Michael Santo
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Video: ECS GeForce 8800GT Accelero S1 512MB @ Tweaktown Motherboards & Chipsets: MSI P7N SLI Platinum (NVIDIA nForce 750i SLI) @ HardwareZoneAsus BLITZ Extreme Intel P35 Express DDR3 Motherboard Review @ PCStatsECS GeForce7050M-M Motherboard @ Digit-LifeFoxconn 945G7AD-8EKRS2H Motherboard @ Digit-LifeASUS P5E3 Deluxe/WiFi-AP@n Motherboard...
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Well, although there's likely a security hole there somewhere, the WSJ Online has accepted Facebook's friend request with the "Seen This?" feature.Hoping to tap into the growing buzz of online social networks, the Journal is adding a feature to its Web site that will allow readers to see which Journal stories are popular among that user's...
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Dell XPS M1730 Laptop Continues To Rule Mobile Gaming ArenaAddition Of NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX With Dual SLI Technology Delivers 49 Percent Increase In Benchmark Performance Over Previous Generation Video Graphics Award-winning XPS M1730 and XPS M1730 World of Warcraft edition gaming laptops now support dual NVIDIA® GeForce® ...
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Video: HD 3870 in Crossfire vs. HD 3870 X2 @ TweaktownDesktop Graphics Card Comparison Guide @ TechARPAsus EAH3870 TOP/G/HTDI/512M and EAH3850 TOP/G/HTDI/256M @ X-bit labs Motherboards & Chipsets: Asus BLITZ Formula Intel P35 Express Motherboard Review @ PCStatsJ&W RS780UVD-AM2+ AMD 780G Mainboard Review @ OCWorkbenchGigabyte 6Quad...
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Ah yes, as technology advances, so do surveillance techniques. So this should surprise no one - should it?Classified documents from September 2007, leaked last week by the German political "Pirate Party," show one particular system that Bavarian police could have in place by February, and its high operating cost.The system, provided...
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Video: Inno3D GeForce 8800 GT i-ChiLL Review @ NVNewsAMD Radeon HD 3870 X2 @ Hard Tecs 4UGigabyte 6Quad GA-P35-DQ6 Review @ GamePyreA pair of Radeon HD 3870 X2 Cards (AMD/ASUS) Reviewed @ Boot Daily.comHIS Radeon HD 3870 X2 1 GB @ techPowerUpGECUBE Radeon HD 3870 X2 Graphics Card @ TweaktownMSI NX8800GT-T2D512E-OC review @ Tweak.dkATI HD 3870...
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Yes, we know you may not think LEGO relates to tech - but without LEGO we'd have no LEGO Star Wars games, right? Or MINDSTORMS. Monday was the 50th anniversary of the patenting of the LEGO.The Lego company plans to celebrate the anniversary with, among other things, a worldwide contest to discover the best kid Lego builder. Each...
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Is this a case of throwing good money after bad? The HD-DVD Group is spending loads of cash on an HD-DVD Super Bowl ad.The ad will feature Toshiba's three lowest-priced players, the HD-A3, A30, and A35, and is the biggest advertising move for any high-def disc medium to date, reports Home Media Magazine.According to industry reports,...
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Promises, promises. Can it deliver?The technical trick of Skyfire is that it's a proxy browser. The Skyfire app itself isn't a full browser. Instead, big Skyfire servers elsewhere process Web pages, including all the media and browser formats -- like Flash, Java, and Ajax -- that a normal desktop browser would handle but that most phones...
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Video: Sapphire HD3870 Atomic Edition @ techPowerUpSapphire HD 3850 Ultimate 512MB Review @ SharkyExtremeECS N8800GT-512MX DT @ t-breakATI Radeon HD 3850/3870 @ X-bit LabsSamsung SyncMaster 2232GW 22-inch Widescreen LCD Monitor Review @ ThinkComputers.orgGigabyte GV-RX385512H (Radeon HD 3850 512MB) @ HardwareZoneGeForce 8800 GT Roundup @ InsideHW.com...
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Remember when the MacBook Air was intro'ed? Steve Jobs said they'd be available in two weeks. Hmmm. Based on that info, it would be ... this week! Specifically, it would be Tuesday, two weeks after the Macworld keynote.Not that this is the biggest deal in the world, but for those hopin’ and wishin’ and prayin’ to get a MBA as fast as possible,...
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When Amazon MP3 launched last year, you can bet it was looked upon by Apple as just another minor threat to iTunes' dominance. But with the signing of Sony BMG, Amazon is the only retailer selling DRM-free music from all four major music labels. And now it's a major threat.Today Amazon announced that Amazon MP3 is going global, spreading DRM-free...
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Now Available: NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI MCPsMaximum Performance, Ultimate Control NVIDIA® nForce® 780i SLI® media and communications processors (MCPs) are the must-have platform for Intel Yorkfield CPUs. Maximize your rig's performance with 3-way SLI technology. Achieve ultimate control with the real-time component monitoring...
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An allegedly leaked internal Best Buy memo about the demise of the 80GB PS3 seems to be coming true.Both companies were difficult to reach today, in the wake of the Tuesday news leak to PS3 Fanboy concerning Best Buy's discontinuation of the 80GB PlayStation 3.However, as of this evening on Best Buy's site, the only PS3 SKU available is 8588584,...
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Video: Samsung SyncMaster 275T TFT LCD @ LAN AddictRadeon HD 3600 and 3400 series preview @ Elite BastardsDisplayLink - Multi-Display Setups with USB @ TechgageMSI NX8800GT Zilent 512Mb DDR3 @ CPU3DHighPoint RocketRAID 1740 and RocketRAID 2300 RAID Controllers Review @ OCCGeForce 8800 Graphics Performance: GT vs GTS vs GTX @ BmRProcessors:...
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It must be really cold outside, because something just froze over. It appears the Xbox has managed to turn a profit.In the last six years, there's been one constant when discussing Microsoft's foray into the strange and seductive world of video game console manufacturing: they had yet to turn a profit on any of it. No more, with today's...
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HIS introduces the HIS Radeon™ HD 3450 Silence (Full HD 1080p)HDMI 256MB (64bit) DDR2, delivering the ultimate silence solution for hometheater PC!Hong Kong — Jan 23, 2007 — HIS today unveils the HIS Radeon™ HD 3450 Silence (Full HD 1080p) 256MB DDR2 card, featuring the ultimate silence solution. It delivers the next generation...
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You can bet Merriam-Webster wasn't consulted on this redefinition.Up to now, the way any online news publisher got one of its articles publicized through the Digg social service is by hoping enough people were interested in it to vote in favor of moving it up the Digg scale -- of giving it enough "Diggs." Starting today, however, that changes:...
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Dell and Microsoft have gone (RED), joining (PROJECT) RED to fight AIDS in Africa.Dell will start selling two (Red) laptops and one desktop running Microsoft Windows Vista on Friday. The two companies will donate $50 for a laptop and $80 for a desktop to the Global Fund, which finances health programs in Africa.Microsoft said it expects "several...
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Certainly the RIAA and MPAA feel an IP address can be used to ID a person: that's the whole basis of their lawsuits to collect money from downloaders. So why can't the EU believe the same?Germany's data protection commissioner, Peter Scharr, leads the EU group preparing a report on how well the privacy policies of Internet search engines...
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Video: Overclocked GeForce 8800 GTS 512 MB Roundup @ [H]ATI Radeon HD 3450 HTPC Video Card Review @ I4UATI Radeon HD 3450 and Radeon HD 3650 Video Cards @ Legit ReviewsAMD HD34X0 and HD3650 Info @ Bjorn3DMSI Radeon HD 3870 X2 OC Graphics Card @ TweaktownMSI NX8800GT Zilent 512Mb DDR3 @ CPU3D Motherboards & Chipsets: MSI X48 Platinum Motherboard...
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Well, Jack Bauer would like us to believe that nuclear terror is just around the corner, and with this system, we could just possibly prove it.Researchers at Purdue University are working with the state of Indiana to develop a system that would use a network of cell phones to detect and track radiation to help prevent terrorist attacks with...
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