Saturday, February 19, 2011

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 18/02/2011




Anonymous employee tells of life in the Apple Store
Many of us have made the pilgrimage. We know the gray walls, the large wooden tables, the sterile lighting, and the blue-shirted employees. What's it like to actually work in one of Apple's hundreds of retail stores, though? Thanks to Popular Mechanics, which scored an interview with an Apple Store...
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Bug-free Sandy Bridge laptops could launch this month
On Monday last week, Intel announced that shipments of bug-free, B3-stepping 6-series chipsets for Sandy Bridge processors would begin in the middle of the month. Now, DigiTimes has word from sources at notebook design manufacturers that Intel is indeed shipping the new chipsets to "first-tier notebook and motherboard...
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Possible details leak about GeForce GTX 550 Ti
The guys at VR-Zone have done it again. This time, they've unearthed a slew of details about Nvidia's upcoming GeForce GTX 550 Ti graphics card, whose existence was recently betrayed by a beta graphics driver. Naming "leaked material" as its source, VR-Zone says the GTX 550 Ti will resemble...
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Pluto Day Shortbread
Eight is Enough PCMag: AMD CEO denies smartphone plans, slates tablet attack for 2012 X-bit labs report AMD to give free antivirus with boxed processors and issues with Intel Sandy Bridge platform can help AMD to boost market share PCWorld reports Intel to ship 10-core Xeon processor...
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Release roundup: CyberLink updates and server gear
The pickings are a little slimmer this week, but we still had a couple of interesting announcements sitting in our inbox. The first is from CyberLink, and the second is from Tyan. CyberLink releases updates optimized for AMD Fusion...
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Report: Intel 510-series SSDs will arrive on March 1
A new line of Intel SSDs will debut on March 1, according to a story by VR-Zone. The site has spotted listings for Intel 510-series drives (reportedly code-named Elm Crest) at a British e-tailer, and it's posted a few specs, as well. Let's start with the dirty details. VR-Zone claims...
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