Michael Santo
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You'll hear a PC labeled as many things, from "an uber-gaming system" to "budget-minded" and more, but this PC is "eco-friendly," or as Dell calls it, its first "conscientious" desktop. It was announced (though unnamed) at Fortune Brainstorm: Green in Los Angeles on (what else) Earth Day, earlier this year, and launched on Tuesday. The idea...
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It certainly wouldn't be a deal-breaker (or maker) to us, but if you still can't get a Nintendo Wii (and annoyingly, it's still in short supply), and you're interested in signing your life away for two years to Comcast, this could be the deal for you.On Monday, hot on the heels of the announcement that Comcast will soon receive a slap on the...
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Video:EVGA nVidia GeForce GTX 260 Review @ OCIA.netLeadtek WinFast PX9600 GSO Extreme 384MB @ TweaktownSapphire HD4870 @ t-breakPalit GeForce GTX 280 Review @ Motherboards.orgMemory and Storage:Western Digital VelociRaptor Hard Disk Drive @ X-bit LabsG.Skill F2-8800 Pi Series DDR2 CL5 4GB Kit @ techPowerUpSystems:Toshiba Satellite A300D-125...
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Since last Tuesday, we've sat on the sidelines as others have questioned Apple's openness about Steve Jobs and discussed the terse answer Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's CFO gave to Ben Reitzes (Lehman Brothers) when asked about Steve Jobs' health. "Ben, Steve loves Apple. He serves as the CEO at the pleasure of Apple's board and has no plans to...
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Earlier we wrote about how Microsoft used a kind of blind taste test to get die-hard Windows XP users to try Vista --- and that they even liked it. They were told that they were trying a new OS, called Mojave. We also said that Microsoft hadn't figured out a marketing campaign, but it appears that's changed.Microsoft last week interviewed...
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Video:Sapphire HD 4870 Review @ OCCXFX GeForce GTX260 XXX Edition Video Card Review @ Motherboards.orgHIS Radeon HD3650 Review @ Motherboards.orgProcessors:AMD's Phenom X4 9350e @ bit-techMemory and Storage:PQI Cool Drive U350H @ TechwareLabsWD Caviar Blue SE16 @ InsideHWKingston DataTraveler BlackBox 2GB at Overclockers OnlinePower:Rosewill...
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This smacks somewhat of those old blindfold taste tests you see on commerials. It goes a little something like this... "I hate Diet Coke." "Here, try this new soda!""Wow, it's great!""That was Diet Coke!""Ooops!" In a similar move, Microsoft took Windows XP fans and showed them a new OS, "Mojave." What's...
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All right, readers, we're sure some among you participate in the downloading of somewhat dicey material (read: copyrighted). If you could have a license to illegally download as much as you wanted - and yes, we suppose, if you had a license, it would no longer be illegal - how would you feel about it?On the other hand, if you had to pay such...
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Earlier in February a strange case arose over an obscure California law, the Solar Shade Control Act (.PDF), passed in 1979 after the Oil Crisis. The law essentially made criminals out of a pair of Sunnyvale residents, whose eight redwood trees cast shade on a neighbor's solar panels.The dispute between the neighbors, Mark Vargas (solar panel...
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Video:Palit HD 4870 512MB Video Card Reviewed @ TheTechLoungeSamsung SyncMaster 245B LCD Monitor @ CPU3DProcessors:Conroe vs. Wolfdale: To the Limit @ Digit-LifeMemory and Storage:Super Talent MasterDrive MX 60GB Solid State Drive @ PC PerspectiveKingwin EL-35EU-SBL Elite USB 2.0 and eSATA Drive Enclosure @ BigBruinVizo Shuttle SHE-260ST External...
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Solid-State drives (SSDs) have had a lot of coverage lately, mostly negative. Battery life, performance, reliability, those sorts of things have been under close scrutiny of late. Monday, in Sandisk's earnings call, Sandisk placed the blame for at least one of those issues squarely on Microsoft's shoulders. Eli Harari, Chairman and CEO of...
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Video: Acer P243WAid 24" LCD @ Phoronix Palit Geforce 9600 GSO Sonic 768MB Video Card @ Mikhailtech VisionTek HD 4870 512MB Video Card @ TheTechLoungeMotherboards and Chipsets: MSI P45 Platinum Review @ Neoseeker MSI P45 Platinum Motherboard Review @ Motherboards.org ASUS P5E64 WS Professional X38 Workstation Motherboard Review @ ThinkComputers.orgProcessors:...
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You'll recall that in February security researchers found a way to break into encrypted hard drives by using a trick that relies on the fact that RAM dissipates its contents slower if cooled.The research paper, by Princeton, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Wind River Systems was titled "Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption...
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In case you don't know, an upskirt photo is one taken surreptitiously by pointing a camera upwards and ... well, we're hoping you can figure it out on your own, as well as the analogous downblouse photo.For some reason, with the advent of high-resolution camera phones, the practice of upskirt and downblouse photos have become very popular...
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Nothing is so hilarious as when a security vendor gets its site hacked. All right, we will admit that when ICANN was hacked that was also funny. In this case, Kaspersky, who many say (arguably) has the best security software around, had their Malaysian website hacked (yes, we probably could cut them some slack for the fact it was...
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Is the soap opera over? Probably ... not. However, the drama to come at the Yahoo shareholders meeting on Aug. 1st is going to be a lot, lot less.Today it was announced that Yahoo and Carl Icahn have come to an agreement. By giving Icahn a seat on the board as well as two others to be filled from his list of nominees (one...
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It was about a month ago that NVIDIA released drivers that included PhysX support, leading to multiple allegations of cheating. Why? Well, quite naturally the CPU physics test (3DMark Vantage) shows much higher results with PhysX in the mix, as the CPU load moves greatly to the PPU.According to a forum post, Futuremark hasn't been...
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Video:Visiontek HD 4870 Review @ OCCWhat's the Right Price - A Trio of GeForce GTX 260 @ HardwareZoneMotherboards and Chipsets:EVGA nForce 750i SLI FTW Mainboard Review: Rehabilitated? @ X-bit LabsECS GF8200A Black Motherboard Review @ Motherboards.orgMemory and Storage:2.5 inch SATA HDD Multi-Function Dock @ DragonSteelModsKingston DataTraveler...
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Since moving to the "top of the world," everything Apple does is watched - and watched carefully. With iPhone launches done (though iPhone shortages still of interest), some have turned their eyes toward the more mundane portion of Apple's business: the computer portion of it. And some circuit board orders are being pointed as...
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As the Yahoo! shareholders meeting on August 1st rapidly approaches, Yahoo! is preparing. They sent a letter to their shareholders on Thursday, urging them to vote against a proposal by Carl Icahn which could result in the unseating of some of all of the Board of Directors. The letter, from CEO Jerry Yang and Chairman Roy Bostock was also...
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Free access at AT&T hotspots for iPhone users was first announced at the beginning of May. Then it was disabled. It was reannounced today, but once again, it was a mistake. Why they keep doing this, who knows?The notice, which was still live at 8:30 a.m. PDT but then was removed by 9:30 a.m., said:"AT&T knows Wi-Fi...
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AMD Board of Directors Elects Dirk Meyer President and CEO- Hector Ruiz Named Executive Chairman of AMD –SUNNYVALE, Calif. — July 17, 2008 — AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced that its board of directors elected President and COO Dirk Meyer as the company’s chief executive officer. Meyer succeeds Hector Ruiz, who will become executive chairman...
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