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Latest News - October 2011
- Maingear Introduces Intel 2700k In SHIFT and F131 Desktops
- Microsoft Now Receives Royalties On Over Half Of All Android Sales
- Origin PC Announces Availability of Overclocked Intel 2700k’s In Its Desktops
- Oracle To Buy RightNow For $1.5 Billion
- GoPro's HD Hero2 Camera is Twice as Powerful as the Original
- Possible Release Dates For Galaxy Nexus, RAZR, Rezound Slip Out
- Apple Updates MacBook Pro Line with Nary a Peep
- ViewSonic Announces Android Tablet For Less Than $200
- OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid PCI Express SSD Review
- Blizzard's Diablo III Giveaway Designed to Protect World of Warcraft Revenue
- Google Shows Off Refreshed Gmail Interface
- Cisco Scooping Up BNI Video For $99 Million
- Sony's PlayStation 3D Display Shipping Nov. 13th For $500
- Amazon Announces New Features in Kindle Format 8
- Ubuntu 12.04 Long Term Support Period Extended From 3 To 5 Years
- Blizzcon 2011: My God—It's Full of Awesome
- Sprint Drops Tethering From All-You-Can-Eat 4G Buffet
- Verizon's Q3 Earnings Report Shows Solid Growth All Around
- Nintendo Bringing Hulu Plus To 3DS And Wii, 3DS Preps For 3D Video Recording
- Verizon Wireless Promises Galaxy Nexus "Later This Year"
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All News for October 2011
Well well well, Origin PC isn’t the only system builder to quickly adopt Intel’s new Core i7-2700k processors; Maingear announced today that it will offer the new chip in its SHIFT and F131 desktops. Buyers can expect the 3.5GHz CPU to be overclocked to over 5GHz, and combined with Maingear’s EPIC liquid cooling, the system...
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Microsoft's general counsel and deputy general counsel (Brad Smith and Horacio Gutierrez) have co-written a new blog entry detailing Microsoft's latest licensing achievement. Yesterday's broad cross-licensing agreement with Compal Electronics means that Microsoft has now negotiated licensing terms with the ODMs...
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Origin PC’s custom desktop computers are one place you can find Intel’s new Core i7-2700k Sandy Bridge CPU. Indeed, Origin announced today that customers can get the 2700k on any of its custom desktops, including full tower, mid tower, and small form factor machines. What’s more, Origin rigs will...
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Oracle continues its push into the cloud computing market with an agreement to acquire RightNow Technologies for $1.5 billion ($43 per share). RightNow offers a slew of customer service tools designed to make interactions between its clients and their customers “rewarding and beneficial”, to quote the RightNow website. The company’s...
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GoPro says its new HD Hero 2 camera is two times more powerful than the original HD Hero in every way. This is a complete redesign that now includes an 11MP sensor, a glass lens that's 2x sharper than before, faster image processor, easy-to-use LCD interface, and several other upgrades. "GoPro created a new category...
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We already know there are a number of smartphones that should be available before the end of the year. If we had to make a guess, we'd say most of these phones will come out before the holiday season. If a leaked product listing on Android Central is to be believed, we don't have to guess about release dates. The...
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Perhaps not wanting to steal any thunder from the recent iPhone 4S launch and/or iOS 5, Apple has gone and quietly updated its MacBook Pro laptop line with upgraded hardware. We're not talking about a sweeping refresh by any means, but welcome improvements that include faster processors, beefier graphics, and more capacious hard drives, and...
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ViewSonic is expanding its ViewPad tablet lineup with an affordable new model called the ViewPad 7e. This 7-inch tablet will run Android 2.3 Gingerbread along with ViewSonic's ViewScene 3D interface. The ViewPad 7e also has a budget-friendly price tag of $199.99. The ViewPad 7e will have a 1GHz processor, 4GB of internal storage, 3MP rear...
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Over the last few months, we have taken a look at a couple of OCZ-built products that leverage the company’s SuperScale Storage Accelerator with VCA (Virtualized Controller Architecture) 2.0. The first product to arrive was the RevoDrive 3 X2, which is a high-end, PCI Express SSD targeted at ultra-enthusiasts and workstation customers....
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At Blizzcon this weekend, Blizzard Entertainment dropped a bombshell—commit to signing up for a year of World of Warcraft, and you can have the upcoming, hotly-awaited Diablo III for free. For WoW subscribers, it's a great deal—Blizzard is giving the game to people in exchange for a promise to do what they...
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Google's Gmail has been largely the same for years on end. When the service launched, the "threaded" view caught most people by surprise. It took a bit of time for that to become "the norm," and now, e-mail clients that lack threaded messaging are essentially seen as lackluster. So, with Google recently cleaning out services that were destined...
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Cisco's at it again. With "at it" meaning "buying companies." While the company's killing of Flip Video will be the one that everyone remembers from 2011, they're also picking up BNI Video. Headquartered in Boxborough, Mass., BNI Video supplies service providers with two major video products that offer video back-office and content delivery...
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Remember that PlayStation 3D display that was unveiled way back at E3? It hasn't vanished. In fact, it's shipping soon. Very soon. Sony just announced via their own blog that PS3 owners can hunt one down in the U.S. (and a few other, unspecified places) starting November 13th. The 3D Display will cost $499.99, which includes the screen itself,...
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Amazon is ditching the Mobi 7 file system in favor of the new Kindle Format 8 (KF8). The new file system, which has already been showcased on the soon-to-be-released Kindle Fire, is designed to enable publishers to use HTML5 for rich formatting in everything from children’s books to engineering textbooks. The basic new features include...
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Canonical’s Desktop Ubuntu releases are on a predictable schedule; the short-term releases are on a 6-month cycle, and every two years a Long Term Release (LTS) rolls out, which Canonical supports for three years with updates and maintenace. The LTS support cycle for Ubuntu Server, on the other hand, extends for...
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Blizzard's Blizzcon has wrapped up, and we've gathered up the best of the goodies to discuss them with you. There were major unveils for all three Blizzard 'verse's (and a new game announced)—whether you're a WoW player, Starcraft fan, or anxious for Diablo III, there's updates and goodies to review. New Warcraft Expansion: Mists of...
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Sprint's big battle cry entering into the iPhone 4S era is, "We have true unlimited data; the other guys don't!" That's a definite advantage in the smartphone wars, but can Sprint sustain an unlimited business model with all the new traffic Apple's iPhone will bring to its network? That's a good question and one that's made even more interesting...
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It's been one of those weeks for analysts -- one of those great, hairy weeks where they get to sit back, look at earnings reports and make predictions. Verizon has just come clean with their Q3 2011 results, and by and large, they look rather positive. The company remained on track in the quarter, with revenues boosted by 5.4% and overall...
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Nintendo may be struggling to move a serious amount of 3DS handhelds, but this just might help. Hulu Plus is coming to the 3DS and Wii. According to a new release from the company, 3DS and Wii owners will soon have the ability to access even more of their favorite TV shows and movies: the Hulu Plus service will be...
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We all knew Samsung wouldn't introduce an LTE-enabled Galaxy Nexus last week without having a Verizon Wireless SIM card up their sleeve, right? Just a few days later than expected, VZW has announced that they will indeed be a carrier for the Galaxy Nexus -- making them the first carrier in the States to fess up. A few UK carriers as well as...
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Does HP really need a chief strategy officer? Hopefully not, because there aren't any plans to replace the current one once he leaves next month. HP has gone through an insane amount of turmoil over the past two years, with Mark Hurd getting the boot, then Leo, then webOS. What's next? Well, Shane Robison, a guy who...
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Prime is coming! Prime is coming! No, not Optimus Prime, Asus' Transformer Prime, the company's next-generation Transformer tablet. It was practically a given that the company would bust out a second edition, and now the particulars are starting to take shape. It'll be based on NVIDIA's next-gen quad-core Tegra 3 chip, and will share the same...
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