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If you think the Apple iPhone is cool, wait till you see the Nuvifone that Garmin announced Wednesday in New York. It combines GPS, mobile phone, still and video camera, and MP3 and video player functionality with Internet access capability. Or it will, anyway, if Garmin can stick to its announced launch schedule and deliver Nuvifone to the market by the third quarter of this year. Assume for the moment that the Nuvifone is available, so I can speak in the present tense.

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Quad-core processors from AMD and a hybrid-format optical drive are among the highlights of two new desktop PCs released by Gateway on Wednesday. The Gateway GM5664 and GT5662 both feature an AMD Phenom Processor and DirectX 10 Technology, thereby enhancing the entertainment and performance capabilities of each line. A new Hybrid-SuperMulti drive in the GM5664, meanwhile, allows customers to watch both Blu-ray and HD DVD content. Both are now available through leading retailers. The entertainment-focused GM5664 is priced at $1,149.99, while the GT5662 costs $749.99.

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Tidy, huh? If you’re an iMac or Apple Studio Display owner then you’ll see the immediate appeal of this LowKey Stand from Macessity. Constructed of 0.1085-inch thick steel “power-coated” to match your rig, it neatly hides your new slim Apple keyboard from view. There’s also a powered 4-port USB port up front which helps to offset the stand’s $60 price a tad.

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Shipwack writes “Tens of millions of internet users across the Middle East and Asia have been left without access to the web after a technical fault cut millions of connections. The outage, which is being blamed on a fault in a single undersea cable, has severely restricted internet access in countries including India, Egypt and Saudi Arabia and left huge numbers of people struggling to get online. Observers say that the digital blackout first struck yesterday morning, with Egypt’s communications ministry suggesting it was caused by a cut in a major internet pipeline linking it to Europe.”

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VIA had some big news today for all you chip geeks and small form factor geeks out there–a new processor architecture. Codenamed “Isaiah”, this new architecture is touting doubled performance with the same power needs as the previous generation, according to Glenn Henry, the lead CPU designer from Centaur. We have heard of architecture before, but today everything became official.

This will be the follow up to VIA’s popular, but aging, C7, and it will be focused on performance per wattage. It will be mainly in mobile applications, in which the C7 currently has wide use, include some of the original UMPCs (like the Samsung Q1B), the upcoming Cloudbook (aka Nanobook), and even VIA’s Pico-ITX motherboard. The Isaiah should deliver improved performance but is pin-compatible with the old platform, so a single motherboard design could use either the cheaper C7 or the newer architecture and thus be available at two price/performance points.

Isaiah is an x86 processor and it is built on a 65nm process. VIA tells use that it has “64-bit superscalar speculative out-of-order microarchitecture, high-performance multimedia computation, and a new virtual machine architecture,” but what’s more exciting is the prospective performance per watt numbers, especially as new technologies from Intel, like Menlow and Moorestown start to arrive. The processor will be ideally suited for mobile applications, like ultraportable Eee PC-style notebooks, but should also work well in cloud-based desktop computers.

We should see the Isaiah processors arriving at up to 2GHz with a front side bus between 800MHZ and 1.3GHz along with two 64KB L1 caches and 1MB exclusive L2 cache. Wikipedia as more details on the specifications.

Here is the video of Glenn Henry explaining the processor:

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