Open Systems Journal

Readers offer their best tips for making effective sink mats, rearranging your Windows taskbar for quick program switching, and writing important information on dried food containers.
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With the bulk of the 5000 series launched, AMD is now launching products to fill in the gaps in their product line. Today we look at one of those cards, the Redwood based 5570, and why it’s one of fastest low profile cards on the market…
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AP - A disappointing outlook from Electronic Arts Inc. sent shares of the video game publisher sharply lower Monday, a sign that significant cost-cuts and layoffs have not ended the company’s slump.
,Electronic Arts shares dive on weak outlook
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A 1080p streaming upgrade is on its way for Netflix users later this year, Adobe is promising faster Flash for Macs, and boredom can kill you.

ANI ‘Boredom can kill you’
According to a study at University College London, extremely bored people are 37% more likely to have died a year after their boredom was measured for [...]

AMD shared some more details with us about Llano. The 32nm processor will feature power gating and a host of other power optimizations that lead us to believe we’ll see CPU & graphics turbo in AMD’s first APU….
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AP - A disappointing outlook from Electronic Arts Inc. sent shares of the video game publisher sharply lower Monday, a sign that significant cost-cuts and layoffs have not ended the company’s slump.
,Electronic Arts shares dive on weak outlook
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Electronic health records, streamlined processes should result.

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AP - Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans. Now a former U.S. Army computer-security specialist has devised a way to break those locks.
,Security chip that does encryption in PCs hacked
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We’ve been showered in tablet talk in the wake of the Apple iPad announcement, and while we have our problems with it (and so did you), we’re still left wondering: Are you interested in some form of tablet computing?
While we completely understand your hesitation to jump headfirst into an iPad purchase (46% of you said [...]

AP - Police in central China have shut down a hacker training operation that openly recruited thousands of members online and provided them with cyberattack lessons and malicious software, state media said Monday.,Chinese police shut down hacker training business
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