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Flash SSD

Samsung Electronics plans to launch a flash solid-state disk (SSD) driver this year that has a 256GB capacity with higher speed of SATAII interface.
the Flash SSD(Nand Flash-based Solid State Drive) of SAMSUNG Electronics is fully consist of semiconductor device and using NAND Flash Memory which has a high reliability and a high technology for a [...]

Yahoo New Email Domain

Yahoo has just added another 2 more email domains for user to register.  The 2 new email domain is ymail and rocketmail. The released of extra domains is because yahoo domain has been registered over 266 million active users. Thus, new user is hardly to get their preferable user name. Anyway, accounts created with the [...]

1. McAfee VirusScan
2. Symantec Norton Anti-Virus
3. McAfee Internet Security Suite
4. Intuit TurboTax
5. Adobe Photoshop
6. Adobe Acrobat
7. Intuit Quicken Home and Business
8. Symantec Norton pcAnywhere
9. Symantec Norton Ghost
10. Adobe Creative Suite

Above listing is released by The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) in their 2007 Anti-Piracy review report.
From the top 10 softwares, i only use the [...]

Not long after Core 2 Duo processor, Intel came out with the latest Core 2 Quad processor where there is 4 cores in a processor.

On the left the Core 2 Duo and on the right the Core 2 Quadro.

The Safari browser used on MacOS finally opened to PC platform. It support Window XP and Vista.

Features:
1. Blazing Performance
2. Elegant User Interface
3. Easy Bookmarks
4. Pop-up Blocking
5. Inline Find
6. Tabbed Browsing
7. SnapBack
8. Forms AutoFill
9. Built-in RSS
10. Resizable Text Fields
11. Private Browsing
12. Security

Anyway, the beta version still not so stable, especially on chinese display.  [...]

Intel finally launched the 4th generation of Intel Centrino Platform - Santa Rosa. Is support latest Merom processor and using 65nm process. On first quarter next year, they will come out Santa Rosa Refresh which support Penryn processor and using 45nm process.

Finally, TM Net Streamyx launched their high end broadband service up to 4Mbps/512kbps download and upload speed. The cost also very high –> up to RM268 monthly fee.
Other than that, there also had a mid end broadband service up to 2Mbps/512kbps cost RM188 monthly.

Pikom PC Fair 2007

Next weekend will be Ipoh 1st PC fair. They still hosting it in the same place –> stadium Indera Mulia. As usual, all the sellers are keeping pen drive/thumb drive in their stock…. This means that pendrive/thumb drive will be the main selling point again.
Last time my gf brought a 1GB pen [...]

Wimax in Malaysia

As announced recently, 4 companies had been given wimax license to provide wimax services in Malaysia.
Bizsurf (M) Sdn Bhd, MIB Comm Sdn Bhd, Asiaspace Dotcom Sdn Bhd and Redtone-CNX Broadband Sdn Bhd were given licences to operate WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) networks.
Bizsurf, MIB Comm and Asiaspace Dotcom will cover peninsular Malaysia while Redtone-CNX [...]

Dell Semi Rough Laptop

Dell came out a new heavy duty laptop, Latitude ATG D620  which suite those people who working in rough environment. This laptop meets military standards for vibration, humidity, moisture and other elements that can potentially harm the laptop while out on the field.
It features a shock-mounted, removable hard drive, a shock-mounted LCD screen, a dust [...]