Developments in TDK’s hard drive technology could lead to another boost in the capacity of hard drives within a few months, a roadmap presented this week shows. The storage firm is currently going through qualification tests of 640GB drive platters that would fit into a typical 3.5-inch drive and so would allow significantly more storage [...]

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A turkish website has some details about Intel’s Gulftown processor, this is a 32nm chip that should arrive within less than a year. It has six-cores, 12 threads and is compatible with X58 chipset based motherboards.The Gulftown supports 1066MHz DDR3 memory and has a TDP of 130W.
this 32nm six-core LGA1366 part is expected to be [...]

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If there’s a technology rumor around the Internet, there’s a pretty good chance it’s about Apple; the company prides itself on keeping announcements secret, and with that, there are plenty of people who are willing to reveal information. This time around, we’ve got our hands on some rumors about the next version of Apple’s media [...]

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According to Wired’s website, the new standard for Wi-Fi is near completion and offering up to 600mbps promises lightning fast speeds along with a great deal of other bells and whistles.
Around half a decades work has gone into this development, and the new standard ‘802.11n’ is due to be released upon the world by September, [...]

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Microsoft has a problem on its hands. Or more precisely one problem with three seemingly contradictory components:

Windows XP is too good for its own good.
It needs to die for the company’s sake.
It won’t die because nothing else — not even Windows 7 — currently approaches it.

We’re closing in on eight years since XP first hit [...]

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Microsoft has issued an advanced security bulletin for August 2009 with five of the nine bulletins marked as “critical” and four are labelled as “important”. These five critical patches are to patch remote code execution and the other four fix elevation of privileges and Denial of Service (DoS), where a hacker (or hackers) could allow [...]

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In a set of comprehensive Windows Web browser performance tests conducted by Betanews on August 7 — our first test of browsers running on the final Windows 7 RTM Build 7600 distributed by Microsoft yesterday — the five major families of browsers tended to run 13% faster on Windows XP Service Pack 3 than on [...]

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The talk of a slimmed down version of the PlayStation has been around for a long time, with our favorite inside source laying down the timeline for the system as well as what would happen before the hardware’s launch. It looks as if more and more of the prophecy is coming true, with a new [...]

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“New Scientist has an article examining 10 human features (bugs?) that we still don’t understand, like blushing, laughing, and nose-picking. There are some interesting, speculative evolutionary explanations listed for each. ‘[Psychologist Robert R. Provine] thinks laughing began in our pre-human ancestors as a physiological response to tickling. Modern apes maintain the ancestral ‘pant-pant’ laugh when [...]

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Here is how to establish SQL connection efficiently while you’ll be able to extract unicode charaters as well such as Arabic, Chinese, Japanes …etc:
$BlgCon = mysql_connect(’—–host—–’, ‘——-username——–’, ‘——–pass——-’) or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db(”——database——-”,$BlgCon) or die(mysql_error());
mysql_query(”SET CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=NULL”);
mysql_query(”set names ‘utf8′”);
ENJOY!

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