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When Windows 7 is Hard to Swallow…

15 November 2009 Bob Snyder Software
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Go on, Microsofties, stuff yourself with an "Amerikanbanzu."

Tokyo's Burger King sells a Windows 7 Whopper stacked with 7 beef patties (total 1.75 pounds or .8 kg.)

whopper7 victim

A promotion by Burger King Japan and Microsoft, the "super giant" burger measures 5.1" in diameter. The 7-layered Windows 7 Whopper costs--of course--777 yen (US$ 8.49) for the first 30 customers; the regular price is US$15.84 (1450 yen).

Harder-to-swallow: the rumour Apple is developing the Leopard Burger--a bigger, tastier, healthier burger. It would be more expensive but easier to digest.

Go Windows 7 Whopper Claims First Victim

Best Buy's First 24-Hour Shop

15 November 2009 Bob Snyder Retailer News
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Best Buy NYC 24-Hr Store New York: the city that never sleeps has a new attraction.

Best Buy opens its first 24-hour-shop near New York's Union Square on November 13th. The store (48,000 sq. ft.) will be open 24 -hours from Monday through midnight Saturday (but open on Sundays only from 10 am to 8 pm).

Go Best Buy

World's Highest Single-die Memory Device

15 November 2009 Bob Snyder Memory
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8GB and 16GB SDHC cards Based on 43nm process technology, the 64Gb NAND flash chip (the highest-density single-die memory device in the world) enters production, reports SanDisk.

SanDisk developed a 4-bit-per-cell X4 memory stick, twice as many as the cells in conventional multi-level cell (MLC) NAND (2-bits-per-cell) memory chips.

SanDisk ships 8GB and 16GB SDHC cards using X4 technology as well as 8GB and 16GB Memory Stick Pro Duo cards.

Go X4 Memory Stick

Highest Q2- Q3 Jump for Graphics Processors

15 November 2009 Bob Snyder PCs - PC Components
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ATI Graphics processors jumped to +21.2% from Q2 to Q3 this year.

Over the last 8 years, this overall change from Q2 to Q3 was the highest recorded result, says Jon Peddie, head of Research Market Watch.

The big winner is AMD up 30.2% with 19.8% market share. Second is Intel with 25.2%, market leader with more than 50% in Q3. Q-to-Q market share shows other companies like Nvidia (3.3%), Matrox (-50.8%), newcomer SiS (209.3%) and VIA/S3 with 116.2%.

Intel shipped the most graphic processors (63m), 2X more than Nvidia. In total, 119.3m were shipped in this Q3, "exceeding the record 111 million units shipped in Q3 2008," notes Jon Peddie. "The crash of fall 2008 is now behind us."

Go Jon Peddie Research

Magnetricity to Open New IT Technology?

15 November 2009 Bob Snyder JUST for Geeks
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alt How much for that "Magnetric PC" in the dealer's window?

Scientists at the London Center of Nanotechnologies prove the existence of atom-sized magnetic charges ("magnetic monopoles") that behave and interact like electric charges.

This could mean significant tech advances in computing with the quicker movement and manipulation of data via magnetic rather than electric charges.

The team at the Isis Facility in Oxfordshire generated subatomic particles (muons) to investigate magnetic materials. They showed the movement of magnetic charges in spin ice was exactly analogous to electrically charged ions conducting current in water.

Go London Center of Nanotechnologies

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