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Latest News - June 2008
- Intel Core 2 Extreme Mobile X9000 Processor
- Polaroid Gets Back Into Funky Instant Fotos
- Scooped, NBC Gets Wikipedia Updater Fired
- Beatles Might Become Guitar Heroes Again
- Sony's Euro Boss Says Disc Media Will Die
- Petaflop Super Computer Runs Game Console CPU
- Hardware Round-Up
- "Street View Hookers" Spice Up the Web
- Microsoft Might Have Saved Your WoW Gold
- Jammie Thomas Might Get Another Chance
- NVIDIA Adds the 9800 GTX+ and PhysX
- WD Introduces RE3 Enterprise SATA Hard Drives
- The Modern Computer Turns Sixty Today
- Hardware Round-Up
- Netflix to Axe Family-Friendly Profiles Feature
- ATI Radeon HD 4850 RV770 Sneak Peek
- The Future Isn't Invisible, But It's Real Quiet
- Yahoo! Adds Two More Email Domains
- Intel Planning On Ramming DRAM Into The Chip
- Hardware Round-Up
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All News for June 2008
Today we have a look at Intel's new top-of-the-line Core 2 Mobile chip, the Core 2 Extreme Mobile X9000. At 2.8GHz with a full 6MB of L2 cache and a TDP of 35 Watts, this chip is Intel's fastest notebook CPU for the performance enthusiast, gaming, and multimedia markets, aka the Desktop Replacement (DTR) crowd. Our test vehicle...
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Polaroid got famous for making instant cameras and film for the impatient photographer. They've fallen on rough times as the digital camera has made capturing a photo and seeing it on a little screen almost instantaneous. But what if you want an instant artifact of your snapshot? Polaroid's betting you'd find a use for a little battery-powered...
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In the super-fast world of the Internet, if a story breaks, you can expect the Wikipedia entry for that subject to be updated faster than you can blink. In the case of Tim Russert's sad death on June 13th, NBC contacted other networks and media outlets in an attempt to hold back the news long enough to notify his family vacationing in Italy....
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Tired of playing Trogdor and Freebird over and over? Maybe help is on the way. Representatives of the remaining Beatles are in discussions with the makers of both the Guitar Hero and Rock Band video games. Activision and MTV Games are after a deal for the most sought-after catalog of music ever. A final deal would be worth several million...
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Whether you like it or not, let's face it, disc media is just plain getting old. Further, "the power of the network" continues to rise and downloadable multimedia content continues to become more and more pervasive. Take a quick vitals check on companies like BlockBuster Video and you'll know why the folks at Netflix are running...
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The Data Center, HotHardware's new community for IT professionals, is sponsored by Dell's Future of Storage. This article is part of our ongoing series of topics and discussions related to IT, Enterprise Storage and related storage technologies. When it comes to Supercomputing, historically, the top dog on the circuit has been IBM's BlueGene/L...
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Video:PowerColor HD4850 Review @ OCCNVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 1024MB @ Digit-LifeATi HD 4850 Crossfire! @ Rage3D.comNVIDIA GeForce 8200 IGP @ PhoronixOverclocking The NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ Video Card @ Legit ReviewsMotherboards and Chipsets:MSI's P45 Platinum motherboard @ bit-techASRock X48TurboTwins-WiFi Intel X48 Mainboard Review @ OCWMemory...
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Since its unveiling in May of 2007, Google's Street View has hit a few bumps in the road, including being told to "keep out" of an entire town, to being sued over privacy by a Pennsylvania couple, to being told to stay out of military bases. This particular incident is more humorous than anything else. Who is standing at the corner of...
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Microsoft's security updates for June seem to be having a profound effect in the ongoing battle against crooks who steal passwords and usernames, then use their ill-gotten info to cash in the imaginary gold MMORPG players accumulate for real money. One password stealer, called Taterf, was detected on 700,000 computers in the first day after...
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You might remember Jammie Thomas, the Minnesota woman who lost a court case over music sharing and was ordered to pay the recording industry $222,000 for copyright violations related to sharing songs. Despite the fact that it was never proven that she downloaded any songs, she was convicted of sharing the songs from her PC. Ah,...
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On Thursday, the same day that AMD unveiled - early - its 4800 series of cards (because some etailers were already selling the card), NVIDIA decided it just had to unveil its own new card, as well as some other good news.NVIDIA's new card is the GeForce 9800 GTX+ GPU, an overclocked 9800 GTX, but really the 55nm refresh of the G92. NVIDIA...
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The Data Center, HotHardware's new community for IT professionals, is sponsored by Dell's Future of Storage. This article is part of our ongoing series of topics and discussions related to IT, Enterprise Storage and related storage technologies. WD'S THIRD-GENERATION HIGH CAPACITY ENTERPRISE SATA HARD DRIVES OFFER NEW AND ENHANCED FEATURES...
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Ask the trivia question: What was the first computer? Most people would immediately answer: ENIAC. But ENIAC wasn't really the prototype of the modern computer, as it couldn't be reprogrammed to perform different tasks without taking it apart and rewiring it. A much more likely candidate for the first computer that resembles what we think...
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Video:ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB Video Card Preview @ Legit ReviewsSamsung SyncMaster 2693HM @ InsideHWPowerColor Radeon HD 4850 512 MB @ techPowerUpATI Radeon HD 4850 Versus NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ @ Legit ReviewsSapphire Radeon HD 4850 In Crossfire @ TweaktownMotherboards and Chipsets:ASRock K10N750SLI-WiFi nForce 750a Motherboard Review...
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UPDATE: We heard back from Steve Swasey, Vice President, Corporate Communications for Netflix. Swasey explained that a "very, very, very small minority" of Netflix users actually use the Profiles feature. When we commented that he used the word "very" three times, he joked that a few more "very's" might actually be applicable. He would not...
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As many of you are no doubt aware, AMD is about to release a new line of ATI Radeon graphics cards based on the GPU that was internally codenamed RV770. Cards based on the GPU were supposed to launch next week, on June 25 to be specific, but due to some unforeseen circumstances, we are able to offer you some preliminary information and...
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The idea of being invisible has captivated scientists and comic-book writers alike for many years. As Einstein told us, it's going to be pretty hard to do. But it's somewhat easier to make something invisible to sound waves. Researchers in Spain have developed a material that directs sound waves around an object so that they re-form...
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Will Ymail lure you to Yahoo! Email? For that matter, will Rocketmail? Starting this morning, Yahoo! will be opening up ymail.com and rocketmail.com email domains for users. Why?It's obvious that if you wanted to get the email address john@yahoo.com, you couldn't. Saturation has meant that if you want to get an email address at...
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Intel has been tinkering around with DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) cells, reducing their size and getting rid of the capacitors that were necessary components of their tiny integrated circuit. In doing so, they may have demonstrated a way to remove the SRAM (Static Random Access Memory)cells from the processor and replace them with the...
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Video:NVIDIA GPU Computing & CUDA FAQ @ Benchmark ReviewsBFG 9600 GT OCX Video Card Review @ I4UEVGA GeForce GTX 280 1GB FTW Edition Review @ MotherboardsPNY XLR8 GeForce 9800 GX2 1GB Review @ SharkyExtremeNVIDIA GeForce 280 GTX in Tri SLI Tested @ TweaktownNVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) v4.2 Program Released... @ MVKTechMotherboards and...
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Can't buy the company? Can't buy the search technology? Well, how about buying the talent? Wednesday Microsoft placed a full-page ad for "search jobs" in (gasp!) an honest-to-goodness hard copy paper, The San Jose Mercury-News. Despite the ubiquity of the San Francisco Chronicle, for Silicon Valley, the Merc is the paper."There are now very...
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Despite running into a few glitches at the start of the record-setting attempt for the most software downloaded in 24 hours, approximately 8.3 million full copies of Firefox 3 were downloaded during the first 24 hours of its availability. The Mozilla folks are working with the blokes from Guinness World Records to determine if in fact a true...
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