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Sprint Strikes Back with Improved Phone Trade-in Program
2014-09-09 10:53:12| IT Services - Topix.net
Today Sprint announced it will meet or beat all competitors' pricing to ensure the best trade-in values. Sprint will match all major U.S. carrier buyback pricing on all new lines of service starting immediately.
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The vacuum tube strikes back: NASAs tiny 460GHz vacuum transistor that could one day replace silicon FETs
2014-06-24 14:12:20| Extremetech
Way back in the salad days of digital computing (the 1940s and '50s), computers were made of vacuum tubes -- big, hot, clunky devices that, when you got right down to it, were essentially glorified light bulbs. This is why early computers like the ENIAC weighed more than 27 tons and consumed more power than a small town. Later, obviously, vacuum tubes would be replaced by probably the greatest invention of all time -- the solid-state transistor -- which would allow for the creation of smaller, faster, cheaper, and more reliable computers. Fast forward to 2014, though, and the humble CMOS field-effect transistor (FET) is starting to show its age. We've pretty much hit the limit on shrinking silicon transistors any further, and they can't operate at speeds much faster than a few gigahertz. Which is why NASA's Ames Research Center is going back to the future with its new vacuum transistor -- a nanometer-scale vacuum tube that, in early testing, has reached speeds of up to 460GHz.
GeForce GTX 780 Ti: Nvidia strikes back, retaking the performance crown from AMD
2013-11-07 15:10:16| Extremetech
For the past few weeks, AMD has been hammering home with its own video card launches. Now, it's Nvidia's turn.
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The OEMpire strikes back -- Microsoft's best buddies go Google
2013-05-21 21:09:48| InfoWorld: Top News
With Windows PC sales falling like Steven Tyler at an Aerosmith concert, all the major PC manufacturers are unleashing a brace of innovative, competitive products based on Google's Android platform.
Ottawa Strikes Back at Al Gore's Remarks on Oil Sands as 'Open Sewer'
2013-05-07 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver will make the Harper government's case for the Alberta oil sands in Europe this week. But before he can begin, he finds himself contending with inconveniently timed comments from Al Gore about Canada's climate-change record. Mr. Oliver is none too happy about it. "Well, he's off the mark," Mr. Oliver said in an interview Sunday, accusing the outspoken climate-change activist and former U.S. vice-president of making "wildly inaccurate and exaggerated comments."...