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How much is an unlocked iPhone worth? Apparently the value is about equal to that of a new Nissan 350z and a few unlocked 8GB iPhones. That’s $30,000 or more.The purchaser of the unlocked iPhone is CertiCell, a mobile phone repair company in Louisville, Ky. In the wake of recent AT&T threats to litigate against people and/or organizations...
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Earthlink has won a number of municipal wi-fi contracts, including San Francisco (!), but it still needs to find ways to balance its ISP business, which is struggling, with the high cost of building its municipal Wi-Fi and cellular phone businesses. The solution, at least for now, is a layoff. On Tuesday, EarthLink announced that it would...
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A few days ago rumors circulated that the gPhone would be launching within two weeks. Now, aside from the fact that the gPhone is most likely the only thing that will make sites like this stop talking about the iPhone, is there any truth to the gPhone rumor? The grapevine is buzzing...
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Although many of us place our trust in GPS and satellite navigation, there have been several under-reported stories of people placing too much trust in the units, and driving into dead ends or even to the edge - though not off - of cliffs. In a problematic area in South Wales, the first...
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Yesterday, Dell announced their new line of OptiPlex 755 commercial desktop systems and touted the machines as the “world’s most manageable, energy efficient commercial desktop ever.” The press release on Dell’s website draws attention to the OptiPlex 755’s Gold EPEAT Rating and Energy Star...
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Video: Call of Juarez DX10 Performance and Image Quality @ [H] What is HDMI? @ eCoustics.com Processors: A Look Back At The AMD Athlon Processor...
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The year's most anticipated PC game, Crysis, is scheduled to be released on November 16, but it looks like Electronic Arts will be giving gamers a taste of the game almost two month prior to its arrival. According to a post on the official EA / Crysis website, a demo will be released on September 25 that'll let gamers play through the entire...
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At one time Gateway was huge. It was big enough to compete with the likes of Dell, HP and Compaq. Yesterday, Acer bought Gateway, for the bargain basement price of $710 million. While $710 million is nothing to sneeze at, compare it to the $7 billion (with a B) that Gateway was once offered to become part of Compaq. What went wrong? A...
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No, we're not referring to the former vice-president with the weather fetish. Vint Cerf is a vice-president over at Google, and if anyone can claim to have invented the internet, it's him. Working with Bob Kahn in 1973, they came up with the TCP/IP protocol that allows computers to communicate...
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What's a good investment nowadays? We don't give such advice here at HotHardware, but we can tell you to steer clear of offering jumbo loans on third houses right now. That's a bad investment. What's a good investment? According to Standard and Poor's Clyde Montevirgen, Intel is a five star, strong buy monster. According to market...
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We like our internet, and we like it FREE. Newspaper websites have trouble even getting people to register, never mind pay, for content. Even the mighty New York Times has recently abandoned their attempt to get people to pay for their columnists. But somebody's got to pay for the internet...
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The paperless office was forecast years ago - and never happened. But the global airlines body IATA has set the stage for the paperless air transit system, by placing what it called the last order for paper tickets, ever. "In just 278 more days, the paper ticket will become a...
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It's been nearly two years since since Sony got into the rootkit business. Not intentionally, but the DRM installed by Sony BMG CDs when you tried to play them on your PC had rootkit qualities. Not only that, but in a real-life example of the vulnerability, hackers used it to hack World of...
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After Manhunt 2 was banned in the UK and the ESRB gave it an Adult Only (AO) rating, things looked bleak for the game. The AO rating is more or less a death knell for a game that plans to release on consoles, as Sony and Nintendo both forbid AO titles to be published for their systems.We know...
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No, it’s not April Fool’s day, and this news is just too strange to have been made up: The arcade classic Joust is heading to the silver screen.For those of you who don’t recall Joust, it was more or less a game where warriors riding gigantic bird-like creatures (think the world’s first Chocobos) jousted on a series of platforms. Like most...
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YouTube faces harsh criticism in Germany over Neo-Nazi clips that are on its site. What's surprising is not the presence of such material, but rather that complaints have been made as many as 100 times, and yet the clips are still there. In fact, according to the report, some have been there...
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OCZ Technology Announces MicroSD Flash Cards and Adaptors, the Optimal Mobile Multimedia Storage Solution Sunnyvale, CA—August 27, 2007—OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today introduced...
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If you are a user in the United States, you can no longer use TorrentSpy. However, that's not necessarily a bad thing as the site had been ordered to start tracking users. Citing privacy, TorrentSpy now gives an error message if a user with a U.S. IP address tries to search. US users of the popular Torrent search site TorrentSpy...
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We've just received word from Intel, that on September 5, they will announce the winners of the 2nd annual Intel Game Demo Contest. Nearly $100,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded in two categories: Best Threaded Game and Best Game on the Go. The winners of this worldwide contest...
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Processors: Revisiting the Past Part 3: Single-Core Intel NetBurst Processors @ Digit-Life Motherboards & Chipsets: Gigabyte P35-DQ6 Motherboard Review @ HardwareLogic...
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We’re writing to let you all know that we have just posted a new article here at HotHardware in which we evaluate the features, performance, and overclockability of the HIS Radeon HD 2600 Pro IceQ Turbo 512MB graphics card. Like the other members of HIS’ IceQ Turbo family of graphics cards, this Radeon HD 2600 features an oversized, near...
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Is one-hand control better than two? For years that's been the design around smartphones. And that's the way we've used a variety of smartphones. However, Apple went its own way and designed a UI that, unless you have some pretty flexible fingers, requires two hands to operate. "Everyone...
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