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Latest News - October 2011
- AMD FX-8150 8-Core Processor Review: Bulldozer Has Landed
- Asus "Zenbook" Ultrabook Line To Ship Oct. 12th, Start at $999
- ViewSonic Announces ViewPad 10e
- Patriot Memory Announces Pyro SE SSDs
- iTunes 10.5 Now Available for Download
- Oak Ridge National Lab Feeds Nvidia Tesla Chips to Jaguar Supercomputer, Turns it into a Titan
- Hardware Roundup
- Samsung Stratosphere Soars Onto Verizon's LTE Network For $149
- Acer's Sleek, Sexy Aspire S3 Ultrabook Ships This Week For $899
- Facebook Pushes Out iPad App, At Long Last
- 3LM Brings Enterprise-Ready Security to Android
- Netflix Does an About Face, DVDs to Stay on Netflix.com
- Computer Choppers Will Dip Your MacBook Pro in 24K Gold and Diamonds
- Holy Smokes, iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Top 1 Million in 24 Hours
- Hardware Roundup
- Pandigital Expands With 8" Android 2.3-Based SuperNova Tablet
- T-Mobile USA Gets Duo Of Slates: 7" SpringBoard And Galaxy Tab 10.1
- Intel And CinemaNow Tag-Team To Bring 1080p HD Movie Rentals To Insiders
- German Hacker Club Uncovers Gov't-Sponsored In The Wild Malware
- ViaSat-1 Launch Gets Planned; High-Speed Satellite Internet Around The Bend?
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All News for October 2011
Today AMD is officially taking the wraps off its latest FX-Series of desktop processors, targeted at performance-minded PC enthusiasts and overclockers. The FX-Series is based on the processor core formerly codenamed Zambezi, which leverages AMD’s much anticipated Bulldozer...
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Ultrabook? Zenbook? What's in a name, anyway? Asus has just held a press event in New York City, where chairman Jonney Shih has introduced the newest Ultrabook: the Asus Zenbook. It's really not much different than what we've seen before...
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ViewSonic is adding to its line of tablets with the ViewPad 10e, announced today. The 9.7-inch tablet will feature a 4:3 ratio, a 1Ghz Cortex A8 processor, and 4GB of built-in storage (expandable to 32GB with a microSD card). For connectivity, the ViewPad 10e sports wireless 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0, and a minin HDMI connector. As far as...
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Patriot Memory added to its Pyro line of SSDs today with a trio of drives under the Pyro SE name. Available in capacities of 60GB, 120GB, and 240GB, the SandForce SF-2281-based SATA III SSDs feature synchronous NAND as well as TRIM, DuraClass, DuraWrite technologies. The drives have read/write speeds of up to 550MB/s / 520MB/s, 85,000 IOPS,...
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Tomorrow's the big day that Apple makes available its much anticipated iOS 5 update. To prepare you for iOS 5's upcoming arrival and all the goodies that go along with it, Apple today released its iTunes 10.5 software, a prerequisite for anyone hoping to upgrade their iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch device to Apple's latest and greatest mobile...
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How do you turn a Jaguar into a Titan? It's simple really -- just change its diet to include plenty of Tesla chips. That's what the Oak Ridge National Laboratory plans to do as it upgrades its Jaguar supercomputer with no less than 960...
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Video: Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 FleX Edition 2GB Graphics Card Review @ eTeknix.com Motherboards and Chipsets: ASRock A75 Extreme 6 and A55 Pro 3 @ PureOverclock TechREACTION.net Review: Gigabyte GA 990FXA-UD5 Gigabyte Z68XP-UD5 LGA 1155 Motherboard Review @ Hardware Canucks Futurelooks News Flash - GIGABYTE GA-A75M-UD2H Socket FM1 mATX Motherboard...
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You have to suspect that companies are running out of clever names for devices when Samsung and Verizon Wireless settle on "Stratosphere" for their latest high-end smartphone. This particular handset is a member of the rapidly-expanding...
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Man, now things are getting interesting. Acer has just officially revealed the Aspire S3 Ultrabook, a 13.3" stunner-of-a-machine with an LED-backlit panel, widescreen aspect ratio, 1366x768 resolution and a body that's just impossible not...
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Is it true? Can it be true? Is someone playing some sort of sick prank? Nope, it's reality: the Facebook app for iPad. It has become almost a running joke at this point. How could the iPad, being such a tremendously popular device, and Facebook, being such a tremendously popular social...
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Mobile security company 3LM (“Three Laws of Mobility”), a subsidiary of Motorola Mobility, is ready for primetime with a solution that makes Android handsets enterprise-ready. The company is apparently ready to release its product from a private beta this week; it’s due for a...
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Netflix has done so many things right for so long that it’s baffling how badly the company has been bumbling around as of late. First, Netflix announced new pricing structures in July that were terribly unpopular; instead of paying under $10 a month for 2-at-a-time DVDs and unlimited...
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Forget about the so-called Apple Tax and whether or not it exists, if you're really determined to spend more on your laptop than any of your friends and co-workers, get in touch with Computer Choppers about a 24K gold plated MacBook Pro...
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If you're just now getting around to pre-ordering an iPhone 4S device, get ready for a dose of the backorder blues. Getting an iPhone 4S on day of delivery is going to be tough for anyone that hasn't already laid claim to Apple's next generation smartphone, which is only mildly surprising...
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Video: Sapphire Radeon 6850 Vapor-X with Dirt 3 @ TechwareLabs.com EVGA GeForce GTX 580 Classified Video Card @ Benchmark Reviews NVIDIA 3D Vision w/ ASUS VG236HE 3D Display Review @ Legit Reviews Hero: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 580 Super Overclock Graphics Card Review @ XBitLabs Motherboards and Chipsets: Asus F1A75-I Deluxe FM1 Motherboard Review...
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As if there weren't enough Android tablets to wade through, here comes yet another. Pandigital has just expanded their Android Media Tablet line with the SuperNova, an 8", touch-based device that offers a capacitive display, Flash support...
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Why push out one tablet, when you can push out two? T-Mobile USA has just issued a new pair of tablets, both of which are "4G" (HSPA+) equipped and ship with Android 3.2 (Honeycomb). The new guys are the T-Mobile SpringBoard and the Galaxy...
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CinemaNow may not have the same ring to it as "Netflix," but now that Intel's involved, might you be paying closer attention? That's right -- CinemaNow, Best Buy's digital entertainment service, and Intel Corporationare teaming up, and for...
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A well-known German hacker group has accused the German government of releasing a Trojan horse program into the wild. According to the Chaos Computer Club, the program is the stuff of political fiction: it was designed to allow the...
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Ever heard of ViaSat? What about satellite Internet? Yeah, that one probably got your attention. Satellite Internet is one of those weird, weird things that you aren't quite sure how to feel about. On one hand, it's a terrible Internet...
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Reports from a variety of sources indicate that the forthcoming Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) will feature ARM architecture support as well as a variety of cloud features. At the Open Stack conference in Boston this week, Jane Silber, CEO...
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Apparently, another one of the somewhat all-too-common malware-related problems in the U.S. military has resulted in the systems used by pilots who control U.S. Air Force drones being infected by a "keylogger." Although detected by the military's security systems, they've been unable to wipe...
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