Sunday, October 11, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 10/11/2009



Deal of the week: An available 5850, an 11.6'' netbook for $300, and more
Radeon HD 5850 availability wasn't exactly stellar when we checked yesterday, but things have improved a little bit today. Newegg currently has one card in stock for $259.99 before shipping: a Sapphire model with a reference cooler, the same port configuration as the card we reviewed, and a...
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AMD, CyberLink team up on DirectCompute acceleration
As much press as OpenCL has gotten, it's not the only player in town for vendor-agnostic GPU-computing applications. With Windows 7 now less than two weeks away from launch, eyes are starting to turn to the DirectCompute programming interface Microsoft has included in its DirectX 11 toolkit. In their latest joint...
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Office 2010 Starter to supplant Microsoft Works
Say goodbye to Microsoft Works and hello to ad-supported software and license-only retail cards. That's the gist of a recent post on the Office 2010 Engineering blog, where Office Corporate VP Takeshi Numoto announced Office 2010 Starter alongside other, new ways in which Microsoft will distribute Office 2010. Office Starter...
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