Michael Santo
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The Large Hadron Collider, damaged by a liquid helium leak relatively soon after being started for the first time, had already had its restart date pushed back from a few months, to spring, to June, to late summer. Now it is being pushed back to the end of September - over a year after the world's largest particle accelerator was knocked offline....
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According to a note by RBC analyst Mark Abramsky on Tuesday, he sees a $99 entry-level iPhone coming this summer. Not because Apple reduces cost or comes out with nano version though; he believes it will be a result of crippling (my words) the device. So what exactly did he say? Well, according to his note, perhaps: a lower-resolution camera...
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Video:XFX Radeon HD 4850 XXX 512MB video card review @ Elite BastardsSapphire Radeon HD 4670 (512Mb DDR4) @ CPU3DMotherboards and Chipsets:Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 X58 Motherboard Review @ Hardware CanucksProcessors:AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition & X4 810 Review @ Sharky ExtremeIntel Atom 330 Dual-core Processor Review @ PC PerspectiveMemory...
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In a decision that's bound to cause some chucking around the blogosphere, Microsoft has confirmed that although it's going to have an Ultimate version of Windows 7, it will be ditching the much-derided "Ultimate Extras" it used as a selling point for Vista Ultimate. "Ultimate Extras" were supposed to be exclusive add-ons for Windows Vista...
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As they said earlier, Windows 7 beta downloads will be ending this week. In fact, if you haven't already signed up for the beta, it's already too late to sign up. You can, however, continue an in-progress download until Thursday. In a reminder posted on the Windows Team Blog, Microsoft noted that new download availability ended at 12:00 PST...
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Motherboards and Chipsets: MSI X58 Eclipse Motherboard @ Viper Lair Gigabyte EX58 UD4 Motherboard @ CPU3D ASUS P6T Deluxe OC Palm Edition Motherboard @ iXBT Gigabyte GA-X48-DS5 Intel X48 Express Motherboard Review @ PCStatsProcessors: Q9400S & Q8200S: Intel's 65W Quad-Cores @ Techgage.com AMD Phenom II X3 720 BE Black Edition CPU...
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The BlackBerry Storm is currently available for $99 on Amazon.com's website, with a two-year service commitment. No rebate forms or other shenanigans to go through, either. There are some restrictions, per the site, besides the 2-year plan (emphasis ours): The purchase price listed above reflects a $250 instant discount based on your agreement...
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The struggling One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation, which cut staff by 50% in January is dropping their "Change the World" program. Previously people could buy groups of from 100 to 1000 of the XO-1 laptops and donate them to places of their choice. But that option no longer exists on the OLPC site, although the "linked" page still does...
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Video:ATI RADEON HD 4830 Video Card Review @ PCShopTalkATI CrossFireX and Nvidia SLI on Intel Core i7 Platform @ XBitLabsLeadtek Limited WinFast GTX260 EXTREME+ Video Card Review @ Bigbruin.comProcessors:Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200S Processor Review @ Legit ReviewsAMD Phenom II X4 810: DDR3 vs. DDR2 @ InsideHWMemory and Storage:Western Digital's...
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By now you are probably aware of wildfires that have ravaged the southern state of Victoria in Australia. 108 people are dead at the time of this writing, over 700 homes destroyed, with 850 square miles (2,200 square kilometers) burned.Google engineers have pulled together a Flash map that shows the extent of the tragic wildfires happening.The...
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IBM has laid off several thousand people during this recession. However, according to a internal IBM document obtained by CNNMoney, some of the North American employees can still save their jobs --- if they choose to move to another country and work at the local pay rate. In other words, according to the document, these American or Canadian...
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Video:Samsung Syncmaster 2243BW 22" LCD Display Review @ PCStatsSapphire Toxic HD 4870 512MB Video Card Review @ TweaknewsZOTAC GeForce 9500 GT AMP! 512MB Reviewed @ TheTechLoungeASUS GeForce ENGTX285 TOP Graphics Card @ TweaktownMotherboards and Chipsets:ASRock X58 SuperComputer tested in 3 way SLI and Quad CrossFire @ OCWMemory and Storage:Kingston...
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We're already aware that on Monday Amazon.com will most likely be announcing Kindle 2. But will they also be announcing software for smartphones that will allow users to download, buy, and read Kindle books? The New York Times says that Amazon.com has confirmed that they are working on such software. According to Drew Herdener, a spokesman...
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Video:ASUS P5N7A-VM GeForce 9300 mATX Motherboard Review @ Bigbruin.comXFX GeForce 9800 GT 512MB XXX Edition @ bit-techMotherboards and Chipsets:Gigabyte EP45T-Extreme Motherboard and Pulse Smartpen @ iXBTAsus M3A78-T (AM2+) Motherboard @ CPU3DMemory and Storage:Western Digital Velociraptor @ t-breakCorsair Dominator 3x2GB PC3-12800 C8 DDR3...
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Microsoft has quietly begun adding Fix-it buttons to some of their Knowledge Base articles. The Fix-it buttons run a script which will automatically fix the problem associated in the KB article, according to a Beyond Binary report. There are only a limited number of KB articles which have such a button; around 100 or so. But assuming you trust...
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Last year Time-Warner Cable began a metered use trial in Beaumont, TX, with tiered caps of 5 - 40GB. On Wednesday's earnings call Time Warner Cable COO Landel Hobbs said that the cable operator would be expanding the experiment into additional cities this year. Time-Warner didn't say which cities will be "lucky," but TWC has to be thinking...
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A story covering the upcoming (Feb. 15) launch of the iPhone 3G in the United Arab Emirates seems to confirm the suspected launch date of the next version of the iPhone. The story, in Business24-7, states (emphasis ours): The latest 3G model will become available on February 15 according to Dow Jones, and etisalat will be targeting private...
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Tacitly acknowledging the problems its had getting people to adopt Windows Vista vs. Windows XP, Microsoft said on Tuesday that it will be selling upgrade versions from Windows XP to Windows 7. However, the upgrade will really only apply to pricing; there won't be a way to do an in-place install of Windows 7 over Windows XP. Instead, the end...
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Video:Two ATI Radeon HD 4830s against One ATI Radeon HD 4870 @ XbitLabsMotherboards and Chipsets:NVIDIA ION Platform Review: Death (and Life) of the Netbook @ PC PerspectiveASUS P6T Deluxe OC Palm Motherboard Review @ Legit ReviewsIntel i7 965 Processor & DX58SO "Smackover" Motherboard Review @ Virtual-HideoutProcessors:AMD Phenom II X4...
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Google is having a bad few days. First it labeled the entire Internet as malware, then it sent legit mail to the Spam folder as a side effect of the first issue. But things continue to go wrong for Google, as last night users of the SMS Search feature received message after message ... after message in return. The SMS Search feature allows...
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While rumors of a Google online storage offering named GDrive continue to swirl, Yahoo! is abandoning its online storage service, Briefcase. A message on the Yahoo! Briefcase site warns users that they have until March 30th to move their files to a different provider. Yahoo! Briefcase will be closing on March 30, 2009. You must download or...
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On Saturday, Google labeled the entire Internet as malware, but in addition, because of the same issue, Gmail sent some legitimate email to its Spam folder. According to a blog post on the Official Gmail Blog, This morning there was a problem with the implementation of Google's malware filters. Gmail's spam engine uses those filters (among...
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