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Aluminium luxury watch with date
Downloads Aluminium luxury watch with date You can set it up as screensaver or use as bedclock if you execute it directly (be sure your phone is on dockstation or charger). You can set it up as screensaver or use as bedclock if you execute it directly (be...
[November 15, 2008, 6:00]
mySAP SCM at Alcan Aluminium Valais SA
White Papers Alcan Aluminium Valais faced ever-increasing customer expectations and demands. Alcan Aluminium selected SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization (SAP APO), a component of mySAP Supply Chain Management (mySAP SCM), to support its new centralized...
[April 5, 2006, 0:00]
Apple picks aluminium over titanium
News The biggest change was to the 15-inch version, which, in addition to a new aluminium case, gains options such as AirPort Extreme wireless networking and the backlit keyboard that had been reserved for the 17-inch version.
[September 17, 2003, 17:15]
HP unveils aluminium-clad Eee rival
News The notebook comes in an aluminium shell and weighs 1.27kg. HP has made its first foray into the low-cost subnotebook market that was kicked off last year by Asus with its Eee PC. The HP 2133 Mini-Note PC, which is being pushed out to the...
[April 8, 2008, 17:15]
IBM claims new chip making breakthrough
News The Journal says Big Blue has worked out how to use copper rather than aluminium in chip manufacturing. In the past, nobody had figured out how to use copper -- a better conductor of electricity than aluminium
[September 22, 1997, 12:58]
Jobs unveils iPod Mini
Talkback The brushed aluminium matches other Apple products, it is sleek and superbly finished. Powerbook (aluminium) not iBook (white plastic) user. I have just bought an iPod mini and it is fantastic. It is exceptionally small, the sound is fabulous and...
[March 1, 2004, 21:22]
Hush ATX Media PVR review
Reviews The Hush ATX Media PVR comes in a desktop-format case made from solid aluminium, with a brushed fascia that gives it more the appearance of a piece of hi-fi equipment than a computer. Inside, you'll notice that, instead of cooling fans, the key...
[November 11, 2004, 13:15]
Apple Cinema HD Display (23in.) review
Reviews The sleek, 0.75in.brushed-aluminium bezel is unblemished by anything so vulgar as a power button (it's tucked discreetly into the right-side edge of the display), and the aluminium neck and base form a simple, elegant L shape that's both...
[September 15, 2004, 9:40]
Apple shows off updated MacBooks
News On Tuesday, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs announced updates to the company's MacBook laptop lineup, including Nvidia graphics, a glass multitouch trackpad, a thinner casing crafted from a single block of aluminium, solid-state drives, price...
[October 15, 2008, 12:35]
Apple returns to roots with new iMacs and iLife
News So Apple borrowed the aluminium finish that it has previously reserved for its professional products, remaking the iMac in black and silver and taking a few inches off its waist. Apple chief executive Steve Jobs unveiled new iMacs with aluminium...
[August 8, 2007, 12:14]
IBM finds gold in copper
News The chips use copper instead of aluminium to bridge the gaps, or interconnects, between their transistors. Because copper is a more efficient conductor than aluminium, electrons traveling down a copper wire move faster than they would if they were...
[September 24, 1999, 9:27]
A Year Ago: IBM finds gold in copper
News Because copper is a more efficient conductor than aluminium, electrons traveling down a copper wire move faster than they would if they were moving down an aluminium wire of similar length. The chips use copper instead of aluminium to bridge the...
[September 25, 2000, 7:01]
Copper?
Talkback In both locations I've been the victim of aluminium cables. The story I was offered was - during periods of low availability for metals like copper (circa Second World War etc) aluminium was used to build some of the cable infrastrucure at lower...
[September 19, 2007, 13:14]
Nanoparticle research blows open new possibilities
News General Motors, for instance, is tinkering with nanoscale aluminium to produce shaped metal parts. The somewhat vigorous reaction between bulk aluminium and oxygen turns, in the nanotech context, into a massive outburst of heat and energy.
[October 22, 2004, 12:15]
Poweroid 1200 review
Reviews The moment you open the box and haul out this 30kg-plus anodised aluminium beast via its pair of top-mounted handles, you know you're dealing with an extraordinary PC. The other vital element of the TNN 500A case is its fanless power supply, a...
[March 26, 2004, 11:50]
Apple carves out a new case for manuacturing
Blog The basic idea is that Apple will be able to mass-produce cases carved out of solid ingots of aluminium (or aluminum, if you're American), using an as yet undisclosed system with lasers, water jets and tons of computer control.
[October 5, 2008, 13:54]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It was going to be the model for the way we worked and lived into the 21st century -- roundabouts, roads designed in a grid system, cable TV, fibre-optic links, new-fangled aluminium phone lines, and concrete cows.
[March 5, 2004, 16:20]
US Report: IBM's smaller, faster chips are copper
News The technology -- unveiled by IBM last September -- uses copper in place of aluminium as the primary metal for making chips. The copper process, as implemented by IBM, means that the chips consume up to 58 percent less power and are more than 40...
[September 1, 1998, 11:32]
Nuggets: Whopping memory for MP3 Elite
News The Elite MP3 player from US based ADS Technologies, due January, is much more expensive than its rivals at $495 (£302) and comes in a rather girly looking pink metallic case (I was reliably informed it will also be available in a more macho...
[November 17, 1999, 8:14]
A Year Ago: IBM's smaller, faster chips are copper
News The technology -- unveiled by IBM last September -- uses copper in place of aluminium as the primary metal for making chips. The copper process, as implemented by IBM, means that the chips consume up to 58 percent less power and are more than 40...
[August 30, 1999, 7:00]
