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Latest News - June 2008
- AMD Announces its Latest GP-GPU
- Fake Steve Jobs Gets a New Real Job
- AOL's Search Data Snafu Becomes Theatre
- Hardware Round-Up
- Google To Develop ISP Throttling Detector
- The Emperor, A Workstation Fit For A King
- Bebo Blamed in 13-Year-Old's Death
- AP Decides to Shoot Itself in the Foot
- Microsoft Surface Flirts in Las Vegas
- Yahoo!-Google. Now With New Antitrust Goodness!
- Facebook Passes MySpace Worldwide
- Dell E Details Dribble Out
- Hardware Round-Up
- Intel's USB 3 Work: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
- AMD Announces Growing Support for Puma
- Focus On Parallel Programming For Snow Leopard
- CoolIT Unveils Liquid Cooling For Skulltrail
- Strange Bedfellows: AMD and Havok Cooperating
- Firefox 3 Gets Dated
- Sprint/Samsung 3G Phone Kicks Apple's Core
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All News for June 2008
The future of high-performance computing might very well depend on graphics cards. It's not just CPUs that are crunching numbers faster and faster. Today's GPUs are just as efficient at performing floating-point calculations--perhaps even more so, especially when special floating-point hardware is integrated directly into the GPUs: "At the...
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Fake Steve Jobs, AKA Daniel Lyons, who was outed last year by the New York Times when his book was about to launch (hard to keep hiding under those circumstances), has decided to leave his real job with Forbes for a new real job with Newsweek.Forbes editor Dan Lyons, best known to most of you as Fake Steve Jobs, is leaving his employer after...
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You probably recall AOL's 2006 leak of search user data, which actually was more like a flood. AOL published the search logs of 650,000 subscribers, which eventually resulted in some heads rolling, after the smoke cleared. Why not take a tack from Law and Order and rip a story from the headlines, eh? And that's what director Michael Alltop...
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Video:Gainward BLISS 9800 GX2 Dual-GPU Version Review @ MVKTechASUS GeForce 9800 GTX TOP Edition @ TweaktownMotherboards and Chipsets:Foxconn 975X7AB-8EKRS2H Motherboard Review @ DragonSteelModsZOTAC GeForce 8300 AM2+ Motherboard @ TweaktownASUS M3N78-EMH HDMI Motherboard on NVIDIA GeForce 8200 Chipset (Socket AM2+) @ Digit-LifeProcessors:asfdfMemory...
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Update: The news story below was originally posted on Friday, June 13. It is a brief summary of a longer news article written by Cade Metz of The Register. After our article posted we were contacted by Technology Consultant George Ou, who was briefly referenced in our news story. Ou felt that Metz's coverage--and therefore our coverage as...
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How fitting and appropriate for today, Father's Day 2008. Looking for that special gift, for a gadget-loving Dad that has everything and then some? Dubbed "a unique combination of art and technology", this product offers a "technological and ergonomical solution that enhances comfort, productivity...
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Many have heard of Megan Meier, the teenager who committed suicide over a MySpace romance gone bad - one which turned out to be a hoax. Here we have another social networking death; is this a troubling trend?A teenager said to have been bullied on the social networking site Bebo has been found hanged in his bedroom.Blaming Bebo for his...
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Most sites love it when someone links to their story. As long as you only clip a short portion of the story, all you'll be doing, essentially, is driving traffic to the linked site.You would think that "most" would include The Associated Press (AP), but apparently not.Rogers Cadenhead has long run a site called the Drudge Retort at www.drudge.com....
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Las Vegas's Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino becomes the second commercial location to sport Microsoft's Surface devices--table-top, multi-touch-input computers. The first commercial implementation of Surface was this last April in select AT&T stores. "Harrah's will deploy a suite of their own customized applications and be the first to...
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As the old expression goes, I don't know what Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang is smoking, but I want some. Yesterday Yahoo! announced that they had finally really absolutely unequivocally indubitably without question stopped talking to Microsoft about a takeover by, or joint venture with the Redmond giant, and that they had signed a deal with Google...
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Don't worry, Rupert (Murdoch); MySpace still outdraws Facebook in terms of unique U.S. visitors. But in terms of worldwide visitors: second place.comScore statistics indicate that Facebook drew even with MySpace in April. At that point, the networks interested about 115 million users each. If we're allowed mentally to extend the...
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We told you about Dell's attempt to get in on the mini-notebook market a little while ago. Just a glimpse of the lipstick red competitor for the wildly successful Asus Eee PC sent us all into a tizzy. After all, we keep telling manufacturers over and over again we want a smaller, cheaper, sturdier unit to lug around with us that can...
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Video:GIGABYTE GeForce 9600GT TurboForce 1GB @ TweaktownChaintech GeForce 9600 GT 512MB OC Reviewed @ TheTechLoungeProcessors:AMD Phenom X4 9850 @ Digit-LifeMemory and Storage:VOX V1 External Hard Drive @ TechwareLabsSilverStone TS01 2.5" HDD Enclosure @ 3DGameManMemory Cards Roundup @ InsideHWPower:Atrix 500T Extreme 650W Review @ OCCSeasonic...
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According to Intel, it gets no respect. The company has spent "gazillions of dollars and bazillions of engineering man hours" on co-developing the new USB 3.0 spec and the commensurate USB 3.0 Intel host controller spec; yet Intel is perceived as wanting to keep USB 3.0 all to itself. At least that's the story that Nick Knupffer, blogger and...
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AMD Announces Growing Support for its Next-Generation Notebook Platform with Eight New HP Notebooks — Commercial and consumer notebook PCs from HP deliver the ultimate HD visual performance on the go — BERLIN, Germany -- June 12, 2008 --AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced growing OEM support for its next-generation notebook platform with the HP...
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Steve Jobs says the next version of Apple's OS, nicknamed Snow Leopard, will concentrate on easing programming for parallel processors. Of course multi-core CPUs already pose challenges to use all the available processing capacity they're capable of, but in addition to that, Jobs is proposing using the OS to grab available graphics processing...
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CoolIT Systems Develops Liquid Cooling for Intel’s Skull Trail MotherboardBoreas MTEC Chassis ST and PURE ST provide unprecedented cooling performance for the fastest, new motherboard on the market Calgary, Alberta – June 12th, 2008 – CoolIT Systems announces its new “ST” line of liquid cooling solutions designed specifically to work with...
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Upon first glance, today's press release from AMD, "AMD and Havok to Optimize Physics for Gaming," caused us to do a double take. Considering the long-time feud between AMD and Intel, it seemed surprising that any sort of amicable partnership could develop between AMD and an Intel-owned company, such as Havok: "AMD (NYSE: AMD) and Havok...
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We just received an RC3 for Firefox 3. Oh no! Sure it was a Mac-only change, but what does that do to the release date? Apparently, not much.The Mozilla Foundation has announced the release date for Firefox 3. It will be June 17th (yep, next Tuesday).At the same time, the Spread Firefox site trumpets that the number...
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Everyone's fascinated with the Apple iPhone. Apple's announced their new, third generation (3G) model is coming out on July 11, and all the news outlets have been pawing over the details of the handset and the plan. The iPhone has the potential to be one of those concepts that becomes the name people use to refer to all items of its type,...
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Iron Man? Feh. How about Paper Man? A new process can create paper with tensile strength 1.6x that of iron.The new technology, developed by researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, takes ordinary cellulose and puts it through special processing. The end result is a paper, made out of normal wood...
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OCZ Technology Expands its Diverse Flash Lineup with the new Ultra-Portable Spyder USB 2.0 drive Sunnyvale, CA—June 11, 2008 —OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today announced the latest addition to its award-winning lineup of performance flash drives with the all-new...
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