Michael Santo
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The Motion Picture Association of America has always claimed great financial, er, ruin based on illegal downloads, and even blamed as much as 44% of its losses on college students. Now it turns out that number was just a wee overinflated.In a 2005 study it commissioned, the Motion Picture Association of America claimed that 44 percent...
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The Apple trifecta of the iPhone, the iPod, and Mac PCs helped Apple to its best quarter in history, with the highest revenue and earnings in Apple’s history. Apple shipped 2,319,000 Macintosh® computers, representing 44 percent unit growth and 47 percent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 22,121,000 iPods during...
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Anytime Apple intros something, it takes down its store to update the site. Naturally, Tuesday, being the day Apple is to announce its financial results, the store going down led to wild speculation. Yup, it's down again... on a Tuesday... just hours before they announce their quarterly financials. We've been hearing about new pink iPod...
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This might not be a bad idea considering the real-life murder related to Lineage II we wrote about earlier, but still ...The South American nation famous for its ability to create great soccer players, attractive swimsuit models and land that used to be rainforests has brought the banhammer down upon two of the world's most popular online...
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Video: ECS N8800GT-512X Graphics card with Accelero S1 passive cooler @ OCWASUS EAH3850 Top ATI HD 3850 Video Card Review @ I4UDiamond Radeon HD 3850 512MB Ruby Edition Video Card @ Legit Reviews Motherboards & Chipsets: ASUS Maximus Formula (Non-SE) @ Bjorn3DAsus Blitz Extreme Review @ OCCSUPoX AK780G AMD RS780+SB700 mainboard @ OCWASUS...
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HP Blackbird 002 now Available with New Intel Quad Core Technology PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 15, 2008 - HP today announced the immediate availability of HP Blackbird 002 alpha, a special edition version of its flagship gaming system with the new Intel® Core™2 Extreme QX9650 quad...
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ASUS Striker II Formula Motherboard Offers PC Gamers the Ultimate SLI Platform-- Based on the NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI MCP, the new ASUS ROGmotherboard supports 3-way SLI technology out-of-box --FREMONT, CA (January 21, 2008) – ASUS®, worldwide leader in component and notebook design and...
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The iPhone has put on a suit, as AT&T now considers it an Enterprise-class device.AT&T finally got around to rolling out business plans for the iPhone, but what's odd is that the data plans are significantly more money than the same exact service that residential customers get - $25 a month more to be exact. But then when you read...
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Online video games are serious business, with millions playing games around the world. Usually the pwning occurs in the virtual world, but sometimes as in this case, the line gets blurred and it crosses into the real world.It all started when two clans - the Coo-clocks, made up of mostly...
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Processors: Intel Core 2 Performance Comparison Guide @ TechARPAMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Black Edition CPU Review @ Virtual-Hideout Memory & Storage: Thermaltake Max 4 Active Cooling eSATA and USB 3.5" SATA HDD Enclosure Review @ DragonSteelMods.comKingston HyperX DDR3 PC3-14400 2Gb Kit @ CPU3DVIZO Luxon Advanced ED Enclosure @ CPU3D Cases,...
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It's a weekend, and a holiday weekend to boot, so the site might stay this way for some time. Someone apparently used SQL injection to wipe, and we do mean wipe, the RIAA's website clean of content.Apparently the RIAA is so busy suing consumers that they forgot to hire a decent programmer. With a simple SQL injection, all their propaganda...
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The Wii Fit has already hit one million in sales in Japan, but those of us here in the States lucky enough to have a Nintendo Wii who want a new way to lose some weight have been left out. Well, Nintendo has detailed a "partial" list of upcoming Wii and DS games through the first of half of 2008, and Wii Fit is on the list - though not...
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Video: HIS HD 3870 IceQ 3 Turbo 512MB GDDR4 Video Card @ 3DGameMan Motherboards & Chipsets: ASUS P5K3 Deluxe WiFi-AP Intel P35 Motherboard @ BmR Processors: AMD 5000+ Black Edition AM2 X2 Processor Review @ OCC Memory & Storage: OCZ 2GB nVidia SLI-Ready Edition Kit (2x1024MB) PC2-8500/DDR2-1066 Memory Review @ OCInside.deOCZ ReaperX...
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Who could have imagined? Free shipping is a crime? In France, it is.Amazon.com said on Monday that it would rather pay €1000 a day in fines than abolish its free shipping on books in France.Free shipping from Amazon.fr is apparently a violation of a 1981 law that was passed to ensure the French public receives equal access...
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Gizmodo thought they had come up with a way to fool iTunes into giving them an extended video rental. They tried mucking with the system clock when downloading the video. Oops, they were wrong.Alright so it appears to no longer work. Here's what happened on our end. Before, we had...
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Video: Asus EAH3850 TOP 256Mb DDR3 @ CPU3DMSI NX8800GT-T2D256E-OC (GeForce 8800 GT 256MB) @ HardwareZoneXFX 8800GTS 512 Alpha Dog Edition @ CDRInfoDiamond Multimedia HD 3850 Ruby Edition 512MB @ techPowerUpDesktop Graphics Card Comparison Guide @ TechARPNVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT: G94 Arrives Early @ PC Perspective Motherboards & Chipsets:...
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Today Yahoo! announced it has joined OpenID, in one fell swoop legitimizing it as a universal Internet login method, as well as tripling the number of OpenID accounts.Yahoo!'s initial OpenID service, which will be available in public beta on January 30, enables a seamless and transparent web experience by allowing users to use their custom...
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It's well-known that Comcast has hidden bandwidth caps. How would you feel about a publicized hard cap?Time Warner Cable may be exploring the possibility of implementing overage charges for its RoadRunner cable broadband service. According to excerpts from a leaked internal memo posted...
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Video: Dell E248WFP 24" LCD Monitor - Review @ Boot Daily.comGeForce 8800 GTS 512MB Roundup - Albatron, eVGA and XFX @ Legit ReviewsXFX 8800 GT Alpha Dog XXX Edition 256MB Review @ Neoseeker Motherboards & Chipsets: Intel D201GLY2 ITX Motherboard @ ASE LabsFoxconn X38A Digital Life Motherboard @ TweaktownASRock 4Core1600P35-WiFi+ @ PhoronixXFX...
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ASUS Outlines Roll-out Plan for Windows Eee PCFremont, CA ( January 16 , 2008 ) – ASUS North American headquarters today confirmed the plan to offer channel-wide availability of the Microsoft W indows™ XP-based Eee PC. The ASUS Eee PC defines a new category of computing device that...
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If there's any doubt that Intel's RE-dominance over AMD has been completed, one need only look at these financial results.The year 2007 was all about "payback time" for Intel. While its annual revenue only climbed a modest 8% to $38.3 billion for the year, net income was up a delightful 38% to $7 billion, and earnings per share climbed 37%...
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Today Apple unveiled the much-anticipated razor-thin notebook, the MacBook Air. One problem though. More on that later.During his Macworld Expo keynote address on Tuesday morning, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the MacBook Air Tuesday, a computer that the company billed as the world's thinnest notebook -- small enough to fit inside...
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