Dave Altavilla
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When eBay bought Skype a while back, I rushed out and picked up a few share of eBay because it just felt like a natural fit. With Skype's ever-popular and amazing VOIP client technology taking off like a rocket, it just seemed like a total home-run for eBay to integrate that...
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Good Morning All! Intel gave us some details on their next gen manufacturing process today and we thought we'd share them with you. We also got a sneak peek at their next gen "Penryn" core processor. Have a look and enjoy! ...
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You want IOPs? Got that... You want Petaflops? Check. Blades? Yeah we got a few of those hanging around too... next to the fiber-optic shelves. News.com has the 411 on the kind of power it takes to run a state of the art production house like Lucasfilms. A...
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VIA VN896 with VIA Chrome9 IGP core supporting DirectX 9.0 and Chromotion 3.0 offers rich visual Hi-Def experience for notebooks and ultra portable devices Taipei, Taiwan, 24 January 2007 - VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC...
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You have to see this technology in action to believe it and get the full effect. This demonstration is about as jaw-dropping as we've seen here for any technology in a very long time. And the speed of the interface is amazing as well... "Jeff Han demonstrates his...
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So you've been through our CES 2007 wrap-up report and dug all the cool gear, along with random musings of El Wopo, but were still left a little parched for something a bit more outside of the box? Adult Toy or Cyber-Cool Air Freshener? You decide and you can share your humble opinion in our lounge area. In the mean, we know...
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Been by the HH PC Hardware Forum lately? You don't know what you're missing. There's some top-secret stuff in there that could very well pump up your mojo with the ladies. Well, ok, so maybe that's a stretch but hey, if you don't get out much like us, you have nothing to lose! Then of course,...
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Now this is interesting. We've seen this coming for a long while here in the US, at least those of us that pay attention to such things relative to the world economy. It seems as though, after years and years of prosperity as the worlds foremost manufacturing super-power, China...
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Marco and I are just back from CES and while we're a little weary from all the walking and a red-eye flight from hell back to the east coast, we're on the mend, thankfully. We had some behind-close-doors time with the folks at Sapphire and got to take a look at some of their new products not yet released to market. One...
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Someone caught Asus a little early for CES it seems and was able to snap a shot of a very innovative new product they'll have on display at the show. Asus' new XG Station will allow any PCI Express compatible graphics...
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What's attractive about the GeForce 7950 GT is that it doesn't cost much more than a 7900 GT yet it offers nearly the same performance of a much pricier 7900 GTX. Additionally, the 7950 GT sports 512MB DDR3 clocked at 1.4GHz (effective). The GPU core runs at a speedy 550MHz and just...
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In our recent fall IDF coverage we told you about Intel's upcoming Santa Rosa platform for Notebooks that employs something known by its code name as the "Robson" module, that incorporates NAND Flash in a solid state disk-cache design. Here's a little demo of...
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Got that Xbox 360 Santa dropped down the chimney revved-up on Gears of War? Or perhaps your tennis elbow is acting up again, after years of dormancy, due to a little too much Wii-laxing? It's all about the consoles this year it seems. And if you weren't careful you might...
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Having just gone out for some last minute stocking stuffers for my significant (very significant if I know what's good for me) other, I can totally relate to this headline and story. I purchased 6 cartridges in total for an HP Photosmart 8450 printer and it cost me over $170. Now mind you, the printer itself, almost a...
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When you think of the "ultimate computer upgrade", visions of powerful graphics cards, a blistering fast CPU, a spacious-high density hard drive or perhaps another Gig or two of memory to feed your ever-hungry OS might come to mind. On the surface, these are all very reasonable...
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Good cooling is pretty much an art form. It takes exotic mechanical and aero-thermal engineering to design a cooler with maximum heat transfer and a quiet acoustic signature. 3DGameMan has a look at a universal CoolerMaster HSF that gets the job done pretty and looks good doing it... "The Cooler Master Eclipse cooler has a...
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Since this information is technically not under NDA embargo, we thought we'd share with you that AMD is soon releasing volume to the channel of their new 65nm process-based Athlon 64 X2 dual core chips for socket AM2. The features and performance of these new cores will remain unchanged versus current 90nm models but...
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Just a heads up here to let you know of our latest launch... GeForce 7 Series Round-up with Asus & MSI "Shopping for a GeForce 7 card is akin to stopping at Baskin Robbins these days, with so many flavors to choose from. We decided to grab one of those little plastic spoons and do a...
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As you can imagine we get a ton of email here at HH and of course way more than our fair share of spam, viruses and junkmail. We've been looking around for a long time for a package that does a good job of clearing out the crapola that comes in and let's the good mail...
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Looking for the best HDTVs out there this holiday season? Wired has your 411 from 32 inches to the mondo 62" DLP sets from Toshiba. "Everything-in-a-box systems don't usually inspire superlatives, but Sony's unprecedented TV-home theater combo is a real showstopper. When closed, the TAV-L1 plays audio through a superstylish flat-panel...
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TeleSky and 60 SkypeOut Minutes Now Available With Purchase of Two New ASUS Motherboards Taipei, Taiwan, - ASUSTeK Computer Inc. (ASUS), the worldwide leader of motherboards, today announced that the ASUS TeleSkyTM telecom adaptor will now be included in the package of the M2N/TeleSkyTM and...
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AMD DRIVES NEXT GENERATION OF ENERGY-EFFICIENT COMPUTING WITH 65NM TECHNOLOGY TRANSITION AMD continues track record of on-schedule process technology transitions with rapid conversion to 65nm SUNNYVALE, CALIF. - Dec. 5, 2006 - Launching the next generation of energy-efficient computing, AMD...
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