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GlobalFoundries says Intel process squeezes chip devs

Jamie — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:00:02 +0000

Future chips: extreme, ultraviolet & metal GTC 2010 According to AMD-spinoff GlobalFoundries, chip-baking is about to hit a wall — but they’re ready for it. They also claim that their way of handling the latest advance in chip materials is superior to that used by Intel and soon to be introduced by their ginormous competitor, TSMC.…

Drummers: Looking for a throbbing BumChum?

Jamie — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:26:26 +0000

Click here for hot ass action It’s only September, but we feel pretty confident that the El Reg 2010 Product Name of the Year will be awarded to the spectacularly-titled BumChum – a silent bass drum monitoring system which promises lively “bottom-end thump”.…

Pamela Anderson gets her kit off for Nokia

Jamie — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:17:07 +0000

And you can too… What a brilliant idea for a competition! Nokia has hired Pamela Anderson and Gossip Girl actor Ed Westwick to appear in The Commuter a short film short shot entirely on the not-quite-launched Nokia N8 – and you can appear in it too.…

Sonic Screwdriver controller coming to Wii

Jamie — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:50:33 +0000

More fun than a Stattenheim Remote Control? Good news for budding Doctors: there will be a sonic screwdriver-style remote out in time for upcoming Wii title Doctor Who: Return to Earth. …

Two and a half days in hell

Jamie — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:10:09 +0000

Part one of Doomsday Weekend: who can you trust? Sysadmin blog As sysadmins, we have to test before we deploy. We need to test before even upgrading a driver. We should test absolutely everything before a major deployment. It seems obvious. It is obvious.…

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Two and a half days in hell

Just Mobile UpStand

Jamie — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:53:24 +0000

Product evaluations in 140 characters

Homade Sucker Stand

Jamie — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:20:15 +0000

Product evaluations in 140 characters

Angry Birds take wing on Android

Jamie — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:15:51 +0000

Fight or flight?

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Angry Birds take wing on Android

HPC goes mainstream

Jamie — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:02:00 +0000

Marrying IT to HPC Workshop Many people tend to associate High Performance Computing (HPC) with exotic supercomputers with esoteric CPUs, high-end networking and storage fabrics, and custom applications simulating nuclear explosions, virtually crash-testing cars or designing the aerodynamics of the latest jetliner.…

Air mouse targets TV – Apple to follow?

Jamie — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:44:14 +0000

Gesticulating at the telly will actually make things happen! Movea, the company behind the Gyration Air Mouse, is pushing into television with a module for adding gesture control to the humble zapper.…