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There is no doubt that spam is pervasive and can be a major productivity killer if the right safeguards aren't in place. In fact, MessageLabs indicates that 78.2 percent of all e-mails sent during the month of August were spam. To make matters worse, Sophos reports that by the end of June, 96.5 percent of all e-mails to businesses were spam....
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No, no one at the ISP was arrested, so strike that from your mind. In this case, it was Carol Sinclair, a 53-year-old Halifax actress and playwright. Her service went down, and in a typical finger-pointing episode, the ISP pointed a finger at her PC, and she pointed at the ISP. Eventually, she lied to get them to come out...
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The best DirecTV DVR was the DirecTiVo, and that is no longer sold --- and we can likely thank Rupert Murdoch for some of that, as it was his desire after acquiring a controlling stake in DirecTV to move to in-house DVRs. Now he's gone, but we still have the DirecTV DVRs. But for DirecTiVo lovers there is light at the end of the tunnel! On...
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Hulu, the joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corp. (Fox) announced on Tuesday post the premieres of many shows not as soon as they appear on TV, but rather prior to broadcast. Hulu said it would be showing the season-opening episodes of Knight Rider, Lipstick Jungle, Chuck, Life and 30 Rock a full week before the shows hit the airwaves. You...
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Video:ZOTAC GeForce GTX 260 AMP! Edition Video Card Review @ FutureLooksPowerColor HD4870 PCS+ Review @ OCCPalit 9800GT Super+ 1GB Single/SLI Video Card Review @ MotherboardsViewSonic VX1962wm 19-inch Widescreen LCD Monitor Review @ ThinkComputers.orgPNY GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB XLR8 Video Card Review @ TheTechLoungeMotherboards and Chipsets:GIGABYTE...
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There is little doubt that Internet access for many of us has transmogrified from the realm of useful tool to downright obsession. In fact, about a month ago we reported on a study that showed that 46 percent of U.S. e-mail users claim to be addicted to e-mail. Now a new study coming out of the U.K. gives a name to the malady we suffer when...
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You may have grand visions of owning an Optimus Maximus but we'd caution that there are likely more practical uses of your hard-earned cashola, rather than splurging on frivelous things like a keyboard with independent displays for each key. And with pricing well north of $1800, you can't be serious, right? For a keyboard? ...
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Last month, we announced an exciting sweepstakes in which we planned to give away a full Intel Core 2 Quad 9650-powered system, complete with 2GB of Kingston DDR3 RAM, a pair of ATI Radeon HD 4870 graphics cards and a Western Digital 1TB Black Edition hard drive. The response we received after the announcement was fantastic...
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Force feedback has become commonplace in today's game controllers. To many, the simulated forces create a more realistic game-play environment. A group of scientists at the University of Tokyo in Japan are on working on a new technology that can potentially allow force feedback-type sensations and controller input without the need of a joystick...
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VIA Announces Major Mini-Note Design Win for China Tsinghua TongFang - Taipei, Taiwan, 2 September 2008 - VIA Technologies, Inc., a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today announced the S1 imini Mini-Note Series from Tsinghua TongFang, Co. Ltd., a leading PC OEM based in Beijing. Easy to carry and use, the S1 imini...
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Dell's answer to the Asus Eee PC, the Inspiron 910, now has a date, according to reports. While there is still no confirmation as the price, which has been widely rumored as $299, it appears the netbook will be showing up "any time soon." According to Gizmodo, that day will be Friday, Sept. 5th. It should be noted this isn't the first date...
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A job posting spotted on ComputerJobs.com shows that Microsoft is looking for a Senior Product Manager for a project called Skymarket, a "a v1 marketplace service for Windows Mobile." With both Apple and Google either having or planning centralized stores for applications for their platforms, Microsoft's been the odd-man out. There are various...
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Traditional hard disk storage is living on borrowed time. We know it and storage manufacturers know it. Solid state drives, which use non-volatile memory chips instead of rotating metal discs for storing data, are simply a better medium in the long run. They consume less power, create nearly zero heat, and produce no noise – but best of all,...
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Traditional hard disk storage is living on borrowed time. We know it and storage manufacturers know it. Solid state drives, which use non-volatile memory chips instead of rotating metal discs for storing data, are simply a better medium in the long run. They consume less power, create nearly zero heat, and produce no noise – but best...
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Video:Palit HD 4870 Sonic Dual Edition 512 MB @ techPowerUp Gainward Radeon HD 4850 review @ Ultimate HardwarePalit Radeon HD 4870 512MB Review @ TechgagePalit GeForce 9800GT Sonic 512MB Video Card Review @ ThinkComputers.orgMotherboards and Chipsets:ASUS M3N-HT Deluxe / Mempipe Motherboard @ Digit-LifeMemory and Storage:ATP ToughDrive...
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As we've recently told you, SSDs will be the storage technology of the future. In addition, we're also quickly coming to a close on the launch of our first comprehensive SSD round-up here at HotHardware, that will give you a good sense of where SSD technology stands today in the mainstream and where it's going in the future. Gazing...
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There have been rumors of a Google-developed browser circulating for a few years now, and it appears that rumor is about to become fact. The Wall Street Journal posted a news story today confirming that a launch of Google's open-source web browser, now known as Google Chrome, is imminent..."Google Inc. confirmed that it plans to launch its...
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Video:ATI All-In-Wonder HD Video Card Review @ MotherboardsASUS HD4870-X2 @ t-breakMotherboards and Chipsets:Gigabyte GA-EG43-S2H Motherboard @ CPU3DSapphire ATI Radeon HD 4850 @ TechwareLabsMemory and Storage:Internal 3.5" Multi Card Reader Review @ DragonSteelModsPower:APC Power-Saving SurgeArrest P7GT Power Strip @ TechwareLabsTopower PowerBird...
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There's simply no denying that many tech enthusiasts love all things small. As of late, with the likes of products such as the Asus Eee PC, Lenovo ThinkPad X200, Dell Studio Hybrid and other small form-factor systems; thin, small and light is definitely "in" and has become a fad of sorts. What is this obsession with small? ...
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Email spam got you down? Is your first name Aaron? A study by Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton shows that the first letter of your email address has a lot to do with the amount of spam you receive. The study (.PDF), titled "Do Zebras get more Spam than Aardvarks?" analyzed traffic logs from the U.K. ISP Demon Internet....
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It's that time again folks! In conjunction with our friends at Intel, AMD, Kingston, WD, and Thermaltake we have assembled one hot rig to give away this month! We're announcing yet another new sweepstakes where you could win a full Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650-based system, complete with a pair of screaming...
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On Thursday Comcast announced a 250 GB cap for their broadband service. We applauded the fact that they finally gave some transparency to their "hidden" cap, which had always snagged a few users, without telling them exactly how much their use should be, but then we realized: where's the meter? Time-Warner Cable is currently trying out...
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