Michael Santo
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Video: AC Ryan Playon!HD Mini 2 Review @ Techgage Motherboards and Chipsets: Gigabyte X58A-OC Overclocking Motherboard Review @ Ninjalane ASRock Core HT @ PureOverclock ECS A75F-A (AMD A75) Motherboard Review @ Tweaktown Processors: Intel Pentium G620 Sandy Bridge 2.6GHz CPU Review @ Legit Reviews Memory and Storage: Seagate Momentus 7200.4...
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Video: Zalman Trimon ZM-M240W 3D Monitor Review @ XBitLabs PowerColor Radeon HD 6870x2 2GB Overclocked Video Card Review @ Tweaktown GeForce GTX 560 from EVGA, Gigabyte and MSI @ XbitLabs Motherboards and Chipsets: ASUS M5A97 EVO and M5A99X EVO @ PureOverclock MSI Z68A-GD80 (B3) Motherboard Review @ t-break EVGA P67 FTW Motherboard...
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It's the start of a new week, and the next-generation iPhone still isn't here, which means it's time for another new iPhone 5 rumor. This one pushes back the date of the launch (not announcement, mind you) to October. The latest rumor comes from AllThingsD, via a typical anonymous sources...
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We noted earlier that it seemed that AT&T Wireless' move toward data throttling for its highest 5 percent of end users could, in fact, act to push some of those grandfathered unlimited users to data tiers. Here's another move that could do so, if true. The new report concerns Apple's FaceTime video calling service. Reportedly, despite...
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Video: ASUS RoG GTX 580 Matrix Platinum Review @ Hardware Canucks HIS 6950 IceQ X Turbo 2GB @ PureOverclock AMD A8-3850 With Radeon HD 6550D Running On Linux @ Phoronix LG Cinema 3D TV 42LW5700 Review @ t-break Diamond Multimedia Radeon HD 6770 XOC 1GB DX11 Video Card Review @Hi Tech Legion Energysistem DVB-T T1250HDTV Review - XSReviews Diamond...
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More possible confirmation on iPhone 4S / 5 (or both) release in the September / October timeframe is coming via vacation blackouts, something that Apple, AT&T and Verizon have done in the past when prior iPhones have released. One example from earlier this year was the Verizon iPhone...
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Video: MSI R6950 Twin Frozer III Power Edition Review @ OCC Palit GeForce GTX 460 Sonic Review by Ultimate Hardware Sapphire HD 6950 2GB DiRT 3 Video Card Review @ [H} KFA2 GT 520 Passive 1GB Graphics Card Review @ eTeknix.com AMD Radeon HD 6670 1GB Video Card Review @ Madshrimps Motherboards and Chipsets: ASRock A75 Extreme6 (AMD A75) Motherboard...
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Video: HIS Radeon 6770 IceQ X Turbo @ PureOverclock ZOTAC GTX560 1GB AMP! Edition SLI Review @ Vortez HIS Radeon HD 6770 IceQ X Turbo 1GB Video Card Review @ Tweaktown Motherboards and Chipsets: Sapphire Pure Platinum A75 Motherboard Review @ eTeknix.com ASUS F1A75-M PRO FM1 Motherboard @ Benchmark Reviews Processors: AMD Llano A8-3850 Review...
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AT&T is rumored to be implementing a data throttling program set to begin in the first week of October. The change would apply only to its top users, and would in that way be similar to the program already in place at Verizon Wireless (.PDF). That could point to potential timing for an...
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Pegatron has won a bidding war with Foxconn, and will be the exclusive manufacturer that Apple uses for the iPad 3. It was announced earlier this month that Pegatron had won an order for 15 million iPhone 5s from Apple, as well. The report comes from the Taiwan Economic News. The report used...
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On the same day a high-level LulzSec "operative" was arrested, Anonymous and LulzSec announced #OpPayPal, a method to get back at online payment service PayPal without hacking, and legally. #OpPayPal might be called an offshoot of the previous #AntiSec movement by Anonymous and LulzSec...
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U.K. authorities arrested one of the higher-profile members of LulzSec on Wednesday, a 19-year-old known as "Topiary" online, in Scotland's Shetland Islands. LulzSec is a hacker group that announced it was quitting in late June, but which then resurfaced in the middle of this...
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Radioshack announced yesterday that it will be dumping T-Mobile for Verizon, causing another blow to the nation's #4 wireless carrier. With Verizon being the nation's No. 1 carrier (at least until AT&T's proposed acquisition of T-Mobile is complete), the move makes sense. Verizon's...
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Chinese officials have ordered the closure two "counterfeit" Apple stores in Kunming, after investigating all the shops in the southwestern China city. Originally, it was reported that three elaborately camouflaged fake Apple Stores existed in the city, however after officials...
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The latest information on an iPhone 4S / 5 launch seems to be pointing to an announcement toward the end of August, with a launch by mid-September. The timeline, which BGR implies comes from an AT&T source, says that AT&T has has begun communicating launch plans internally within the...
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Out of the blue, Apple has released iOS 4.3.5 and iOS 4.2.10. The new versions fix another security hole, and have been released only about a week after Apple patched other security holes with iOS 4.3.4 and 4.2.9. iOS 4.3.5 is available for iOS 3.0 through 4.3.4 for iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4...
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Video: TechREACTION.net Review: ASUS 6870 DirectCU [Tech ARP] Mobile GPU Comparison Guide Rev. 11.5 Visiontek Radeon 6950 2GB @ PureOverclock Visiontek Radeon 6950 2GB @ PureOverclock Motherboards and Chipsets: Jetway H109-Z (Intel Z68) Motherboard Review @ Tweaktown MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 Motherboard Review @ Vortez Memory...
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Dell has quietly pulled the Streak 5 tablet from its website and from any retail stores, as well. It's not a recall per se, but it's believed that Dell is making changes and improvements to the product, unrelated to the software (i.e., hardware). For a while, consumers could still find the item on Dell's site, but if they tried to order it,...
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Video: Sapphire Radeon HD 5830 Xtreme 1GB Graphics Card Review @ eTeknix.com Benq BL2400 24" Monitor Review @ t-break Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 Dirt 3 Edition 2GB Video Card Review @ ThinkComputers.org Motherboards and Chipsets: MSI Z68A-GD80 (B3) LGA1155 Mainboard Review @ XBitLabs ECS HDC-I Review @ OCC ASRock Z68 Extreme4 Motherboard - BCCHardware...
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After three unauthorized "clone" Apple Stores (or Stoer, as one spelled its name) were uncovered by an expat American blogger, authorities in Kunming, China have begun to inspect all of the electronics shops in the city, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday. A worker with the...
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An employee at one of three counterfeit Apple stores (not product, stores) in Kunming, China that we wrote about earlier admitted the store was fake, and that he knows it. Earlier reports were that the employees were under the mistaken impression that they were actually working for Apple...
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Video: Zotac GTX 550Ti AMP! @ LanOC Reviews Asus Radeon HD 6670 1GB Graphics Card Review @ eTeknix.com Motherboards and Chipsets: ASRock H61M/U3S3 @ Phoronix ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z (Intel Z68) mATX Motherboard Review @ Tweaktown AMD 990FX Review: ASUS Sabertooth 990FX vs ECS A990FXM-A @ t-break Memory and Storage: Patriot Gamer 2 AMD Edition...
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