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IDG World Tech Update
Welcome to the first installment of IDG World Tech Update, a five-minute recap of the week's technology news. This week: HD DVD falls to Blu-ray; Bill Gates speaks against Internet censorship; Microsoft promises greater transparency; Palm introduces a new smart phone, and San Francisco introduces a green hi-tech bus.
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- World Tech Update: Computex, Gates' Goodbye, and More From Taipei's Computex: new version of the Eee PC, production shortages of Intel?s Atom, Microsoft's extension of XP, and much more.
- Supercomputer Passes Petaflop Barrier A computer built by IBM and commissioned by the U.S. government has surpassed the petaflop barrier and can perform more than one thousand trillion calculations per second.
- Goodbye From Bill Gates Bill Gates delivers his last scheduled speech as a full-time Microsoft employee.
- Super Hi-Vision System Equals 16 HDTV Screens A recently-developed 33-megapixel image sensor creates a single SHV image equal to 16 tiled HDTV screens.
- Computex Preview Asia's biggest IT show, Computex, gets under way this week in Taipei.
- Tegra Chipset For Mini-Laptops Nvidia launches the all-in-one Tegra chip set to compete with Intel's Atom.
- Clarion: Internet-Enabled GPS Prototype Clarion's new personal navigation device: Web access, digital TV and GPS--all in one gadget.
- Greenpeace Says Game Consoles Play Dirty Environmental lobby group Greenpeace releases a study that details hazardous materials in game consoles.
- Microsoft Demos New Touchscreen Interface LaserTouch is a new sensing technology that uses computer vision techniques to sense multiple contacts on an LCD screen.
- World Tech Update: Dell's Guilty, Intel's Delays, and Sony's Speakers Vodafone�s CEO resigns, the Mars Lander touches down, Dell is guilty of fraud, Google I/O kicks off, and Microsoft demos a new touchscreen interface.
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- PCI App Security: Who's Guarding the Data Bank? Compliance strategies for PCI's new application security requirements.
- When in Doubt, Consider the Customer Getting customers is one thing; retaining them is another. Now is a great time to rethink your customer service strategy.
- Whoop de Doop for De-Dupe Data de-duplication is spreading from backups to online storage. So when can we stop buying disks?
- Open-Source Drupal Turns Pro Acquia's strengthened and supported distribution of the open source content manager smooths the path to a trouble-free Drupal Web site.
- Sprint's 4G Xohm WiMax: How Fast Is It? In our hands-on tests, the new Xohm network was fast and smooth -- but for now, you have to be in Baltimore.
- CDW Security Center Is your data protected? Visit the CDW Security Center Learn where you may be vulnerable and how to address those risks.
- Asus Laptop Showcase Ultra-fashionable thin and light notebooks with SmartLogon Face Recognition. Find out more...
- HP Ink Center Bring improved color and brilliance to your printed material. Visit the Resource Center for more info...
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