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Latest News - January 2009
- Intel Roadmap Shows 320GB SSDs In Q4 2009
- NVIDIA Graphics Chip Used In Audi's In-Car MMI
- Samsung Develops Low-power 4Gb DDR3 DRAM
- Thermaltake Launches Element S Chassis
- Study Finds $1 Trillion At Risk From Data Theft
- Hardware Roundup
- Intel InTru 3D Tech Used In 3D Super Bowl Spots
- GPU Makers Expected To See Slow Start To 2009
- Is Dell Aiming To Enter The Smartphone Market?
- Rumor: Premium Games Coming to App Store
- Gears of War Digital Cert Fiasco Kills Game
- Maingear's Remix Workstation Caters To Pros
- Lenovo IdeaPad Y530 Notebook
- Google Kills Bambi
- Organic computing - the Cylons are coming?
- EU Body Finds Reason To Turn Down The Volume
- Acer's 10-inch Aspire One Coming With XP, Linux
- iTunes Plus Upgrades Go Singular
- USB to HDMI Adapter - With Caveats
- NVIDIA Picks Bill Dally As Chief Scientist
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All News for January 2009
As technology enthusiasts, we all understand very clearly that bigger, better and faster is always around the bend, but this here roadmap sure makes it tough to bite on a 160GB SSD at present time. According to a slide outed by VR-Zone, Intel is planning to double the capacity of its existing SSD lineup by shifting from 50 nanometer to 34...
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We're beginning to wonder if there's a sector NVIDIA isn't willing to dabble in, and judging by its latest collaboration with automaker Audi, the answer is looking more and more to be "nope." Announced this week, the newly revamped MMI in-car command center is set to make future Audi automobiles a real technology-savvy bunch.Aside from blessing...
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Samsung Develops World’s Highest Density DRAM Chip (Low-power 4Gb DDR3) SEOUL, Korea -- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced today that it has made a significant advancement in the push for higher volume memory chips by developing the world’s first four gigabit (Gb) DDR3 DRAM chip, using...
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Element S, New Classic from Thermaltake – Create for Pros! 01 / 2009 - Thermaltake is a well-known brand for producing high performance, premium quality and superior design product and widely recognizable by media around the world. In the beginning of a new 2009, Thermaltake presenting a whole new line of chassis “Element S” as the year featured...
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Considering the explosion of layoffs announced in recent weeks, companies would do well to seriously be on guard against data theft. According to a survey that polled some 800 companies in eight countries, 42 percent of firms admitted that laid-off employees were the single largest threat to their data security.The survey, which was unsurprisingly...
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Video:EVGA GeForce GTX 285 SSC Edition Videocard Review @ HardwareLogicSapphire ATOMIC HD 4870x2 (H2O) @ CPU3DEVGA GeForce GTX 285 SSC Graphics Accelerator Review @ XBitLabsViewSonic VX2260wm @ InsideHWHIS Radeon HD 4850 IceQ 4 TurboX 512MB video card review @ Elite BastardsMotherboards and Chipsets:ASRock N7AD-SLI Motherboard Review @ Legit...
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We shouldn't have to mention that America's biggest sporting spectacle of the year is just days away now, but if you haven't ran out and secured a pair of 3D glasses for Sunday's viewing of Super Bowl XLIII, now would be an excellent time to do so. Sometime during the game, a commercial sponsored by DreamWorks Animation, Intel and NBC will...
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It's tough out there for just about everyone these days, but AMD, NVIDIA and Intel could be facing some rather huge hurdles in particular. According to a detailed excerpt from a newly released Jon Peddie Research study, the graphics market in Q1 and Q2 of 2009 are forecast to be especially slow. In fact, it's noted that those two quarters...
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This won't be the first time we've heard the words "Dell" and "smartphone" in the same phrase, but considering the source here, we're much more inclined to believe something substantial is going on this go around. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Dell, the Round Rock powerhouse known almost entirely for its customizable desktop and...
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If the rumors circulating around the Internet are true, Apple is about to take on Nintendo and Sony for mobile games dominance. Actually, this war has already been heating up as Apple's App Store now includes over 15,000 apps for the iPhone and iPod touch--with many of the more popular ones being games--and Apples claims that over half a billion...
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A digital certificate that expired on 1/28 effectively kills the game Gears of War, as users who try to run it receive a "'You cannot run this game with modified executable code, please reinstall" error. The issue has been traced to the aforementioned expired digital certificate (shown). Obviously since the game was released in Nov. of 2007...
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Maingear caught our attention last year when it unveiled the F131 gaming PCs and a few delightful media center rigs, and now it's looking to catch the eyes of creative professionals with its latest offering. The Remix Creative Workstation PC makes quite clear that it's not a gaming machine, although some of the hardware would be coveted by...
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Lenovo's IdeaPad series of notebooks is quite different than the company's popular line up of ThinkPads. Ideapads are currently available in three series of products. The "U" series designates an ultraportable style with 11.1" or 13.3" widescreen displays and Intel Core 2 Duo processors. The "Y" series is for family entertainment and is available...
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Google sends cars around to take pictures of streets for the Street View service, and sometimes they take pictures that we would prefer not to see, but usually the car itself is not involved.In this case, sadly, the car was involved in an accident, and the accident involved a deer. Surprisingly, the Street View car continued to take pictures,...
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New research out of the University of Manchester in Britain appears to herald the imminent creation of the Cylon race. It appears the structure for computer processors will switch from silicon to carbon, just like people, perhaps, eventually. It's not news that graphene (carbon in sheets an atom thick) conducts electricity exceptionally...
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We've all heard it before -- "turn that music down, or you'll lose your hearing!" According to a European Union scientific body, said phrase has never been truer. According to new data released this week by the EU Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (what a mouthful!), up to ten million young Europeans are "in...
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Acer's 8.9-inch Aspire One was perfectly suitable for those scouting one of the smallest netbooks on the market, but Acer realized that not everyone wants a machine that's small enough to slide into the average cargo pocket. To that end, the company is planning to release a 10-inch version in the not-too-distant future. We've learned that...
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At this year's Macworld, Apple announced iTunes was (finally) going DRM-less. However, if you wanted to remove the DRM from your pre-existing iTunes library, it was all or nothing. Proving that they do listen , Apple has changed things, and you can now upgrade your music to iTunes Plus (AKA DRM-free) one song at a time. If you go to the iTunes...
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Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer, Grandtec, claims that it is now shipping "the world's first USB to HDMI converter"--the Grand HD Cinema. Grandtec claims that the Grand HD Cinema can use your Windows XP or Vista system's USB 2.0 ports to send 720p HD video to an HDMI-equipped display, such as widescreen HD LCD or plasma TV. The Grand...
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As NVIDIA branches out from being just another GPU maker and looks to fight with the likes of Intel in the burgeoning netbook component sector, it's going to need a few good men and women to make it happen. That being the case, we're not at all surprised to see the company going out and selecting Bill Dally to be its new Chief Scientist and...
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One of the changes to iPhone '09 was Faces, facial recognition to assist in tagging photos. While Apple said this would only work on the faces of people, it appears that some have managed to prove that it does indeed work on felines, at least. Yes, the folks at Mac|Life have spent way more time than we would have, using pictures of their own...
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Never one to sit idly by on the sidelines and let things play out on their own, Google has always tried to play an active role in shaping how Internet technology is used and regulated. Net neutrality is one of the concerns that Google has been very vocal about, and now Google is putting tools into the hands of researchers and everyday users...
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