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Latest News - September 2011
- Facebook Reveals App Integration And "Timeline" Profile Layout
- HP Names Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman As New President
- ZOTAC Announces A75-ITX WiFi Motherboard
- Samsung's Line-16 is World's Largest Memory Facility, Now Operational
- Mozilla Briefly Considers Faster Firefox Release Schedule
- Splashtop Remote Desktop Comes To Mac OS X
- HTC To Provide Handset Buyers With 5GB Of DropBox Cloud Storage
- CloudBerry Backup Desktop Review
- Micron Launches Self-Encrypting RealSSD C400
- GeForce LAN Registration Re-Opening, Limited Seating Available
- Verizon Wireless And LG Introduce Enlighten Smartphone
- Hardware Roundup
- Microsoft's UEFI Rules Could Be Used To Block Linux Installation
- Intel GPU Driver Update Claims Up To 37 Percent Performance Boost
- Adobe Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 To Debut in Early October
- RIM May Be Sitting On Nearly A Million PlayBooks
- Comcast Launches New $9.99 Nationwide Plan For Needy Families
- Samsung to Open Source Bada
- Report: Apple Holding iPhone 5 Launch Event On October 4
- HP Board to Consider Kicking CEO Leo Apotheker to the Curb
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All News for September 2011
See anything different on your Facebook page? No, not from yesterday, silly. Today! Today, Facebook's F8 conference got underway in California, where creator Mark Zuckerberg took the stage to unveil quite a few new things that will definitely serve to push Facebook beyond that "just a social network" stage. The...
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Well, this is strange. But not entirely unexpected. Rumors had intensified in the last few days that HP was getting ready to switch CEOs for the second time in a year, and those rumors were just put to rest. Because they're true. In September of last year, former CEO of SAP, Léo Apotheker, was chosen to lead HP after the Mark Hurd scandal....
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ZOTAC announced a new mini-ITX motherboard today called the A75-ITX WiFi, which is designed for gaming and HTPC applications. The company tried to pack in as many features as possible in the small form factor, and all things considered it did a pretty good job of it. Running on the AMD A75 chipset, the A75-ITX WiFi has an FM1 socket that supports...
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Samsung's new Line-16 memory semiconductor fabrication facility is now fully operational, the chip maker announced at its Nano City Complex in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, where the fab is located. According to Samsung, Line-16 is the industry's largest memory fab in the world. Samsung wasted no time in putting its...
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Mozilla batted around the idea of implementing an even faster release schedule for its Firefox browser, one that would kick it's already rapid release schedule into overdrive. Mozilla Engineering Manager Josh Aas initiated the discussion last week when he proposed reducing the time in between browser builds from six weeks to five weeks. "There...
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In today's increasingly connected world, leaving a file "behind" is becoming ever more unacceptable. Can't access it remotely? You're doing it wrong. All kidding aside, Splashtop has made a business of keeping folks within arm's reach of their files regardless of their physical location, and now that same gesture is being delivered to the...
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Cloud storage used to be a far-fetched concept that wasn't used too often outside of the enterprise. Boy, has the world changed in recent years. Now, cloud services are hitting the mainstream, with Amazon Cloud Drive, iTunes in the Cloud and Microsoft's SkyDrive all aiming for average, everyday people. With a growing...
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An increasing number of businesses have discovered (or are at least exploring) the benefits of cloud storage. There are cloud options aplenty, from small-potatoes plans designed for a bit of extra storage for a SOHO shop, to massive operations that backup an entire enterprise’s kingdom. It’s an exciting, developing field, and it’s...
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Love SSDs? Love security? Guess what? Micron has a match made in computing heaven for your consideration. The new and improved RealSSD C400 solid state drive features self encryption technology, which is leaps and bounds better at staying under wraps compared to a convention HDD or SSD. The C400 SED (Self-Encrypting Drive) is based on the...
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We just got word from NVIDIA, that there are a few more spots open at the big GeForce LAN taking place next month on the USS Hornet aircraft carried in Alameda, California. If you want to get in on the action and get some game-time in at an awesome venue (we’ve been there!), this is the perfect opportunity. All...
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Starting today, Verizon Wireless customers will be able to order the new LG Enlighten smartphone from the carrier's website. This phone runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread and has an 800MHz processor. The Enlighten features a 3.2-inch touch screen display with a resolution of 320 x 480, 3G Mobile Hotspot capabilities, and a 3.2-megapixel autofocus...
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Video: Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 Dirt 3 Edition OC Video Card Review @ Tweaktown Motherboards and Chipsets: Funky Kit Review: Zotac Z68-ITX WiFi Motherboard ASRock 890FX Deluxe5 AMD Motherboard Review @ ThinkComputers.org Memory and Storage: TechREACTION Review: Silverstone TS07B Patriot Pyro 120GB SSD Review, RAID0 Performance Tested @ TechSpot...
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Microsoft discussed the upcoming changes to Windows 8's boot process at BUILD last week, but Matthew Garrett, a mobile Linux developer and blogger at Red Hat has pointed out that the company's new requirements could be used in ways that harm the Linux community. One of Microsoft's new rules for Windows 8 is that any...
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Intel has released a new graphics driver for its Sandy Bridge integrated CPUs that it claims delivers significantly improved performance in a number of titles. Listed gains are reprinted below: In addition, the new driver purportedly fixes intermittent crashing when an HDMI monitor is connected, WebGL rendering issues...
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In a breathtakingly long blog post, Adobe announced that Adobe Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 will launch early this October. Right off the bat, Adobe alluded to the fact that Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 will run on just about any type of Internet-connected screen you have, from smartphones to computers to Internet-connected TVs. Specifically, the...
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RIM has been struggling to catch a break for months but the negative reports show no sign of slowing. According to UK rag The Guardian, the company has slashed production of its seven-inch tablet due to an enormous backlog of unshipped hardware. This follows the company's admission last week that it shipped just 200,000 PlayBooks in Q2, down...
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Families with limited income who are struggling to make ends meet may have reason to consider switching to Comcast. The company has rolled out a new $9.99 service tier that's available nationwide to citizens with at least one child receiving a free school lunch through the National School Lunch Program. The program...
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It’s a tough world out there for mobile OSes. iOS and Android rule the skies, and Windows Phone 7 is trying to catch up. Nokia has pretty much thrown in the towel on Symbian (at least for higher-end phones) and adopted Windows Phone 7 as its go-to operating system, and upstart Meego looks to be dead, again, finally. Often lost...
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Can you feel it in the air? No, not the onset of fall, silly. The new iPhone! Ever since the release of the iPhone 4, it was obvious that the iPhone 5 would be coming. The only question was this: "When?" Rumors have been flying over the past few months about when exactly Apple would step up to the plate and reveal their next smartphone. WWDC...
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Leo Apotheker, CEO of Hewlett Packard, may soon have to look for a job. Apparently HP's board isn't real stoked about the way Mr. Apotheker has been running things since he was put in charge less than 11 months ago, and there's going to be a meeting to discuss his future -- or lack thereof -- with the company. According to a Bloomberg report,...
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Michael Dell is exactly what the Windows and Linux community need right now. It doesn't matter if you're not a fan of Dell computers, it's Mr. Dell's message that speaks to computer users far and wide. Consider that Apple is pushing hard into the mobile space with its iPad tablet devices, creating a sector that some...
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Is Wi-Fi important? Certainly. And it's becoming more so to travelers each and every day. We spotted a survey a year or so ago where an impressive amount of people suggested that Wi-Fi was about the more important asset in an airport, possibly even more important than a solid selection of food. Now a new Boingo survey...
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