Archive | September, 2008

Microsoft Will Buy Back Their Shares for $40 Billion

The Board of Directors of Microsoft on 22 September approved a plan under which the corporation in 2013 to buy back their shares for an amount of $ 40 billion MarketWatch reports.
In addition, the corporation announced on improving its quarterly dividend by 18 percent and got permission from management to issue securities amounting to two [...]

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Intel has released dual-core processor Atom

Intel Corporation has released dual-core version of energy-efficient processor Atom, Atom 330, said CrunchGear. Like all new processors from Intel, it performed on 45-nanometer technology.

Chip Atom 330 will operate at a frequency of 1.6 gigahertz, and it is MB cache second level DDR2 memory and supports the on frequency of 667 MHz. Its energy consumption is 8 watts.

Dual-Atom [...]

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Google’s founder brought the blog and described his mutation

One of Google founders Sergey Brin September 18, brought their own blog too.blogspot.com, recording which will focus on life outside of Sergey’s Brin work.
Already in the second recording Brin told that he is the bearer of G2019S mutations in the gene LRRK2. That makes him predisposed to Parkinson’s disease. The likelihood of falling ill with [...]

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