S3 has announced its new Chrome 500 series graphics cards. Supposedly the new cards have DX 10.1 support, can run OpenGL 3.0 applications, has Blu-ray play back capabilities and more.

In addition to supporting Hi-Def Blu-ray, the 500 Series supports features such as Picture-in-Picture and 8 channels of high fidelity audio with the S3 Graphics' built-in Dolby 7.1 digital surround sound processor. DirectX, OpenGL, and GPGPU applications can also be efficiently processed with programmable shader cores to speed-up 3D and non-gaming functions, VIA stated.

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When we announced the 7 finalists of the Amazon Web Services Startup Challenge two weeks ago, we dubbed Yieldex an “online ad optimization engine for Web publishers”. It’s time to take a closer look at what that means, because the company has just been awarded the top prize in the contest, bringing home $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in services credits plus an investment offer from Amazon.com.

Yieldex, not to be confused with similar service YieldBuild, has a solution for managing ad inventory, enabling Web publishers to allocate advertising campaigns more efficiently by forecasting overlapping inventory and predicting how ads are going to deliver. All in all, it seems like a nice solution to hmm … yield more revenue out of premium ad inventory, but I’m left wondering if ensuring optimal ad campaigns isn’t something that’s baked into most ad serving solutions already, or at least should be? I mean, it’s one of the core reasons for using an ad serving system in the first place, right?

Amazon.com annually rewards the most innovative US startup built on its cloud-computing infrastructure, and they get hundreds of applications every year, so there must be something about Yieldex that made them the winner.

So, congratulations to Yieldex and its founders, which consists of industry veterans from Matchlogic and NetGravity (check out CEO Tom Shields’ blog post on winning the award). The prize comes in addition to a previous, undisclosed seed funding round from Sequel Venture Partners, First Round Capital and Woodside Fund.

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Category: Productivity
Released: Nov 20, 2008
Price: $4.99

Description:
Ever wonder where the day went? Why it�s 5 o�clock already, but your workload has actually increased rather than decreased? You try to think back and remember where the time went, but you can only recall lunch and being interrupted right as your were about to hit the zone. Between ringing phones, the never ending inbox onslaught, IMs bombarded with YouTube video links and the time vampires lurking at every turn, there is just not enough time in the day. If this sounds familiar, you�re not alone. Small interruptions add up, and before you know it your deadlines have come and gone, there is a voice box full of messages, and you�re no farther along than when the day started. In fact, each minute that goes by it seems like your sinking deeper. We all want more time. But the bottom line is�no matter how hard we wish, there will never be more than 24 hours in the day. Sacrificing sleep, time with loved ones, food and other necessities may work in the short term, but it won�t last. Trust us on this. It is not a viable long-term solution. Something will give! We�ve seen it some many times before. The ripple effect of unproductive day has repercussions way beyond the office. The weight of work and unmet deadlines can result in snapping at loved ones, disengagement from friends, and even depression. But there is hope. There is a way you can get more done in a day. Even up to 2x the amount you currently do each day. Imagine that. Take control of your life by actually seeing where you spend your time. This is the all important first step in turning the tables from slave to the clock to master of. Why is this so revolutionary? We�ve all heard the expression, �Time is money.� We�ll we�re about to prove it. This application you will actually make money. And a lot of it! How, exactly, will this happen?Well, we have to start by valuing your time. What is your time worth? Let�s say for example, you value 1 hour of your time at 30 dollars/hour. By using GooeyTimers to keep track of your time, you can make adjustments to increase efficiency. More efficiently using your time and increasing productivity, will create time. What used to take 3 hours, will now take 2. That extra hour is worth 30 dollars, and it is now your pocket. You just made your money back 10 fold. Let�s say GooeyTimers gains you a conservative 5 hours over the week, you just made yourself 150 dollars week, which if 600 dollars month! You can do the math from here on out. All this gain just more efficiently managing your time! Now for the best part, it�s simple, so simple! With just 2 taps of the screen you�re tracking your task. And things only get better with GooeyTimers� multi-timer ability. Enter your task and start the clock�..if you are interrupted by a phone call, simply start a second timer, which will record your second task the phone call. Once done, stop the second timer, enter a name, and resume the first task. Continue on in this manner until your task is done. Once done you�ll see where your time went. You can than make adjustments to your schedule to make your workday that much more efficient. Features2 Touch Timer Start � start a timer with just 2 taps of the screenMultiple Timer Function � have multiple timers running at the same time! Multi-time your multitasks.Visual Graphs � visually see where your time went. Now stop surfing the web! ;)e-mail results � remind yourself or clients of how time is being spentArchive projects � quickly reference past projects and how time was spentNotes � take notes in the notes feature sectionTime log � detailed time log of day, month and year time was spent, down to the secondEdit � easily edit Timer specific information

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Summary: This article introduces a new forward population genetic simulation program that can efficiently generate samples from populations with complex demographic histories under various models of natural selection. The program (SFS_CODE) is highly flexible, allowing the user to simulate realistic genomic regions with several loci evolving according to a variety of mutation models (from simple to context-dependent), and allows for insertions and deletions. Each locus can be annotated as either coding or non-coding, sex-linked or autosomal, selected or neutral, and have an arbitrary linkage structure (from completely linked to independent).

Availability: The source code (written in the C programming language) is available at http://sfscode.sourceforge.net, and a web server (http://cbsuapps.tc.cornell.edu/sfscode.aspx) allows the user to perform simulations using the high-performance computing cluster hosted by the Cornell University Computational Biology Service Unit.

Contact: rhernandez@uchicago.edu

Supplementary information: An extensive user's manual, perfor-mance statistics, and comparisons of patterns of genetic variation generated by SFS_CODE to theoretical expectations under various non-stationary demographic histories and models of natural selection are available on the project website: http://sfscode.sourceforge.net.

pMost lasers rely on continuous waves of energy to generate heat that allows doctors to make cuts during surgery, computers to burn information onto CDs and DVDs, and scanners to read bar codes. But a newer type of laser promises to do all of these things more efficiently using quick, short blasts of energy. This pulsed-laser technology has been around since the 1980s but high cost has kept it from becoming widely used. Petaluma, Calif.ndash;based Raydiance, Inc., however, hopes to overcome that obstacle with the latest version of its ultrashort pulse (USP) laser system unveiled Wednesday. a href=http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=ultrashort-pulse-laser[More]/a

VMware MVP is a thin layer of software that is embedded on a mobile phone to decouple the applications and data from the underlying hardware. It is optimized to run efficiently on low power consuming and memory constrained mobile phones. The MVP currently supports a wide range of real-time and rich operating systems including Windows CE 5.0 and 6.0, Linux 2.6.x, Symbian 9.x, eCos, µITRON NORTi and µC/OS-II. VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform will help handset vendors reduce development time and get mobile phones to market faster. In addition, end users will benefit by being able to run multiple personalities — for example, one for personal use and one for work use on the same phone. Read more @ VMWare.com.

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a href="http://www.bce.ca/en/news/releases/reg/2008/11/20/75046.html"Mirko Bibic, Chief Regulatory Officer, Bell:/abr / br / quot;With this decision, the Commission has rightly confirmed that network operators are in the best position to determine how to operate their networks effectively and efficiently, to allow fair and proportionate use of the Internet by all users.quot;br / br / a href="http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/20/tech-crtcqna.html"Len Katz, Vice-Chair, CRTC/a:br / br / quot;Someone told me Bell put out a press release that said the commission upheld its position that network management practices are a fundamental right of theirs. That#39;s not what we said at all.quot; br /img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MichaelGeistsBlog/~4/460211821" height="1" width="1"/

a href="http://www.exro.com/index.htm"img hspace="4" border="1" align="right" vspace="4" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/11/exproprototypewind_220.jpg" //aStill addicted to oil like the rest of the world? You might reconsider wind power rehab now that a startup called ExRo has developed turbines that it says are consistently 30% -- and in some situations as much as 100% -- more efficient than the standard kind. The traditionally-used mechanical transmissions have been replaced with an inexpensive electric alternative that can adapt to changes in wind speed more efficiently. Also, many small generators are used instead of a large one, so the turbines can be customized in production to suit the intended installation site. If this is the real deal, it beats the a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/new-solar-cell-efficiency-record-barely-achieved-at-40-8/"0.1% increase/a we saw in solar cell efficiency a few months ago, and those a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/26/maglev-wind-turbines-1000x-more-effiencient-than-normal-windmill/"Maglev uber-turbines/a are still on the horizon. Hey Sun -- jealous yet?br /br /[Via a href="http://www.dailytech.com/New%20Wind%20Turbine%20Generator%20Ditches%20Mechanical%20Transmission%20Ups%20Efficiency%2050%20Percent/article13472.htm"DailyTech/a]pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/gadgets/" rel="tag"Misc. Gadgets/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/20/new-wind-turbines-at-least-30-more-efficient-earth-one-step-cl/"New wind turbines at least 30% more efficient, Earth one step closer to salvation/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:29:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.exro.com/index.htmRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/20/new-wind-turbines-at-least-30-more-efficient-earth-one-step-cl/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1377714/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/20/new-wind-turbines-at-least-30-more-efficient-earth-one-step-cl/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/I889amaUj_76KEwOtmFUEcN0duo/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/I889amaUj_76KEwOtmFUEcN0duo/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=oSr2uAht"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=oSr2uAht" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=4stoxFZC"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=4stoxFZC" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/8gI0xRr5sMw" height="1" width="1"/

Still addicted to oil like the rest of the world? You might reconsider wind power rehab now that a startup called ExRo has developed turbines that it says are consistently 30% -- and in some situations as much as 100% -- more efficient than the standard kind. The traditionally-used mechanical transmissions have been replaced with an inexpensive electric alternative that can adapt to changes in wind speed more efficiently. Also, many small generators are used instead of a large one, so the turbines can be customized in production to suit the intended installation site. If this is the real deal, it beats the 0.1% increase we saw in solar cell efficiency a few months ago, and those Maglev uber-turbines are still on the horizon. Hey Sun -- jealous yet?

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div class="rxbodyfield"p page="1" class="ArticleBody"IBM Research on Thursday is expected to uncover work it is doing to bring the brain#39;s processing power to computers, in an effort to make it easier for PCs to process vast amounts of data in real time./pp align="right"a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" /img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" width="336" height="280" border="0" alt="" align="right"//a/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"The researchers want to put brain-related senses like perception and interaction into hardware and software so that computers are able to process and understand the data quicker while consuming less power, said Dharmendra Modha, a researcher at IBM. The researchers are bringing the neuroscience, nanotechnology, and supercomputing fields together in an effort to create the new computing platform, he said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"b[ Stay ahead of advances in technology with InfoWorld#39;s a href="http://weblog.innfoworld.com/yager/?source=fssr"Ahead of the Curve blog/a and a href="http://www.infoworld.com/newsletter/subscribe.html?source=fssr"newsletter/a. ]/b/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"The goal is to create machines that are mind-like and adapt to changes, which could allow companies to find more value in their data. Right now, a majority of information#39;s value is lost, but relevant data can allow businesses or individuals to make rapid decisions in time to have significant impact, he said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;If we could design computers that could be in real-world environments and sense and respond in an intelligent way, it would be a tremendous step forward,quot; Modha said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"There is a problem in the core philosophy of computing and a new approach is needed, Modha said. Today#39;s model first defines objectives to solve problems, after which algorithms are built to achieve those objectives./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;The brain is the opposite. It starts with an existing algorithm and then problems [are] second. It is a computing platform that can address a wide variety of problems,quot; Modha said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"For example, the new approach could help efficiently manage the world#39;s water supplies through real-time analysis of data that could help discover new patterns, Modha said. A network of sensors could monitor temperature, pressure, wave height and ocean tide across the oceans. quot;Imagine streaming this data to a global brain that discovers invariant patterns and associations that no algorithms of today can do,quot; Modha said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"It will also be able to sense the world#39;s markets, like stocks, bonds and real estate, extracting patterns and associations in the way the brain extracts information from those environments./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"The research is not about concrete applications yet, but about understanding what the brain does and its implementation in computing, Modha said. The research includes work on nanotechnology, which has made it feasible to realize the brain function in cognitive computing chips that rival the low-power and small space of the brain, Modha said. Neuroscience has also matured, and supercomputing technology has progressed enough for IBM to undertake large-scale simulations to test a wide variety of hypotheses./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"It#39;s a long and arduous research project that may lead to a number of technological breakthroughs, Modha said. He didn#39;t provide a timeline for implementation of the platform./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"If the company succeeds in making this platform, it will lead to an entirely new computer architecture and programming paradigm that could overwrite the traditional ways of computing, Modha said./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"For the research IBM is working with the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency and universities including Stanford, University of Wisconsin in Madison, Cornell, Columbia University Medical Center and University of California at Merced./p/divbr style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=dbfb7c916575e47e1934aea337f388e1p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=dbfb7c916575e47e1934aea337f388e1p=1//a img src=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=dbfb7c916575e47e1934aea337f388e1 style=display: none; border=0 height=1 width=1 alt=/

Category: Education
Released: Nov 17, 2008
Price: $9.99

Description:
Vocabulary Flaschards for the GRE is the best GRE vocabulary studying aid for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The application comes with 30 sets of vocabulary words with almost 50 words in each set, for a total of over 1400 vocabulary words from past GRE tests. The Vocabulary Flashcards for the GRE application helps you learn over 1400 of the most commonly tested and most complicated GRE words by providing multiple definitions for most words as well as the etymology for each word. Furthermore, the "toss" function mimics the way you would go about studying vocabulary from a physical set of flashcards. The "toss" button tosses out, or hides, any flashcards that you have memorized. In order to learn these words most efficiently, you should go through a vocab set once all the way through. Then, go through the set once more, tossing out any cards you have memorized. After you have gone through the set a second time, and tossed out some of the flashcards, go through the set again, tossing out any more cards you have memorized. Keep going through the sets as many times as necessary until you toss out all the flashcards. Then, move to the next vocab set. Your goal is to go through a vocab set every one or two days. If you know all these words, you'll ace the GRE. Please go to http://www.totaltestprep.net/products/products.html to download the first vocab set of 48 words. GRE and Graduate Record Examination are the registered trademarks of Educational Testing Service (ETS). The material here has neither been reviewed nor endorsed by ETS. The opinions expressed here are solely those of TotalTestPrep.

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Japanese office supplies manufacturer Kokuyo opened a garden office on the rooftop of its headquarters in Tokyo on Thursday in a bid to cut back on electricity consumption and reduce carbon dioxide emissions. With this innovative step, Kokuyo aims to reduce its overall CO2 emissions by 56 tons a year, about 10 percent of it through the garden office. The company feels workers will be able to work more efficiently in a natural environment. About 140 employees are expected...

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