Intel designers feel the heat
High-tech is hot. But that isn't such a good thing, according to Patrick Gelsinger, a vice president at Intel and self-described "chief geek" at the chip company. Heat, he says, represents the biggest obstacle to building personal computers that are a magnitude more powerful than today's PCs.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdhpnews01
Connectix previews virtual Windows, Linux even OS/2 tech.
Emulation specialist Connectix - the company that ran into so much trouble by daring to allow Mac and PC users to run PlayStation games - has released a preview version of its upcoming Virtual PC for Windows software.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/18678.html
Seven million ‘newbies’ go online
Nearly seven million more people worldwide had access to the Internet from their homes in March compared with the previous month, with Asia leading the way in terms of usage, AC Nielsen eRatings.com said on Wednesday.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/567669.asp?0nm=C13N
U.S. railroad regulator hit by hacker
The railroad-regulating U.S. Surface Transportation Board said on Tuesday hackers had knocked out its computer system amid a threatened assault on U.S. Web sites by Chinese activists.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/567402.asp?0nm=B18N
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