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Latest News - January 2008
- Hardware Round-Up
- IBM Teraflops Into Moscow
- OLPC: Give One Maybe, Don't Get One For Sure
- Rumor: IBM Mulling AMD Purchase?
- The Xbox turns a profit!
- Vista SP1: Are We There Yet?
- HIS Radeon HD 3450 Silence (Full HD 1080p) Card
- Apple Stocks Tumble
- Digg Redefines Popular
- Sapphire's Ultimate HD 3850 and Atomic HD 3870
- VIA Unveils Next-Generation Isaiah x86 Processor
- Eee PC With A Hot Babe And XP. Sorry, Penguins
- Via's Isaiah Is Out Of Order...And That's Good
- Dell and Microsoft Go (RED)
- Rumor: NBC Back To iTunes?
- Quad-Core Vista Gaming Looking Fantastic
- IP Addresses are Personal Info
- Crysis 1.1 NVIDIA 3-Way SLI Performance Update
- IBM Cutting Wages
- Rumor: Yahoo To Offer Online Music Service?
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Video: Samsung SyncMaster 275T TFT LCD @ LAN AddictRadeon HD 3600 and 3400 series preview @ Elite BastardsDisplayLink - Multi-Display Setups with USB @ TechgageMSI NX8800GT Zilent 512Mb DDR3 @ CPU3DHighPoint RocketRAID 1740 and RocketRAID 2300 RAID Controllers Review @ OCCGeForce 8800 Graphics Performance: GT vs GTS vs GTX @ BmRProcessors:...
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I remember the bad old days when the Soviet Union was going to steal our secrets and use them to drop atomic bombs on us. This is better: Moscow State University has purchased an IBM Blue Gene supercomputer for use in research into nanotechnology, new materials, and life sciences. “As Russia’s leading academic institution, we are very...
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The One Laptop Per Child charitable organization hoped to develop a durable and useful laptop for under $100 and distribute them to children in poor nations. Their $100 laptop turned into a $200 laptop pretty quick, and for many people who participated in their "Give One, Get One" program, they've turned into $200 vaporware.The Give One, Get...
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As with all rumors, take the following story with a grain of salt until we can receive official confirmation or denial from either AMD or IBM.Whenever AMD shares are low enough the buyout rumors begin. The name IBM is often tossed around as a potential buyer, but it seems unlikely considering their focus on software over hardware recently. ...
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It must be really cold outside, because something just froze over. It appears the Xbox has managed to turn a profit.In the last six years, there's been one constant when discussing Microsoft's foray into the strange and seductive world of video game console manufacturing: they had yet to turn a profit on any of it. No more, with today's...
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We've been hearing that SP1 has been nearly ready for release for quite a while now, so when can we expect to see it? Perhaps in a few weeks.“Through its public relations agency today, Microsoft declined to comment on the Feb. 15 date beyond reiterating the software would be available in the first quarter. Still, several sources who...
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HIS introduces the HIS Radeon™ HD 3450 Silence (Full HD 1080p)HDMI 256MB (64bit) DDR2, delivering the ultimate silence solution for hometheater PC!Hong Kong — Jan 23, 2007 — HIS today unveils the HIS Radeon™ HD 3450 Silence (Full HD 1080p) 256MB DDR2 card, featuring the ultimate silence solution. It delivers the next generation...
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Apple stocks tumbled 11% post-MacWorld, perhaps as a result of nothing more impressive than the MacBook Air to show off this year. That's not to say that the MacBook Air isn't impressive, but it's hard to outdo the announcement of the iPhone and Apple TV with a thin & light laptop that doesn't really cater to either the college crowd...
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You can bet Merriam-Webster wasn't consulted on this redefinition.Up to now, the way any online news publisher got one of its articles publicized through the Digg social service is by hoping enough people were interested in it to vote in favor of moving it up the Digg scale -- of giving it enough "Diggs." Starting today, however, that changes:...
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Just in case you missed the new link at the top of the page, we're hitting the news section to let you know that we’ve just posted a new article here at HotHardware in which we evaluate a pair of somewhat unique Radeons, the Sapphire Ultimate HD 3850 and Atomic HD 3870. Unlike most reference 3850s, the Ultimate HD 3850 has a 512MB...
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VIA Unveils Next-Generation Isaiah x86 Processor Architecture New architecture provides substantial increases in performance and functionality with leading power efficiency to enable next generation "Small is Beautiful" computing devices Austin, Texas, US, 24 January 2008 - VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of x86 silicon and platform...
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The Asus Eee PC is a nifty laptop. And it became a sort of talisman of hope for Linux fans. Windows Vista demands too many resources for a stripped down lappie, and Linux seemed to fit the bill for the OS. The 800 pound gorilla at Microsoft is still XP, and it's in the room with the penguin now.Asus has formally launched its bonsai...
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Via Technologies, and their subsidiary, Centaur, think their next generation 64-bit processor, the Isaiah, will outperform Intel's soon to be released Silverthorne chip. Glenn Henry of Centaur hedges his bet a little, as hard info about Silverthorne's capabilities is hard to come by. And he says Isaiah won't be able to match a Core 2 Duo....
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Dell and Microsoft have gone (RED), joining (PROJECT) RED to fight AIDS in Africa.Dell will start selling two (Red) laptops and one desktop running Microsoft Windows Vista on Friday. The two companies will donate $50 for a laptop and $80 for a desktop to the Global Fund, which finances health programs in Africa.Microsoft said it expects "several...
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As with all rumors, please take the following news item with a grain of salt until we can receive official confirmation or denial from Apple or NBC Universal.NBC and Apple parted ways after negotiations broke down between the two companies last year over an alleged pricing dispute. NBC has since explored numerous distribution options,...
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It's been more than a year since Intel demonstrated their Kentsfield CPUs running Remedy's upcoming Alan Wake. At the time the world got its first glimpse of what a quad-core ready game could be like, and there were plenty of oooohs and aaaahhhs to go around.Now that quad-core CPUs are here and reasonably priced, and Vista with its DX...
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Certainly the RIAA and MPAA feel an IP address can be used to ID a person: that's the whole basis of their lawsuits to collect money from downloaders. So why can't the EU believe the same?Germany's data protection commissioner, Peter Scharr, leads the EU group preparing a report on how well the privacy policies of Internet search engines...
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At the time of NVIDIA's 3-Way SLI launch, we were unable to bring you Crysis benchmark numbers that we felt comfortable with. This was partly an NVIDIA driver issue and also because we were waiting on a patch from Crytek that would allow for more efficient SLI scaling overall. With the release of the Cyrsis 1.1 patch, we now have...
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In 2006 IBM settled a lawsuit brought by employees claiming they were denied overtime pay for some $65 million. It appears that IBM is attempting to punish those same workers by cutting their base salary by 15 percent.“IBM spokesman Fred McNeese said the move would not save the company any money, because the affected employees generally...
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As with all rumors, please take the following news item with a grain of salt until we can receive official confirmation or denial from Yahoo.Yahoo may be attempting to break into the MP3 download business sometime in 2008. At this stage it appears that Yahoo is in preliminary talks with various players in the music industry, and nothing...
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Video: Overclocked GeForce 8800 GTS 512 MB Roundup @ [H]ATI Radeon HD 3450 HTPC Video Card Review @ I4UATI Radeon HD 3450 and Radeon HD 3650 Video Cards @ Legit ReviewsAMD HD34X0 and HD3650 Info @ Bjorn3DMSI Radeon HD 3870 X2 OC Graphics Card @ TweaktownMSI NX8800GT Zilent 512Mb DDR3 @ CPU3D Motherboards & Chipsets: MSI X48 Platinum Motherboard...
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Blizzard Entertainment announced yesterday that their MMORPG game World of Warcraft passed the ten million subscriber mark. Interestingly, 5.5 million of those users are in Asia, with 2 million in Europe and 2.5 million in North America. Since debuting in North America on November 23, 2004, World of Warcraft has become the most popular...
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