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20/07/2006 - Debian 4 rilasciato il prossimo dicembre - In un messaggio rivolto alla comunity Marc Brockschmidt, uno de leader del team Debian, ha annunciato il rilascio di Debian 4 per il prossimo mese di dicembre |
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20/07/2006 - Nuove schede video ATI Radeon - Aggiornamenti in vista per le soluzioni di fascia media e alta della linea di prodotti ATI per sistemi desktop |
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20/07/2006 - Notebook Acer e Dell con modulo wireless 802.11n - Alcuni moduli rispondenti alle specifiche preliminari del nuovo standard 802.11n verranno installati sui notebook Dell e Acer Ferrari |
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20/07/2006 - Risultati finanziari aggiornati per Intel - Contrazione del fatturato e degli utili nel secondo trimestre 2006, in linea con le previsioni già evidenziate nelle scorse settimane |
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20/07/2006 - Team Fortress 2 mostrato con un trailer - Valve mostra Team Fortress 2 con un trailer comprendente tutte le classi che saranno incluse nella versione definitiva del gioco. |
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20/07/2006 - 50% di processori Merom nel primo trimestre 2007 - La strategia di Intel è chiara: portare entro il primo trimestre del prossimo anno la maggior parte di processori Merom nel settore mainstream del mercato notebook |
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20/07/2006 - Apple annuncia i risultati del terzo trimestre fiscale 2006 - Apple fa segnare il secondo miglior trimestre nella storia della compagnia, che mette a tacere le pessimistiche previsioni degli analisti. Le stime per il prossimo trimestre restano ancora positive |
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20/07/2006 - Wii: un successo senza produttori esterni - Un articolo apparso su TheStreet.com evidenzia come il successo riscosso da Wii all'E3 abbia comportato una netta inversione di tendenza riguardo l'appoggio di produttori esterni alla console di Nintendo. |
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20/07/2006 - Microsoft ha acquisito Winternals Software - Microsoft acquisisce una società che sviluppa utility per gestione ed ottimizzazione dei sistemi operativi Windows |
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20/07/2006 - Quad Core Intel: in arrivo entro fine 2006? - Intel anticipa i piani di lancio delle proprie soluzioni Quad Core Kentsfield a prima della fine del 2006 |
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20/07/2006 - SLI power: un nuovo approccio per NVIDIA - SLI potrebbe diventare un acronimo non solo di maggiore potenza elaborativa, ma anche di superiore flessibilità nel risparmio energetico |
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20/07/2006 - I primi driver Quad SLI per utenti appassionati - NVIDIA rende disponibile la versione 91.37 dei driver Forceware, i primi con supporto ufficiale Quad SLI per gli utenti che configurano da soli un sistema con due schede 7950 GX2 |
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20/07/2006 - Clive Barker e Codemasters presentano Jericho - Il popolare regista cinematografico e Codemasters sono al lavoro su un innovativo progetto che esalta il genio horror di Clive Barker. |
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20/07/2006 - E' già iniziata la produzione di PlayStation 3 - La testata commerciale The Commercial Times rivela che la produzione di PlayStation 3 è già in corso. Entro la fine di luglio saranno pronti i primi 200000 esemplari. |
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20/07/2006 - Notebook: prevista una crescita del 30% per il terzo trimestre - Ottimismo tra i produttori di notebook: il taglio di prezzi e l'ingresso di Merom stimoleranno la domanda per nuovi portatili |
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19/07/2006 - Nel 2013 il 50% dei dischi rigidi sarà a memoria statica - A riferirlo è uno studio condotto da In-Stat, che fa molto ben sperare per un futuro del mondo storage ricco di sorprese, nemmeno troppo lontane dalla realizzazione |
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19/07/2006 - Da Argo a Zune senza funzionalità videoludiche - Alcune voci vogliono che il progetto conosciuto sin qui con il nome in codice Argo avrà il nome definitivo di Zune. Smentite le funzionalità videoludiche e diffusi nuovi dettagli. |
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19/07/2006 - Adobe: beta pubblica di Lightroom anche per Windows - L'applicativo per la post produzione fotografica viene rilasciato in versione beta anche per Windows. Adobe segnala comunque che il progetto è attualmente in fase di ottimizzazione |
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19/07/2006 - Microsoft ribadisce la preferenza per HD-DVD rispetto a Blu-ray - Microsoft torna sul tema HD-DVD/Blu-ray ricordando le proprie posizioni |
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19/07/2006 - Un trailer per spiegare Portal - Portal è un nuovo gioco single-player che sarà introdotto in Half-Life 2: Episode Two. Valve ne ha rilasciato un trailer ufficiale. |
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19/07/2006 - Una utility multimonitor da Matrox - PowerSpace è il nome di un tool di gestione virtuale del desktop, per sistemi multimonitor |
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19/07/2006 - Rivelati ulteriori dettagli e il nome del nuovo Colin McRae Rally - Codemasters svela il titolo definitivo del nuovo Colin McRae Rally, così come nuovi dettagli, le piattaforme e la possibile data di rilascio. |
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19/07/2006 - Nuovo Vaio VGN-TX3 da Sony - L'apprezzata famiglia di notebook Vaio TX è stata recentemente aggiornata da Sony. Nuova cpu ULV e opzioni di sicurezza dedicate all'utenza aziendale |
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19/07/2006 - Dead Rising messo al bando in Germania - L'organo di censura tedesco impedisce a Capcom di commercializzare il suo action/adventure in Germania. |
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21/07/2006 - Sorpresa! Crescono i remailer italiani - Partito in queste settimane un nuovo remailer anonimo italiano, che allarga cosi' gli strumenti di tutela della privacy in rete a disposizione dell'utenza, tricolore e non. Un progettone gia' attivo e funzionante. Tutti i dettagli |
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21/07/2006 - Agcom scatenata: cambiamo tutto nelle TLC - Dalla Relazione dell'Autorita' una brusca accelerazione: separazione amministrativa tra reti e servizi in Telecom, via agli operatori virtuali, giu' i costi delle ricariche, si' a Wi-Max, banda larga e altro ancora. I nodi chiave |
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21/07/2006 - Download/ Xmouse, batterie e Registro - Salvare il boot record, monitorare registro e batterie, rivoluzionare il mouse e recuperare file perduti. Ecco come |
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21/07/2006 - Windows Vista si apre al mercato - Microsoft rilancia su tutti i fronti: possibilita' per i costruttori di usare prodotti di terze parti per sostituire componenti di Vista, interoperabilita' ed integrazione con altri software. MS: vantaggi enormi per chi sviluppa |
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21/07/2006 - OpenDNS, gratuito e antiphishing - Pronto un nuovo servizio per la risoluzione dei nomi a dominio che offre, primo nel suo genere, un servizio antiphishing. Tra le altre caratteristiche, la correzione automatica degli indirizzi scritti male |
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21/07/2006 - Sony svela le prime camcorder AVCHD - Arriveranno a settembre con video in alta definizione e audio multicanale. Il prossimo mese il colosso lancera' invece un masterizzatore Blu-ray interno |
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21/07/2006 - Chi cerca open source trova Ohloh - Il nuovo search sull'open source cerca di distinguersi per ricchezza e attendibilita' di informazioni. Forniti anche dati e statistiche che semplificano la comparazione tra progetti |
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21/07/2006 - Google presenta il motore dell'Accessibilita` - L'ultima novita' e' un search che indicizza e da' priorita' ai siti in base alla loro accessibilita'. Uno strumento pensato per ha problemi di vista o ama un Web senza fronzoli e ben stutturato |
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21/07/2006 - Amnesty all'arrembaggio di Google, MSN e Yahoo - Violazione dei diritti umani: questa l'accusa scagliata contro le maggiori net company americane dall'influente associazione internazionale per il loro business cinese. Appello agli utenti: costringeteli a cambiare rotta |
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21/07/2006 - Lo specchio parlante esiste - Una startup americana ha creato un singolare oggetto d'arredamento: uno specchio che, collegato a sensori e telecamere, sorveglia l'abitazione ed interagisce coi padroni di casa |
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21/07/2006 - Tre DVD falsi per uno originale - Le autorita' di una delle piu' grandi metropoli cinesi, Nanchino, puntano ad assestare un duro colpo alla pirateria multimediale con strategie da supermercato |
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21/07/2006 - Cassandra Crossing/ DRM, atto secondo - di Marco Calamari - Cresce la sensibilita' dei consumatori sulle tecnologie di blindatura; si accende qualche speranza. Ma occorre stare in guardia: gioiellini come l'HD arrivano con la sorpresina |
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21/07/2006 - eBay.it rincara le tariffe, scatta la protesta - Gli utenti dei servizi del portalone dell'e-commerce non sembrano disponibili ad accettare l'aumento delle tariffe che, dicono, in alcuni casi arriva al 500 per cento. Non tutti i servizi aumentano |
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21/07/2006 - YouTube: posti un video? Diventa nostro - Si sta alzando un polverone sulle politiche del celeberrimo videoportale: la policy costringe chi carica i propri video a cedere tutti i diritti all'azienda, che potra' farne quel che vuole |
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21/07/2006 - Gates, dobloni per la ricerca sull'HIV - Il fondatore Microsoft dona 287 milioni di dollari per la ricerca sull'HIV, nella speranza di trovare un vaccino. I soldi finanzieranno il lavoro di 165 scienziati in 19 diversi paesi |
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21/07/2006 - Cina, 77 milioni di utenti broadband - Continua la crescita vertiginosa del bacino utenti cinese. Oltre 123 milioni di persone online, molti dei quali godono di connettivita' a banda larga. Il governo: incremento annuale del 19,4%? Possiamo fare di meglio |
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21/07/2006 - UK, rivoluzione tariffaria, BT piu` libera - L'Authority TLC britannica ha deciso che da agosto il mercato retail non sara' piu' soggetto alla regolamentazione tariffaria. La concorrenza nel mercato UK ha raggiunto la perfezione? |
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21/07/2006 - Olanda, Bruxelles vieta la fibra in una citta` - La Commissione Europea vieta la realizzazione di una rete in fibra ottica da parte del comune olandese di Appingedam. Un precedente rilevante |
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21/07/2006 - Stanca: sull'innovazione successo per lo scorso governo - Dichiarazione |
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20/07/2006 - NeowinCAST News Edition Podcast for the Week of July 19th - Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of news, the constant variety of corporate competition, the thrill of fragging and the agony of defragging. Neowin.net & PowerUser.TV present the NeowinCAST News Edition for the week of July 19th 2006. This week our panel is somewhat smaller due to some scheduling issues, but bangbang023, LOC, and shanepitman pulled together and made it happen. Topics discussed this week include:- Vista facing another possible delay
- Ballmer promises faster releases in the future
- Microsoft and Yahoo connect IM services
- Western Digital lawsuit over mis-represented drive capacity
- Sony's UMD media format failure
- Half-Life 2 Episode 2 news including Portals and Team Fortress 2
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20/07/2006 - Combating the TiVo Effect: Does the Web Have the Answers? - As personal technology goes, Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) are more than just a replacement for tape-based VCRs: They're a boon to TV watchers and the enemy of the traditional 30-second television advertising spot, for decades the single most powerful and lucrative form of brand advertising.
Devices such as TiVo have long been seen as a disruptive force in the TV advertising space, offering consumers the chance to blast past advertising with a simple click of a button.
The devices are unlikely to represent any kind of death knell for TV spots -- they continue to be a powerful way to deliver a message -- but advertisers seeking to combat the so-called TiVo effect are increasingly borrowing techniques from Web advertising.
From mini-shows to zany commercials that create their own audiences and their own buzz to interactive commercials that invite users to offer feedback, the techniques being used to counter DVR technology often got their start online.
The TiVo effect is just one symptom of a larger trend toward a more fractured media landscape, one where users' attention will be pulled in a thousand directions at once, John Houghton, president of Mobilecast Media told the E-Commerce Times.
Advertisers are also trying to find ways to work within the context of DVRs. TiVo itself sees an opportunity to provide advertisers with new ways to reach audiences and they are often pitched in the same way that online advertising is positioned.
"Traditionally, the viewer of TV commercials had no choice but to watch or get up and leave the room or change channels," said Bruce Kasanoff, president of interactive marketing firm Now Possible. "Online, users can choose not to click ads, but often they do and smart advertisers will look at why that is and steal the things that work."
As video advertising on the Web has proliferated, the best marketers have found what works and what doesn't, Kasanoff added. Traditional 30-second spots that drive home a strong message fall short, while short film-like clips that entertain get strong traction and often draw their own audiences, he explained.
"Good online ads interact with users and let users interact back with them," Kasanoff noted.
Fifty percent of U.S. homes will have DVRs by 2010, according to Forrester Research analyst Josh Bernoff. He added that the devices will soon enter a "hypergrowth" stage and begin to spread to second and third television sets in many homes, dramatically expanding the impact of the commercial-skipping technology.
 News source: Tech News World
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20/07/2006 - Nike+iPod Time Magazine's Gadget of the Week - Time Magazine has declared the Nike+iPod kit its Gadget of the Week, with positive praise too from the Wall Street Journal. Time's Wilson Rothman said: "For a field already glutted with gadgets, the Nike + iPod kit is the most elegant of high-tech runner's aids."
He describes the functions of the device, including the reassuring female voice which tells a runner when to begin the race, and advises users to calibrate their running speed in order to determine the most accurate results. Walt Mossberg at the Wall Street Journal joins the cacophony of iPod + sport praise. He's also positive about the product, and a little enamoured of that female voice.
"After a few runs or walks, instead of feeling like we were chugging along alone, we were suddenly running with a built-in coach who voiced encouragement every so often - or whenever we pressed the centre button for an update of our progress. For us, this was a real benefit," he writes.
"We hope this product can improve in the future to do other things like distinguishing walks from runs, automatically triggering your PowerSong when you slow down or incorporating heart-rate monitoring. But the Nike + iPod Sport Kit is a great first effort. It's easy to understand, and its audible encouragement is helpful," the Wall Street Journal concludes.
News source: Macworld UK
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20/07/2006 - Apple Financial Officer Hints at Apple Phone - Apple's iPod, iTunes and other music products continue to expand its business - and the company hinted at exciting news ahead for the category.
While no new product announcements were disclosed during last night's financial results announcement, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said: "The iPod continued to earn a US market share of over 75 per cent and we are extremely excited about future iPod products in our pipeline."
Apple chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer said: "Apple is investing heavily in iPod and iTunes engineering and is very enthusiastic about products in the pipeline."
Oppenheimer also dropped Apple's biggest suggestion yet that it has plans to deliver a hybrid mobile phone iPod, saying: "We don't think that the phones that are available today make the best music players. We think the iPod is. But over time, that is likely to change, and we are not sitting around doing nothing."
iPod sales climb 36 per cent
The company released statistics that showed iPod sales contributed $1.4 billion in revenue to the company's $4.37 billion revenue overall. That's a climb of 36 per cent when compared to the same quarter last year.
Apple's 'Other Music Products' category - a general gathering that includes iTunes sales, iPod accessories and other services (presumably including revenue under its 'Made for iPod' scheme) popped another $457 million into the company coffers. This statistic is one of the most impressive on the company's books, as it represents a 90 per cent rise, year on year.
Citing research data from NPD, GFK and BCN, Apple confirmed that the iPod accounts for 75 per cent of the US MP3 player market, and that it's the top-selling music player in the UK, Canada, Australia, France, Spain, Italy and Japan. iTunes - which now offers a US catalogue of 3 million songs, 9,000 music videos and 150 TV shows - grabbed an impressive slice of 85 per cent of the pay-to-own digital music market, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
News source: Macworld UK
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20/07/2006 - Microsoft Helps Those Upgrade to Vista from a Legacy OS - Microsoft launched a page that clearly explains how to upgrade your existing system in-place from a legacy Windows OS to any Windows Vista version; or, in the case of certain systems, whether you'll need to perform a completely clean installation. Certain legacy OS' require a full system installation while others will allow for an in-place upgrade. Depending on where you're coming from and where you're going, you should determine which scenario applies to you.
 Link: Upgrade Planning for Windows Vista
News source: Activewin
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20/07/2006 - Symantec Report: Vista Code Contains Security Loopholes - A new report from Symantec security researchers contends that Microsoft's much-awaited Vista operating system could harbor a range of vulnerabilities that will make it less secure than previous iterations of Windows.
According to research published July 18 by Symantec, in Cupertino, Calif., a number of Vista's software components, specifically a handful of protocols related to its redesigned networking technologies, could become security loopholes if Microsoft does not fix the problems or ensure that the product is configured appropriately to hide the glitches when it is shipped. The Redmond, Wash., software giant is slated to deliver a final version of Vista in January 2007.
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20/07/2006 - Microsoft sues 26 suspected US dealers of pirated software - Microsoft filed 26 federal lawsuits against companies suspected of dealing in pirated copies of its lucrative Windows and Office computer software, a release said. Microsoft gathered evidence against software sellers and installers through an investigation that involved "secret shoppers" posing as customers, according to the Redmond, Washington, software powerhouse.
The lawsuits were filed in the US states of Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Ohio, New Jersey, New York, and South Carolina, Microsoft said. The move was part of a Genuine Software Initiative that included automatically checking the legitimacy of Microsoft software on people's computers as a condition of getting program updates
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20/07/2006 - Eighty percent of new malware defeats antivirus - The most popular antivirus applications on the market are rendered useless by around 80 percent of new malware, according to AusCERT.
At a security breakfast hosted by e-mail security firm Messagelabs in Sydney on Wednesday, the general manager of the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT), Graham Ingram, told the audience that popular desktop antivirus applications "don't work".
"At the point we see it as a CERT, which is very early on -- the most popular brands of antivirus on the market Â… have an 80 percent miss rate. That is not a detection rate that is a miss rate.
"So if you are running these pieces of software, eight out of 10 pieces of malicious code are going to get in," said Ingram.
Ingram, who refused to name any specific companies, was quick to point that this was due to cybercriminals designing their Trojans and viruses to bypass detection rather than a defective product.
News source: ZDNet Australia for full article
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20/07/2006 - US needs to step up fight against online child abuse - The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has claimed that 50% of all online child abuse pictures can be traced back to the US in a recent report.
The IWF is keen to stress that the reason the country has such an alarming proportion of material is because the US has more ISPs than any other country, handling more web-traffic than any other country. The report found almost 5,000 sites containing indecent images of children, with 2,500 of them hosted in the US.
Next in line was Russia with 14.9%, Japan with 11.7% and Spain with 8.8%. Thailand (3.6%), South Korea (2.16%) and the UK (0.2%) trailed in last, whilst 7.5% fell into the "Other" category.
The US has already made attempts this year to tackle the problem, in April there were proposed new laws and in June a coalition of five large organisations (Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, Earthlink United Online and The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children) met to outline their own ways in which to deal with the problem.
Despite the growing problem of online child abuse, it is important that the relevant authorities deal with the problem in a way that has little to no effect on the rest of the legal internet. Limiting users rights is not be the answer, but a greater offensive against known sites (some of which left online 5 years after being reported - IWF) would benefit the whole of the internet.
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20/07/2006 - Fierce competition from AMD causes Intel profit loss of 57% - Intel has had a very bad year. Intel's profit of 33 cents per share dropped to a profit of 15 cents per share this year, a drop of 57%. We, in the Community of Neowin, know that this has to do with the competitive failure of the NetBurst architecture vs AMD's Athlon64. In order to maintain their marketshare, Intel has dropped prices which has had a negative result on profitability.
Intel's long term future is, however, not so gloomy. Realizing that their Pentium 4 Netburst architecture was not their salvation, Intel decided to take a step back and work with a design that had more to do with the Pentium III. The Intel Core (aka Yonah) processor was based on the Pentium M design. While it was a bit of step backwards, as they both lack 64bit support, it was enough to convince Apple to choose Intel over AMD when they made their switch to x86 processors. Intel's future gets rosier when you consider their Intel Core 2 design which will combine the advantages of the Yonah core with EMT64T support. The Intel Core 2 desktop processor (aka Conroe) are scheduled to begin shipping in one week's time.
Intel was the worst performer on the Dow Jones Industrial Average for 2006 having lost 26% of its value. To respond with the loss in performance, Intel has layed off 1000 managers or about 1% of their workforce.
We expect that a more competitive product will change that situation drastically but, as consumers, we worry about paying higher prices to make up last year's lost profits.
News source: The Globe and Mail
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