Michael Santo
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We're sure you know about the issues with some NVIDIA mobile GPUs, as earlier in July NVIDIA admitted it was taking a $150 - $200 million charge to cover (emphasis ours):... anticipated customer warranty, repair, return, replacement and other consequential costs and expenses arising from a weak die/packaging material set in certain versions...
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Microsoft may just have acknowledged that digital distribution of software, long (relatively) used for distribution and sales of games, may just be ready to hit the big time. In an understated announcement on a newsgroup, by an MVP, Microsoft has announced it is going to halt the sale of boxed copies of its Quicken competitor, Money Plus....
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Ah, the best laid plans. The cover of the Madden NFL '09 game was supposed to pay homage to the retiring Brett Favre. But then he decided to un-retire! What to do, what to do? Well, as far as EBGames goes, PhotoShop is the answer. The box is above, but see the below of their home page, as of this morning. Yep, they PhotoShopped the image of...
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Video:ASUS GeForce 9800 GTX+ TOP Graphics Card @ TweaktownMotherboards and Chipsets:AMD 790GX Chipset Review @ AMDZoneXFX nForce 750a SLI Motherboard Review @ MotherboardsAMD's 790GX chipset @ TheTechReportGigabyte GA-EP45T-EXTREME P45 Motherboard @ Benchmark ReviewsAsus M3A78-T Motherboard Review @ Legit ReviewsMemory and Storage:Corsair...
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First: there's no real evidence this is a "kill switch" that Apple will use, but still, based on Apple's protectiveness over the iPhone, it wouldn't surprise us.Jonathan Zdziarski, author of the upcoming book iPhone Forensics, has revealed an URL that he suggests Apple is using to keep a list of any "offending" applications:...
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Who decides which apps go up --- and stay up --- on the App Store? After all, something pretty useful like NetShare gets dropped from the App Store a couple of times (all right, all right, I know AT&T wouldn't like it), while something totally frivolous like this app gets posted?The app was named "I am Rich." The name is appropriate, because...
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Despite our technophile-ness, we haven't seriously considered moving to the i 64-bit version of Windows Vista, mostly because we figure we will have application or device driver woes. However, in a blog post on the Windows Vista blog, Microsoft product manager Chris Flores said that Microsoft has noted a shift in adoption of 64-bit operating...
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Video:Gigabyte HD 4850 GV-R485-512H-B Review @ OCCBFG 9800 GX2 1GB Video Card Reviewed @ TheTechLoungeNvidia GeForce GTX 200 Graphics Architecture Review: Born to Win? @ X-bit labsSapphire Toxic HD4850 (512Mb DDR3) @ CPU3DMotherboards and Chipsets:Supermicro X7DWA-N Motherboard Review @ PC ReviewECS P45T-A Review @ OCCAsus Striker II Extreme...
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If this was in the U.S., you can bet Jack Thompson would be all over it. Since it's Thailand, not exactly a media-friendly country, we may never hear about it again, except perhaps in shareholder reports. Police claim that the youth showed no sign of mental instability while he was being questioned. He told police that he hadn't intended...
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GIGABYTE Partners with INGRAM MICRO to Extend its Offering ofHigh-performance Motherboards and Graphics Solutions in the U.S.City of Industry, Calif., August 5, 2008 – GIGABYTE United, Inc., the world leading motherboards and graphics manufacturer, today announced it has entered into a distribution agreement with Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE:...
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Video:Zotac GeForce 9800 GTX+ (Plus) Amp! Edition @ techPowerUpXFX GeForce GTX 280 XXX 1GB video card review @ Elite BastardsThe Intel Larrabee Processor Tech Report @ TechARPIntel Opens Up About Larrabee @ TechgageASUS "Top" 280GTX vs. XFX 280GTX @ BootdailySapphire Radeon HD4870 512MB Graphics Card Review @ Bigbruin.comIntel details future...
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Apple seems unable to make up its mind over NetShare, the iPhone tethering application which first appeared, disappeared, reappeared, and has now vanished again from their App Store.In what could only be termed as bizarre, Nullriver's NetShare application has been removed once from the iPhone App Store, only to reappear and then disappear...
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Everyone and their Aunt Sally wants to sell users on a different use for broadband. You can stream HBO shows, Netflix videos, using tons of bandwidth, and that's not even taking P2P into account. Ah, and NBC would love it if you would watch the "Olympics on the Go." Problem is, you poor folk with metered-use broadband, which...
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Video:Sapphire Toxic HD4850 Review @ OCCMotherboards and Chipsets:Asus Rampage Extreme (X48) Motherboard @ CPU3DGigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R @ InsideHWProcessors:AMD Phenom X4 9350e Low Cost Quad Core @ TweaktownMemory and Storage:Adata & Kingston 8Gb Compact Flash Card 266X @ CPU3DEDGE DiskGO 160GB Network HDD @ GideonTech.comIcy Box IB-3218...
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You may recall the case of Sebastien Boucher? He was stopped in 2006 while crossing the U.S. - Canadian border and charged with transporting child pornography on his laptop across the border. Unfortunately for the prosecutors, the data on the laptop is encrypted, and he now refuses to enter the necessary password to allow access...
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Ah yes, the idea was great; the resulting application (NetShare) good enough to make the App Store cut, but then someone at Apple remembered their partner (AT&T) and the app has disappeared from the store. After all, a tethering app would allow an end user to use their iPhone as a modem, not something AT&T would want. And we mention...
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Video: Intel GMA X4500HD G45 IGP @ Phoronix Zotac GeForce 9800 GT Amp! Edition @ techPowerUpGalaxy GeForce 9500 GT Overclocked 512 MB @ techPowerUpMotherboards and Chipsets: Foxconn Quantum Force X48 BlackOps Motherboard Review @ NinjalaneMemory and Storage: Crucial Ballistix Tracer 4GB DDR2 Memory Kit @ Benchmark ReviewsSuper Talent Pico-C...
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Triple word score! Hasbro can now stop worry about a server overload on its Facebook Scrabble application: only two days after disappearing from Facebook, Scrabulous is back, but with a new name (Wordscraper), and minor tweaks to hopefully eliminate any copyright issues. Obviously the name is a good start in terms of deflecting lawsuits. Besides...
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Video:Samsung SyncMaster 2053BW @ InsideHWAcer AL2002W 20-Inch WS LCD Monitor @ Benchmark Reviews Motherboards and Chipsets:Gigabyte X48-DS5 Motherboard Review @ Legit ReviewsMemory and Storage:Spire SP175SU-SL-EU 2.5" SATA to USB Hard disk enclosure Review @ RbmodsMushkin HP Series DDR3 HP3-12800 8-8-8-24 Review @ Club OverclockeriStarUSA...
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On Tuesday, Facebook users in the U.S. and Canada awoke to horror - the shutdown of the extremely popular Scrabulous game, in the wake of a lawsuit filed by Hasbro, the parent company of the official Scrabble game. There shouldn't have been much withdrawal pain, though, since after all, Electronic Arts (EA, which handles the digital rights...
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We earlier wrote that Microsoft's fake OS, Mojave, had birthed its own website. The idea, a sort of blind taste test among Vista critics, was surprisingly successful with an overwhelming number of respondents liking the OS. The website was, starting today, designed to show videos of the respondents, and indeed that part of the...
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Video:BFGTech GeForce GTX 280 OCX @ [H]ECS 9500GT 512MB GDDR3 graphics card @ OCWNVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Review - Budget Gaming Redux @ PC PerspectivePalit GTX 280 Review @ OCCNVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ Pictorial Review @ TechARPLeadtek WinFast GeForce PX9500 GT @ TweaktownEVGA UV Plus+ UV16 USB 2.0 Video Adapter @ Legit ReviewsGIGABYTE...
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