Chad Weirick
Chad Weirick
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The battle of the integrated graphics chips is heating up, and the latest rumor is that the AMD RS780 will offer better performance then the NVIDIA MCP 78S. A few years ago many people wouldn't care what kind of graphics performance their IGP could produce, but these last few generations of on-board video have done a great job closing...
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What's worse than a little girl receiving a porn-laden iPod for Christmas? How about one with a bizarre rant that looks like something out of a Batman movie?The message is more or less a rant about “capitalist garbage” and “reclaiming your mind from the media shackles” according to reports."Jay Ellis, the girls father, returned the ipod...
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The latest rumor doing the rounds is that AMD's Athlon X2 may replaced by a dual-core K10 by the end of the first quarter of 2008. This is just a rumor, but we've been expecting AMD to transition their dual-core offerings from the now 'old' K8 designs to the newer K10 for some time. “AMD will launch a new series of dual-core products...
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As with all rumors, please take the following with a grain of salt. A new rumor is being circulated that AMD's upcoming triple-core CPUs are likely to hit the shelves sometime in March 2008:“AMD will launch two B2 stepping triple-core CPUs, Phenom 8600 and 8400 in March of next year, while in the second quarter, the company will launch...
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“IBM has licensed its next-generation technology for manufacturing processors to Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., the largest Chinese chipmaker, the companies said Wednesday. The partnership spotlights the growing technical abilities in China, a country that's already a manufacturing powerhouse for lower-tech products. Terms...
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Apple's stocks hit $200 in the middle of the trading day before finishing up at $199.97. This is a record high for the Cupertino-based company.It's hard to imagine that only 10 years ago Bill Gates more or less bailed Apple out of serious financial trouble. What a difference a decade can make."Apple shares have traded between $76.77...
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The Optimus Keyboard has been the source of a lot of attention and speculation, which is especially unusual for a keyboard. Initially the four-digit asking price was the source of most of the press, but then came the rumors of the delays. It seems that the latest rumors about yet another delay are false:“Optimus themselves have...
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This holiday season has been very generous to e-tailers, with record breaking numbers left and right. This begs a few questions such as: what changed from last year? Well, one of the largest changes appears to be what consumers were shopping for:“According to early online shopping statistics, sales of holiday stalwarts like jewelry,...
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This tidbit comes straight out of the rumor department, so remember to take it with a grain of salt:“AMD has recently notified its partners that the launch of higher-end quad-core Phenom processors, including the 9700 and 9900, will be postponed to the second quarter of 2008 from the original schedule of early 2008, according to sources at...
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Despite being known as an icon of traditional British values, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has opened her own Royal YouTube channel.“The queen will use the popular video-sharing website to send out her 50th annual televised Christmas message, which she first delivered live to the nation and its colonies on Dec. 25, 1957.Buckingham Palace...
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Apple certainly picked an excellent time to partner with Intel. The two firms have worked together to deliver a wide range of products that have greatly improved the computing experience for “the rest of us.”It seems that the relationship between the two companies might spawn a completely new range of Apple products: Intel-powered UMPCs.“People...
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With a major brain drain still in effect at Sony Online Entertainment, Sony's gaming division, it seems that SOE might be up for sale. Who would they sell to?Activision is probably not in the market after their recent merger announcement. Who else could there be?“India's Economic Times, citing anonymous sources and an unnamed Zapak...
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It seems that online retail is continuing to do very well this year, and has shown marked gains from even a year ago. We can certainly understand the appeal after spending untold hours in lines and fighting traffic.ComScore has been tracking online sales figures, and those figures certainly look amazing:“During the first 48 days of the...
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Intel has been performing nearly flawlessly of late, but a rumor has surfaced regarding their allegedly revised release schedule. At this time it is only a rumor, and shouldn't be taken as fact until we hear more. Allegedly Intel's 45 nm High-K isn't working too well with low-end chips.“The problem with this one is that changing...
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Google Inc.'s $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick Inc. has been cleared by the Federal Trade Commission despite heavy opposition from Microsoft and AT&T.The next step of the deal is to be cleared by the powers that be in other regions of the world that Google operates in.“The deal, announced in April, will combine Google's leading position...
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Google's plan to acquire DoubleClick Inc. has run into a snag. That snag's name is the European Commission, which acts as the EU's anti-competition watchdog. Despite the Federal Trade Commission approving the takeover, the EC feels that the merger will have a detrimental effect to European consumers:"The Google/DoubleClick merger...
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From the wild rumor and speculation department comes a tale of two future AMD platforms aimed at corporate customers. Like any great love triangle, there's a(n alleged) problem: lack of resources to properly develop both at once.In this case, we're talking about AMD's upcoming Bulldozer architecture, which will follow likely follow the...
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According to research provided by the security firm Securina, Mac OS X has approximately 10 times the number of critical vulnerabilities of Windows XP and Vista combined. We'll let the numbers speak for themselves:“While Mac OS X had 234 highly critical vulnerabilities reported in 2007, Vista and XP combined had 23, Ou wrote."This shows...
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We recently reported that Intel may postponing the release of their X48 chipset by a month or two, and now it looks like they may be doing the same with their 45 nm “Yorkfield” quad-core CPUs. While the X48 delay is allegedly to make motherboard manufacturers happy, the delay of the CPUs seems to stem from AMD's Phenom not being available...
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Romanian antivirus firm, BitDefender, claims to have discovered malicious code in Google's AdSense service. Google has been swift to respond:Google said on Wednesday: "We have canceled customer accounts that display ads redirecting users to malicious sites or that advertise a product violating our software principles.""We actively work...
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A recent update to Quicken Pro is having an adverse effect on some Macs. By adverse effect, we mean that it's deleting non-Quicken related data on the desktop. Yes, the desktop, the same place that users often put data they're currently working on.“The update caused several Mac users to lose data from their Desktop folders, infuriating...
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We recently had the opportunity to test Intel's upcoming QX 9770 CPU and of course a supporting X48-powered motherboard. At that time we were informed that Intel was hoping to launch both products in Q1 '08, but now we're hearing rumors that the X48 chipset might be delayed by a month or two.Apparently the delay has little to do with...
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