Archive for May 23rd, 2007
AMD is not the only chipmaker going green. Intel on Tuesday said its future processors are going to be 100 percent lead-free. The transition will begin in the second half of this year with its family of 45-nm processors, including the next generation of Intel Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, and Xeon processors.”Intel is taking an aggressive stance toward environmental sustainability, from the elimination of lead and a focus on greater energy efficiency of our products to fewer air emissions and more water and materials recycling,” Nasser Grayeli, Intel vice president and director of assembly test technology development in Intel’s Technology and Manufacturing Group, said in a statement.
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May 23rd, 2007
Early feedback on a new feature for Google Trends is split down the middle. Some analysts see Hot Trends as a valuable tool that lets users view a list of the current top 100 fastest-rising Google search queries in the U.S. Others see it as a gimmick.Google launched Hot Trends on Monday night. In addition to tracking the most popular searches in real-time, the tool lets users select specific dates to see what the top-rising searches were at any given point in time. It’s an evolving concept that Google believes is ready for prime time.
“What’s on our collective mind as we search for information? What’s interesting to people right now? Hot Trends will tell you. At a glance, you’ll see the huge variety of topics capturing our attention, from current events to daily crossword puzzle clues to the latest celebrity gossip,” Google software engineer Corey Vickrey wrote on the company blog.
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May 23rd, 2007
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi, Statesman
May 23rd, 2007
