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Yahoo's payment processing system suffered periodic system disruptions early in the week after 'Cyber Monday' kicked off. Errors were first reported by merchants who reported complaints from their customers.Untold numbers of merchants use the service, but we're betting that its a very high number, Nobody has provided a clear estimate...
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Super Talent Introduces Industrial Temperature SSDs San Jose, California – November 27, 2007 -- Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, today announced a new line of Solid State Drives (SSDs) that are rated to operate over a -40C to...
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We've reported twice about the potential routing bottlenecks that the Internet might face in the near future, usually in the 2-3 years time frame. We're not the only ones who are worried about this as an Internet overload could have financial repercussions that would make the post-911 economic slump seem like a stroll in the park.Virtually...
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It is no secret that Advanced Micro Devices hasn't had the best couple of quarters, but they seem to have a very deep strategy for getting back in black. Obviously that strategy includes excellent new products such as the Radeon HD 3000 series and the Phenom CPUs and chipsets, but that's only part of the picture.Apparently AMD has entered...
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Video: ASUS GeForce 8800GT 512MB Graphics Card @ TweaktownXFX 8800 GT Alpha Dog XXX Edition @ Bjorn3DDiamond ATI HD 3850/3870 Review @ Motherboards.org Motherboards & Chipsets: MSI K9AGM2-FIH AMD Motherboard @ TheTechLoungeAsus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi @ CDR-Info Processors: Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core QX 9650 Review @ OCCIntel Core 2 eXtreme...
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For those who not only want to be on the bleeding edge, but want to be as fast as possible as well, Mtron has introduced the first SSD hard drive for consumers that, according to them, can reach data read rates of up to 100 MB/s. Based on their success in high performance SSD products...
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According to reports, AMD will move away from mega-GPU chips with their next release, codenamed R700.Modern graphics processors rely on extensive amounts of parallelism to get calculations done as quickly as possible, but those GPUs are still monolithic chips designed with a given number of stream processors, texture units, render back-ends,...
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We haven't been shy about our love for ASUS's new ultra-portable laptop, the Eee PC. Thus we were a bit surprised to hear that new Eee PC purchaser Cliff Biffle is threatening legal action over the alleged inclusion of proprietary software and hardware that may be in violation of the GPL.“Biffle decided to disassemble the software --...
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If you said Western Digital's new RE2-GP series of drives, then you are correct.The entire IT industry is doing their best to look as energy efficient (or green) as possible these days, and it seems that the trend hasn't left any product category untouched. So what exactly does it take...
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Online office packages beware! There's a new player on the field, and its name is Live Documents, developed by Instant Collaboration Software Technologies out of Bangalore. Interestingly enough, one of the company principals is Bhaita, who sold Hotmail to Microsoft in '97 for a...
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Today at HotHardware, we have an evaluation of the new FireGL V7600 512MB workstation graphics card on tap. This card is based on the same basic board design as the Radeon HD 2900 lineup for gamers, but it is tweaked on both the hardware and software levels for enhanced workstation...
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iD, makers of some of the most famous video games and franchises in PC history is continuing their courtship of non-PC platforms, in this case mobile platforms. iD's new division, iD mobile, will focus on cell phones, the Nintendo DS and the PSP. We're a bit depressed by the fact that we might have to buy a few platforms just to...
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ATI’s FireGL brand of workstation-class graphics cards have played second fiddle to NVIDIA's offerings for some time now. NVIDIA’s rival Quadro lineup has been an incredibly strong competitor, and combined with the fact that the last several FireGL card releases have suffered from late arrival...
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Video: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Graphics Card Review Rev. 2.0 @ TechARPMemory & Storage: G.Skill DDR2 and DDR3 Memory Kits @ TweaktownMaxtor OneTouch 4 Mini @ t-breakFour USB Flash Drives from A-Data with 4GB Storage Capacity @ X-bit labs Power: Corsair TX750 750W @ PhoronixZalman ZM850-HP Power Supply Review @ Virtual-Hideout Cases: Ultra...
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Last week testers reported that Windows Vista SP1, at least in Release Candidate (RC) form, is still somewhat of a slowpoke. Those same testers have run their suite against Windows XP SP3, and the results are quite different.Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), the update scheduled to...
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The OLPC Foundation's XO-1 laptop is for disadvantaged and needy children in developing nations. Normal users couldn't buy one, until the "Give One, Get One" program.The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation's "Give One, Get One" Program (G1G1), which enabled end users to get an XO-1...
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If you haven't stopped by our Asus HOT Holiday Gift Guide yet, you're missing out. The deals we have on a few very solid Asus notebooks are well, HOT! And who wouldn't like a nice, sleek jet-black or screamin-yellow Lamborghini for the holidays?...
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You break into the blog of a security team - worthy of crowing to your friends. But they break your password back - using Google.You shouldn't, in theory, be able to extract the original text from an MD5 hash. That would take millions, or at least thousands, of computers running all the time.But Steven Murdoch began thinking. Who...
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Pictures of something that the nice boys at ChipHell (is that where bad chips go when they die?) are alleging is an actual Radeon HD 3870 X2 have surfaced and apparently it's a tad on the large side. The card pictured below supposedly has a pair of RV670 GPUs under its hood. Let's have a look-see... 777 MHz GPU,...
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Apple and Burst.com have settled their patent dispute for $10 million USD after two years of litigation. The initial complaint was over four separate patents that covered transmission of compressed audio and video files that were used in iLife, iTunes, QuickTime and of course, the iPod. Given the digital media nature of the listed...
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The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) is dedicated to protecting open-source and free software, thus it comes as a bit of a surprise that they're filing suit against two U.S. Companies that are allegedly redistributing software in violation of the GNU General Public License (GPL). The two companies that are being sued are High-Gain...
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What would be an appropriate response when a government body loses track of discs containing sensitive information roughly half of the population in their country? Before you answer, let's add that the discs were mailed on the 18th of one month and the loss wasn't reported until the 8th...
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