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Advanced Micro Devices is showcasing its new notebook platform at the Computex show in Taipei, Taiwan and on Wednesday announced the availability of a new dual-core Turion mobile processor and a new 7-series chipset optimized for mobility as part of the product launch codenamed Puma.

The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chip maker’s next-generation mobile platform launch comes as AMD’s main x86 rival Intel recently announced that its own highly anticipated new notebook platform, codenamed Montevina, has been delayed from a late June launch to mid-summer due to technical issues with the Intel 4 Series Express chipset and a separate certification hang-up the basic Wi-Fi chip included in the newly-branded Centrino 2 platform.

Some products and services are made for industries. Take for example, Elatec offers electronics gadgets, equipment and other items simply made for industries. Elatec is a distributor of products like RFID readers, electronic components, security solutions and cards that are made for many companies who need effective industry-wide solutions. Even Loyalty cards are included among their offerings which a company can opt to give out to their employees.

Elatec may be unavailable for the average home consumer but the companies stand to benefit from their industry-designed solutions. A Touch panel may be ordered from the average computer dealer but to withstand the stress of industrial applications, Elatec has the leads to superior quality products made for these industries.

The computer attackers who took down Comcast’s homepage and webmail service for over five hours Thursday say they didn’t know what they were getting themselves into.

In an hour-long telephone conference call with Threat Level, the hackers known as “Defiant” and “EBK” expressed astonishment over the attention their DNS hijacking has garnered. In the call, the pair bounded freely between jubilant excitement over the impact of their attack, and fatalism that they would soon be arrested for it.