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Latest News - January 2009
- Corsair Silently Launches Its First SSD
- US-CERT Warns About Windows Autorun Disabling
- SEC Probing Steve Jobs' Health Disclosures
- AMD Cuts Phenom II Prices
- SIRIUSly Expensive
- Yahoo! super-sizes e-mail spam monitoring
- Hardware RoundUp
- XFX GeForce GTX 260 (216) Black Edition, Tested
- Two Methods for Measuring SSD Lifespans
- Mobile Phone Spending Exceeds That of Landlines
- NVIDIA ION Recognized As Industry-Changing Tech
- Copy-and-Paste Comes to iPhones, Jailbroken Only
- Huge Credit Card Data Breach, Largest Ever?
- Future ASUS Notebooks to Include HyperSpace
- Pandora Adds Audio Ads
- Google's Gdrive Coming Soon?
- Nvidia Quadro NVS 420 4 Display GFX Card
- AMD Handheld Graphics and Multimedia Assets Sold
- Letter from Intel to the Incoming Obama CTO
- Insurance For When You Can't Play WoW
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All News for January 2009
Although there is no mention that the product even exists on Corsair's own Website, U.K.-based online retailer, Scan, purports to now be selling a 128GB solid-state drive (SSD) from Corsair. As a matter of fact, Corsair's site makes no mention that the company has even entered into the SSD market; albeit, such a move is a logical choice for...
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On Tuesday US-CERT, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, warned that the instructions given by Microsoft to disable AutoRun, a protective measure to prevent infection by the "Downadup" worm, are ineffective and erroneous. AutoRun, when enabled, tells Windows to automatically run any program specified in the "autorun.inf" on...
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A Bloomberg report citing "a person familiar with the matter" indicates that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has begun a probe into the disclosures made by Apple regarding Steve Jobs' health, to determine if in fact investors may have been misled. The "Steve Jobs Health Story" has taken on a life of its own, in a soap opera-ish...
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In response to Intel’s recent price cut on select quad-core and dual-core processors, AMD has slashed prices on its new AMD Phenom II processors, which have only been available for two weeks. Apparently the price drop isn’t solely as a result of Intel, however. It appears that the price reduction was also a reaction to the low demand of high...
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If you’re hooked on the convenience of satellite radio, be warned: your bill may see an increase in the coming months. Customer support representatives are now confirming a rate increase for Sirius XM services. There will be a $2 increase for additional subscriptions and a fee of $2.99 for the online Internet radio service (which is currently...
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If you have a Yahoo!, Gmail, Hotmail - heck, ANY e-mail service for any period of time, then you know your address gets out there in the world of spammers and if you're unlucky, you start receiving more spam than real e-mail in no time. So any effort on the part of e-mail providers to crack down on spam is always welcome. Yahoo!'s "anti-spam...
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Video:Samsung SyncMaster T240 24-inch LCD Monitor Review @ ModSynergy.comSamsung 2263DX 22"+7" LCD Display System @ DreamWare ComputersSAPPHIRE ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E Video Card @ TestFreaks.comProcessors:AMD Phenom II X4 940 Processor @ iXBTMemory and Storage:Kingwin Big Drive RAID Enclosure Review @ Virtual-HideoutG.Skill Titan...
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Today, we're going to take a look at an XFX version of the GTX 260 (Core 216) with their XFX GeForce GTX 260 (216) Black Edition. The Black Editon takes the GeForce 260 (216) reference design to the next level by giving the GPU and Memory speeds a significant boost for added performance potential. Along with its complete retail...
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Solid State Drives (SSDs) are very quickly becoming a very popular alternative to traditional, platter-based hard drives. Not only can SSDs read and write data quicker overall, but since they have no moving parts, they can withstand a lot more abuse than traditional hard drives. SSDs are still relatively expensive and available storage capacity...
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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that at the beginning of 2007, mobile phone expenditures exceeded that of expenditures for residential landline phone services. This marks the first time ever in the U.S. that consumers had spent more for mobile phone services than for traditional landline phone services. The Bureau of Labor Statistics...
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NVIDIA ION Recognized As Industry-Changing Technology By LAPTOP MagazineNVIDIA ION Platform Named “Best Enabling Technology” of 2009 Consumer Electronics Show SANTA CLARA, CA - JANUARY 20, 2009 - CES attendees stopped in their tracks to admire breathtaking HD video running on a 50-inch display, but the real shock came when they realized that...
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Promises, promises. Yet this sounds like a step forward, but it presents yet another reason to jailbreak your iPhone: a copy-and-paste application that only works on jailbroken iPhones. The only other bright, shining light in the copy-and-paste area of late for the iPhone was PasteBud, which sounded good, but seemed so convoluted and buggy...
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On what many Americans consider a day of change, here we go again with more of the same: a massive data breach involving Heartland Payment Systems, a credit card payment processor, that was announced on Tuesday. First, the good news: no merchant data or cardholder Social Security numbers, unencrypted personal identification numbers (PIN),...
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After unveiling HyperSpace earlier this month, Phoenix Technologies and ASUS are announcing a partnership which will help accelerate the adoption of HyperSpace. Through the agreement, ASUS will incorporate HyperSpace into its next generation notebooks, though no specific models were detailed. Additionally, the company did not indicate if its...
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Pandora's free Internet streaming radio service just got a little less free. Well, it still doesn't cost you anything, but it is no longer commercial free. Pandora made the following announcements on its Twitter feed today: "Yes, for those asking, we have implemented a few audio ads. Not to worry, they won't be frequent or long. We gotta pay...
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Google has certainly made a name for itself with its free products, most notably its popular search engine and Gmail services. Now, many are speculating that Google is working on a product called Google Drive, or Gdrive. Essentially, Gdrive would be online storage with the capacity to hold the entire contents of your hard drive. It could also...
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The ability to drive big displays now comes in a small package with the release of the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420, the industry's only low profile professional graphics solution designed for maximum display real estate with a small form factor (SFF) computer. Featuring NVIDIA nView display software and support for four 30-inch displays at 2560x1600...
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Qualcomm Acquires Handheld Graphics and Multimedia Assets from AMD— Technology and Resource Assets to Strengthen Qualcomm's Leadership Position in Mobile Multimedia — SAN DIEGO and SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- January 20, 2009 -- Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM) and AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that Qualcomm has acquired certain graphics and...
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Talk from the Tech Industry: Letter from Intel to the Incoming Obama CTO Thank you to the thousands of men and women who participated in Intel’s survey last week at CES. As I blogged about earlier, the survey looked to stimulate broad support for Intel policies, asking you what the top priorities should be for the incoming Obama administration’s...
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There's an old saying in the insurance business: If you have enough money, you can purchase insurance for just about anything--that's something that Lloyd's of London has been doing for years. YouPlayOrWePay.com is no Lloyd's, but it is now offering insurance for something that until now seemed to be uninsurable: your World of Warcraft (WoW)...
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When Windows Vista first hit the scene, it was quite a departure from Windows XP. It had been a while since a major desktop operating system release from Microsoft, and consumers along with many businesses, were slow to adopt. Add to that the new and sometimes cumbersome security features, plus reports that Vista was slower as a gaming platform,...
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Intel published a new price list on Sunday that reflects large decreases on certain processors including a 40% decrease in price for the Top-end Core 2 Quad Q9650 (12M L2, 3.0GHz, 1333 MHz FSB 45nm) down from December 1,000 unit tray wholesale pricing of $530 to $316. Although the rumor mill may relate the change in Quad Core prices...
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