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One of AMD's co-founders Ed Turney has died aged 79. Known as "Fast Eddie," Turney's initial assignments at the fledgling AMD involved buying equipment and overseeing construction of the company's first chip factory. At the same time, as director of sales, Turney was charged with building a sales organization, including developing a network of electronic distributors - a vital step in enabling the company to compete with established companies such as Intel, Fairchild, National Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, Motorola and other companies that no longer exist.
BlaYde sent in this story about Australians downloading TV shows. Per capita, we have become the most prolific downloaders of television contraband from the internet, a new report by the Australian Institute of Criminology found.
HotHardware played around with some of Intel's new solid-state drives in RAID0. With a bit of that "Friday on our minds" attitude adjustment going on in the lab, we decided to RAID a pair of Intel’s new X25-M series SSDs up to see what they could do.
FutureLooks checked out whether playing Wii Fit for a month could actually help you lose weight. In a similar fashion as Wii Sports, Wii Fit is being marketed as a fun way to play games and to keep in shape. Does it live up to this promise? Well, I’ve been at the Wii Fit thing for about a month now, so it’s about time I provide a bit of a retrospective.
PCPerspective compared budget video cards. Several new cards have been released from AMD recently in the sub-$70 graphics market including the Radeon HD 4550 and HD 4350 to compete with NVIDIA's GeForce 9500 GT and its recent price drop. Oh, and S3 Graphics is back in the mix with the new Chrome 440 GTX.
Justin pointed out this blog post about VoIP with a mobile handset in Australia. Reading this makes it sound excellent for some users (including myself). A viable mobile carrier alternative!
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