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Sylvie Barak the Inquirer, Thursday 20 November 2008. 10:30:00

Doubles performance

SAMSUNG HAS STARTED mass producing 256GB solid state drives, trumping all other high capacity SSDs currently found in the laptop segment of the market. Samsung, which already supplies 64GB and 128GB SSDs for laptops, reckons its new 256GB drives are not just bigger, but also much faster, offering twice the...

Windows 7 doomed by economic outlookToday

Nick Farrell the Inquirer, Thursday 20 November 2008. 10:07:00

Analysis Linux your time is now or never

WHILE REVIEWERS are giving the thumbs up to Windows 7, Microsoft might have problems shifting the new operating system when it hits the shops next year. Many companies have hung onto Windows XP because Vista required too many hardware upgrades....

Unplug your recharger and save a polar bearToday

Nick Farrell the Inquirer, Thursday 20 November 2008. 08:33:00

Energy wasters

MOBILE PHONE makers are warning that charging devices consume lots of energy when left plugged in. Apparently more than two-thirds of the energy used by mobile devices is wasted because punters leave chargers plugged into the wall....

Russian hackers stole my homeworkToday

Nick Farrell the Inquirer, Thursday 20 November 2008. 08:33:00

Hungry dog off the hook

TECH SAVVY kids of today are coming up with different excuses for failing to submit work on time. Gone are the days of blaming the dog for eating the homework, new research suggests the average British teacher now hears 15 different homework excuses every week....

IBM wants to build a computer based on the brainToday

Nick Farrell the Inquirer, Thursday 20 November 2008. 08:33:00

One that doesn't think about sex every 30 seconds

BIGGISH BLUE boffins and five leading universities are partnering to create computing systems to simulate and emulate the brain. The big idea is to get a machine that can sense, perceive, interact and be cognitive while saving on energy and space....