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Latest News - February 2008
- Give It Away Or You'll Never Make Money
- Adobe Blurs Your PC, Smartphone, And The Net
- This PC Is Vista Capable...NOT!
- R.I.P. Netscape
- FCC To Hold Comcast BitTorrent Hearing
- EA Offers $2B for Take-Two
- Things Not To Do In Morocco
- Classy Retailer to Allow HD-DVD / Blu-Ray Swap
- Hardware Round-Up
- Yahoo Sued For Saying No
- AMD To Increase Outsourcing
- Rumor: Intel To Put a Hex-Core On You!
- Sold on eBay: New-in-box Apple II, Never Opened
- NVIDIA Unleashes The Quadro FX 3600M
- Jack Thompson Gets Served
- Beware Fake Chips!
- Rumor: NVIDIA 9800 & GX2 Shipping Info
- Intel Raided By European Commission
- Hardware Round-Up
- SAPPHIRE HD 3870 goes TOXIC!
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All News for February 2008
Chris Anderson at Slate takes the long view on the effects that ultra-cheap bandwith, processors, and storage will have going forward, and comes to the conclusion that to make any money in the Internet economy, you'd better give whatever you've got away, and make money from ancillary items or services. And as consumers get used to the concept,...
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Adobe is today releasing their new AIR software development system, which will allow end users to achieve their own personal information cloud that straddles their digital journey across the desktop, the Internet, and various smart devices like phones. Adobe sees AIR as a major advance that builds on its Flash multimedia software. Flash...
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Microsoft revealed a certification program for PCs to be labeled “Vista Capable” just prior to Vista's much-delayed introduction. The only problem is that some of the PCs that bore said sticker weren't capable of running all of the new features Vista comes with, and might be considered less capable than others.Consumers and consumer...
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We knew it was coming, but now it's official: Netscape Navigator is officially dead. "AOL has released its last ever update for Netscape Navigator and is encouraging its remaining users to switch to Flock or Firefox." Hmmm...no recommendation to go grab the latest version of Explorer. It is possible that the final version...
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Comcast has drawn a lot of attention to itself since it decided to throttle BitTorrent traffic, and most of it negative. Customers complained to anyone who would listen, and one of those was the FCC and another may just be House Internet Subcommittee Chair, (D) Rep. Ed Markey:“This time, the Federal Communications Commission will depart...
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Shades of another takeover we've been discussing lately. Electronic Arts announced Sunday they have made a $2B cash offer for Take-Two Games, best known for "Grand Theft Auto."U.S. video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc said on Sunday it wants to buy rival Take-Two Interactive Software Inc, best known for its "Grand Theft Auto" title,...
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The number one thing not to do in Morocco is impersonate a member of royalty over the internet:Amnesty International said Saturday it was "shocked" by a three-year jail term handed down by a Moroccan court to a man who registered a false Internet Facebook profile as King Mohammed VI's brother.The court in Casablanca sentenced 27-year-old computer...
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Now this is a classy move, but don't worry, odds are it won't be a total loss for the company. The only bad part: it's in Japan.The Japanese electronics retailer Edion is deeply ashamed it sold its customers HD DVD gear. So ashamed they that they're allowing buyers to swap in Toshiba HD DVD boxes for Blu-ray players. A little more investigation...
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Video: Sapphire Radeon HD 3450 and HD 3650 @ Tweaktown Motherboards & Chipsets: GA-EP35-DS4 Motherboard Review @ Sysopt.comIntel Skulltrail Platform Review @ X-bit LabsDFI LANParty LT X38-T2R Mainboard Review @ X-bit Labs Memory & Storage: OCZ DDR2 PC2-8000 2 x 2 GB Platinum Edition Review @ OCCKingston HyperX DDR3-1375 2GB Memory...
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Two Detroit pension funds are upset with Yahoo's recent rejection to Microsoft's buyout offer. They have filed a law suit over their grievance:"According to the lawsuit, Yahoo's board is pursuing "value-destructive" third-party deals in an effort to fight off Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft, which on Feb. 1 announced a takeover bid of...
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“Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the world's second-biggest maker of computer processors, may announce plans to transfer more production in the next two to three months to reduce costs, a Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. analyst said.”We can't help but wonder if AMD might be outsourcing their future high-end CPUs first in an attempt to reach a rough...
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As with all rumors, take the following with a grain of salt until we can receive official confirmation or denial from Intel.Rumor has it that Intel has decided that consumers don't need to make the jump from 4 to 8 cores without anything in the middle. Instead Intel may have decided that they were going to place three dual-core...
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With PCs for sale well under $1,000, nowadays $2,600 would be considered an expensive computer. But what if it's a unopened, new in the box (NIB), vintage Apple IIc? What would you pay for that?Though bidding on vintage computers can often start as low as $1, this Apple IIc from what was then called Apple Computer Inc. was more valuable: It...
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If you're a professional looking for a laptop/mobile workstation, NVIDIA has a new graphics chip you may want to consider before making you're purchasing decision. Here's the scoop on the Quadro FX 3600M:“Engineered to deliver high performance and visualization of extensive datasets with extremely high image quality in an ISV-certified,...
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John “Jack” Bruce Thompson is a name you might have heard but don't exactly know who he is. He is a lawyer from Florida who is well known for stirring up as much trouble as he can for the video game industry. Mr Thompson has, on many occasions, associated various high-profile violent crimes with video games, often when it is clear...
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“U.S. and European customs officers seized more than 360,000 counterfeit computer chips and network components in a joint operation late last year, officials said Friday.”While 360,000 certainly seems like a large number, that makes one wonder how many bad units were in distribution altogether. A good piece of advice for shoppers looking...
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As with all rumors please take the following with a grain of salt until we receive official confirmation or denial from NVIDIA.If the 9600 launch impressed you, but you were holding out for a card with a little more horsepower, then you might be in luck. Rumor has it that NVIDIA will be launching high-end cards in the near future:“At...
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The EU's antitrust regulators launched a fresh offensive against Intel while still awaiting an official response from the company. The newest round of raids encompasses Intel's offices in Munich as well as retailers in Germany, France and the U.K. The raids were supposedly carried out in order to discover if Intel was using noncompetitive...
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Video: XFX 9600 GT 512MB Review @ OCCNVIDIA 9600 GT Reviewed @ PC PerspectivePalit 9600GT Sonic review @ NeoseekerNVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 512MB @ HardwareZoneXFX 9600 GT Video Card Review @ I4UECS GeForce 9600GT @ t-breakZotac GeForce 9600 GT Amp! Edition @ techPowerUpGalaxy GeForce 9600 GT OC review @ Elite BastardsNVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT @...
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SAPPHIRE HD 3870 goes TOXIC!Exclusive Vapor-X cooler gives performance boost SAPPHIRE Technology has just announced global availability of its exciting new HD 3870 TOXIC edition high performance graphics accelerator. The SAPPHIRE HD 3870 TOXIC version features the award winning - and SAPPHIRE exclusive -Vapor-X single slot cooler, SAPPHIRE’s...
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The Commodore 64 is legendary, and just last year celebrated its 25th anniversary. And now owners of the Nintendo Wii will be able to play classic games of that era via the Wii Virtual Console.Bala Keilman, CEO of Commodore Gaming, commented, “The massive impact the Commodore 64 had on video gaming is still evident today with many gamers remembering...
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Sandia is a US Department of Energy research and development laboratory run by Lockheed Martin. They're presently gearing up to add some zeros to amount of calculations a supercomputer can perform. Sandia developed the first teraflop (one trillion calculations a second) computer a decade ago. They've decided to take it up more than a notch....
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