But Drew Prairie of Advanced Micro's media relations division, said the acquisition is an essential component of the company's long-term strategy to integrate Advanced Micro's microprocessors and ATI's graphics and chipsets.
He says the rewards of switching to Luminary Micro's architecture will only increase over time.
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But the real problem behind employees' insecure practices, says Trend Micro's Perry, doesn't stem from any single trend.
Like everyone else, Velocity Micro's about to cannonball into the tablet pool with the hope of making a big splash.
But ST Micro's estimated earnings growth rate in 2000 should be nearly 40%, well above the European technology group average of 29%.
Clone and Trend Micro's Internet Security, and that makes Iomega's USB 3.0 eGo Portable Hard Drives an exceptional premium solution at the same price as most entry level basic USB 2.0 products.
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With the relaunch of Overdrive PC, Velocity Micro has the most appealing extreme performance desktop option on the market-one of the most powerful, benchmark crushing gaming PCs that money can buy, supported by Velocity Micro's US-based customer care.
Called Y2K Scanner, this plug-in server module from Centennial works with Trend Micro's InterScan VirusWall to discover Y2K flaws in files created by spreadsheets, such as Lotus' 1-2-3 and Microsoft's Excel, as well as files from databases, such as Microsoft's Access and Inprise's dBase.
The enhanced chipsets are Intel's answer to rival Advanced Micro Device's graphics-minded chip bundles, which are expected to be better at processing high-definition movies and games (see " Intel Fights Back").
On the bottom edge is a trick flap that's both a micro-USB socket and a USB Type A plug depending on how it's positioned -- the micro-SIM slot is cleverly hidden behind it.
Samsung's Micro Dimming Pro technology delivers sharper contrast, deeper blacks and crystal clear detail enhancements.
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IFC's micro-budget movie "Tiny Furniture, " released in just over 100 theaters this winter, has done well with VOD.
Samsung's Micro Dimming contrast enhancement will be extended to significantly more LED models this year, beginning with the LED ES6600.
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The masters of today's micro-mechanical universe have restored timepieces to the upper echelon of power toys, with attendant bragging rights.
Unlike some of its premium stablemates, the VX utilizes a removable back cover that provides access to the phone's micro-SIM and microSD card slots.
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"We want to pick up on people's micro moments, " she explained.
Ordinary rotors do not work on such a small scale, so Friend's micro-robot project has a special flagellated propeller, mimicking the swimming behaviour of E.coli bacteria.
Lenovo last year held a recruiting campaign using Weibo's micro-resumes.
Lucien Gambarota's micro-wind turbines are a fraction of the size of the traditional towers and need wind speeds of just 2 meters per second to generate relatively cheap, efficient electricity.
It grants the state's micro-distilleries many of the same rights as small wineries--including the right to hold tastings on their premises--which should encourage some ambitious farmers to begin distilling the products of their fields and orchards.
Swimming's micro-scandal came last week after South African swimmer Cameron van der Burgh was asked by reporters about an underwater video that showed him using three underwater "dolphin" kicks at the start of a breaststroke race.
"I think it's just coincidental, " says Paul Ferguson, a researcher at Trend Micro, the world's third-largest Internet security company behind McAfee and Symantec.
So far it is offering the software to 1 million homes in Washington, Micro-soft's home base.
Here you have it, the world's first micro Four Thirds camera, the Lumix DMC-G1.
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Anybody who spent time on Micro-soft's campus between the 1980s and the mid-1990s would find it a grayer place today.
With Samsung's proprietary Micro Dimming Ultimate technology, the TV line brings greater contrast, deeper black levels and maximum brightness of 3D images, allowing for an amazing image.
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Not so with Gambarota's new micro-turbines, which can generate electricity with as little as 2 mph of wind, and keep turning at all times from the slightest of breezes.
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There's no micro-drilled detail here, while a substantial screen composed of the border around the AMOLED display, the phone's edge plus the casing around it makes the phone wider than it perhaps needs to be.
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Like the OLPC laptop, the decTOP's innovations come out of a drive to bring computers and the Internet to rural Africa and Asia: Data Evolution acquired the machine's hardware from Advanced Micro Devices, whose "50x15" program seeks to take 50% of the world's population online by 2015.
The enhanced chipsets are Intel's answer to rival Advanced Micro Device (nyse: AMD - news - people )'s graphics-minded chip bundles, which are expected to be better at processing high-definition movies and games (see " Intel Fights Back").
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