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Nokia-owned file-sharing site MOSH has just announced that it’s releasing ‘over 800′ games for free at sg.mosh.nokia.mobi - ‘free’ in this case meaning ’sponsored’, which in turn means that each of the (Java) games have one or more adverts inserted into their startup and closedown routines. Some ad examples below. The games themselves are in some cases quite old and originate from aggregator Greystripe.

US chipmaker Intel Corp. is said to have gained approval from the US government to use the 65nm silicon process technology in its Dalian-based chip foundry. The saying was confirmed by Xia Deren, mayor of Dalian, a coastal city in East China's Shandong Province, where the US chipmaker won a nod to build its first foundry in China last year. The construction of the foundry has been almost completed and it is expected to start operation in early 2010, revealed the mayor.

Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, set up foundries in developed countries only in the past. It was allowed to use 90nm silicon process technology in China when it first gained approval from the US government to build a foundry in the nation. Xia believed that Intel would make an effort to improve its chip production technology in China gradually. Currently, the state-of-the-art silicon process technology is 45nm.

US chipmaker Intel Corp. is said to have gained approval from the US government to use the 65nm silicon process technology in its Dalian-based chip foundry. The saying was confirmed by Xia Deren, mayor of Dalian, a coastal city in East China's Shandong Province, where the US chipmaker won a nod to build its first foundry in China last year. The construction of the foundry has been almost completed and it is expected to start operation in early 2010, revealed the mayor.

Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, set up foundries in developed countries only in the past. It was allowed to use 90nm silicon process technology in China when it first gained approval from the US government to build a foundry in the nation. Xia believed that Intel would make an effort to improve its chip production technology in China gradually. Currently, the state-of-the-art silicon process technology is 45nm.

Clock speed is no longer the most important measure on processors prowess. It has been supplanted by performance per watt, which addresses the greening of the chip industry. The performance bump that formerly came from cranking up clock speed is now the province of multicores. The only problem is that most software isn't good at taking advantage of multicore architectures. To overcome that hurdle, Stanford University is partnering with Sun Microsystems, Advanced Micro Devices, Nvidia, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Intel to create software that will allow chips to more efficiently process many tasks at the same time, according to a report in The New York Times.

The effort–dubbed the Pervasive Parallelism Lab–is expected to be announced by the group on Friday, according to the report. The project follows similar efforts announced last month by Intel and Microsoft, which are committing a combined $20 million to fund parallel computing research centers at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

VIA Technologies today announced the launch of a beta version of the VIA Linux Portal as part of an initiative designed to extend collaboration with the Open Source community. The beta version of the VIA Linux Portal is located at http://linux.via.com.tw and currently offers driver files for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 Service Pack 1 for the VIA CN896 chipset with two south bridge options.

The VIA Linux Portal will initially offer graphics drivers for the VIA CN896 digital media IGP chipset for the new Ubuntu 8.04 LTS distribution. Documentation and source code for these drivers will be released over the coming weeks, with official forums and bug tracking scheduled for implementation later this year. The VIA Linux Portal will also adhere to a regular release schedule that is aligned with kernel changes and the release of major Linux distributions.

Virtual Hideout's Vantec NexStar Hard Drive Dock Review and other reviews from around the web can be found in our forums!

The Vantec NexStar Hard Drive Dock lived up to its promise. It provides a convenient method of connecting any SATA drive to your system so that you can easily access the data on it. Performance was up to par, but the real benefit is from the design. During disaster recovery, you need something that's straightforward and easy to use and won't add more trouble to your life. The NexStar Hard Drive Dock succeeds in this aspect.

It’s all very well going through the tweak - buy something new - tweak - buy again cycle, but Steve has been musing that sometimes it pays to just sit and enjoy a fully mature, tweaked smartphone without having to keep putting yourself through the bleeding edge agonies of reinstalling apps, settings, tweaks, etc. - for the umpteenth time.

Vancouver based Eqo has released their IM client from the beta test it has been in over the last few months. Suggestions for users have been rolled into the multi-platform client, with support for MSN,GTalk, AOL, Yahoo Messenger and others on board, alongside a VOIP and SMS client.

Microsoft on Tuesday said it is delaying the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 because of a newly uncovered glitch.

The software maker said there is a “compatibility issue” between the XP service pack and Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System, a retail chain management program for small and midsize businesses.

Microsoft finalized the code for Windows XP SP3 last week and had planned to make it broadly available starting Tuesday.

“In order to make sure customers have the best possible experience, we have decided to delay releasing Windows XP SP3 to Windows Update and Microsoft Download Center,” the company said in a statement.

The glitch also exists between Microsoft Dynamics RMS and Windows Vista Service Pack 1, though that product has already been broadly released. Microsoft started pushing out Vista SP1 last week via Automatic Updates.

Chip and electronics makers Intel (INTC.O: Quote, Profile, Research), Infineon (IFXGn.DE: Quote, Profile, Research), Texas Instruments (TXN.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and Panasonic (6752.T: Quote, Profile, Research) have formed an alliance to promote home networks for movies, music and pictures using domestic wiring.

The four leading chip and electronics makers will help market and test a standard to wire together computers, TVs and entertainment systems using electricity, phone and coaxial cable lines that already exist in most homes, they said on Tuesday.

They hope the first products using the new standard will be on the market in about a year.

Consumer electronics and computer makers have long talked of the so-called digital home, in which entertainment appliances and PCs are linked and typically controlled from the computer, making it easy to share digital media content between devices.

But a lack of common standards between makers of these devices has held back progress.

There is already a common wireless standard to link home devices using Wi-Fi. Wired networks often have the advantage of being more stable and having more capacity, and the building blocks for the infrastructure already exist in most homes.