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Will someone put the Black in Black Friday?

BlackFriday.info feeds me all the news I need for that special day of the year, the day after Thanksgiving, that blackest of all days for businesses.  This year isn’t so black, however, more like a light shade of gray.

Last year I waited outside of a Circuit City in Greenwood, Indiana to try my luck at [...]

No Comments | Technology | Permalink | Posted by: syardumi

Market, meet the Core i7

Intel’s new chip officially is released today and has caused chatter for months about whether or not the new technologies applied will produce greater performance and system speed.  There are a few things that the new chip does for everyone.  Here’s a list of five I could think of after the jump.

QuickPath Interconnect or QPI [...]

Blog Action Day 2008 - Poverty and Technology

Today is Blog Action Day, and if you don’t know what that is then here is a tiny explanation.
Basically, thousands of bloggers have come together today to blog about poverty and its various applications to our lives in several ways. Many are blogging on politics and resources to fight poverty on a large scale, [...]

No Comments | Poverty, Technology | Permalink | Posted by: syardumi

Final Edge Computing

There’s a new face on custom built computers.  That is The Final Edge Computing.

Without giving too much away, I’ve started building my new custom built computer company.  I’ve bought the domain, hosting, and started development on the site itself.  It uses Joomla and the e-commerce engine VirtueMart.

Right now, I’m finishing setting up the web interface, [...]

Next Gen Processor

The next processor from Intel boasts that it is the seventh generation right in its name.  The Core i7 is the new chip, originally codenamed “Nehalem,” that Intel will start mass-manufacturing in Quarter 4 of this year (2008), most likely coming in November.  Under a new socket size (1366 on the desktop), this new chip [...]