Tech Wizard

Most of us work somewhere for a living. We get our salaries on a set basis and are tension free. But what about a businessman who runs an online business? How will he manage all the work load, employees and so many things? The most difficult part is managing the sales leads. Even customer relationship management can be quite difficult when someone doesn’t have an appropriate software for it. One such software which makes this task easy is provided AimPromote.com.

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XFX today published information about XFX 9600GSO on their website. XFX 9600GSO operates at 580/1450/1400 MHz frequencies, has a 192bit memory channel and has 384Mb of Memory. The package also includes Company of Heroes Game and is available for 100 Euros.

ASUS today agreed that Asus had sent 5200mAh capacity batteries with their Eee PC to reviewers. The current Eee PC sold to consumers has a 4800mAh battery instead of the 5200mAh one. Asus apologized publicly and said that they are thinking of launching the 5200mAh battery as an add-on to the Eee PC, and accidentally they sent the Eee PC equipped with 5200mAh batteries to the reviewers. Asus said that they are thinking of replacing the 4800mAh batteries with the 5200mAh one to the consumers who have already bought the Eee PC. Something like this is nothing new and many companies have been sending cherry picked products to the reviewers so as to get more points/good comments than their product should.

Apple updated their Mac range day before yesterday and now it’s possible to purchase a Mac Workstation Pro with 8800GT Graphics Card. This card is equipped with 512Mb of GDDR3 memory and supports Dual Link DVI. Earlier this year Apple had said that 8800GT will be an exclusive option for the new Mac Pro. Apple Mac’s usually come with low to mid end graphics card and there is no option to include a high end graphics card in your Mac, so this option must be welcomed by one and all.

Many people, sellers had been boycotting eBay for a long time but it looks like the boycott did not affect eBay at all. The company reported earnings of 2,198$ USD with a revenue increase of 24% over Q1 of 2007. Net income also rose to 562M$ USD. The performance of the company significantly beats analyst expectations. However, the company admitted that the “conversion rate” i.e. the percentage of sales ending in success has declined from the past year. All the sellers that boycotted eBay had very few alternatives since amazon.com only allows resale of selected item and craiglist.com is avoided by many buyers for its bad reputation of illegal activity.

However the future of the company looks bleak. In the first quarter of 2008, eBay had 83.9 million users, which is only a 1% increase from last year Quarter 1. This indicates that eBay may be reaching a market saturation point and in this case, customer satisfaction becomes very important for eBay. From next month, eBay is all set to eliminate the negative feedback from sellers to buyers thus leaving normal sellers at the mercy of their buyer’s review. Power Sellers though will get some new tools for their safety.

Microsoft is trying to takeover Yahoo, but it does not look like Yahoo is interested in Microsoft offer as Yahoo has already declined Microsoft offer’s twice. Yesterday Yahoo announced that it’s going to begin a test relationship with Google that would involve the use of Google Adsense Search system. After hearing this news, sources said that there may be a possible partnership between Yahoo and Google so as to strengthen Yahoo’s independence. After hearing this news, Microsoft said that it is already in talk with News Corp to combine resources and takeover Yahoo! This type of acquisition is usually knows as hostile takeover.

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Things could not get worse for AMD. They have been suffering heavy and I mean very big Heavy losses in every quarter after the release of Core 2 Duo’s from Intel. Earlier this week we had reported that AMD will cut 10% of its workforce to help them to improve their financial condition and now AMD’s Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President Phil Hester has resigned from AMD. Hester was responsible for setting the architectural and product strategies and plans for AMD’s microprocessor business. AMD has also removed Phil Hester bio from their official website.

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In February Nvidia had launched some information about its Mobile HD platform for handheld devices like PDA’s etc. A recent product briefing by Dailytech further revealed that APX 2500 has a power consumption of only 50mw which allows the chip to run upto 10 hours with a single battery charge, thus making APX 2500 ideal for handheld devices. Nvidia states that the first devices to use the APX 2500 platform will be launched within this year.

Nvidia says that APX 2500 is a single chip processor whose size is less than a dime and the APX 2500 chip will include an ARM 11 core processor with a maximum speed of 750MHz, a Geforce based GPU, a high definition Audio and Video processor, memory and an Input/Output system all within the same package. Though APX 2500 is not bigger than a dime, APX 2500 is capable of running HD videos through HDMI. APX 2500 is stated to deliver high definition video content upto 720p in H.264, Mpeg and VC-1 formats. The Geforce GPU inside APX 2500 is capable of producing 3D graphics with features like programmable pixel shader, vertex and lighting and sampled Anti Aliasing.

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One major problem being faced by Facebook is how to diversify. Facebook has millions of users, the company is worth billions right now and it has been brought by Microsoft and Facebook. Facebook rival and competitor MySpace has been making new innovations and is even going to launch a iTunes competitor. Facebook has now decided to gift its millions of users with Instant Messaging or more popularly known as IM. This new chat feature will be slowly rolled out to millions of Facebook users.

Like AOL, the number 1 Instant Messaging program in US, Facebook also supports only one on one chat. Users also have the option to view previous conversation but they are stored only for a short time. Chatting can be done in two types-either through typing at the bottom of the screen or by using a separate pop up window. Earlier Facebook supported chats only through third party applications. While users have the option to remain in Invisible mode or remain online to all, a nice privacy feature is that users can block someone from chatting from them if they don’t want to chat or that guy is bugging the user.

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Hardcore Overclocker’s already know about liquid cooling since liquid cooling allows them to overclock their processor more than air cooling will allow them to and also liquid cooling cools their processor better thus increasing its life. Liquid Cooling is one of the most extreme and exotic cooling systems for Overclocker’s/Gamers.

In the supercomputer segment companies like IBM have generally relied on air cooling using air conditioner in the room where the supercomputer is present. But things seem to have changed now, IBM’s latest supercomputer called the Power 575 which is equipped with IBM’s latest Power6 Microprocessor has moved from air cooling to liquid cooling using water chilled copper plates located above each processor and thus the new supercomputer requires upto 80% fewer air conditioning units.

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