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10 Essential Summer Vacation Gadgets

The average business traveler already has a solid roundup of tools and technology for the road, but there’s a whole different bag of gear for leaving the office behind, donning a pair of flips flops or a luau skirt, and traveling for pleasure.

Smart travelers pack light, finding multi-purpose gadgets that help minimize how much stuff they try to cram into their carry-ons. The ideal schwag bag is filled with electronics that are high-tech, low-weight, and have true staying power (battery power, that is).  Read more...

Intel to Close Older Factories, Cut Jobs

Intel to Close Older Factories, Cut Jobs

Chipmaker Intel has announced it will be shutting down four older manufacturing plants in a move to restructure its operations. The impacted plants are assembly test facilities in Malaysia and the Philippines, as well as wafer production plants in Hillsboro, Oregon, and Santa Clara, California. Intel expects the closures will impact between 5,000 and 6,000 employees, although the company stresses they may not all leave Intel: some may be able to find positions at other manufacturing facilities.

The closures will not impact Intel’s 45- and 32-nanometer production facilities. For instance, the plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, focuses on 200nm technology. According to industry sources, the four plants have been operating at less than their full capacity for some time.

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Google-Yahoo Antitrust Problem?

Google-Yahoo Antitrust Problem?Reuters has reported that the Department of Justice is taking a close look at the two-week ad alliance set up by Yahoo and Google because of antitrust implications.   Part of the problem, according to sources, would seem to be a phone callthat Eric Schmidt, Google Chief Executive, supposedly made to Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, offering to help stymie Microsoft’s takeover bid.   Bothcompanies said they’d told all the relevant authorities about their two-week ad test, with Yahoo spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler saying, "Yahoo proactively kept the Department of Justiceinformed of its intentions to conduct this limited test with Google and have provided information to DOJ on the nature of the test." Although the ad test ends this week, reports are that theDepartment of Justice is worried about a longer-term deal.

First Internationalized Domains Go Live

First Internationalized Domains Go Live

The idea has been in the planning stages since the end of the last century, but the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)—the folks responsible for certifying net registrars and managing top-level domains and DNS services—have rolled out their first public test of internationalized domain names—that is, site names which can contain non-Roman characters. Th

The first phase of the test offers only a single set of sites based on a simple Wiki about the technology: the test sites are available in in Arabic, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Greek, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, Tamil, Yiddish. The evaluation sites are temporary, but if the test is successful, ICANN will work towards permitting registration of top-level domains using non-Roman scripts.

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New Lexus Cars Come to Test Drive Unlimited

Atari yesterday announced a new car pack featuring new-to-market Lexus cars was now available as a free download for the Xbox 360 title Test Drive Unlimited. This Lexus Car Pack is available through Xbox Live Marketplace.

The Lexus Car Pack, according to Atari, consists of the Lexus GS 450h hybrid-powered luxury sport sedan and Lexus LS 460 premium luxury sedan.  Additional Lexus vehicles coming soon to Test Drive Unlimited include the SC 430 hard-top convertible and the all-new 2008 LS 600h L hybrid V8 luxury sedan.  Read more...

Microsoft Lays Off 62 Test Engineers

“Microsoft is laying off 62 test engineers in the second round of cuts hitting Windows testers in the past five months.

The company has recently sent test work overseas, but a spokeswoman denied that’s a factor. She said automation, not globalization, led to the cuts.

Microsoft notified the employees Tuesday and Wednesday last week, and the layoffs took effect Friday. The testers were given the option of staying, with pay, for six weeks while they look for other jobs in the company. “

Read more at The Seattle Times.

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Atari Ships Test Drive: Eve of Destruction

“Test Drive is a world recognized brand in the racing genre featuring some of today’s hottest music and Atari is proud to release the exciting next chapter, Test Drive: Eve of Destruction,” said Nancy MacIntyre, Vice President of Marketing for Atari’s Beverly Studios. “This over-the-top racing game allows players to break the rules and race how they want to race – wide open, peddle to the floor, putting all challengers on their bumpers.”  Read more...

Google May Consider G-Mail Changes

The search engine giant unveiled Gmail in late March to about 1,000 people in what it called a limited test. Nevertheless, it immediately produced an uproar over plans to offer Web surfers up to 1GB of storage for free, subsidized by advertising based on keywords scanned from messages and delivered over the service.

Google spokesman David Krane said the company plans to listen closely to the responses of test users and other interested parties during a three- to six-month test period. He said Google may make changes based on the recommendations it receives, but it hasn’t yet made any definitive decisions.  Read more...

Western Digital Raptor WD740GD Review

Quote from the review:

“The interpretation of the results with the 3 tested drives is quite easy. Even a quick glance through the previous 6 tables with the test results reveals that the WD740 is consistently leading the pack. It is by a clear margin better than the older WD360 and it is outclassing the 7,200 rpm Maxtor in each and every test, be it as single disk or in RAID 0 with 2 disks. ”

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First radio transmission with DTS

The 24-hour, free-to-air broadcast service will be transmitted across Europe using both the Nordic and European beams of the Nordic Satellite AB (NSAB) Sirius 2 satellite (5 degrees East), on 12.245.34 MHz Vertical and 12.379.60 MHz Horizontal, respectively. The test period will also include terrestrial transmissions over DVB-T supplied by Teracom.

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