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After months of anticipation and speculation, revised Xbox 360 consoles built around the new Jasper platform have finally appeared in the wild. Jasper employs an updated GPU manufactured using 65nm process, as opposed to the 90nm process used for the original revision. Other than the GPU, however, a few more changes have been made as well,...
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The App Store is doing well, there's no doubt of that. And according to reports, the list of official, approved apps in the App Store has surpassed 10,000. This, of course, doesn't include apps for jailbroken phones. However, it's been pointed out that you take into account apps that have been booted for various reasons, there are somewhat...
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Motorola has been riding the success of the RAZR for quite some time now. Enough so, in fact, that the company was starting to look a bit like a one-hit wonder. Finally, the company is realizing that it’s time to move in a different direction. In September, it was reported that Motorola was working on a successor to the RAZR, codenamed Ruby....
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How would you feel about a robot asking, “Would you like fries with that?” when you ordered a Big Mac? Well, if the National Intelligence Council’s recent Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World is correct, we could be experiencing just that by 2025. Granted, it’s a few years down the road, but the idea that robots could be so capable to replace...
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Like many of you who are smart enough to know better, we tend to steer clear of the insanity of the crowd and resist the temptation to go deal shopping on the busiest day of the retail calendar. Why on earth would you subject yourself to all that needless stress and anxiety anyway, when you can squander your holiday pesos online from...
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Video:Sapphire HD 4830 Graphics Card @ Modders-Inc.comASUS Radeon HD 4830 Video Card EAH4830 @ Benchmark ReviewsSapphire 770 PURE CrossFireX @ t-breakMotherboards and Chipsets:ASRock G43Twins-FullHD Motherboard @ CPU3DFoxconn A7DA-S Motherboard @ iXBTGigabyte EX58-UD5 @ Techgage.com Asus P6T Deluxe OC Edition Review @ OCCGIGABYTE GA-EP45-DS5...
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Despite creating a line of CPUs seemingly targeted precisely for the netbook market, the Atom, Intel seems as though it just might be having second thoughts. Speaking at a Raymond James IT Supply Chain conference last week, Stu Pann, an Intel VP of sales and marketing admitted some problems with the new notebook form factor: "We originally...
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Corsair launches modular 'Professional Series' 450W PSU- HX450W delivers the performance and features that technology enthusiasts demand, including industry-leading 7-year warranty - Fremont, CA, – Corsair a worldwide leader in high performance computer and flash memory products, today announced the HX450W, part of the newly-established Corsair...
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This one has been a long time coming, but Clearwire and Sprint Nextel have officially announced the combination of their next-generation wireless Internet businesses. Under the terms of the combined agreement, Sprint will hand off all of its 2.5GHz spectrum and WiMAX-related assets (including XOHM) to Clearwire. In addition, Clearwire also...
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In the technology business it is often difficult to keep secrets--especially when products require legal protection for intellectual property as well as government-regulated certification. Some news hounds scour U.S. patent applications to see what potential products might be on the horizon for key manufacturers; others examine recent submissions...
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DICE Puts Faith In NVIDIA PhysX Technology For Mirror's EdgeHighly Acclaimed First-Person Action Adventure Game Utilizes NVIDIA PhysX Technology to Take Gamers on an Awe-Inspiring Adventure SANTA CLARA, CA-NVIDIA-In the award-winning videogame Mirror’s Edge, DICE, an Electronic Arts Inc. studio, introduces players to a new heroine named Faith....
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Elpida Completes Development of 50nm Process DDR3 SDRAM Features include lowest available power consumption, 2.5Gbps ultra high speed and 1.2V low voltage operation all based on the industry's smallest chip size TOKYO, JAPAN, November 26, 2008 – Elpida Memory, Inc., Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today...
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Nokia's highly anticipated 5800 XpressMusic, which was codenamed the "Tube," is now available, according to a Thanksgiving Nokia press release. The 5800 XpressMusic also supports Nokia's "Comes with Music" service, which allows users to download an unlimited amount of music to their phones for a year --- and keep it, even after the year has...
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When it comes to memory technologies, there are a few major names in the industry that are essentially the primary sources of the chip-level technologies that drive the market. When it comes to DRAM and Flash memory, Samsung, Intel and of course Micron, are a few of the big names. Lately, though DRAM technologies have taken a sleepy...
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It's Thanksgiving here in the US, a time of year when we all pause to reflect on how fortunate we all are. Thanksgiving is a great tradition when you stop and think about it. This holiday isn't about rushing around and buying gifts. The day after Thanksgiving certainly has become over-commercialized, but not today--11/27/2008--Thanksgiving...
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The beginning of the holiday shopping season for many involves rising at ungodly hours to stand in lines, packed like sardines, to pick your way through items with prices slashed lower than you will see them any other time of the year. This day, the day after Thanksgiving, is known as Black Friday. This year, instead of hours standing in line,
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A number of retailers are planning to offer special deals on VIZIO HDTVs on Black Friday, but it appears that the company itself is beating them to the punch by announcing price cuts just a few days before the retailer’s big day. Costco will offer the 19-inch VA19 HD LCD HDTV for $199.99 through December 7th with a Member Only MVM coupon....
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Seagate issued a fix for the Barracuda 1.5TB issue reported in the blogosphere and several shopping forums. In a statement, Seagate said: Some Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB hard drives may show uncharacteristic operation when used with Mac and Linux operating systems in multi-drive configurations. Users may experiences pauses in video streaming...
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Lenovo Launches IdeaPad netbook PCsParis, France – November 25th 2008: Lenovo today introduced its “e” netbooks, the IdeaPad S9e and S10e netbooks. Designed for mobile users from all walks of life, the new netbooks combine the portability of a small and light PC device starting under 1.2kg with Internet and multimedia functionality at an affordable...
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Home PCs have reached a new plateau recently with the much heralded release of the Core i7 processor from Intel, which goes hand-in-hand with the X58 Express chipset and the motherboards built upon it. Although the Core i7 does borrow technology from earlier CPUs, there are some major changes including placing all four cores...
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The keyboard as we know it just got a makeover. What started initially as gag, apparently got so much positive feedback that the creators of the Keyboard for Blondes decided to turn it into a real product. First of all, the Keyboard for Blondes is a real keyboard. It has all the normal functionality you would expect from a traditional keyboard....
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