Michael Santo
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U2 and Apple are no longer BFF, apparently, as U2 has announced its 360° Tour, and its sponsor: Research in Motion (RIM), maker of BlackBerry devices. It's not like U2 has ever been officially aligned with Apple, but U2 does have history with Apple. For example, U2 has performed at Apple events, is the only band that has gotten its own branded...
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New Apple netbook rumors have arisen. A report from Digitimes cites a Commercial Times report that Taiwan-based Wintek will supply touch panels for "Apple's new netbook" due in the 3rd quarter of 2009. Wintek revealed that it is currently working with Apple to develop some new products, but it said it does not know what applications the new...
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Video:Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB @ [H]eVGA X58 3X SLI Review @ OCCASUS VH242H 24-Inch 16:9 LCD Monitor Review @ FuturelooksASUS EAH4550 Radeon HD 4550 Half-Height Videocard Review @ PCSTATS.comMotherboards and Chipsets:Sapphire PURE PC-AM2RS790GX AM2+ Motherboard Review @ Club OverclockerGigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H AM2+ Motherboard...
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The Norwegian Broadcast Corporation (NRK), which previously tried --- and failed --- to bring the Beatles to the Web, has set up its own BitTorrent tracker to distribute their TV-shows. Acknowledging what many already know, that P2P technology has valid uses (besides the obvious illegal ones), NRK announced the tracker on its own website....
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We knew the game category was popular at the iPhone / iPod Touch App Store, but this popular? According to iPhone app tracking site MobClix, that number now exceeds 6,000. The number, according to MobClix, is 6,276, or 23.1% of the total. Moreover, puzzle games take nearly 18% of the game total, and free games take about 25% of the game total....
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Video:Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 Ultimate 512MB video card review @ Elite BastardsSamsung 2433BW @ InsideHWPNY & XFX GeForce GTX 285 Video Card Reviews @ Legit ReviewsLeadtek Winfast GTX 260 Extreme+ Review @ OCCGalaxy GeForce GTX 285 Overclocked Graphics Card @ TweaktownSparkle GeForce 9800 GTX+ Graphics Card Review @ Bigbruin.comMemory...
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Two different applications have taken Wikipedia and compressed it into smartphone-digestible form. Both sell the resulting database for $10. WikiPock takes up about 4GB of storage, and is currently available for Windows Mobile and Blackberry devices. It's $9.99 for the basic version, but you can opt for a version that includes updates for...
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Ah, yes, GIGO (garbage in, garbage out), in software terms. Nokia has fixed the 3G issues in North American versions of the XpressMusic 5800 which plagued the device since its recent launch. Apparently it just required a little tweaking of the software. Here's what Nokia said in an emailed statement: "Following the introduction of the Nokia...
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It was revealed earlier by poking around in the latest (leaked) build of Windows 7 that you could disable Internet Explorer 8. But that "feature" wasn't confirmed by Microsoft until Friday, however, when a blog post at the Engineering Windows 7 site noted the new functionality. In Windows 7 we are expanding the number of features you have...
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The Internet is a wondrous thing, but it's also made teasing and bullying, formerly restricted to schoolyards, something you can do online for all the world to see. A Long Island teenager is suing her tormentors, their parents, and Facebook over a Facebook group "calculated to hold the plaintiff up to public hatred, ridicule and disgrace."...
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Video:ATI RADEON HD 4830 Crossfire Video Card Setup @ PCShopTalkSapphire Radeon HD 4670 GDDR4 Review @ ASE LabsGaming on HTPC: Inexpensive Graphics Cards Performance Review @ XBitLabsMotherboards and Chipsets:ASRock N7AD-SLI @ PhoronixECS A780GM-A Ultra Black Series Motherboard Review @ Legit ReviewsMemory and Storage:G.SKILL 4GB DDR2 PC2...
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Intel and NVIDIA aren't exactly best buds right now, and this certainly isn't going to help matters any. At the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference on Tuesday NVIDIA admitted it is considering entering the general purpose microprocessor arena, where it would compete directly with Intel. NVIDIA’s senior vice president of investor relations...
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iGoogle offers you the ability to visit several websites one on page, but did you ever wish that iGoogle offered you the Chat functionality that you can get in your Gmail account, so you could forego going there and simply stay on iGoogle? Well, now you can. After all, that seemed to be the only thing really missing from iGoogle, to make it...
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EMPIRE: TOTAL WAR LAUNCHES WITH STEAMWORKS Sega and The Creative Assembly Leverage Suite of Services for Development and Marketing March 4, 2009 - Empire: Total War from The Creative Assembly and SEGA is now available via Steam, a leading platform for the delivery and management of PC games with over 20 million accounts worldwide, as well...
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Sprint has been facing hard times of late, and is looking for the Palm Pre to boost their sales. What to do until then, hmmm? Well, they've initiated a referral program, whereby you can try to sucker, er, get your friends to sign up for Sprint before the Palm Pre launches. The program only lasts until 3/31. Strangely, the fine print says:...
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Video:ASUS Extreme NGTX295 @ Legion HardwarePalit GeForce GTS 250 2048 MB @ techPowerUpNvidia's GeForce GTS 250 graphics card @ TTREVGA GeForce GTS 250 Superclocked @ Techgage.comBFG GeForce GTS 250 OC 1GB Review @ OCCNVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 technology preview @ Elite BastardsPalit GeForce GTS 250 1GB Graphics Card Review - More G92b @ PC PerspectiveGalaxy...
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TRENDnet Launches a High Performance Wireless N Internet Security Camera TORRANCE, Calif. -March 3, 2008-TRENDnet, a best-in-class wired and wireless networking hardware brand, today announces the launch of the Wireless N Internet Camera Server with 2-Way Audio, model TV-IP512WN, which offers unsurpassed wireless range and video streaming...
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Hot on the heels of "1234567890" day comes Square Root Day. This rare "holiday" occurs when the day and the month are both the square root of the last two digits of the current year. So, today can be expressed as 03/03/09 (in Europe or the U.S., for once!). 3 is the square root of 9, so you can see how today would be Square Root Day. The last...
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Video:ASUS GTX 260 55nm and 4870 Dark Knight 1G @ [H]XFX GTX285 and GTX295 @ InsideHWPalit GeForce GTX 260 Sonic 216SP 55nm Graphics Card @ TweaktownInno3D iChill GTX 260 896 MB (216 SP) @ techPowerUpMotherboards and Chipsets:MSI X58 Platinum Review @ OCCGigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P Motherboard @ CPU3DJetway NF94-270-LF ICS Atom Motherboard @ PCShopTalkProcessors:AMD...
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AMD Closes “Asset Smart” Transaction – Fulfills Vision to Create Two Leadership Companies Capable of Delivering Transformative Innovation and Impact to the Global Technology Industry — AMD and Advanced Technology Investment Company form well-resourced U.S. based global semiconductor...
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The U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission (USCPSC) has issued a recall notification for 30,000 LG 830 "Spyder" cell phones because of an incident in which the phone was unable to maintain a connection when a motorist attempted a 911 call. Incidents/Injuries: The firm has received one report of a motorist in a disabled car who was able to...
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So as not to give companies more excuses to kick employees to the curb in this tough economy, we've warned before about watching what you post to your social networking site. After all, MySpace photos have gotten an Oregon mayor recalled, and now a Facebook post about how boring her job was has gotten Kimberley Swann of Clacton on Sea in England...
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