January 10, 2007 by Brad.

We had the chance to take Ford’s newest infotainment system for a roll today — bluetooth music and USB connectivity. First look video taken last week at the Ford Design Center.

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January 10, 2007 by Brad.

If you’ve been curious about whether, how, and when media center PCs would gain the ability to tune and record high-definition digital cable TV, this year’s CES looks to be bringing some answers. AMD has just announced a new product in its ATI TV Wonder lineup, the TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner.

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January 10, 2007 by Brad.

For better or for worse, today’s official launch of the Core 2 Quad Q6600 puts us well into the quad-core era. Not even Hennessy and Patterson, much less the coders at the world’s largest software company, can think of enough ways to keep all four cores busy, but here we are nonetheless…

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January 10, 2007 by Brad.

Intel and AMD’s plans for this year and early 2008. New chipsets, faster bus speeds, AMD’s forthcoming octocore monster with maybe as much as 24MB of L2 cache, new budget CPUs, and improved Core 2 Duos. It looks like 2007 is going to be the biggest leap in processor development in years.

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January 10, 2007 by Brad.

The backers of the One Laptop Per Child project plan to release the machine on general sale next year.
But customers will have to buy two laptops at once - with the second going to the developing world.

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