Intel's new quad-core processor is scheduled to launch November 17th
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Originally posted on InfoWorld.com
Steve Smith, vice president and director of operations for Intel's digital enterprise group, told Computerworld earlier this week that the first Nehalem chip, officially named Core i7, will be a quad-core designed for high-end desktops used by power users and gamers. Intel has been shipping previews of the chips to hardware vendors since September.
Here's a list of the latest emerging technologies coming in the near future.
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Originally posted on itbusiness.ca
From ultracompact PCs to televisions that respond to gestures, here's a list of all the latest technologies that will completely change the way we work and live.
An on-the-road device called a SlingCatcher works with the Slingbox Pro-HD connected to your living room cable box to enable remote video streaming in hi-def over the internet, and it's now available in Canada.
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The Slingbox Pro-HD – the "first ever" Slingbox that streams in video in high definition over the Internet was recently launched – and is now available in Canada.
Canadians are familiar with the Sling Box that lets you – from a remote location – access, control and watch your home TV (cable, satellite, and DVR), as well as other electronic devices – through the Internet.
But with a standalone Slingbox you're limited to viewing this video content on a laptop, desktop, or mobile phone – typically devices with a smaller form factor.
When SlingCatcher is brought into the equation it removes this restriction, enabling you watch the video streaming real time from your living room on a TV screen that may be in another room in your house, or at a remote location thousands of kilometres away.
Toshiba's new line-up of the highest density SLC NAND chips available will hit the market in Q1 of 2009.
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Originally posted on EE TImes
SLC chips are said to offer fast read and write times and support a large number of write and erase cycles. Many of the early models of solid-state drives use SLC NAND.
Toshiba (Tokyo) said the SLC devices offer support for mobile phones, office automation equipment and servers, all of which require high levels of read and write speeds and reliability.
NVIDIA has announced it's new GeForce 9400 and 9300 Integrated GPUs.
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NVIDIA says that the new GPUs offer full system I/O and discrete-level performance in a package half the size of previous integrated GPUs. The NVIDIA 9400 and 9300 GPUs have 16 cores and are CUDA capable. NVIDIA even promises that the integrated GPUs are capable of playing the latest top PC games and Blu-ray movies.
Mobile video chat will be rolled out in the second half of 2009 - debut in South Korea next year.
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The M3 mobile Internet device developed by Digifriends (Seoul) will debut in the second half of 2009 using NextWave's NW2000 WiMax chip set.
The M3 feature a 4.8-inch touchscreen, and comes with a 1.3-inch hard disk drive that will offer 30- to 60-Gbyte capacities. It will support video chat using VoIP and two digital cameras--a 2-megapixel camera for capturing still images and a Webcam.
Apple customers are upset that Apple's newest notebooks lack a FireWire port.
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Apple customers unhappy that the company dropped FireWire from its newest notebooks are venting their frustrations on the company's support forum in several hundred messages.
Within minutes of Apple CEO Steve Jobs wrapping up a launch event in Cupertino, users started several threads on the company's support forum blasting the omission of a FireWire port on the new MacBook laptop.
The technologies on this annual list look familiar to last year's list with a couple of new entries.
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Gartner Inc. has ranked virtualization as the No. 1 strategic technology for next year, not for its "tremendously obvious" ability to virtualize servers, but for its increasing capability to virtualize just about everything else in a data center.
