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Intel Demos 48-Core CPU

The single-chip cloud computer aims to dramatically boost performance and power efficiency in laptops, desktops, and servers.

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I Survived The Great Bing Outage
In case you somehow haven't already heard, Microsoft's Bing search engine disappeared from the Internet for about a half-hour on Thursday. Just like any national tragedy, everyone will remember where they were when they heard the news. I sure will, man, because I was there.

The Causality Behind Apple's Success
Apple's new 21-inch iMac was October's best-selling desktop computer, according to retail analyst firm NPD. While sexy, the sales success was partially due to a slowdown in sales of competing PCs prior to the launch of Windows 7.

Content Providor Or Distributor?
I am still dumbfounded by Comcast's decision to buy NBC, and I'm not sure it's because I know too much about the past...or have to little faith in the future. Or both.

Ready To Launch? Lack Of Scalability A Killer
Yahoo Pipes is a way to mash up RSS feeds and Web pages into combined information, apply rules and filters, and publish it. When it launched Feb. 7, 2007, the Pipes API worked fine in principle. But as "Daniel" said from the audience at a San Francisco panel this week, Pipes wasn't ready to scale.

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