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Google will unveil its long-anticipated plan to bring its software to cell phones within the next two weeks, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday

The “Google-powered” phones are expected to make it to market by mid-2008, possibly from Taiwan’s HTC, South Korea’s LG Electronics, Deutsche Telekom AG’s T-Mobile USA, France Telecom’s Orange SA and Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.’s 3 U.K., the report says. In addition to the ad-supported phone services bundling Google Maps, YouTube and Gmail, the operating system would be open to developers to build additional features.

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AMD will indeed release its ‘RV670′ graphics chip on 19 November - as predicted - an analyst has claimed the company told him recently.

As yet, however, RV670’s go-to-market branding remains unknown - some pundits have suggested ATI Radeon HD 2950 Pro - but American Technology Research’s Doug Freedman last week told investors that the part will debut on 19 November. The part is a 55nm version of the existing ‘R600′ GPU core.

According to an ExtremeTech report, Freedman confirmed past reports that the two versions of RV670 due to be launched, ‘Gladiator’ and ‘Revival’, run at 825MHz and 750MHz, respectively.

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Install OSX Leopard on your x86 PC, dual or triple boot OSX with Windows XP/Vista.

Credit goes to BraizlMac@osx86scene forum who made the original patch to make all these possible. This guide is a summing up with some  corrections.

If you’ve get your Leopard running, try to add EFI capability and enjoy the vanilla kernel.

This currently works on INTEL system with SSE3 support ONLY. An AMD/SSE2 patch should come  shortly. Use CPU-Z to check the system capability if you are not sure.

Warning: the patch is rather experimental atm, and even your processor supports SSE3, the installation might still fails due to various compatible issues. Also, the patched DVD seems to be problematic, missing the booting setup part, and most likely would render a system unbootable. Most guides online are based on the instruction comes with the patch file, they didn’t actually install it! I did manage to install the Leopard on my own PC and this guide is based on my very own, first-hand experience. I’ll try to make it as accurate and correct as possible.

Update: AMD/Intel SSE2 users try this. Need to patch the original Leopard DMG though, no pre-patched disk available atm.

What you’ll need:

• Optional: Original unpatched Leopard installation disk image, and patch file to enable x86 PC support and strip the image to 4.3G so it can fit on a single layer DVD. This requires access to an working OSX Tiger system, so might not feasible for everyone.
• Optional but highly recommended: Patched 10.4.10 Tiger installation disk(torrent download). Other Tiger disk will also work.
• the patched DVD image(torrent download), post install patch file.
• a DVD burner and empty DVD media
• a USB Flash Drive formatted as FAT or FAT32, flash memory+usb card reader will also work
• Computer with Windows installed, HDD with at least 10G free space.

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Leopard vs. Vista: it’s on.

There no doubt, Vista and Leopard are both extremely advanced, feature rich consumer operating systems. But way back in January when Vista launched knew we had little choice but pit the two in a head to head chartngraph Thunderdome competition.

NOTE: This chart is only for out of box features, and does not take into account 3rd party software.

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Intel’s X38 refresh appears on its latest roadmaps

Intel’s X48 chipset has been added to the company’s roadmap. The X48 is an updated version of Intel’s X38 chipset, which was released by Intel a little over two weeks ago.

The Intel X48 chipset features support for Intel Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, and Core 2 Extreme processors. In addition, the chipset also supports Intel’s Wolfdale and Yorkfield processors, which are yet to be released.

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Congress and the House decided once more to not tax the Internet!

The U.S. Congress and Senate once again agreed to a bipartisan resolution that extends the Internet tax moratorium.

The highly debated issue saw strong support for keeping the Internet tax free from both those in the industry and from grass roots movements.  ISPs strongly opposed any sort of taxation as it would hurt their revenues by driving away customers.  Users, who joined movements such as the “Don’t Tax Our Web Coalition,” did not want to be taxed either, as taxation would likely mean higher service charges.

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Microsoft installed a resource hungry search application on thousands of PCs Wednesday, bringing them to a standstill.

This happened even though administrators had configured their systems not to use the search tool. And the incident is the second in as many months where administrators thought they had locked down their machines and had obtained configuration control.

The problem starts when the search software starts to index the PC. It’s particularly bad when it happens on a server. “The admins at my place were in a flap this morning because Windows Desktop Search 3.01 had suddenly started installing itself on desktops throughout the company,” one administrator said.

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The Pirate Bay is currently working on an OiNK replacement and will be released within a week and on the BOiNK.cd domain.

In an attempt to bring the hundreds of thousands of music albums back online that disappeared during the raid, the BOiNK site will be a little different from OiNK. For instance, the tracker will be public and it will start out with a lot less torrents than OiNK had when it was raided. The success of BOiNK will mainly depend on the former OiNK community, who will be asked to upload their old OiNK torrents.

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Despite underwhelming consumers and being snubbed by enterprises, Windows Vista’s numbers keep growing

Despite underwhelming consumers and being snubbed by enterprises, Windows Vista’s numbers keep growing, with Microsoft Corp. saying Thursday that it has now shipped 88 million copies of the operating system, almost double the number of copies of XP in the same amount of time at its launch.

In late July, Microsoft said it had hit the 60 million shipment mark with Vista.

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Microsoft releases a new update for Windows Vista that improves the compatibility, reliability, and stability of the OS.

Download for 32bit Windows Vista(link, WGA Free) and 64bit(link, WGA Free)

This update, detailed in KB941969, resolves the following issues in Windows Vista:

• A compatibility issue that affects some third-party antivirus software applications.
• A reliability issue that occurs when a Windows Vista-based computer uses certain network driver configurations.

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