, such as news, videos, shopping, maps, and travel. Also present were tabs that direct users to bonus features such as Microsoft's "cashback" search rewards program and links to pages for developers and Webmasters. Bing, according to Microsoft, is designed to deliver a more functional experience than existing search engines, including Google's. That is, queries entered into Bing yield not only information related to the search term, but also links to sites where users can make purchases and engage in other, related activities.
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