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Latest News - October 2006
- Football Doesn't Look Best On A 1-1/2" TFT Screen
- ATI Radeon X1950 Pro Reviews
- ATI Launches Radeon X1950 Pro
- Microsoft Wants To Turn You Into Raymond Babbitt
- Navicore Brings GPS Navigation to Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
- NEC Sends Packard Bell Packing, Sells Division to eMachines Co-Founder
- Cooler Master Annual Case Modding Contest is now extended for two weeks!
- Still Waiting For My iPod For Books; Flying Car
- Your Hot Hardware Is Making Post Office Hardware Obsolete
- Multiple AGEIA PhysX Cards?
- Asustek Forms Partnership with C-Media
- NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI Sneek Peek
- AMD-ATI to Cut 2,000 Jobs
- Sharp Recalls Sony Batteries, Fujitsu Expands theirs
- Kitty Litter and Computers
- Ask A Ninja, Thr33 - The Original L33t
- Fujitsu to introduce flash-drive laptops
- Dell And Nvidia Move Faster Than A Hell Knight
- Arrrrr...Ayyye...Avast! Google Is Expelling Pirates From YouTube
- AMD's Proposed Aquisition of ATI Receives Approval
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All News for October 2006
Other niche cellphone marketers are saying "move along people, nothing to see here," but Mobile ESPN is folding its tent after less than a year. On the face of it, it seemed strange right away. If you're crazy enough about sports to pay attention to them all the time, you're unlikely to settle for seeing it on such a small...
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This morning, ATI is launching the new Radeon X1950 Pro GPU which is based off of the highly anticipated 80u RV570 core. Beyond a handful of differences with the R580 architecture, the new Radeon X1950's most desirable new feature is native support for Crossfire. In short, this implies a sharp departure from the days of...
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ATI brings enthusiast-class features and performance to the mid-range with the new Radeon(R) X1950 PRO MARKHAM, ONTARIO, Oct 17, 2006 (CCNMatthews via COMTEX News Network) -- ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX:ATY)(NASDAQ:ATYT) today announced that it is introducing new levels of performance at a mid-range price point with the new Radeon(R) X1950...
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What if you could recall everything you'd ever said, or had been said to you, or search through a database of every life event, no matter how mundane? Researchers for Microsoft think computers could act as a sort of back-up for your brain: There are two parts to the project. The first...
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With the growing support of geo-tagging, I can see many uses for this type of device. A friend of mine is a service technician for a communication company. He is routinely called out on "locates", which means he must drive to a site and mark the locations of buried cable. Imagine, if you would, being able to geo-tag these locations, such that...
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With such a small market share (2.8%), I'm suprised the Packard Bell Division is still around. Since Lap Shun Hui sold eMachines, I can not imagine his motovation for this purchase. NEC, Japan's third-largest electronics conglomerate, said it sold its holdings in...
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Cooler Master Annual Case Modding Contest is now extended for two weeks! Don't forget to submit your Mods to enter in Coolermaster Annual Case Modding contest. This year they have an awesome list of prizes to give out. Retail value is worth over $3000 USD. So hurry and enter your Mod's today! You never know...
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Is Sony's portable text display gadget called the "Reader" poised to become the iPod for books? Sooner or later, text displayed on some sort of handy portable screen is bound to make ink-on-paper books obsolete. The question always is, just like a long car ride: "Are we there yet?" Blake Wilson at Slate.com doesn't...
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Not everything in your e-mail inbox is a winning lottery notification from a deposed Nigerian dictator selling Cialis. You're getting a lot of messages that the US Postal Service used to deliver. And the USPS is waking up to reality, and removing tens of thousands of those ubiquitous blue drop-off boxes from city streets because they're...
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Fudo over at The Inquirer reports that AGEIA's latest drivers have been found to reference system configurations which utilize multiple PhysX discrete physics cards. A key aspect of the driver called the Hardware Scene Manager (HSM) now uses compartments allowing for the presence of multiple PhysX cards. On the surface, it sounds...
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DigiTimes reports that Asustek and C-Media have formed a strategic partnership which will have the motherboard vendor using C-Media's audio IC chipsets from 2007. C-Media's Dolby/Digital Theater System (DTS) audio IC solutions will be used on motherboards with some variants being solely available to Asustek....
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We got an interesting e-mail from an NVIDIA representative earlier, that we thought you'd all be interested in. Here's what it had to day: "We thought you might appreciate a sneak peek of our next generation NVIDIA nForce platform for current and upcoming Intel processors - the nForce 680i SLI - that will be the foundation...
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With all the positive talk of the AMD acquisition of ATI, there has to be a downfall. The Inquirer is reporting that about 1200 jobs will be cut from ATI and approximately 800 from AMD. The report states that the majority of the ATI cuts will be coming from the now defunct All In Wonder division. The numbers we hear back up the...
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Sharp has announced that it is recalling 28,000 Sony Lithium-Ion laptop batteries that could be prone to overheating and subsequent fire. Sharp has stated that the affected batteries are from 7 different models. Fujitsu has also expanded their recall to include 51,000 more batteries on top of the already 287,0000 they recalled...
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Do you own a cat/s and have computers? If you do, then you may want to take a look at this interesting article which talks about the dangers of litter dust near computers. Dust, especially clay dust, is a very real threat to electronics. Clay is naturally capacitive and conductive. In addition to its ability to short or damage electronics,...
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Three little letters separate "bye" and "die". Happy Saturday night folks. We thought we would share with you one of our personal favorite episodes of "Ask A Ninja". Here we get a good ol' fashion history lesson on the number "3". Why is it the magic number anyway?...
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I have been expecting a slow switch to solid-state storage for a while now. NAND flash is lighter and requires less power that conventional hard drive storage. Its one draw back is price, however, NAND prices have been dropping over the past year due to higher yields and better processing techniques as evidenced from ever dropping thumb-drive...
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If you're not wasting all your time playing Doom3 on your desktop now, Nvidia announced Thursdaythey're teaming up with Dell to put their GeForce Go 7950 GTX in Dell's laptops, allowing you to waste all your spare time looking for ammo while away from your desk, too: Nvidia's...
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YouTube has been a marvelous success. That's why Google paid 1.65 billion dollars to get their hands on it. Well, Google has decided to try to identify copyrighted material on their shiny new toy, and in a very serious way: A technology designed to detect copyright material could give YouTube a needed dose of...
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AMD'S Proposed Acquisition of ATI Receives Approval Under Investment Canada Act SUNNYVALE, CALIF. and MARKHAM, ONTARIO - Oct. 13, 2006 - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) and ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX: ATY, NASDAQ: ATYT) today announced that the proposed acquisition of ATI by AMD has been approved by the Minister of Industry under...
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Fudo over at The Inquirer reports that ATI's next-generation R600 GPU is rumored to have an external 512-bit bus. Should the rumor prove true it might go a long way in explaining why the industry won't see ATI's flagship DX10 GPU until Q1 2007. Here, the use of an external 512-bit memory bus requires a significantly more...
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Systems: Shuttle SD37P2 SFF XPC @ [H]Enthusiast Voodoo Hexx @ [H]Consumer Motherboards: Abit AB9 Pro @ NeoSeeker ABIT Fatal1ty AN9 32X @ Motherboards.org ECS KA3MVP Extreme @ LegitReviews Graphics: ATI's Radeon X1950 XTX Crossfire Edition @ GamePC MSI Geforce NX7900GT-VT2D256EHD @ ViperLair EVGA e-Geforce 7900GS KO Edition @ Gamepyre ATI...
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