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Intel has issued a warning and is threatening AMD to terminate a long-term intellectual agreement which according to Intel, AMD has breached. We spoke to AMD's Michael Silverman, and asked some questions. We asked AMD where it thinks Intel is wrong, and what would happen if Intel did go through with the termination. This is what AMD gave back to us: "Intel’s action is an attempt to distract the world from the global antitrust scrutiny it faces. Should this matter proceed to litigation, we will prove that Intel fabricated this claim to interfere with our commercial relationships and thus has violated the cross-license," said Silverman, AMD public relations.
Earlier this year Sony has unveiled their new P series of notebooks. Now it looks like Lenovo has released a competitor to the P series with their sleek looking Lenovo Pocket Yoga netbook. Pocket Yoga is shaped just like a large wallet, that fits easily into your pocket. Covered in leather and topped off with a “belt” around the middle, the surface is meant to be “warm and considerate” rather than cold, plastic or metal. Li details that the “pocket Yoga” inherits the 360-degree soft hinge design from the company’s Yoga notebook. Its hinge supports three modes, locking into each position. The thing that impressed us most was not the touch screen or the hinge but that fact that that decorative belt we mentioned earlier becomes a pretty nifty mouse.
Is Apple losing the plot? That is the question Nick Farrell from The Inquirer is asking. APPLE IS KNOWN FOR A LOT OF THINGS, being overpriced, having nice design, attracting fan boys who religiously believe that Steve Jobs is a Messiah. But for years the build quality of the gear has never been questioned. Now it seems that Apple has reverted to the days of the Apple II which used to catch fire even if you looked at it in a funny way or did something to place the electrics under pressure... such as turning it on.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy explained that the reason why some ISP's were not chosen for the first round of ISP filtering was because they were greedy. "Some of them, cheaply, took the opportunity to try and get the Commonwealth to fund an upgrade in their own equipment," he said, speaking at the Australian Telecommunications Users Group (ATUG) conference. "Some of them came to us and said look, we can do this no problem, zero dollar costs. So obviously we were able to start with them."
3 Mobile has launched a new push email service. Email on 3 supports Microsoft Outlook accounts, as well as a range of web-based email services including Windows Live, Yahoo, Gmail and a selection of local ISP accounts. New messages from up to six of your email accounts are pushed to your handset so that you receive them as you would already receive SMS messages.
Nvidia has decided to cancel Nvision 2009 convention in a move to save the company some dollars. Nvidia originally planned to hold Nvision 2009 again in Q3, but has revealed that the economic decline reduced the number of attendees considering visiting the show this year. On another note, the company added that it will still host several smaller forums this fall.
Sapphire has unveiled their new Pure Crossfire 790GX motherboard. The new Pure CrossfireX 790GX AM3 motherboard has four DDR3 memory slots with support for up to 16GB of memory, a 5+1 phase CPU power circuit design, two PCI-Express x16 slots working at x8 when both are in use, and features integrated Radeon HD 3300 class IGP with dedicated 128MB of DDR3 Sideport memory. The back panel features four USB 2.0 ports, Ethernet port, eSATA, audio and DVI, D-Sub and HDMI with audio outputs.
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