Think that dual-core PCs are too pricey? We lab-tested six economical desktops that deliver plenty of power.

If you’ve yearned for a dual-core desktop system but have held off buying one because you were deterred by high prices, now is the time to take the plunge. The cost of dual-core processors from AMD and Intel has dropped significantly since they debuted last year, and a good selection of affordable dual-core PCs is currently available. You can shell out less than $1500 and walk away with a robust and powerful system–including a monitor–that’s ready to take on both multitasking and multithreaded applications.

A dual-core machine has two computing cores in one processor package, which allows the system to efficiently work on more than one task at a time. Dual-core processors also boost the performance of multithreaded software, though relatively few applications are written this way.

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China’s online transactions are expected to be worth $125 billion this year, a sharp rise from last year’s $87.5 billion, a report said on Tuesday.

China’s online transactions are expected to be worth one trillion yuan ($125 billion) this year, up from last year’s 700 billion yuan ($87.5 billion), a China Centre for Information Industry Development Consulting report said.

China’s e-commerce transaction volume has grown by 50-60 per cent over the past couple of years and is expected to maintain fast growth for several years to come, it said.

The number of Chinese netizens has surpassed 110 million and more than 40 million personal computers have access to broadband.

“It means China’s infrastructure is ready for a boom in e-commerce,” an analyst with CCID Consulting, Chi Congbing said.

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A Chinese company has claimed that it has reverse-engineered Skype’s VoIP protocol, and has announced that it will release it some time in August. The breach allows the company’s software to place PC-to-PC calls over the Skype network, the world’s No 1 Internet calling service that has over 100 million users across the world.

A blog entry by Charlie Paglee on July 13 on the VoIPWiki blog said that he received a call from an unnamed Chinese company on his Skype network using its own protocol rather than the official Skype client software.

Paglee wrote: “Today I received a call through Skype from a friend at a company in China, except he told me he was not using Skype to call me. His company has reverse engineered the Skype protocol and he wanted to call me in the US to see how it worked between physically distant IP addresses. We talked for nine minutes before the call dropped. I called him back using Skype and we spoke for three m4ore minutes.�

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