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CyberLink Corp. innovative solutions provider for the connected media lifestyle, today launched the latest in its award-winning DVD player software, CyberLink PowerDVD 9. PowerDVD 9 enriches the movie experience, providing HD-like quality from standard-definition DVD movies. PowerDVD 9 feature highlights include:TrueTheater' Technology, offering...
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NETGEAR Launches First NAS-Linked Online Disaster Recovery for Consumers and SMBs. New ReadyNAS Vault Service Automates Backup and Eliminates Local Management. NETGEAR, Inc. a worldwide provider of technologically innovative, branded networking solutions, today announced ReadyNAS®...
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The U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission (USCPSC) has issued a recall notification for 30,000 LG 830 "Spyder" cell phones because of an incident in which the phone was unable to maintain a connection when a motorist attempted a 911 call. Incidents/Injuries: The firm has received one report...
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Gigabyte already provided a glimpse at what it would be bringing to CeBIT this year in terms of motherboard technologies, but now the company is bestowing details about even more new wares that will be showcased in Germany. For starters, Gigabyte is introducing what's called the world's fastest, coolest and steady technique for graphic card...
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Perhaps it's a bit difficult to fathom, but a technology that was originally developed for "homeland security and defense purposes," is now being unleashed in a consumer product that will let you remotely see what your pet is up to while you are away from the house. San Diego-based, Avaak...
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So as not to give companies more excuses to kick employees to the curb in this tough economy, we've warned before about watching what you post to your social networking site. After all, MySpace photos have gotten an Oregon mayor recalled, and now a Facebook post about how boring her job was has gotten Kimberley Swann of Clacton on Sea in England...
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Feel guilty about something and want to confess to the world? Well, you can use Twitter to anonymously broadcast your sins to the world, with a site, SecretTweet, that posts them to a public Twitter stream. According to the site, not even your IP address is collected, so you are completely anonymous. At the time of this writing there are 13,758...
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Man, talk about a buzz-kill. With still a few precious hours left in the weekend, now you have to sit and wonder if all that gaming you've done over the past 48 hours is increasing your chances of getting some sort of weird skin disorder.According to a new report from a team of Swiss...
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Video:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 @ iXBTEVGA GeForce GTX 285 SSC Edition @ Techgage.comLeadtek WinFast GTX 260 EXTREME+ in SLI @ TweaktownNVIDIA Quadro and AMD FirePro @ PC PerspectiveMemory and Storage:IcyDock MB674SPF-B 4-Bay Tooless Hard Drive Bay Module @ PCStatsThecus N3200PRO @ TestFreaksEagle Tech ET-CS2MSU2-BK 2.5” SATA to USB mesh enclosure...
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College students with a valid ".edu" e-mail address from an accredited institution can snag a download of Microsoft Office 2007 for less than $60.With ever more free options (think OpenOffice) and college students being a traditionally poor and penny-pinching market, the average college...
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Who said supercomputers were only good for powering governmental facilities and handling the dirty work for NASA? At the University of Reading in the UK, scientists have been able to utilize an immensely powerful IBM ThamesBlue supercomputer in order to find the oldest words in the English...
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CBS Mobile introduced a free application for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch that will stream a selection of its TV.com content onto those devices. The content comes from a variety of CBS properties including the Entertainment, Sports, and News divisions as well as CNET TV, GameSpot, and The CW...
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Eurocom launches World’s First Core i7 Notebook with Intel Core i7 Quad Core and Xeon Processors; 1GB nVidia GeForce Go GTX 280M or Quadro FX3700M; 1.5TB of storage with RAID 0,1,5 for On-the-Road Mobile Workstation or Mobile Server use.The World’s First workstation and server-class notebook...
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Puget Systems, AKA Puget Custom Computers, headquartered in Kent, WA based PC etailer will begin offering free Windows 7 upgrades to customers who buy new Windows Vista PCs starting Sunday, according to their website. Its upgrade program will predate Microsoft's own upgrade program by months...
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Video:Sapphire HD 4670 Ultimate 512MB Passive Video Card Review @ Hardware CanucksSapphire Radeon HD4850 X2 2Gb Video Card Review @ TweaknewsGainward HD 4850 1024MB GS Graphics Card Review @ XbitLabsMotherboards and Chipsets:ASUS M3A78-T AMD 790GX Socket AM2+ Motherboard Review @ PCStatsProcessors:AMD Phenom II X4 - 810 (AM3) Processor @ CPU3DMemory...
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We've witnessed Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (better known as TSMC) work hand-in-hand before, but according to a breaking report from Reuters, the two are about to realign in a big way this Monday. A so-called "strategic announcement" will be made in just two short...
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Samsung Adopts VIA Nano Processor for the Samsung NC20 12.1" Mini-Notebook VIA Nano processor platform enables the Samsung NC20 to deliver superior performance and battery life in a sleek 12.1" mini-notebook form factorVIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor...
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Whatever you can do, I can do better. Or, at least that's the impression we get from AMD on this one. With chip makers like ARM and Intel already expecting to ship processors built with 32 nanometer process technology by the end of this year, AMD has finally come forward and admitted that it...
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Forget LTE. Forget HSUPA. Intel's still thinking WiMAX, and so is the entire nation of Japan. Shortly after hearing confirmation that Intel was still dead-set on its WiMAX investments being viable, along comes news suggesting that Japan could soon be the first nation to "unwire its entire...
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For whatever reason, a whole lot of new top brass is showing up at NVIDIA this year. Not even a full month since the acquisition of Bill Dally as the company's chief scientist, NVIDIA has now added two more executives to its roster. First up is Bob Sherbin, who has been selected to fill the newly created role of vice president, corporate communications....
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Those white-hat-wearing, security-exploit-finding folks over at TippingPoint Digital Vaccine Laboratories are at it again. At the CanSecWest 2009, digital security conference to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, next month, TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) team will be sponsoring...
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Intel held an event on the west side of New York City this week, where the company showed off some of the interesting projects being worked on in a few of the Intel Lablets that are scatted throughout the United States, at various company and university campuses. We were in attendance at the...
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