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Today (April 4, 2007), AMD released the 3.0 Ghz Opteron 2222SE processor along with some benchmark charts that show it outperforming Intel’s latest dual core Xeon 5160. However, questions regarding benchmark methodology, selection, and presentation remain.

In the recently released beta version of Skype for Windows 3.2, Skype users can now send money to each other through PayPal without ever leaving the context of Skype. This image gallery shows the process. For David Berlind’s write-up on the Beta Version of Skype 3.2 for Windows, see his post in ZDNet’s TestBed blog.

In a manipulative attempt to demonstrate leadership over AMD for the press and analysts, Intel twists benchmark data to make it look as though it’s latest Xeons are outperforming the best AMD has to offer. Yet, upon closer inspection, most of the data being shown is irrelevant.

The images in this library were taken during a press conference held by AMD in March 2007. They show a near-production ready One Laptop Per Child unit that contains AMD’s Geode microprocessor.

Under the direction of its senior director of disruptive innovation Max Mancini, eBay is explorer richer and more engaging user interfaces to its auction service. In this short screen gallery, we get a few peaks at San Dimas: an eBay user interface built on Adobe’s new forthcoming Apollo platform.

While at an AMD press conference, David Berlind captured some photographs of what apparently is a prototype of a discreet graphics card with ATI’s R600 technology on it.

In this photo gallery, we get up close an perosnal with HP’s new TouchSmart PC IQ770 — a Vista-ready system that has generated quite a bit of excitement and that many have positioned as a potential competitor to some of Apple’s all-encompassing multimedia systems.

Strangely, Microsoft’s solution is to run software on a PC that won’t run…