For years now, the little blue “E” has been gracing the desktops of Windows users around the world (though many might say it’s doing just the opposite!). Internet Explorer, notorious for its many security holes and being slow to patch them, continues to be one of the top choices for web browsing…
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The Windows Desktop…Quite possibly one of the most consistently viewed items on your computer on a daily basis. (Outside of your Internet Browser of Choice) Many times it sets the tone for who you are.
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To Connect to the Internet, Just Turn on Your TV
New York Times – 1 hour ago By SAUL HANSELL LAS VEGAS – If there was one overarching theme from the Consumer Electronics Show here last week, it was that absolutely every device in our lives is becoming a computer connected to the Internet. Glitz stripped from Consumer Electronics Show AFP Tech firms unveil new gadgets, brace for painful '09 guardian.co.uk The Associated Press – Los Angeles Times – CNNMoney.com – InformationWeek all 1,120 news articles |
paleshadows writes “The Times Online reports that researchers claim that each query submitted to Google has a quantifiable impact. Specifically, two queries performed through a desktop computer generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a cup of tea. From the article: ‘While millions of people tap into Google without considering the environment, a typical search generates about 7g of CO2 [whereas] boiling a kettle generates about 15g […] Google is secretive about its energy consumption and carbon footprint. It also refuses to divulge the locations of its data centers. However, with more than 200m Internet searches estimated daily, the electricity consumption and greenhouse gas emissions caused by computers and the Internet is provoking concern. A recent report [argues that] the global IT industry generate[s] as much greenhouse gas as the world’s airlines — about 2% of global CO2 emissions.'” Google makes an interesting focus for such claims, but similar extrapolations have been done before about, for instance, the energy costs of sending a short email.
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The new Phenom II X4 920 and 940 are easily the most powerful desktop processors released from AMD to date. They performed well throughout our entire battery of benchmark tests, besting AMD’s previous flagship CPU, the Phenom X4 9950 virtually across the board.
The company’s decision to offer a free antivirus product may not change the names of the security products on your desktop.
