AMD pushes embedded chips with faster Geode ... Vodafone strikes deal with YouTube

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News: AMD pushes embedded chips with faster Geode
News: Microsoft touts support for Windows Mobile 6.0
News: Intel test chip design with 80-core processor
News: Nokia hopes to push mobile e-mail in enterprise
Windows Tip: Restoring individual files from a CompletePC Backup
Podcast: Today's IT news audio update
ITwhirled: Helium shortage to ruin Valentine's Day


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AMD pushes embedded chips with faster Geode
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) launched a new model of its Geode processor and added eight more chips to its longevity program, pledging to keep them in production for at least five years to support long-lived products like 3G telephony base stations.

Microsoft touts support for Windows Mobile 6.0
In an effort to show wide support for its newest Windows Mobile operating system, Microsoft Corp. is highlighting several announcements from handset makers on Monday at 3GSM in Barcelona.

Intel test chip design with 80-core processor
Following their march from standard processors to dual-core and quad-core designs in 2006, Intel Corp. researchers have built an 80-core chip that performs more than a teraflops (trillions of floating point operations per second) while using less electricity than a modern desktop PC chip.

Nokia hopes to push mobile e-mail in enterprise
Nokia Corp. is aiming to boost the use of mobile e-mail in the enterprise with a new release of its Intellisync software and several new handsets aimed at business users.

HP targets business market with iPaq smartphone
Hewlett-Packard Co. announced a smartphone for business users on Monday, appealing to IT administrators by offering remote software management from Bitfone Corp.

3GSM: Vendors to show new multicast mobile TV app
Vendors are lining up at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona to show a new mobile TV delivery technology with near-broadcast qualities.

Strike closes down Bangalore IT companies
A dawn-to-dusk strike call to protest against a tribunal order on sharing of river waters brought work at Bangalore's IT companies, including outsourcing companies, to a halt Monday.

Yahoo set to appear on LG cell phone screens
Yahoo Inc. has reached a deal with LG Electronics Inc. that should see its "Go" mobile platform on the screens of tens of millions of LG cell phone handsets shipped later this year, the two companies said Monday.

Xerox works deal with startup to rival Google
Xerox Corp. research subsidiary the Palo Alto Research Center has struck a licensing deal with a high-profile startup in the hopes of building a search engine that could one day rival Google Inc.

Microsoft releases Live Search for mobile phones
Microsoft Corp. announced some new Windows Live applications for mobile phones on Monday, including programs that offer search and mapping capabilities.


WINDOWS TIP

Restoring individual files from a CompletePC Backup
By Mitch Tulloch, MTIT Enterprises

Windows Vista has a new backup feature called CompletePC Backup that backs up everything on your computer in one easy step. But when you create a backup, the wizard says the backup can only be used to restore the entire system and that you can't use it to restore individual files. Well that's not true! Here's what you do using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 (still in beta).


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Helium shortage to ruin Valentine's Day
V-Day isn't just the biggest day of the year for florists: heart-shaped helium-filled balloons are also big sellers. But helium plants in Qatar and Algeria are behind schedule, some in the U.S. are closed due to maintenance or storm damage, and greedy hospitals are liquifying the precious gas to cool the magnets in their MRI machines. It all adds up to a holiday that's going to be a bit less buoyant this year.