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12/12 - If bothered by telemarketers, you can add your cell phone number to the national "Do Not Call" registry by calling 1-888-382-1212 from your cell phone, "or online at www.donotcall.gov".
Windows Live Local beta includes MS Location Finder, which enables those with mobile devices to use their current position—wherever it may be—as a starting point. "The degree of accuracy is usually within a few hundred feet".
Sony's rootkit apparently caught alot of security companies off guard. The rootkit "had been installed on thousands of systems for months".
Tuesday Intel launches Napa. Initially there was the first generation of Centrino, then Sonoma, now Napa, Intel's third generation of Centrino. "On Tuesday, Intel will unveil its code-named Napa platform".
NAND Flash memory may replace optical drives and media as well as hard drives. Memory maker Infineon shall increase its share in the NAND market and "regards NAND flash as a solution to replace optical disc, rather than as a substitute for HDDs".
Samsung holds the number one position in DRAM (dynamic RAM), SRAM (static RAM), and NAND Flash memory, all three. "Samsung now dominates most areas of the memory market".
Intel seems to emphasize improved support for dual-core and hyper-threading in its new 975X chipset and downplay the importance of "multiple 2x8 graphics cards".