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Claiming to be the best at anything is bold. From professional athletes to product manufacturers, stating you or your product is the best out there opens things up for closer scrutiny. Being the best at what you do, or what you make, means near flawless execution. ...
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OCZ Technology Announces 500W StealthXStream PSU, a Power Management Solution with Excellent ValueSunnyvale, CA—October 23, 2007—OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high-reliability memory and power supplies, today announced the new 500 Watt...
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If you're on the Internet, you must be aware of identity theft. Hardly a day goes by without news of another version of a phishing scam designed to coax the unwary into offering up their precious personal information, never mind the more complex and insidious malware approaches to theft. ...
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The headline works best if you sing it like Tony Bennett. Cisco Systems has purchased Navini Networks for $330 million dollars to get their hands on Navini's networking equipment business. Navini makes the WiMax version of wireless equipment that is poised to become the industry standard for the 3G data transfer protocol.Unlike Wi-Fi,...
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In recent months Comcast has been accused of blocking BitTorrent traffic on more than one occasion and the company has even gone so far as to cut customers off who use an 'excessive' amount of their 'unlimited' bandwidth.On one side of the recently drawn battle lines are the customers who are...
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The past 30 days has seen some major events in the global anti-piracy war: Demonoid (operating out of Canada) went off the air for a week or so, both Dutch & U.K. police had major network busts in their respective territories and now it appears that a joint operation have shut down OiNK.“OiNK distributed albums often weeks ahead of their...
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Monday Verizon unveiled a new new, symmetrical Verizon FiOS Internet service for consumers, featuring an upload and download speed of up to 20Mbps. Yes, you read that right, 20Mbps upload. The service went live in parts of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut on Monday.The 20/20 service is...
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Video: Viewsonic VA2226w 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor @ PC PerspectiveZotac Technology 256MB geForce 8600GTS Graphics Card @ OCIA.netMSI RX2600XT Diamond Radeon HD 2600XT Videocard @ PCStats Motherboards & Chipsets: ASUS Maximus Formula Special Edition motherboard @ Elite BastardsMSI P6N SLI @ Digit-Life Memory & Storage: A-DATA 16GB...
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Picture A One-Stop Multimedia Studio With The Dell XPS 420Round Rock, Texas, October 23, 2007 - Dell today announced the XPS 420 – a premium multimedia desktop PC that features Dell-exclusive Adobe Elements Studio software pre-installed, including Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 &...
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Want to find out if you're dating a player? Or simply want revenge (as we could see as a possible abuse of this service)? This could be the service for you, and it's all text message-based.Based on the highly optimistic starting assumption that "people cheat and lie while dating and in relationships," PlayerBlock claims to be the...
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Hitachi makes personal computers? Well, they did; but now they don't. Hitachi announced today they are ceasing manufacturing of most kinds of personal computers. Hitachi is already outsourcing the production of their business computers to Hewlett-Packard, and will continue to sell them...
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Samsung is the first manufacturer to utilize 30-nanometer scale technology for NAND flash chips. It introduced its very powerful and very small 64 gigabit flash chip earlier today. 30 nanonmeters is 30 billionths of a meter. A single chip could be assembled from the maximum 16 of these...
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Don't ask us why Apple would even offer this information, but they did. It was, however, in response to a question regarding the effect of the $200 drop in price on sales.Apple’s earnings calls are notoriously devoid of information, but Apple’s chief operating officer, Timothy...
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Three years have passed since the European Commission ordered that Microsoft make three major changes to how it supplies interoperability information to other OS/NOS vendors seeking to develop products that can communicate with Windows desktops and servers.Change #1: developers must be allowed access to source code! That's right, MS...
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Apple stocks continue to climb despite law suits over iPhone and foreign governments demanding that the Cupertino-based Apple make amends for knowingly selling faulty iBooks a few years back.Another major factor in Apple's performance is, of course, sales. Two of the major sales factors (outside of the iPhone) are the new Universal Binary...
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Intel stock holders and hardware junkies alike, you now have a very good reason to rejoice: It looks like Intel's next-generation Nehalem platform will be available around this time next year.Nehalem will be Intel's first consumer-oriented platform with Quick Path Interconnect (QPI) and an on-die memory controller. QPI is similar to...
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Video: VVIKOO GeForce 8600 GT Turbo @ techPowerUp Motherboards & Chipsets: ASUS P5E3 Deluxe @ PhoronixGigabyte GA-P35-DS4 @ Bjorn3D Memory & Storage: Corsair Flash Drives @ t-breakOCZ Flex XLC PC2-6400 CL3 @ DV HardwareOCZ ATV Turbo 4Gb Flash Drive @ ClubOC.net Power: Coolmax CUQ-1200B Green Power 1200 Watt ATX Power Supply @ Tweaknews.net...
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Maybe someday, but not now. At the "Robot Athletic Meet 2007" in Japan, robots met on the soccer field. Though they showed some moves (some were remotely-controlled and some automatically), none were channeling Pele.For the contestants, most of the movements were, well, mechanical and even a little clumsy -- far from the acrobatic...
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When AMD first revealed their plans for the DTX open industry standard, the intent of that early briefing was to explain AMD’s vision for interoperable small form factor systems. As it stands today, most SFF systems from large companies like Dell and HP are proprietary designs. On the...
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It was back in January of this year at the Consumer Electronics Show that AMD first revealed their plans for the DTX open industry standard for small form factor computers. The focus of those early briefings was to explain AMD’s vision for interoperable small form factor systems. ...
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Don't bother to try this on your iPhone as it's tied to iTunes (naturally), but for other phones, AT&T has announced the Napster Mobile via AT&T Mobile Music service. Starting in mid-November customers will be able to browse 5 millions songs in the Napster catalog and download them directly to their phones.Songs will cost...
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IBM will announce today that they've partnered with Taiwanese chip manufacturer MediaTek to develop and sell super high-speed chipsets that can wirelessly transfer hi-def-video-sized files between computers, televisions, and other gadgets at speeds over 100 times faster than current...
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