Michael Santo
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Video:BFG GeForce GTX 285 OCX 1024MB Graphics Card Video Review @ eTeknix.comGigabyte GeForce GTX 260 Super Overclock @ Techgage.comXFX Radeon HD 5870 Review @ Digital TrendsMotherboards and Chipsets:Foxconn Flaming Blade Motherboard Review @ NinjalaneProcessors:AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition Socket AM3 Triple Core Processor Review @ ThinkComputers.orgIntel...
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Microsoft Works, which is frequently offered as part of new PCs, is about to meet its end. Instead, in an interesting move, Microsoft announced it will allow OEMs to install the entire Office 2010 Suite on new PCs in a free, ad-supported form, but with much functionality disabled unless an activation key is...
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FBI Director Robert Mueller, while speaking at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Wednesday, gave an example of why everyone should be wary of cybercrime. He related the story of the head of one of America's domestic agencies. This person, Mueller said, received an email, purportedly from his bank, which looked...
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Foxconn, the company responsible for manufacturing a number of products for Apple, including the iPhone, has been slated to be the manufacturer of the much-hyped and much-rumored Apple tablet PC, according to reports. The Apple tablet PC has previously been rumored to be hitting the market in the first quarter of 2010. According to Digitime's...
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Palm, realizing that the difference between 85,000 apps in the App Store, 10,000 apps in the Android Marketplace, and 100 apps in the App Catalog may be a lot of Palm Pre sales, has decided to spur application development and approval in a much more open manner than, say, the iPhone App Store does. As opposed to requiring submission to the...
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Video:Zotac GeForce 9500GT 512Mb Graphics Card Video Review @ eTeknix.comPowerColor Radeon HD 5870 @ NeoseekerXFX GeForce 9600 GSO review at Ultimate HardwareMotherboards and Chipsets:MSI P55-GD65 Motherboard Review @ Legit ReviewsProcessors:AMD Athlon II X4 620 2.6 GHz @ techPowerUpMemory and Storage:Vantec NexStar Vault 2.5" SATA Enclosure...
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It's no secret that iPhone owners, while in general happy with their devices, are not so happy about the AT&T network. Still, is that any reason to shoot your iPhone? A Westwood, OH man went to an Apple Store late last week in the Kenwood Towne Centre. Angry over his broken iPhone, he apparently flashed a gun at one of the store's employees....
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More than just a setting, XP Mode, which we wrote about earlier, consists of a Virtual PC-based virtual environment and a fully licensed copy of Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (SP3). This is Microsoft's "solution" for those concerned with possible issues with compatibility with older software. On Thursday, Microsoft announced the software...
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Video:Samsung SyncMaster 2443BWX 24 Inch LCD Monitor Review @ Bigbruin.comEnvizen Duo Box Pro – 7 inch Portable Digital TV + DVD Player – 2nd Generation @ TestFreaksMotherboards and Chipsets:ASUS P7P55D PRO LGA1156 ATX Motherboard Review @ Futurelooks10 Low-Budget AMD Motherboards @ InsideHWGigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P AMD 790FX Socket AM3 Motherboard...
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Here comes still more technology based on fish. As opposed to the earlier tech, autonomous robotic fish built to detect pollution, Nissan has developed a system that emulates schooling behavior of fish to avoid auto collisions.Nissan's new "EPORO" robot car concept is designed to travel in a group of "cars" while avoiding obstacles (including...
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Newegg on Tuesday posted pricing for OEMs versions of Microsoft's much-hyped upcoming Windows 7 operating systems. The pricing shows around a 50% difference between retail and OEM pricing for full (not upgrade) versions, bringing the full software below the price of an upgrade version. This is OEM software, however, so there are a bunch of...
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Microsoft's new Security Essentials anti-malware product has just gone live. The site has been updated in the past hour or so, since we last checked it, and users can now download Microsoft Security Essentials for 32-bit Windows XP, and 32- and 64-bit Windows Vista/7. That's correct, in case you're wondering. There is no support for 64-bit...
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Video:Samsung 55-inch Ultra-Slim UN55B7100 1080p LED LCD HDTV Review @ ModSynergy.comSamsung SyncMaster XL2370 LED LCD Monitor Review @ FuturelooksZotac GTS 250 AMP! Review - XSReviewsSamsung LN55A950D1F 55" LED-backlight LCD A950 HDTV Review @ PCStatsProcessors:AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition @ InsideHWAMD Athlon II X4 620 Processor @...
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The Secret Service is investigating a Facebook poll which had been posted Saturday and was taken down Monday morning after the Secret Service alerted Facebook. The poll asked "Should Obama be killed?" The responses included: yesmaybeif he cuts my health carenoYou can see an image of the now-deleted poll above. It shows that at least at one...
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Sure, it was leaked a couple of weeks ago, so we knew to some extent what was coming, but it wasn't until Monday that webOS 1.2 was officially released. The big news is (finally) support for paid apps in the App Catalog, but besides that, Palm notes a bunch of new features (and doesn't tell us about all the bugs they fixed): Filter emails...
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One has to wonder, given the growth of App Store downloads for the iPhone and iPod touch, if the App Store could ever pass McDonald's in terms of those "served." Obviously, it would seem eating would outdo even the iPhone, but still, you never know ... at any rate, on Monday, Apple announced App Store downloads have surpassed 2 billion, and...
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Look carefully at today's Google doodle on their homepage, or you might miss it. Yep, Google is spelled Googlle today, so the question is, why does Google have two l's today? First off, it's not because Google's gotten sloppy. And fortunately for us who can't wait for the answer, they're not going to draw out the mystery as they did earlier...
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Video:ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5 @ HardwareZoneAMD Radeon HD 5870 Video Card Overclocking @ Legit ReviewsSapphire Radeon HD 5870 review at Ultimate HardwareMotherboards and Chipsets:EVGA X58 SLI Micro LGA1366 mATX Motherboard Review @ Hardware CanucksAsus P7P55D Deluxe Review - XSReviewsGigabyte GA-MA785G-UD3H AMD 785G Chipset Motherboard...
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AT&T, still smarting from all the flak it took over the Google Voice rejection from the App Store*, fired off a letter to the FCC on Friday, charging Google with violating FCC regulations by blocking calls to certain rural areas from its Google Voice service. Google Voice, currently invitation only, allows users to connect all of their...
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A post yesterday at TheStreet.com had to send both Palm employees and Palm stockholders into a tizzy. The site said that Verizon had decided to pass on any webOS devices, but Friday, other sites and analysts disputed that claim. Thr original rumor noted that Verizon was not happy with Pre sales so far (though realistically, Verizon should...
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Video:Lucid HYDRA Multi-GPU Technology Launches - End of SLI and CrossFire? @ PC PerspectiveAMD Radeon HD 5870 PCI-Express Scaling @ techPowerUpATI Radeon HD 5870 vs. NVIDIA GeForce GTX285 @ InsideHWAMD Radeon HD 5870 1 GB GDDR5 @ techPowerUpATI Radeon HD 5870 DX11 Video Card Review @ Legit ReviewsATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB Graphics Card and AMD...
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Polk County undercover drug investigators stormed the home of convicted drug dealer Michael Difalco near Lakeland, FL in March. Nothing wrong with, right? At least until a few of the officers noticed a Nintendo Wii. What they failed to notice, however, was a wireless security camera connected to a computer inside Difalco's home that was recording...
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