Michael Santo
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With the so-called "Amazon Tax" taking effect in New York state on Sunday, Overstock.com filed suit Friday against New York, joining Amazon.com, which filed a similar lawsuit in early May.Overstock.com, which is based only in Utah, has no operations in New York, and sells exclusively through...
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North Oaks, Minn. is a small town of 4,500 residents. According to its web site, its residential roads are all privately-owned, and because of this unique situation it has requested that Google take down all Street View images of its roads."It's not the hoity-toity folks trying to figure out how to keep the world away," said Mayor Thomas Watson....
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Video:XFX GeForce 9600GT XXX Alpha Dog Edition @ TweaktownPalit 9600 Geforce GSO Sonic Review @ TechwareLabsSoyo Graphite Series 22" LCD HDTV (SYTPT2238AB) @ 3DGameManASUS EAH3850 X2 1GB Dual GPU Video Card Review @ ThinkComputers.orgMotherboards and Chipsets:ASUS P5Q Motherboards @ TechARPECS A780GM-A Black Series AMD 780G Motherboard Review...
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On Sunday, June 1st, the so-called "Amazon Tax" will go into effect in New York state. While formerly only retailers with brick-and-mortar stores in a state were required to collect sales tax, New York has enacted a law which forces etailers to collect tax on sales, if they have affiliates which redirect traffic to their sites (e.g., Amazon.com...
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Ever lose your saved games? Frustrating, right? On Thursday Valve Software announced a solution, the Steam Cloud. It will be an an upcoming update to their Steam download service and it will not only store saved games, but also graphics settings, and key binding in the "cloud," or...
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This isn't technically a story on tech, or even on science, but how could we not write about the death of Alexander Courage, composer of the theme of the original Star Trek series (ST:TOS)? He was 88.Courage died May 15 at the Sunrise assisted-living facility in Pacific Palisades, his...
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Video: Asus EN9800GTX 512MB Videocard Review @ HardwareLogic MSI Radeon HD 3650 Graphics Card Review @ X-bit LabsMotherboards and Chipsets: ASRock A780FullDisplayPort Motherboard @ CPU3D ASUS Striker II NSE nForce 790i SLI Motherboard @ BmRProcessors: VIA Nano Processor Preview - Isaiah Gets Official @ PC Perspective VIA Nano CPU - Codename...
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CORSAIR LAUNCHES NEW DOMINATOR DDR3 2000MHz 4GBMEMORY SOLUTION AT COMPUTEXFremont, CA, May 29, 2008 – Corsair® www.corsair.com, a worldwide leader in high performance computer and flash memory products, today announced that it will launch a new 4GB DOMINATOR DDR3 memory kit running at...
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It is atypical - and that's being kind - for a tech company to release something early, but here is an example. According to industry sources quoted by DigiTimes, Asus has decided to release the Eee PC 1000 early.With Micro-Star International (MSI) expected to officially launch its 10-inch Wind series notebooks and Acer planning to launch...
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Video:ASUS EN9600GT Silent review @ Elite BastardsMotherboards and Chipsets:Asus P5Q Deluxe motherboard @ bit-techMemory and Storage:Aeneon XTune DDR3 1600 2 x 1GB Review @ OCCQNAP Turbo TS-409 NAS Review @ TechwareLabsAeneon XTune 2GB DDR3-1600 Dual Channel Memory Kit Review @ Bigbruin.comMemoRight GT Series 32GB SSDs in RAID 0 @ TweaktownOCZ...
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You'll recall our earlier story on registry corruption for certain users upgrading to Windows XP SP3. The cases of registry corruption seemed to have a common thread: Symantec security products. Originally Symantec blamed Microsoft, but in a post on a Symantec support forum, a a senior manager...
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ENEMY TERRITORY: QUAKE WARS™ FOR NEXT-GEN CONSOLESINVADES RETAIL STORES NATIONWIDESANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The alien invasion has begun with the announcement that id Software’s Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars™ published by Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) for the Xbox...
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Stealth Computer Ships Industry's First 24" Widescreen Rugged LCD Monitor with Touchscreen InterfaceToronto, Canada ~ May, 2008 - Stealth Computer a division of Stealth.Com Inc., a market leader in the industrial computer and peripherals market has released a new Model: SV-2400Industrial...
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The design of the MacBook Air has been called sharp and edgy, but it's likely most users don't want it quite this edgy. Users at a German Apple forum (apfeltalk) have posted a thread on just how edgy the Air is.Based on the thread (and the hard to understand translation), it seems as...
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Video:XFX 9800GTX Black Edition Review @ Motherboards.orgPNY Verto GeForce 9600GT Graphics Card @ TweaktownDiamond 3650PEG1 1GB GDDR2 ATi HD Radeon 3650 Graphics Card Review @ OCWSamsung T220 LCD Monitor @ DreamWare ComputersMotherboards and Chipsets:DFI LanParty DK X48-T2RS Motherboard @ CPU3DECS A780GM-A AMD 780G Motherboard Review @ PC...
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Samsung Develops World's Fastest and Largest Capacity 2.5-inch, MLC-based (256GB) SSD with SATA II InterfaceSamsung Electronics, the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced today that it has developed the world's fastest, 2.5-inch, 256 Gigabyte (GB) multi-level cell (MLC) based solid state drive (SSD) using a SATA II interface,...
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Billionaire J.R. Simplot, whose wealth earned him the title of "spud king" of America, passed away Sunday at his Boise home (where else but Boise for the "spud king") at the age of 99.In 1980, at age 71, Simplot took a gamble on the next generation of businessmen, giving Ward and Joe Parkinson $1 million for 40 percent of what would become...
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Video:ATI HD 2900 XT Graphics card @ GideonTechEVGA e-Geforce 8800 GT KO Series Video Card @ TechwareLabsNVIDIA 3-way SLI with three NVIDIA 9800 GTX Review @ I4UMotherboards and Chipsets:Asus Striker II NSE 790i SLI Motherboard @ APH NetworksIntel P45 Preview Gigabyte DS3R + DQ6 @ TweaktownAsus' P5Q and P5Q3 Deluxe motherboards @ TheTechReportMemory...
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Import Genius is a site that gives "you instant access to real-time information on all the goods entering the United States each day. Our easy-to-use interface shows you who your overseas suppliers are selling to in the United States and who your competitors are buying from overseas." They've spotted a few shipments coming into...
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"Weird" simply isn't sufficient to describe this laptop, now being auctioned at eBay.I purchased this a few years back as a project but it just ended up sitting in my closet. This is a rare Xentex Dual Screen Laptop. Each screen is 13.3" and one pivots so that one can be facing you and the...
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Video:Palit GeForce 9600GSO Sonic 768MB @ TechgageASUS EN9800GTX Top 512MB Video Card Review @ ThinkComputers.orgMotherboards and Chipsets:ASUS P5E3 Premium WIFi-AP @n Edition Review @ Motherboards.orgProcessors:Desktop CPU Comparison Guide 5.3 @ TechARPAMD Phenom X3 8750 Triple-Core @ InsideHWMemory and Storage:Eagle Tech N and I Series HDD...
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It's no secret that Zune sales are a fraction of those of the iPod, and apparently GameStop has seen enough. In its earnings call on Thursday, GameStop indicated it has exited the Zune marketplace.The move is unlikely to affect GameStop, whose sales come almost completely from video games but it puts up another hurdle in Microsoft's attempt...
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