Michael Santo
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Video: ATI Radeon HD 5670 Shootout - Mainstream Battle Royale @ HardwareZone ATI Catalyst 10.2 Windows 7 Driver Analysis @ Tweaktown GIGABYTE Radeon HD 5670 1GB GDDR5 OC Video Card @ Tweaktown Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Toxic @ Techgage.com Sapphire HD 5450 512 MB GDDR3 @ techPowerUp Top Budget to Mid-Range Graphics Cards @ TechspotMotherboards...
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Video: ASUS EAH5670 1GB @ PureOverclock Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Toxic 1GB video card review @ Elite Bastards Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Toxic OC Edition Review @ OCC HIS Radeon HD 5670 IceQ+ 1GB Video Card @ Tweaktown Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Toxic @ Neoseeker Sapphire ATI Radeon HD5850 Toxic Video Card Review @ Rage3D.com AMD Getting Serious...
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The game is on. Blizzard has begun private beta-testing of StarCraft II. Koreans are rejoicing right now (for those unaware, Korea is still ga-ga over StarCraft).StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is the sequel to Blizzard Entertainment's 1998 hit game StarCraft, arguably one of the greatest games of all-time. Gamers worldwide (but not here) are...
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt, speaking at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where all the big mucky-mucks of cellular (sans Apple) are, has given his keynote. One of the key tidbits of information he gave out: Google and OEMs are shipping 60,000 Android devices a day.It's unclear if "shipping" equates to "selling," but if you extrapolate...
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Video: Sapphire Radeon HD5870 Video Card Review @ Ninjalane ATI Catalyst 10.2 and 10.3 feature preview - CrossFireX profiles and more @ Elite Bastards A Look at ATI's Catalyst 10.2 & 10.3 Drivers @ Techgage.com AMD Catalyst 10.2 and 10.3 Preview @ PC Perspective ATI CATALYST 10.2 & 10.3 Driver Preview - Application Profiles @...
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In what should surprise few, Apple will sell e-books in its iBook store wrapped in its FairPlay digital rights management (DRM, copy protection) technology, according to unnamed sources speaking to the L.A. Times. Consumers may recall that Apple phased out DRM for music in the iTunes store last year, but still has DRM warpping around other...
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Showing how mobility, cell phones, and netbooks overlap, Acer has just announced the Acer Aspire One 532G netbook at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The 532G is the first netbook with dedicated next-generation NVIDIA ION 2 graphics acceleration. The machine also is enabled with NVIDIA's...
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Video: PowerColor PCS+ 5670 512MB @ PureOverclock HIS HD 5670 IceQ 512MB Video Card Review at Overclockers Online HIS Radeon HD 5450 1GB Graphics Card Video Review @ eTeknix.com PowerColor Radeon HD 5870 1GB PCS+ OC Video Card @ Tweaktown Sapphire Radeon HD5450 Video Card Review @ Ninjalane ATI Radeon HD5450 & 5570 HTPC Addendum: Deinterlacing...
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The 10 billionth iTunes download is fast approaching, and Apple's offering up a $10,000 iTunes gift card prize to one lucky winner. That winner will either be the downloader of the 10 billionth song, or the person who submits the first non-purchase online entry form immediately following the download of the...
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Video: Sapphire Radeon HD5570 1GB DDR3 Single & Crossfire Review @ Hardware Canucks Legion Hardware - (ATI Radeon HD 5570) ECS Geforce GT 240 Review @ OCC Gigabyte HD 5670 OC @ Neoseeker ATI Radeon 5570 Graphics Card Review @ OverclockersHQ Sapphire ATI Radeon HD5570 Videocard Review @ Tweaknews Powercolor HD 5870 PCS+ @ techPowerUp Gigabyte...
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Despite its new smartphone platform, webOS, Palm isn't out of the financial woods yet. And if you read the OTR Global report today that said that Palm was halting its production lines for its webOS products, you might have sold off all your Palm stock. Thing is, it's all about a holiday, not bad news from Palm.Many global firms are experiencing...
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One of the touted features of iPhone OS 3.0 was the ability to interface with external hardware, and one company has used that to fill a gap in the iPhone's feature set. The company, zoomMediaPlus, has announced zoomIt, an adapter that allows iPhones to read SD cards (and with adapters, mini and micro SD cards).zoomMedia is taking pre-orders...
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The iPhone repair site iResQ has purported received fourth-generation iPhone parts. Not too much information can be gleaned from the parts, assuming they are the real deal, except that the iPhone is now 1/4 in longer.iResQ also noted there is a reflective surface above the speaker, which they theorize is for the proximity sensor.Some have...
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Video: EVGA Geforce GTX275 CO-OP PhysX Edition Video Card Review @ Benchmark Reviews ASUS ENGT240 Review @ OCCMotherboards and Chipsets: The Budget P55 - Jetway Kuroshio BI-700 @ HardwareZone Jetway NC63-330-LF Mini-ITX Motherboard Video Review @ eTeknix.com Foxconn Inferno Katana P55 Motherboard Review @ NinjalaneProcessors: Intel Core i5...
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Retrevo, a website that calls itself the "ultimate electronics marketplace," has done surveys on iPad interest both before and after the nascent device's announcement. It seems less people were interested in buying one after the announcement than before, to the tune of double, in fact.Prior to the announcement, the number if respondents saying...
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The words Nova and Reactor may evoke certain images, such as a powerful explosion in space, or a containment unit melting down toward China. Seriously, however, they do convey power, and that's what Corsair probably had in mind with their new series (two of them!) of solid-state drives (SSDs).The new lines of SSDs are called Nova and Reactor,...
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A startup named Siri has released what it calls its Siri Assistant app to the App Store. The app purports to help users with menial tasks, and do it all via voice recognition.While available only on the ubiquitous iPhone right now, the company intends to release versions for Android and BlackBerry, as well. The app will allow you to search...
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Video: Sapphire HD 5770 Vapor-X @ techPowerUp ATI Radeon HD5450 HTPC Video Card @ Techgage HIS Radeon HD 5750 Videocard Review @ Tweaknews ATI Radeon HD 5450 512MB DDR3 Video Card Review @ Legit Reviews ATI Radeon HD5450 Video Card Review @ Rage3D.com Sapphire Radeon HD 5450 512MB GDDR3 Video Card @ Tweaktown ATI Radeon HD5450 HTPC Video Card...
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The Prius is not listed among the models that Toyota recently recalled (and temporarily stopped selling) for sticking accelerator pedals, but according to Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, it has its own acceleration problem. At the same time, on Wednesday, reports of Prius brake problems on that same model year emerged.Steve Wozniak was speaking...
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Apple is very proud of its achievements, and in Q4 of 2009, the iPhone achieved something it hadn't done since Q4 of 2008. The device lost market share.The iPhone's share of the worldwide app phone (nee smartphone) sales market slipped to 16.6 percent, down from 18.1 percent in Q3 of 2009. It's not that the device wasn't selling a lot; according...
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Wikileaks, which has been shuttered by litigation previously, now finds it self shut down by that all too familiar reason: lack of money.The site's mission statement is to allow whistleblowers to anonymously release government and corporate documents, "an uncensorable version of Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis."...
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Video:Desktop Graphics Card Comparison Guide Rev. 19.2 @ TechARPXFX Radeon HD5850 Black Edition 1GB Graphics Card Video Review @ eTeknix.comMotherboards and Chipsets:Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5 Intel P55 Motherboard Review @ PCStats ASRock P55 Extreme Intel P55 LGA 1156 Motherboard Review @ techPowerUpAxle GeForce G210 Review @ OCCTyan S2915 n6650W...
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