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AMD Launches Personal Internet Communicator:

VSNL, India’s largest telecommunications service provider, a member of TATA group of companies and AMD today launched the Personal Internet Communicator (PIC), a high-quality, affordable, and easy-to-use, consumer device that will help provide managed Internet access to first time technology users. The PIC will be offered as part of the TATA Indicom Broadband Services.

AMD Austin Turns 25:

AMD today celebrates its first 25 years in Austin, TX. Founded in Silicon Valley in 1969, AMD began operations in Austin in the fall of 1979 with 72 employees. Today, the global technology company employs more than 3,000 employees in Austin where it designs industry-leading 64-bit microprocessors, low-power embedded processors and operates a state-of-the-art semiconductor manufacturing facility, AMD Fab 25, which produces Flash memory – a pervasive technology that is powering the rapid growth in digital devices such as mobile phones, PDAs, and DVD players.

Intel Cellular Flash Kit:

Intel Corporation released its first Flash Software Developer Kit for Cellular and Intel® Flash Data Integrator 6.0 (Intel® FDI) that offers powerful features and improved performance to help developers design advanced applications for next-generation multimedia phones. Flash software is a critical component to the wireless platform. Intel FDI and the software developer kit help designers more quickly integrate and develop such cellular phone applications as Java* applets, Bluetooth* file transfers, voice recognition tags, mp3, pictures and video files to the hardware.

IBM Uses Mobile NVIDIA:

NVIDIA Corporation today announced that the GeForce(TM) FX Go5200 graphics processing unit (GPU) has been selected for use in the IBM ThinkPad G41 notebook PC. IBM ThinkPads are built for business, with users who value improved efficiency and increased productivity. The Thinkpad is highly regarded as the notebook-of-choice in the commercial PC notebook market, and the addition of sharp visuals and outstanding reliability, courtesy of the GeForce FX Go5200, will enhance productivity and usability.