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Latest News - August 2008
- Hardware Round-Up
- iPhones Prove Insensitive to 3G
- Over 34,000 People Want to Buy a Chevy Volt
- Vudu Now Offers 99 Cent Movie Rentals
- MSI's N280GTX-T2D1GOC, GeForce GTX 280 Redux
- You Can't Buy A Gateway From Gateway Anymore
- Google's Search Market Share Tops 70%
- Logitech's New Clip-on Lappie Mouse
- A BSOD of Olympic Proportions
- Hardware Round-Up
- Group Calls For Faster U.S. Broadband Speeds
- NVIDIA Taps GPUs For More Than Graphics
- WD Announces Velociraptors With New Backplane
- The (Grand Theft Auto) Devil Made Me Do It.
- AOL Makes Online Privacy More Transparent
- Will Guys Pick the "Gadget or the Girl?"
- ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 - AMD Back On Top
- Studies Disagree On U.S. Broadband Growth
- Hardware Round-Up
- Will AMD Stop Fabbing Their Own Chips?
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Video:XFX GeForce 9600GT XXX Edition Video Card Review @ Legit ReviewsECS GeForce 9600 GT Graphics Card @ TweaktownPalit Radeon HD 4870 X2 Video Card Review @ MotherboardsMotherboards and Chipsets:DFI LanParty Dark X48 Motherboard Review @ NinjalaneASUS P5E64 WS Pro X38 Motherboard @ Benchmark ReviewsMemory and Storage:Maxtor BlackArmor 160GB...
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We have a question: why are all these researchers and carriers who believe they have pinpointed the iPhone's 3G reception problem in Europe (forcing us to use translation software, too)? While there's no answer to that question, a Swedish scientist seems to think he has the answer to poor 3G performance on the iPhone 3G: poor signal sensitivity....
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Alternative energy advocate, Dr. Lyle Dennis, loved the idea behind General Motors' (GM) Chevrolet Volt electric concept car so much, that he not only created a Website devoted to it (GM-Volt.com) soon after GM announced the concept vehicle in 2007, but he has spent a significant amount of time leading a grassroots effort to convince GM to...
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Vudu might be on to something with its new promotion: "Stay in. Rent four movies for the price of 1 gallon gas!" At today's prices for movie tickets, concession snacks, and the cost of gas for getting to and from the theater, a family of four could easily spend upwards of a $100 for a night out at the movies. Staying at home and watching movie...
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NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 200 series of graphics cards have undergone a significant price reduction since they first debuted. At the time, NVIDIA flexed its GPU muscle with a high-end, single GPU graphics design that their primary competition (AMD) could only compete with by throwing two GPUs at the problem. As such, NVIDIA initially...
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There was a time when many people would have bet on Gateway to become the largest direct retailer of computers in America, instead of Dell. They even opened up a few boutique retail outlets along the way. They had a funky vibe going with their black and white cow-spotted boxes, and the future seemed very bright indeed. ...
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... but they're still not a monopoly, at least if you ask the company. On Monday researchers at market research firm Hitwise released their monthly search share report, and their data indicates that Google has now topped 70% in terms of search market share.Google reached a new milestone and accounted for 70.77 percent of all U.S. searches....
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In case you're not wise in the ways of aftermarket Velcro, Logitech now offers a cordless laser mouse, the V550, that clips right on the cover of your laptop. They call it the Clip-and-Go Dock. Logitech makes excellent aftermarket peripherals, and this looks to be another one of the little conveniences that are the bread and butter of their...
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Most of us who have used a Windows PC know what a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) is. Well, there could be no more perfect timing for a BSOD than this. Right when Li Ning was rounding the lip of the Bird's Nest during the climax of the torch-lighting ceremony, someone snapped this photo of the familiar BSOD most of us have seen at one time or...
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Video:Sapphire HD 4870 X2 2048 MB @ techPowerUpPalit Radeon HD 4870 X2 1GB - AMD Reclaims GPU Supremacy @ TechgagePalit Radeon HD4870 X2 2GB Video Card Review @ Hardware CanucksATI 4870 X2 (R700) GFX @ DriverheavenATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 Review @ AMDZoneSapphire AMD Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB Review - AMD's Triumph @ PC PerspectivePalit HD 4870 X2...
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The high-speed Internet advocacy Web site, Speed Matters, has just released a report on the average Internet connection speeds by U.S. state. If you live in Rhode Island (6,769 Kbps), Delaware (6,685 Kbps), New Jersey (5,825 Kbps), Virginia (5,033 Kbps), or Massachusetts (4,564 Kbps), you can take pride that your state has one of the fastest...
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NVIDIA TAPS PROCESSING POWER OF GEFORCE GPUS FOR MORE THAN GRAPHICS New Consumer Application Pack Uses NVIDIA CUDA Technology to Improve Performance Beyond Graphics on NVIDIA GeForce GPUs SANTA CLARA, CA—August 12, 2008—Consumers want blazing fast performance—whether blasting their way through the latest game or being socially responsible...
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WD ANNOUNCES WD VELOCIRAPTOR SATA HARD DRIVE WITH BACKPLANE COMPATIBILITY FOR SERVERS, DESKTOPS AND WORKSTATIONS World’s Fastest 10,000 RPM, 2.5–inch, 300 GB SATA Hard Drive Just Gets Better LAKE FOREST, CALIF. – August 12, 2008 – WD (NYSE: WDC) announced today that it is now shipping the new backplane-compatible WD VelociRaptor hard drive,...
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"The devil made me do it" used to be the ready-made excuse you could trot out when you got caught being naughty. Society's views on personal responsibility have changed quite a bit since the devil was listed on everybody's rap sheet as an accomplice. The modern version is playing "Grand Theft Auto made me do it."Last month, the trio – all...
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A recent U.K. study by AOL finds that most online users are concerned about their online privacy and about providing personal details to Websites. No surprise there. In fact, the study found that 84 percent of respondents said that "they would not give away income details online." What to make then of the fact that 89 percent of those same...
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This actually sounds like something designed for the CW show Beauty and the Geek." In this new Playboy TV series, Gadget or the Girl, a guy will be forced to choose between a hot weekend getaway with the girl of his choice, or a mystery gadget. The episode starts with the guy forced to choose immediately between three women, ditching one....
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The Radeon HD 4800 series didn't exactly overwhelm NVIDIA's GTX 200 series with raw performance. In fact, the GeForce GTX 280 and 9800 GX2 were more powerful than the Radeon HD 4870. The Radeon HD 4800 series cards, however, were still excellent cards and they were offered at extremely competitive prices, which put significant pressure on...
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A study just released by the Leichtman Research Group, indicates that the "twenty largest cable and telephone providers in the US" now total approximately 65.1 million, high-speed Internet subscribers. Those 20 providers make up roughly 94 percent of the U.S. broadband market. Assuming that Leichtman's results are correct (and assuming that...
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Video:MSI R4850 Review @ OCCMotherboards and Chipsets:Biostar TPower I45 @ Overclockers OnlineBiostar TPower I45 Intel P45 Express Motherboard Review @ PCStatsMemory and Storage:Kingston HyperX 2GB DDR3-1375 RAM kit @ TechwareLabsQNAP TS-409U Rackmount NAS Review @ ThinkComputers.orgThermaltake BlacX Hard Drive Dock @ MikhailtechPower:Zalman...
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If you're hungry for news about the future of Intel's pesky little rival, AMD, (we always are) then perhaps you'd go to their spokesman and flat out ask. If you're Business Week, here's the sort of answer you'd get: "AMD continues to look at multiple options that leverage our world-class manufacturing capabilities and relationships to achieve...
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Ken Brill at Forbes does a little arithmetic to examine the true cost of running a server, and the numbers are a bit of a surprise. Since we're in the midst of something of a boom in data center construction, shouldn't someone be figuring out what they really cost before they buy a bunch of servers and roll out the plans? Because of the weird...
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Is microvideoblogging the next big thing? "Micro-what?" you say. Picture Twitter, but with video posts instead of text. That's microvideoblogging. Now limit each video post to only 12 seconds long, and that's the idea behind 12seconds.tv. Like Twitter, you can post pretty much anything you want, as long as it doesn't violate the site's terms...
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