Michael Santo
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Video: Radeon HD 6850: Grinding Diamonds @ InsideHW AMD Radeon HD 6870 & HD 6850 Review @ Hardware Canucks Legion Hardware - (AMD Radeon HD 6870) HIS Radeon HD 6870 1 GB @ techPowerUp AMD 6800 Series Review @ OCC Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 1GB Video Card Review @ ThinkComputers.org AMD Radeon HD 6850 & HD 6870 Launch Review @ Neoseeker...
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Virgin Galactic's spaceport, Spaceport America, has christened its first runway. The New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) on Saturday dedicated the nearly two-mile long "Governor Bill Richardson Spaceway" at Spaceport America with Governor Bill Richardson, Sir Richard Branson and about 30 of more than 380 Virgin Galactic future astronauts...
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With no deals in place, this really should not be a surprise. Networks are blocking those using Google TV to access their websites from viewing content, such as full-length episodes, which can normally be viewed on a browser. For example, you can go to CBS' website and watch full-length episodes of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation." Not, however,...
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A report in Business Week shows us one way that Google keeps its bottom line up. Using a complicated structure, the company sends most of its overseas profits overseas to known tax havens. With that, Google's corporate overseas tax rate is a low, low 2.4 percent. For a company with the unofficial motto of "Don't be evil," this seems, well,...
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It's always hilarious when a security firm has its site hacked or has some other security-related SNAFU occur that you would think their own products could prevent. Such is the case with Kaspersky Labs, which recently saw its site not just hacked, but serving up malware. Reports first came from users on Kaspersky's own support forums. The...
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Verizon Wireless will be joining AT&T as the second of the big 4 U.S. wireless carriers to offer a tiered data plan, on Oct. 28th, a report indicates. Unlike AT&T, however, Verizon Wireless will continue to offer an unlimited data tier, and the price will unchanged from the current unlimited plan. Here are the...
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Never one to shy away from a bit of a bit of hyperbole, Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who usually eschews Apple post-earnings' analyst calls, dropped in yesterday to participate in, he said, Apple's first $20 billion quarter earnings call. He also took the time to go off on a 5 minute anti-Android rant, after being prompted by a question. The...
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BGR has heard from one of its sources, and the news involves the iPhone3,2 device we've seen wandering around recent firmware. According to BGR's source, that device has reached the “AP” or last stage before retail release (which is one stage past the iPhone 4 hofbrau leak). Strangely, BGR reports that the new phone also has a...
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Video: Palit GeForce GTS 450 Low Profile 1GB Video Card @ Tweaktown Funky Kit Review: Gigabyte Geforce GTS 450 Extreme Overclock Motherboards and Chipsets: ASUS Rampage III Formula @ PureOverclock EVGA Classified Super Record 2 SR-2 Motherboard Review @ Legit Reviews Memory and Storage: Futurelooks News Flash - Patriot Memory's Xporter Rage...
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We frequently hear from our Canadian friends about how much they are reamed for their cell phone plans. The New American Foundation's Open Technology Initiative (OTI) has done a study and confirmed that. The U.S. is second most expensive, but trails by quite a bit. The report's conclusion, unsurprisingly, is that...
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In terms of Google's names for its Android releases, we didn't expect a change, and we're not getting one. Reportedly, the name for the next unnamed version of Android will be "Ice Cream." Hopefully you are not lactose-intolerant. We already knew that Android 3.0, the next major release, would be "Gingerbread," with Android 3.5 being...
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Video: ASUS ENGT430 1GB DDR3 Video Card at Modders-Inc Zotac GTX460 2GB review @ t-break Asus ENGTX460 DirectCU TOP Graphics Card Review @ XbitLabs Motherboards and Chipsets: Gigabyte 890FXA-UD7 AM3 Motherboard Review @ Hardware Canucks Memory and Storage: Patriot Inferno 120GGB SSD Review @ OCC WD Caviar Black 2TB & VelociRaptor 600GB...
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Apple has won a patent for the coveted pinch-to-zoom feature. The patent application was filed in December of 2006 (patent #7,812,826). However, the patent issued does not give Apple complete control over the pinch-to-zoom functionality, which now exists on just about every current-generation platform. Here's the section of the patent that...
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Gorilla Glass or no, the iPhone 4's screen appears to be more fragile than its predecessors. According to SquareTrade, a third party warranty company (including accidental coverage), iPhone 4 glass breakage is up 82 percent over the iPhone 3GS. Additionally, accidental damage in total is up 68 percent over the prior model. SquareTrade analyzed...
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Wal-Mart has reportedly confirmed what was believed for some time, that the iPad is coming to its retail stores on Friday, Oct. 15. The company said as early as May that it wanted to have the iPad in time for the holidays, and its arch-rival Target recently began offering the hot-selling tablet, on Oct. 3rd. Wal-Mart will have all six versions...
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Video: Asus GeForce GTS 450 Review by Ultimate Hardware iXBT Labs Review: Zotac GeForce GTX 470/480 AMP and GTX 465 Graphics Cards Motherboards and Chipsets: [DreamWare Computers] Jetway HZ03 AM3 Motherboard Memory and Storage: Kingston HyperX H2O 6GB DDR3-2000 @ PureOverclock WD SiliconEdge Blue: WD on the SSD Market @ InsideHW ACRyan PlayOn!DVR...
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While a Verizon iPhone is widely anticipated for early 2011, the question remains: will it support 4G? On Verizon this would mean LTE, and Verizon is set to roll that out to 38 metropolitan areas and 62 airports by the end of 2010. The answer to that question, reportedly, is "no such luck." According to TechCrunch, not only will the rumored...
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Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, AKA the VSS Enterprise, reached a major milestone on Sunday when it achieved free flight, achieving itsfirst piloted gliding flight. Released at 45,000 feet by its mothership, WhiteKnightTwo AKA Eve, VSS Enterprise touched down some 11 minutes afterward. The spacecraft was not equipped with a rocket motor for...
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Google's drive for innovation is extending to the road. The company has been testing automated, self-driving automobiles, and the cars, six Toyota Priuses and an Audi TT, have logged a total of 140,000 miles. The cars have even driven down Lombard Street in San Francisco, the "crookedest street in America." Google's blog post on the new technology:...
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Video: Funky Kit Review: MSI Geforce GTX 465 Frozr II (N465GTX) Cirago HydraDisplay X3 Displayport to 3 DVI Multimonitor Adapter @ TestFreaks ASUS GeForce GTS 450 DirectCU TOP: Cool and Affordable @ InsideHW Motherboards and Chipsets: Jetway Hummer HI06 Intel H55 Motherboard at Modders-Inc ASRock 890GX Extreme4 and 890FX Deluxe4 Motherboard...
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The domain name registry NIC.ly started a ruckus earlier this week, when it revoked the vb.ly domain shared by Violet Blue and Ben Metcalfe. On Friday, NIC.ly decided to chime in and give its side of the story. To be honest, the actual reason for the revoking of the domain name is what we expected: it violated local law. vb.ly advertised itself...
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Exoskeletons definitely have military uses, but what about something for regular folks? You might think none of them would need an exoskeleton, but there's an obvious use case: paraplegics. On Thursday, Berkeley Bionics, an San Francisco Bay Area company founded in 2005, unveiled what it calls eLEGS. eLEGS stands for Exoskeleton Lower Extremity...
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