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Over the weekend, Google and Twitter’s two year agreement which included ‘tweets’ in search results expired. The deal that originated in 2009 stipulated that each would display real-time Twitter results in Google searches never seemed to gain too much notoriety. Google and Twitter aren’t saying much about the end of this working relationship, but Google seems to be concentrating on their recently launched social network product, Google+. As the partnership between Google and Twitter expires, Google has ‘temporarily’ disabled Google.com/realtime. Google plans to explore options in ways to incorporate Google+ into the functionality of google.com/realtime.

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At the launch event of the SONY VAIO S and Z series, the attention was drawn away from the two laser thin notebooks. Instead all media attention seems to be on the yet to be available SONY tablet.

One of them is S1 and the other is S2. Both tablet looks sleek and information is sketchy. Below are some screen shots of it and a video of it in display at the event held at Handy Road, Singapore.

From the web, we can find some sketchy information about this two upcoming products.

The Sony S1 and S2 are both based on Android 3.0 Honeycomb with customised UI.

The Sony S1 has a 9.4 screen with 1280800 resolution.

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Remember when Ethernet networks were invented? Probably not: it was over 30 years ago, after all, and you are probably too young.

Even if you are not, you have probably dismissed from memory the woefully inadequate 10 meg of bandwidth on offer at the time – less than you get with most broadband services these days.

Still, the world struggled on with 10Mbps for well over a decade before first Fast (100Mbps), then Gigabit Ethernet became available.

Now we are firmly into 10Gig territory, with even faster 40Gig products starting to appear and 100Gig likely to make it into the mainstream next year.

Do we really need technology about 100 times quicker than Gigabit Ethernet or, to put it into perspective, 10,000 times faster than the original Ethernet standard?

There is no easy answer, unless you are talking about the desktop, where 100Gig is way beyond what anyone needs right now, or maybe ever – although perhaps we should never say ever.

Speed freaks

Similar pontifications were heard when Gigabit Ethernet was introduced and now, just a few years later, it is standard on most desktop and notebook PCs. The

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The launch of Llano last week means that its time to give our beloved System Builders Guides an update. With the focus of the new Fusion platform from AMD being aimed at building well priced systems it seemed the perfect opportunity for our $1000 USD Sub-lieutenant PC platform to get a major overhaul.    The base of the system revolves around the AMD A8-3850 2.9GHz Quad-Core APU and an ASUS F1A75-V Pro motherboard. Along with that weve moved to a HD 6670 video card which can run in CrossFire with the onboard GPU present in the A8-3850 APU. We also made the switch to the Flare series of memory from G.Skill which has been built for the AMD platform to help get the most performance out of it. < Read more…