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Latest News - January 2008
- MMORPG Clan Rivalry Leads to Real-Life Murder
- Comcast's Management A Comcastrophe?
- MacBook Air Battery Replacement Program
- Rumor: Eee PC Touch?
- Hardware Round-Up
- RIAA Website Wiped Clean by Hackers
- Palm OS & Vista: Friends At Last
- TN Voter Data Lost
- Wii Fit Dated for Q2
- More Credit Card Data Lost...
- Eee Vs. The Air?
- Hardware Round-Up
- Rumor: Low-Power Phenom Around The Corner
- Laptop HDD Sales To Be #1 By 2011?
- X-Arcade Tankstick Dual Controller with Trackbal
- Oops, Free Shipping is a Crime
- Video Gaming Industry Is Da Sticky Bomb
- How Is IBM Doing It?
- Extend iTunes Rentals Forever. Oops, We're Wrong
- Hardware Round-Up
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All News for January 2008
Online video games are serious business, with millions playing games around the world. Usually the pwning occurs in the virtual world, but sometimes as in this case, the line gets blurred and it crosses into the real world.It all started when two clans - the Coo-clocks, made up of mostly students, and the so-called Platanium with more experienced...
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It appears that disgruntled consumers and consumer rights groups aren't the only ones upset with Comcast:“Describing Comcast's management and board supervision as a "Comcastrophe" _ playing off its advertising tagline of "Comcastic" _ Chieftain Capital Management Inc. in New York wants better shareholder returns from the cable company.”Chieftan...
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It isn't surprising that consumers were a bit worried about the battery replacements for the thin & light MacBook Air after the battery fiasco with the iPhone. Apple has announced a battery replacement program for the Air, but the good news is that any defective battery will be replaced for free within the 1-year warranty period:“If...
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As with all rumors, please take the following news story with a grain of salt until we can get official confirmation or denial from ASUS.While we already reported that ASUS is already preparing a next-generation Eee PC, one of the newest rumors suggests that at least one variant will support a touch screen. It is possible that utilizing...
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Processors: Intel Core 2 Performance Comparison Guide @ TechARPAMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Black Edition CPU Review @ Virtual-Hideout Memory & Storage: Thermaltake Max 4 Active Cooling eSATA and USB 3.5" SATA HDD Enclosure Review @ DragonSteelMods.comKingston HyperX DDR3 PC3-14400 2Gb Kit @ CPU3DVIZO Luxon Advanced ED Enclosure @ CPU3D Cases,...
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It's a weekend, and a holiday weekend to boot, so the site might stay this way for some time. Someone apparently used SQL injection to wipe, and we do mean wipe, the RIAA's website clean of content.Apparently the RIAA is so busy suing consumers that they forgot to hire a decent programmer. With a simple SQL injection, all their propaganda...
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Palm has a gift for Vista users to help celebrate the operating system's first birthday: an 'final' desktop synchronization kit. It should be noted that Palm has offered a beta of this software since summertime, but the final revision still lacks a few features such a the Quick Install tool and the ability to synch e-mail over a USB...
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We've said it before, and we'll say it again: keeping sensitive data on a laptop is bad enough, but keeping it in an unencrypted laptop is nigh unforgivable. Yet organizations continue to place large amounts of unencrypted personal information on thief-friendly laptops.Today's example comes from Tennessee of all places:.“County officials say...
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The Wii Fit has already hit one million in sales in Japan, but those of us here in the States lucky enough to have a Nintendo Wii who want a new way to lose some weight have been left out. Well, Nintendo has detailed a "partial" list of upcoming Wii and DS games through the first of half of 2008, and Wii Fit is on the list - though not...
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GE Money misplaced a backup tape with about 650,000 customer's personal credit information. There are two additional facts that make this particularly noteworthy.First is that GE Money handles the credit information of more than 100 retailers including JC Penney. Without knowing the names of the other retailers, it isn't possible...
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While the Apple MacBook Air has been the source of some buzz, it certainly didn't make waves like the ASUS Eee PC did during 2007. While the two laptops are in completely different leagues, it appears that some just can't help but compare the two. The biggest surprise is that Apple's new “ultra”-portable laptop didn't win hands-down:"After...
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Video: HIS HD 3870 IceQ 3 Turbo 512MB GDDR4 Video Card @ 3DGameMan Motherboards & Chipsets: ASUS P5K3 Deluxe WiFi-AP Intel P35 Motherboard @ BmR Processors: AMD 5000+ Black Edition AM2 X2 Processor Review @ OCC Memory & Storage: OCZ 2GB nVidia SLI-Ready Edition Kit (2x1024MB) PC2-8500/DDR2-1066 Memory Review @ OCInside.deOCZ ReaperX...
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As with all rumors, take this story with a grain of salt until we can bring you confirmation or denial directly from AMD.Being seen in green is the way to earn green, and get out of the black, at least that's the thinking in today's tech industry. As as result we're hearing rumors that AMD is already prepping a series of low-power Phenoms,...
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Laptops sales have been on the rise for several years now, and many have been wondering if or when they'll eventually exceed desktop sales. While we don't have a crystal ball, we do know that hard disk manufacturer Seagate believes that they will ship more hard drives for laptops than desktops in 2011:“Recent market data analysis from...
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We've just posted a new article here at HotHardware, in which we evaluate X-Gaming's very cool, very retro, X-Arcade Tankstick Dual Controller with Trackball. Just seeing this thing will take you back to your earlier years when gaming meant stopping by the local arcade and dropping quarters into a slot on your favorite machine. ...
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Who could have imagined? Free shipping is a crime? In France, it is.Amazon.com said on Monday that it would rather pay €1000 a day in fines than abolish its free shipping on books in France.Free shipping from Amazon.fr is apparently a violation of a 1981 law that was passed to ensure the French public receives equal access...
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A rising tide lifted all the boats in the video gaming industry, and we all shot those boats with RPGs in our spare time. The industry reports $17.9 billion in sales for 2007, 43 percent higher than 2006. The Wii led the way in hardware, and Halo 3 sold an astonishing 4.82 million games. The industry set new highs in every category of hardware...
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IBM had a great 2007. And while the stock market was tanking yesterday, they were having a conference call announcing they expected their earnings per share for 2008 to be even larger than they had previously anticipated, and their shares rose 5 percent on the news. How is IBM doing it, when so many other information and technology companies...
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Gizmodo thought they had come up with a way to fool iTunes into giving them an extended video rental. They tried mucking with the system clock when downloading the video. Oops, they were wrong.Alright so it appears to no longer work. Here's what happened on our end. Before, we had set our computer date to 2009, and started playing...
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Video: Asus EAH3850 TOP 256Mb DDR3 @ CPU3DMSI NX8800GT-T2D256E-OC (GeForce 8800 GT 256MB) @ HardwareZoneXFX 8800GTS 512 Alpha Dog Edition @ CDRInfoDiamond Multimedia HD 3850 Ruby Edition 512MB @ techPowerUpDesktop Graphics Card Comparison Guide @ TechARPNVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT: G94 Arrives Early @ PC Perspective Motherboards & Chipsets:...
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OCZ Technology Announces New PC2-8000 4GB Platinum Edition Memory to offer Mainstream Enthusiasts an Affordable Overclocking Kit Sunnyvale, CA—January 17, 2008—OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a worldwide leader in innovative ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today announced the PC2-8000 Platinum Edition 4GB dual channel kit,...
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It appears that Sun Microsystems has shelled out a hefty $1B to aquire MySQL and now adds the leading open source database management software to its product stack."The Santa Clara, California-based systems vendor has been involved in the community-based development process for many years, of course, through Java and has been offering...
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