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AMD launches branded desktop memory

January 26th 2012

Advanced Micro Devices has announced the retail availability of its new AMD Memory branded desktop system memory, The modules are available with various sizes, including 2GB, 4GB and 8GB, and speeds. A performance version supports speed up to 1600 MHz with low latency. You can read more on AMD's new memory modules HERE.

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EDITORIAL : The morning after pill

Techwatch January 12th 2012

Did you ever wake up the morning after having had too much fun the night before and wonder if anyone got the license plate of the truck that ran over you? Everyone has, even if they won’t admit it. Well 2011 was like that for a lot of folks. After the melt down in 2009, 2011 was a lot like stone skipping only to end up with a deadening and disappointing plop. I haven’t heard anyone say they’ll miss it. It’s been wose than partying all year and then having to pay the piper. Instead, it was a kind …

2011. What was that about?

Doesn’t it seem like 2011 lasted a lot longer than a mere 365 days? This was a year that was up and down and up and down. In the tech world, the year officially starts in Las Vegas as CES. That’s where we go to see the largest TV …Click here to read this blog entry

Qualcomm’s powerful new HPU the S4

Initially leveraging a 28nm process from TSMC, Qualcomm has announced its Snapdragon S4 class of processors, of which the first member is the MSM8960 with an Adreno 225 GPU. The new 1.5 GHz processor (S4 will scale up to 2.5GHz) has Qualcomm’s micro-architectural design with four independent, proprietary ARM …Click here to read this blog entry

Future TV, touch it, look into it, wave at it

The TV of the future and that future will be here by the holiday season of 2012, will be amazing. Read the complete article

WebOS—the short term, instant developer opportunity

With all the discussion swirling around the sell off of the HP Tablet at $99 this week, there is a discussion point that has been overlooked. There is now a brand new business opportunity.Generally it is very hard to get developers to target devices that don’t have a fairly …Click here to read this blog entry

HP — breaking up the place

HP’s Personal System group, PSG, is a $41 billion dollar company. It is, IMHO, a jewel, but I may be a bit biased because I have a lot of old friends there. And, like any large organization, it’s not just one thing. In macro scale it’s a desktop PC …Click here to read this blog entry