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LCD’s and Plasma screens are also harmful for environment

A gas used in the making of flat screen televisions, nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), is being blamed for damaging the atmosphere and accelerating global warming.
Almost half of the televisions sold around the globe so far this year have been plasma or LCD TVs.
But this boom could be coming at a huge environmental cost. The gas, widely [...]

World chooses AMD over Nvidia

The Red team (ATI), is a clear favourite following the launch of its RV770 graphics chip. A staggering 47 per cent stated their next GPU would be based on AMD’s top-of-the-range Radeon HD 4870, followed by 19 per cent who stated ATI’s mid-range Radeon HD 4850 would be their card of choice.

Creative Aurvana X-Fi Noise Canceling Headphones

An X-treme Experience
Over the past two years, we’ve seen the proliferation of Sound Blaster products utilizing Creative’s X-Fi
technology, which gives a marked up audio experience for consumers. The latest product to feature the X-Fi chipset
is their flagship Creative Aurvana X-Fi Noise Canceling Headphones, which as its name implies, is built to block off
ambient noise whilst [...]

Application Virtualization

Intro
In preparation for this article, we set out to find a simple definition of application virtualization. All we wanted was a simple and concise introductory sentence to give our readers a good idea of what application virtualization is all about, independent of the meanings given by the existing software vendors that tout the advantages of [...]

Intel Virtualization Technology (VT) Explained

Intel has launched two Pentium 4 CPUs – 672 and 662 – supporting the new Intel Virtualization Technology (VT). Formerly known as Vanderpool, this technology enables a CPU to act as if it were several CPUs working in parallel, in order to enable several operating systems to run at the same time in the same [...]